Storyboards

Story boards

Rough Cut

After collaborating all of our footage into the mac and arranging it in the correct order, we have made the rough cut of our title sequence.

Unfortunately some of our footage we had to get rid of as it did not fit our expectations. We have pieced together this rough copy so we can see how the clips will look and see how it will fit into place for out story.

We showed a group of people who didn't know our story idea, the rough cut to see if it was clear to them what was going on. We had good feedback and they understood what was going on.

We will be working on the titles for our opening scene and once we decide what typography we are going to use we will move onto deciding how the text will appear (e.g. dissolve, typewriter)

For now though this is our rough cut:

Diamond Production logo

This is our Production company name. This is going to be displayed at the beginning of our sequence after the studio name is introduced. We decided to add a diamond reflecting under the "productions". Using the diamond image relates to the production company name.

Filming

We arrived at Karen's house to film the two minute sequence in her small shed. Another reason we decided to film at Karen's was because her dad was playing the character of the clown, so we thought it was only fair for him to stay within his own house.
When we arrived we met our actor and he got changed into his costume, then nicky put on his make up which we bought from town. We got the inspiration of his make up was from the clown IT, we researched the clown on the internet and used the picture to get ideas from.
We all went outside to Karen's shed, we took all the props out with us and positioned everything into place. This included his desk with objects such as newspaper with blood stains over it, candles, cans, wig stands, clown masks on the wall with ripped out newspaper articles with it, ash tray, knife, mirror and make up.
After we had set up the set we started filming the first scene. It was hard to get the right lighting for the shoot and we filmed it in daylight. We thought of an idea of holding up black bin bags up to the window to try and block out the light to create a dark, dingy feel to his room. We took turns filming each of the scenes so we all was able to participate within the film. We told our actor to take a break whilst we took a member of our crew to the bus stop. On our way back it started rain heavily and because of this, we had to halt filming which meant we were behind schedule. By the time the rain stopped, unfortunately we ran out of time. This meant that Karen had to finish off the rest of the shots the next day without us as we could not attend.

Date for filming

We have decided to film our opening title on Friday the 9th of October.

Clown Costume Preview

Our Lovely Model Nicky Is Demonstrating How The Costume Will Look.

Brought Props From Town Visit

While Shopping For Clown Props We Found These Masks For 25p Each. We Thought It Would Be Creepy And Effective To Have Them Round His Room Or On The Wig Stands. We Got Different Ones As We Wanted A Range Of Items Not Just The Same Thing On His Desk.

We Only Needed Enough Face Paints For One Day Of Filming So We Chose To Buy This Small Group Of Colours. The Face Paints Will Add Alot Of Effect Onto The Character.

We Were Thinking Of Hiring Out A Clown Costume For 2 Days As It Would Only Cost £15 But As We Didn't Have Our Actors Size's With Us So We Went To Chariety Shops. We Brought PJ's (Pink/Red Top And Bottoms) And Yellow Pants. We Found It Hard Trying To Find Clothes We Thought Would Look Good But Then We Found These Items For £8 Together. We Were Happy With The Outcome.

We Brought Some White Gloves, A Bow Tie And A Red Nose. We Thought White Would Contrast With The Character (As Connotations Of White Are Pure And Innocence). After Opening The Packaging And Getting The Gloves Out We Thought They Wouldn't Fit Our Actors Hands. Luckily, After Letting Him Try Them On They Have A Snug Fit To Them. The Nose Is A Sponge One Because Filming Can Go On For Hours And We Wanted The Actor To Feel Comfortable. The Bow Tie Was Commical And Added To The Clown Image.
This Wig Was Perfect! We Were Hoping To Get A Ginger One But The Red Will Work Better Because The Connotations Of Red Are: Blood And Danger. The Wig Will Add Alot Of Effect Onto The Character!

The Wig Heads Looked Quite Scary Themselves And We Managed To Pick All 4 Up For Absolutely Nothing! I Think They Will Add Effect To 'Jack's' Room.