The story board is for a film called "Into The Shadows" and was created by Mat Appleyard, Scott Elwin, Ben Chapman, and Connor Mclurg. It outlines scenes and events in the film in a visual format to help plan and develop the narrative.
This document contains a list of names and locations for filming scenes. Mat Appleyard, Scott Elwin, Connor Mclurg and Ben Chapman are listed first, followed by headings for the first and second scene locations.
This document provides production information for a short film shoot, including:
- The nearest hospital is Hartlepool University Hospital.
- Two scenes will be shot - a dimly lit bedroom and a narrow corridor kitchen.
- The cast includes two actors playing a boy and girl.
- Mat Appleyard will fill several roles, including producer, director, and transportation.
This document is a production schedule for a music video shoot featuring the band COPE-MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA. It will take place at Stranton Church in Hartlepool, England on October 27th, 2014. The shoot will involve setting up the band in the church with dark lighting, fog, and strobe lights. Mat Appleyard will serve as the executive producer, producer, and director. The shoot will involve the band playing and require smoke machines, strobe lights, and spotlights as special effects.
The document lists props and equipment for a horror film project, including a scarecrow-inspired mask to build fear in the killer's victims, a wooden stake as the killer's weapon, a Panasonic HC-V 100 camera chosen for its lower quality to make footage seem more realistic and horror-based, and a Hama Star 63 tripod used to keep the camera stable during filming on uneven terrain.
1) Bender Spink is a successful horror film production company founded 15 years ago by Chris Bender and J.C. Spink. They have produced major horror films like The Ring franchise and Butterfly Effect sequels.
2) Blumhouse is currently the top horror film studio, rarely spending over $5 million per film. They achieved success with the Paranormal Activity franchise, made for only $15,000 but grossing $193 million.
3) Dimension Films is a major American film company known for the Scream franchise and later Halloween films. Originally owned by Miramax, it became a Disney subsidiary known for cult horror films and franchises.
The document summarizes the results of a horror film survey. It finds that the majority of respondents were males between ages 11-20, though some answers lacked seriousness. Respondents mostly favored monster horror films over slashers and enjoyed parts like chases, suspense, and action. They preferred human antagonists and sub-genres like action horror. The results indicate tailoring a horror film towards these preferences could attract a wider audience.
The document describes the casting choices for a music video. Mark Tones is chosen to play the main protagonist due to his tall, thin stature and background in music performance. Alice Gilhespy-Swan will play "girl in kitchen" because of her experience acting in stage productions. Jordan Thornhill will play both the drummer and a homeless man as he has drumming experience and played a homeless man in a previous project. Doug Macaskill is selected as the bassist because of his musical talent and experience playing with the director.
This document analyzes and summarizes several album covers and advertisements for music releases. It discusses how the imagery, colors and design of the covers/ads reflect the style, themes and messages of the music. Specific examples analyzed include album covers for This Wild Life and The Wonder Years, and advertisements for Weezer and Biffy Clyro singles. The document examines how the visual elements connect to and represent the lyrics, mood and stories within the songs.
This document contains a list of names and locations for filming scenes. Mat Appleyard, Scott Elwin, Connor Mclurg and Ben Chapman are listed first, followed by headings for the first and second scene locations.
This document provides production information for a short film shoot, including:
- The nearest hospital is Hartlepool University Hospital.
- Two scenes will be shot - a dimly lit bedroom and a narrow corridor kitchen.
- The cast includes two actors playing a boy and girl.
- Mat Appleyard will fill several roles, including producer, director, and transportation.
This document is a production schedule for a music video shoot featuring the band COPE-MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA. It will take place at Stranton Church in Hartlepool, England on October 27th, 2014. The shoot will involve setting up the band in the church with dark lighting, fog, and strobe lights. Mat Appleyard will serve as the executive producer, producer, and director. The shoot will involve the band playing and require smoke machines, strobe lights, and spotlights as special effects.
The document lists props and equipment for a horror film project, including a scarecrow-inspired mask to build fear in the killer's victims, a wooden stake as the killer's weapon, a Panasonic HC-V 100 camera chosen for its lower quality to make footage seem more realistic and horror-based, and a Hama Star 63 tripod used to keep the camera stable during filming on uneven terrain.
1) Bender Spink is a successful horror film production company founded 15 years ago by Chris Bender and J.C. Spink. They have produced major horror films like The Ring franchise and Butterfly Effect sequels.
2) Blumhouse is currently the top horror film studio, rarely spending over $5 million per film. They achieved success with the Paranormal Activity franchise, made for only $15,000 but grossing $193 million.
3) Dimension Films is a major American film company known for the Scream franchise and later Halloween films. Originally owned by Miramax, it became a Disney subsidiary known for cult horror films and franchises.
The document summarizes the results of a horror film survey. It finds that the majority of respondents were males between ages 11-20, though some answers lacked seriousness. Respondents mostly favored monster horror films over slashers and enjoyed parts like chases, suspense, and action. They preferred human antagonists and sub-genres like action horror. The results indicate tailoring a horror film towards these preferences could attract a wider audience.
The document describes the casting choices for a music video. Mark Tones is chosen to play the main protagonist due to his tall, thin stature and background in music performance. Alice Gilhespy-Swan will play "girl in kitchen" because of her experience acting in stage productions. Jordan Thornhill will play both the drummer and a homeless man as he has drumming experience and played a homeless man in a previous project. Doug Macaskill is selected as the bassist because of his musical talent and experience playing with the director.
This document analyzes and summarizes several album covers and advertisements for music releases. It discusses how the imagery, colors and design of the covers/ads reflect the style, themes and messages of the music. Specific examples analyzed include album covers for This Wild Life and The Wonder Years, and advertisements for Weezer and Biffy Clyro singles. The document examines how the visual elements connect to and represent the lyrics, mood and stories within the songs.
- The document analyzes the music video for the song "Virgin" by Manchester Orchestra based on Goodwin's theory of characteristics that music videos should include.
- While the video does not include all of Goodwin's criteria like close-ups of the band, it uses visual symbolism to amplify the song's lyrics criticizing modern American capitalism and warmongering.
- Images like a beaten woman wrapped in a tattered American flag and a homeless veteran represent how the US has destroyed its past values, while headlines from magazines criticized for unrealistic beauty standards.
The document discusses the evolution of cloud computing and big data technologies. It outlines how Eucalyptus Systems created the first private cloud computing platform based on the AWS API. For big data workloads, the document emphasizes the importance of features like high performance block storage, object storage integration, and the ability to monitor and scale resources. Hybrid cloud architectures that leverage both public and private clouds are presented as the future of infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Eucalyptus aims to provide compatibility with AWS APIs and services to enable this hybrid model for big data applications.
This document provides a shooting schedule for a music video with 36 shots. It details the shot type, action, and mise-en-scene for each shot. The shots alternate between close-ups of a protagonist, a news presenter, and scenes of a church band. They aim to show the protagonist's disorientation and the blurred lines of faith through shifting focus. Shots also show the presenter growing angrier while mouthing that there is no God. Additional shots depict a girl cooking disturbing burgers and the protagonist walking away from a house with a petrol canister.
This document is a personal skills audit that summarizes Matthew Appleyard's skills in digital technology, post-production, research and planning, analyzing real media texts, and creativity. For his A-level project, he gained skills in Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Express that allowed him to edit footage and images. These skills were essential to creating the opening of a thriller film. For his A2 project, he plans to further develop these skills using Final Cut Pro and discover its new features. He will also work independently to break conventions and make a highly symbolic music video.
The document provides a history and analysis of the horror genre. It discusses that horror films are meant to scare audiences using primal fears. It then summarizes the origins of horror films in the late 19th century and traces the evolution of various horror subgenres over the 20th century including monster movies, slashers, sci-fi horrors, found footage films, and remakes of classic films in recent decades. Key conventions of the genre like settings, characters, themes, and visual icons are also outlined.
The document summarizes the progress made in editing a music video rough cut. Key changes include finishing placement of footage in the timeline, adding effects like distorted TV and security footage over news clips, and creating a ghosting effect by layering and desynchronizing identical news reporter clips. Additional effects like prism, security filters, and burning overlays were applied to further distort footage as intended for the piece.
This edit focuses on organizing clips and selecting footage that conveys a message of a dystopian world where media disapproves of religion. The editor spent the week arranging clips in the proper order and timing them to match the track. One challenge was flashing a news reporter clip over footage of a character holding matches, which was achieved by dissecting the reporter clip into small chunks and layering them to flicker to the rhythm of the song. Additional editing techniques included slowly adding a news symbol to footage using transforms and effects like static, earthquake, and bad TV to match existing distortions.
The document provides details about the editing process for a music video. It discusses using simple edits at first to establish structure before adding heavier transitions and effects. Filters were used to distort news reporter footage to make it appear like it was being viewed on an old, distorted television in a dystopian world. Transitions like static were used to splice up the footage in a distorted manner, revealing the true intentions underneath. Overlays were also used to have some footage play over other footage to show the ever-present newspresenter and shock reveals with scaled and opacity adjusted footage.
The story board outlines the key scenes and events in a film or television show. It provides a visual layout of how the narrative will unfold through sketches of the major plot points, character interactions, and settings. The story board helps filmmakers plan shot framing and camera movements to effectively tell the visual story before actual filming begins.
This document provides location scouting information for several locations to be used for a film project. The locations include Seaton Carew Promenade for outdoor scenes by the beach and in sand dunes, a house in Hartlepool for indoor scenes, Stranton Church for a performance scene, and a media studio at Hartlepool Sixth Form College to serve as a newsroom set. Each location details address, type of space, suitability, access, potential impacts, available amenities, hazards, and planned use of space by crew and cast. Safety protocols are also outlined to minimize risks at each site.
The document outlines the production details for a short film shoot, including the producer/director Mat Appleyard filling several roles. There will be two scenes shot: one on Seaton Promenade of a boy walking and passing a homeless man, and another on the closed off area of Seaton Beach with a contained fire. The shoot will take place on October 29th and involve two actors in the roles of the boy and homeless man.
This document provides production details for a one-day shoot to film a news report scene. Mat Appleyard will fill multiple roles as executive producer, producer, and director. The shoot will take place at the HSFC Media Studio and involve one actor, Josh Ingledew, playing a news reporter. The scene will be set up to look like a TV news studio with a table and the actor delivering a monologue about there being no god.
The document analyzes the music video for the song "Local Man Ruins Everything" by The Wonder Years based on Goodwin's theory of 6 areas that characterize music videos. It finds that the video demonstrates genre characteristics of pop-punk like feelings of isolation. It also amplifies the lyrics about depression through visuals of Hank alone. While some shots match the fast music, many slow shots contradict this for a more thoughtful atmosphere. The video focuses solely on Hank rather than the band for greater impact in showing isolation. It references the Rocky training montage but subverts it to show Hank as a daydreamer.
This document analyzes the album cover art for This Wild Life's debut album "Clouded". The art uses faded colors and hand-drawn images to tell a story that reflects the band's style of acoustic pop-punk/post-hardcore music about life and personal feelings. The desaturated palette is meant to be both relaxing and thought-provoking to attract potential listeners who can relate to the images and messages in the music.
In the first frame, the audience sees a close-up of Amanda waking up from being drugged, with a large rusty torture device nailed into her chin. A medium shot then shows her shocked reaction and grim surroundings, indicating she is in an abandoned military bunker. Another close-up reveals her wrist is bound by cloth but she can otherwise move around. Shots then zoom and pan around her portraying her growing fear and nausea as she struggles with the device and hears distorted screams and a clock ticking, putting pressure on her to escape. A close-up on a blurred TV in the background confuses viewers before cutting to the TV showing Jigsaw's disturbing puppet staring directly at the audience, heightening
The document discusses conventions in title sequences of horror films. It provides examples from Friday the 13th, Scream 3, and Dracula. The Friday the 13th sequence uses a red and black splatter background representing darkness and death. The title appears in a distorted fast movement symbolizing hiding from the killer Jason. The Scream 3 sequence has only the title flashing briefly, meant to unsettle viewers about the efficiency of the killer. Dracula's simple 2 frame sequence features a bat symbolizing the supernatural horror of vampires, with unsettling dramatic music in a minor key.
This opening scene from Halloween 2 establishes the themes of mental illness, violence, and horror. It begins with an unsettling musical cue and text about psychosis and destruction. Images of a sanitarium with the sign "SANITARIUM" in bleached letters further this disturbing tone. A young Michael Myers is given a statue related to his mother's death, hinting at the origins of his psychosis. The scene suggests Michael's violent nature in the film stems from mental illness and his time in the sanitarium.
The opening sequence of Batman Begins establishes it as an action film through shots of bats flying and the Batman logo. It then shows two children playing at a mansion, with one falling down a well after being attacked by bats, traumatizing him. As an adult, Bruce Wayne has nightmares about this and is shown defending himself in an Asian prison, showing how this childhood event changed his life.
The opening credits of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring roll in silence before an English narration describes realms of elves and dwarves, signaling it's a fantasy genre. It then shows a large battle with armies fighting to dramatic music, establishing it as an action fantasy. The
The document summarizes the results of a horror film survey. It finds that the majority of respondents were male, aged 11-20, and students. Most respondents preferred romance films but also enjoyed horror. The top favorite horror films mentioned were slasher films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween. More people preferred monster horror over slasher films. The most popular elements of horror films were the chase, suspense, action, and introduction. Respondents also preferred a human antagonist and incorporating action into a horror sub-genre.
This call sheet provides production details for a 2-minute short film titled "Into the Shadows" shooting on November 11th at Summer Hill from 4pm onwards. It lists the cast including Ben Chapman as the Victim, Connor Mclurg as the Killer, and an unnamed actress as the Girl. The crew consists of Matt Appleyard as Director and Cameraman and Scott Elwin providing moral support. Equipment includes a Sony Handycam and tripod, and props include a wooden stake and mask. Wardrobe specifications are provided for the Killer, Victim and Girl.
- The document analyzes the music video for the song "Virgin" by Manchester Orchestra based on Goodwin's theory of characteristics that music videos should include.
- While the video does not include all of Goodwin's criteria like close-ups of the band, it uses visual symbolism to amplify the song's lyrics criticizing modern American capitalism and warmongering.
- Images like a beaten woman wrapped in a tattered American flag and a homeless veteran represent how the US has destroyed its past values, while headlines from magazines criticized for unrealistic beauty standards.
The document discusses the evolution of cloud computing and big data technologies. It outlines how Eucalyptus Systems created the first private cloud computing platform based on the AWS API. For big data workloads, the document emphasizes the importance of features like high performance block storage, object storage integration, and the ability to monitor and scale resources. Hybrid cloud architectures that leverage both public and private clouds are presented as the future of infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Eucalyptus aims to provide compatibility with AWS APIs and services to enable this hybrid model for big data applications.
This document provides a shooting schedule for a music video with 36 shots. It details the shot type, action, and mise-en-scene for each shot. The shots alternate between close-ups of a protagonist, a news presenter, and scenes of a church band. They aim to show the protagonist's disorientation and the blurred lines of faith through shifting focus. Shots also show the presenter growing angrier while mouthing that there is no God. Additional shots depict a girl cooking disturbing burgers and the protagonist walking away from a house with a petrol canister.
This document is a personal skills audit that summarizes Matthew Appleyard's skills in digital technology, post-production, research and planning, analyzing real media texts, and creativity. For his A-level project, he gained skills in Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Express that allowed him to edit footage and images. These skills were essential to creating the opening of a thriller film. For his A2 project, he plans to further develop these skills using Final Cut Pro and discover its new features. He will also work independently to break conventions and make a highly symbolic music video.
The document provides a history and analysis of the horror genre. It discusses that horror films are meant to scare audiences using primal fears. It then summarizes the origins of horror films in the late 19th century and traces the evolution of various horror subgenres over the 20th century including monster movies, slashers, sci-fi horrors, found footage films, and remakes of classic films in recent decades. Key conventions of the genre like settings, characters, themes, and visual icons are also outlined.
The document summarizes the progress made in editing a music video rough cut. Key changes include finishing placement of footage in the timeline, adding effects like distorted TV and security footage over news clips, and creating a ghosting effect by layering and desynchronizing identical news reporter clips. Additional effects like prism, security filters, and burning overlays were applied to further distort footage as intended for the piece.
This edit focuses on organizing clips and selecting footage that conveys a message of a dystopian world where media disapproves of religion. The editor spent the week arranging clips in the proper order and timing them to match the track. One challenge was flashing a news reporter clip over footage of a character holding matches, which was achieved by dissecting the reporter clip into small chunks and layering them to flicker to the rhythm of the song. Additional editing techniques included slowly adding a news symbol to footage using transforms and effects like static, earthquake, and bad TV to match existing distortions.
The document provides details about the editing process for a music video. It discusses using simple edits at first to establish structure before adding heavier transitions and effects. Filters were used to distort news reporter footage to make it appear like it was being viewed on an old, distorted television in a dystopian world. Transitions like static were used to splice up the footage in a distorted manner, revealing the true intentions underneath. Overlays were also used to have some footage play over other footage to show the ever-present newspresenter and shock reveals with scaled and opacity adjusted footage.
The story board outlines the key scenes and events in a film or television show. It provides a visual layout of how the narrative will unfold through sketches of the major plot points, character interactions, and settings. The story board helps filmmakers plan shot framing and camera movements to effectively tell the visual story before actual filming begins.
This document provides location scouting information for several locations to be used for a film project. The locations include Seaton Carew Promenade for outdoor scenes by the beach and in sand dunes, a house in Hartlepool for indoor scenes, Stranton Church for a performance scene, and a media studio at Hartlepool Sixth Form College to serve as a newsroom set. Each location details address, type of space, suitability, access, potential impacts, available amenities, hazards, and planned use of space by crew and cast. Safety protocols are also outlined to minimize risks at each site.
The document outlines the production details for a short film shoot, including the producer/director Mat Appleyard filling several roles. There will be two scenes shot: one on Seaton Promenade of a boy walking and passing a homeless man, and another on the closed off area of Seaton Beach with a contained fire. The shoot will take place on October 29th and involve two actors in the roles of the boy and homeless man.
This document provides production details for a one-day shoot to film a news report scene. Mat Appleyard will fill multiple roles as executive producer, producer, and director. The shoot will take place at the HSFC Media Studio and involve one actor, Josh Ingledew, playing a news reporter. The scene will be set up to look like a TV news studio with a table and the actor delivering a monologue about there being no god.
The document analyzes the music video for the song "Local Man Ruins Everything" by The Wonder Years based on Goodwin's theory of 6 areas that characterize music videos. It finds that the video demonstrates genre characteristics of pop-punk like feelings of isolation. It also amplifies the lyrics about depression through visuals of Hank alone. While some shots match the fast music, many slow shots contradict this for a more thoughtful atmosphere. The video focuses solely on Hank rather than the band for greater impact in showing isolation. It references the Rocky training montage but subverts it to show Hank as a daydreamer.
This document analyzes the album cover art for This Wild Life's debut album "Clouded". The art uses faded colors and hand-drawn images to tell a story that reflects the band's style of acoustic pop-punk/post-hardcore music about life and personal feelings. The desaturated palette is meant to be both relaxing and thought-provoking to attract potential listeners who can relate to the images and messages in the music.
In the first frame, the audience sees a close-up of Amanda waking up from being drugged, with a large rusty torture device nailed into her chin. A medium shot then shows her shocked reaction and grim surroundings, indicating she is in an abandoned military bunker. Another close-up reveals her wrist is bound by cloth but she can otherwise move around. Shots then zoom and pan around her portraying her growing fear and nausea as she struggles with the device and hears distorted screams and a clock ticking, putting pressure on her to escape. A close-up on a blurred TV in the background confuses viewers before cutting to the TV showing Jigsaw's disturbing puppet staring directly at the audience, heightening
The document discusses conventions in title sequences of horror films. It provides examples from Friday the 13th, Scream 3, and Dracula. The Friday the 13th sequence uses a red and black splatter background representing darkness and death. The title appears in a distorted fast movement symbolizing hiding from the killer Jason. The Scream 3 sequence has only the title flashing briefly, meant to unsettle viewers about the efficiency of the killer. Dracula's simple 2 frame sequence features a bat symbolizing the supernatural horror of vampires, with unsettling dramatic music in a minor key.
This opening scene from Halloween 2 establishes the themes of mental illness, violence, and horror. It begins with an unsettling musical cue and text about psychosis and destruction. Images of a sanitarium with the sign "SANITARIUM" in bleached letters further this disturbing tone. A young Michael Myers is given a statue related to his mother's death, hinting at the origins of his psychosis. The scene suggests Michael's violent nature in the film stems from mental illness and his time in the sanitarium.
The opening sequence of Batman Begins establishes it as an action film through shots of bats flying and the Batman logo. It then shows two children playing at a mansion, with one falling down a well after being attacked by bats, traumatizing him. As an adult, Bruce Wayne has nightmares about this and is shown defending himself in an Asian prison, showing how this childhood event changed his life.
The opening credits of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring roll in silence before an English narration describes realms of elves and dwarves, signaling it's a fantasy genre. It then shows a large battle with armies fighting to dramatic music, establishing it as an action fantasy. The
The document summarizes the results of a horror film survey. It finds that the majority of respondents were male, aged 11-20, and students. Most respondents preferred romance films but also enjoyed horror. The top favorite horror films mentioned were slasher films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween. More people preferred monster horror over slasher films. The most popular elements of horror films were the chase, suspense, action, and introduction. Respondents also preferred a human antagonist and incorporating action into a horror sub-genre.
This call sheet provides production details for a 2-minute short film titled "Into the Shadows" shooting on November 11th at Summer Hill from 4pm onwards. It lists the cast including Ben Chapman as the Victim, Connor Mclurg as the Killer, and an unnamed actress as the Girl. The crew consists of Matt Appleyard as Director and Cameraman and Scott Elwin providing moral support. Equipment includes a Sony Handycam and tripod, and props include a wooden stake and mask. Wardrobe specifications are provided for the Killer, Victim and Girl.
The shooting schedule outlines the production details for Production no. 231 by IntoThe Mask Productions. It lists the producer, director, and production manager, and schedules the first scene for November 11th involving two characters chatting while walking with a female actor. The second scene is scheduled for November 12th and involves one character getting lost and murdered while alone in the woods, with the same cast at the Summerhill location.
The document lists various risks that may be encountered during the shooting of a film at Summer Hill location. These risks include actor illness, inconvenient schedules, bad weather, camera or equipment problems, dangerous terrain, poor actor performance, lighting issues, public interference, traffic, budget issues, and heavy equipment. For each risk, it identifies who is responsible and proposes strategies to overcome or prevent the risk from affecting the film shoot.