Ancillary Task: Promotional Poster

Our Ancillary tasks are now complete, we decided to do a promotional poster and magazine review. It's a simple idea for a poster but has everything we needed on it, the release date on the poster is actually our media deadline. On Thursday we went up to the art room in school and took some photos of our smiley faced apple using some of the backdrops in there to get the perfect image. We decided to use green text against our original red and black ManFlick Ident as it goes better with the green apple and white backdrop. Here is our poster...

Final Day

Today we went out and re-shot Sams fruit vendor scene, the shots we had before were fine but had continuity issues. So thats it, filming complete.. We edited our new shots in to the film and it looks much better now.

Last Minute Changes

No we haven't changed our film again! We've just decided to throw in an extra scene where three drunk lads on a night out see the apple and take some photos of themselves with it. This scene will fit in between the girl putting the apple on the bench and the jogger finding it and was mainly decided upon due to the fact that this now enables us to use some night vision shots. Below are the storyboards for our night scene.

Night Time Storyboards

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First Draft Results..

We handed in our first draft this morning and as expected we are going to have to do some re-shoots, other than that our film got a good response.

Here is what we need to do:

The ending must be re-done - we already knew this due to lighting issues and continuity problems.

Soundtrack must be written as we are currently using a copyrighted track.

Other editing and continuity issues need to be sorted, mainly due to the change in weather (From wet to dry).

These issues will all be adressed over the next week and we will have to work hard in order to meet our deadline.

Filming Update

We have been busy filming all this week and have put together a very rough first draft of our film which is due in tomorrow. It looks promising but there are a few continuity issues with it due to the weather, we'll keep you posted on any re-shoots that will need doing.

Here our some production photos of the past week..

Production Underway

Earlier today we began filming, we started by only shooting the small sequence where the apple falls down the stairway. It went better than expected and was fun to do, however we did lose a few apples along the way as you can see..

Risk Assesment

Just as in our previous film we had to do a risk assesment before beginning shooting at each location. There was a lot less risk involved in this film than in Witness and at most locations nothing was dangerous at all. However when filming on the bridge where the apple falls out the bag and on to street level below we made sure we always had someone underneath catching the apples and would only film when the road was quiet. The only other scene that could have proved potentially dangerous was the tramp crossing over the road but again we only filmed when the road was clear and got the shot done in a couple of takes.