Possible Soundtrack

During Friday's lesson we found a possible soundtrack for our piece that we like as it builds tension and also connotes the superhero genre.

The track can be found at the link below:

http://www.audionetwork.com/production-music/style-genre/film-styles/epic/results.aspx?&order=10&page=2

The name of the track is the 'Course of History'

Dialogue References for the Test Shoots

GROUP 3 Test Shoot Dialogue references

For the test shoot concentrating on the second half of the clip, we used prompt lines to help us match the sound to the action, which enabled us to rough-edit the test footage while the script undergoes final adjustments.

Audience Research Feedback/Results

Below are some graphs to show the results that we received from our online questionnaire



In conclusion.......
We have learnt that even though superhero costumes are a notorious signifier of the genre, they are actually the most hated factor of superhero films according to the results from our survey.
The most popular damsel in distress was chosen to be Mary Jane Watson from the Spiderman films.
According to this survey the most successful superhero film was The Dark Knight.

We can use these results to help us when constructing our final piece, we will take into consideration that costumes are a big no-no for our film and the love interest that was most successful was the typical American sweetheart.

The Floating Pencil!

Hi guys,

I've been thinking about your floating pencil issues and I have come up with the solution.  We will shoot Eoin doing his freaky hand movements without the pencil in shot.  We will then green screen the pencil and add it into the shot.  Then you can move it around as much as you like!

Chris

Cartoon effects

Hi guys,
here's that blog we were looking at earlier:

Link to the cartoon effects blog

cheers
Miss B

Test Shoot

A series of shots from our first test shoot, in which we started working with our actors, lighting and location.

Narishma, Eoin and Frank looking over final preparations

Setting up the Clapperboard

Positioning the master Shot and lead actors

The first take of the shoot

Framing the opening shot

The 'animated drawing' shot

Experimenting with Low Angles

Rehearsing the Paper Throw

Sound test for Angus' power

I've compiled two possible sounds to use for Angus' power of telekinesis.

The first is a combination of 3, creating an extremely distorted effect.


http://www.mediafire.com/?0dnawixahub6y08

The second is a low rumble that sounds a bit closer to what I thought it might sound like, but less dramatic.


http://www.mediafire.com/?3b26xyinpyi2s6y

I'm not sure which is the best, but we'll either use these, or find something better from the internet.

Character Study: Angus

Inspirations for Angus

Anthony Michael Hall in The Breakfast Club



Michael Cera in Superbad



Tobey Maguire in Spiderman



Aaron Johnston in Kick-Ass



Jesse Eisenberg  in Adventureland

Online Audience Research Questionnaire

We used kwiksurveys to set up an online audience research questionnaire, so that we could use the results to help us make sure that our film would appeal to the target audience and secondary audiences.

Below are some screenshots of the questionnaire.

To view the survey click here

Original Treatment

This is our original treatment for our film opening.

initital treatment