Advertising 'Exceptional'

To help draw in a larger audience for our test screening, we put up posters around the school. We specifically targeted the sixth form area as 17/18 year olds were nearest to our average target audience age of 20, in addition to the fact that our friends were more likely to attend to support our project.

In the poster displayed in school, the top line is, actually, in one line - apologies for the technological distortion.

Exceptional Poster Group 3

Final Script

This is the final script for the opening minutes of our film 'Exceptional', a superhero film aimed primarily at men and women aged between 15 - 25. Over the course of pre-production and production the script underwent many ammendments as the film was adjusted, but the premise remains the same: an unpopular male teenager is shown to be a social outcast, but it is revealed that the has the power to move things with his mind. He is almost caught by his love interest, and procedes to have an awkward conservation with her in which she is shown to not know who he is.

Our action and dialogue had been agreed on before shooting commenced, but due to a voice-over that we needed to add in post-production, a couple of ammendments were made during our editing time. These were done to fit the voiceover in well with our filmed footage, in addition to recommendations made to us in feedback during editing. The final result can be viewed below.

Exceptional Script

Shoot Schedule

Shoot Schedule 1

Shoot Schedule 2

Shoot Schedule 3

Lichtenstein Pop Art Effect Test

Original Image

Image after photoshop

Using photoshop I applied a poster edge to the image and played around with the edge intensity and thickness. Then I added the extra objects to create the comic book feel, such as the text, speech bubbles, shapes and a border.

PRODUCTION UPDATE

We have now replaced our lead actress with Olivia due to time clashes with our initial actress.

We have scheduled three more shoots for this week, which are:

• Tuesday 8th March - Period 2 + 3 - Green Screen Pencil
• Tuesday 8th March - 4pm until 5.30pm - Love Interest Scene
• Thursday 10th March - 4pm until 9pm - Extras and Love Interest (MAIN SHOOT)

By the end of this week we hope to have all of our final footage, titles nearly completed and for our shots to be ordered completely.

Final Treatment

This is our final treatment of the film, following advice from others and bearing in mind issues that arose, such as cast changes.

final treatment

Last part of opening cartoons

I have created two versions, however, I am not sure about the lens flare version, as I don't know if there should be a physical manifestation of Angus' power. On the other hand, as it is a comic-style drawing, a lens flare makes it look more like there is some sort of power making the mugger fly back instead of Angus having pushed him or something. I have, however, used liberal amounts of motion blur and poster edges.

Actor Contract

Group 3 Actor Contract Form

This is our actor contract which we have created for our main actors/actresses and any extras that will be taking part in our main production shoots.

Final Storyboard

Although this is our final storyboard, the shots went through revision before reaching the state shown in the film opening.

Shot Lists

Group 3 Shot List for Love Interest Scene




Group 3 Shot List for main shoot

Cartoons to be put in the opening scrawl

I have yet to complete the third in the sequence, so currently, Angus looking down at his hands makes no sense. Poster edges is a fun tool.