Trailer and public presentation week 12

Yesterday we presented in front of UTS and INSEARCH lecturers , and upon the completion of IN-COURAGE campaign public presentation, we finished the trailer for our short movie.

The trailer was received positively from the audience.

Now that all of the film's sequences are filmed and finished, we only have the final editing to do to finalise our video project.

I am very exited about the final project,considering the positive reviews during our actual presentation from UTS lecturer regarding our film's topic.

can't wait to finish the final editing!

Stay tuned!

enjoy the Trailer below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQpxaelsaA

Week 11, last post

Today 30 August 2010, I already send the extend assignment that Toula give it to us. I was really happy that I could make it on time to finish this assignment. Once again thank you Toula for the extension time.

Our Journey to finish this movie is not over yet. We still need to do more shooting for the "because I care" scene which is once again we need to do more shooting from different angle for that scene. Me and Nargol will probably doing it at Wednesday, but for the rest actor Sarah, Drue and David will probably doing it in the next Friday.

Gladys as a producer, Editor and the actress really doing a fantastic job and we really appreciated for her effort to finish this movie. Nargol as a director and actress doing a great job too direct us to do a great job from this movie. Thanks too for all actor and actress that helping us develop this movie. For me, I'm quite satisfied of my job as a director of visual. To be a great cameramen is not a easy job and I proud of my self to do that.

We will start the editing a soon as possible and we hope the result from this movie is good and stratified and the most interesting is can give the correct message to the audience. YEAHHH!!!

Week 11 - My final post

Finally, this is my last post in the process of filming In-courage.

After filming last Friday, we captured all that we've filmed. In Final Cut Pro, I compiled everything into one sequence and exported it to Quicktime because I was gonna take the file home. Thankfully, Toula said that we can edit it with any programmes we want. That's why I'm going to edit it at home with iMovie because I don't have the Final Cut Pro programme. I was about to download the trial version of it but none of us sure whether it will function as good as the full version or not. But for now, I'll just do what I can with iMovie and if there are some difficulties I could ask Toula in class this Friday.

This Wednesday we are also going to finish all filming. Mainly, we are going to shoot the 'Because I care' scene with Nargol, Lanita and maybe one more person. Also, I think we are short of the 'racing thoughts' scene so I suggest that we shoot that scene too.

I've finished the treatment, 2 synopsis and the editing style statement. In order to write the editing style statement, I did a little research on movie editing. It's not much, really, because I did it in such a short time. One of the things I learnt is that an editor role is as important as hard director's role. Finally, I hope I could get good marks for this project documentation.

This project has been fun and educating for me. I'm really thankful that I got two very very talented people in my group, Nargol and Lanita. Thank you too for Toula too for helping us dearly throughout this semester.

But it has not finished yet! We still need to do editing and a critical evaluation. By the way, Nargol and Lanita have promised that they're going to help me with the editing. I'll totally make sure that they keep their promise. Hahahhaa

Less than 2 weeks to go. Wooohooooo..

See ya! God bless!

week 10 : 3rd day of shooting!

At this point i must say that we are almost done with our video project!

on friday we managed to shoot some of our last scenes with two more actors to play the part of teasing boys ,which personally i found it slightly hard to extract that exact form of acting that was well fitted with our concept. However the result was satisfying.

there was another scene where i had to play apart as well.

in this scene i had to approach the protagonist while she is on the floor picking her loads papers that are scattered on the floor, ( caused by an arrogant and negligent bump of some self indulged kid) where she is feeling a lot of anguish. In that moment i offer ( my character )her one simple act of kindness.

this scene in particular was hard to nail for its fragility in performance in our heroine's character.

Therefore, for gladys it was slightly a difficult task to master,since she had to portray a range of emotions from amazement ( of somebody reaching out to her ) at the same time confusion of not knowing how to react to this matter

i have to say she mastered this task quite eloquently.

well done to her and to our communal hard work so far!

cheers to everyone !

we are on our way..

Week 10 - 3rd shooting

This Friday, we did some more shooting and we are almost finished with filming.

At first we imagined that the mean characters would be girls, because usually girls are meaner than boys. But we cannot find any girls at that moment who could act for us so we asked Wesley and Zakri. That day Wesley helped us a lot; as an actor and as an assistant director. Zakri, Lani's friend, also did a great job even though he is a very polite and nice person in the real life (Nargol had to push him a bit to act meaner). We are soooooo thankful for Wesley and Zakri who agreed to help us in such a short notice. :D

After the shooting, we also recorded the voice overs in the audio room because it is the best place to record sounds, it's quiet and people couldn't hear us from outside. Nargol had to direct me because I was not too emotional at first, but it turned out fine. She is a good director.

In terms of acting, I didn't have as much energy as before on that day so I think there will be some emotion differences in the shooting. I noticed it after we have finished shooting but I'm sure it will be hard to recognise. Anyways, I think it wouldn't be a big problem. Hopefully.

That's all for now. The next post will be my last one for this project. See ya!

Week 10, We've done it !!!

First of all, i need to say thank you to Toula coz give as an extend to finish our treatment, visual statement and the synopsis until next monday. This is really good opportunity for me to do the maximal work for this assignment. Hopefully i will do the best to finish that.

Today, 27 August 2010. We have done the whole shooting part. All we need to do is finishing the last sequence which is for me, Nargol, Drue and Sarah. We just need to shoot a lot of different angle from each of us and after that we ready to editing. For me the most difficulty time is when we need to find the correct angle so we can see all the expression of character. We find out that the last sequence that we shoot was really dark. We will trying to increase the brightness in editing so hopefully the result that we get is good.

We also have so many extra for this movie and they are really good. Weasly was really helping us too, he become part of this movie. Gladys personally is really good at acting, she is so into character and it is not really difficult to get her right expression. Similar with Nargol, she is really do a great job to direct this movie.

After all i'm quite satisfied about what we done so far, hopefully we do the great editing too. So we will able the get the best result of this advertising movie. I really wish that people will understand the meaning of this movie.

Inspiration for the music

as we all know the last sequence is the pivotal moment in our 5 minute length project.

it is on this sequence where our campaign gets credited and recognised , therefor the choice of music for the back ground music of that scene is quite important.

i was thinking of something very soft and smooth that matches the tone and the feel of the final scene.some kind of a score that can capture and emphasise on the sense of peace and serenity that we are meaning to offer through our campaign.

I was thinking something like a piano ballad, with low key's of piano playing a major part of the sound production.