Final Film

Magazine Review - Ancillary Task

Poster - Ancillary Task

To be continued...

Research through questionaire's

Research

I decided to make a questionnaire that will help me design the script to suit my audience better.

Here is a link to the questionnaire in a pdf format... ClickHere

I handed these out to lots of people who would watch the film and are people who tend not to like many films. Here are the results that I received after the feedback... Click Here

So what did my research tell me?

I found that people where interested in the genre of film that I want to make, although a complex storyline some people didn't like. So for my film I have to make sure it doesn't get too confusing. Also a lot of people didn't know what Post Modernism is, but that is okay because those people liked films like Inception.

People also seem to not mind about having religion de-credited in a film, and they also believe that the general media supports there religion. This is a very good thing, because my film wants to go against the grand narratives of the media, so making a film against something that they support, also these ideas wont be abolished by the general public.

Final introduction graphic

After many several graphics for the opening to my film, I have gone with this one...

Storyboard

This is a final completed version of my storyboard which my film will be based off.

I made the storyboard in Photoshop CS5, but did it very rough without too much detail, mainly because im not that good at it.

-- Youtube Link --

Link to storyboard on Microsoft word: Click here

Script & Ideology

As discussed before, religion will be a key factor into my film and putting a post modern view onto it.

The main character, 'Eli', will be in what i'm going to call the Goldilocks zone, if you are not familiar with this I will enlighten you. In science this phrase the Goldilocks zone, is where the perfect place for a planet to grow and succeed with life. It isn't too far away from the sun making it cold, but also it isn't to close to the sun making the planet to hot. This idea I think links very nicely into my film because the character is not dead or alive. This is what the film is going toe be based around.

This zone is where 'God' tests the faithful before accepting them, but this is going to have a twist put on it because 'God' the all seeing actually manipulated you when you where alive and until you are in this zone or dead the decisions are yours to make so never of having met you as yourself, this is actually a very cunning way to test faith. In this zone the 'user', who in this case is 'Eli' doesn't know he is dead and in fact still believes he is alive, but little does he know every action is being observed with great attention very similar to those movie buffs who criticizes and points out the most smallest mistakes.

Whilst in the zone 'Eli' will be forced to make certain decisions which will link back to loyalty, revenge and being sincere. These decisions will decide his fate which will be up to 'God' whether it turns out to be good or bad. Now the portrayal in our Christian dominated society is 'God' forgives if you own up to your sins, but in this film 'God' doesn't want or need to do that in the slightest bit because he doesn't care what you have done in you time when you where alive because he governed your life, he decided your fate and was all to his benefit himself. This is why his character is not known as 'God' but as the 'Governor' of which title was given to him when he was assigned to this planet. This name reinforces another point I want to implement into the film of which is commonly seen as evil, this is of course the fact that because the governor controls everything you do he himself, the almighty one, the true creator is just a Dictator and I want this point to carry through to the real world because whats to say 'our God' is a dictator, if he truly can do what ever he wants, and possibly tricked the majority of the human race into believing he is a good person or forcing them, what is the difference. Of course this is very controversial point so linking these two points together can be easily seen in a different way, which is what I want my film to achieve, that point isn't the preferred meaning that I want to get across but could be seen as a point that someone interprets from the film.

After Eli has finished his test he confronts the Governor where he will say this speech which is directly lifted from Agent Smiths speech in the Matrix, a homage to the brilliancy of the film...

"I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus." He will then continue further which will make the speech more relevant to my film.

But what is all this for?

The Governor has been assigned a task by the truly higher people, the Olympians, to decide whether Humanity should exist and he has been gathering evidence to either support or go against this issue.

This of course begs the idea of why he wanted people to have religion, well if you think about it religion has been a major cause of destruction, with great wars like the crusades engulfing several religions to slaughter each other over nothing. A since the Governor doesn't want to 'watch' earth because it was a punishment, he wants humanity to be destroyed and the easiest way to do that is to make Humanity seem like a illogical force of destruction that is out of control. This again is not a preferred meaning but a point that someone could connect if enough is known.

There is one preferred meaning that I do want to have inserted into my film, this of course goes against my ideas of having several meanings but this has great relevance to my beliefs into the 'New World Order'. I believe politics as we see it isn't what the public sees it as, in fact Obama really doesn't control america he is a puppet of a higher power, which of course is the Federal Reserve which the american government owes huge amounts of debt to. This links directly into my film because 'God/Governor' is the puppet of the Olympians, the people of earth see the Governor as the true high power and the creator but in fact it is all just a show.

Once Eli's fate is sealed which turns out to be that he goes to the void because whether you where good or bad you will end up there.

Once in the void you are alone, so very alone emphasizing the point which I want to get across of how alone we are and how little of important we are compared to the grand scale of the universe, which is why I wanted the Olympians to force 'God' this traitor to govern this insignificant place, this accident.

Link to Agent Smith's speech to Morpheus: Click here

Confusions of Time and Space

Post Modern Ideas continued; In order for me to fully respect the idea of a post modern idea I first have to look at some of the great films of which the directors and editors play around with this conventional idea of chronological time events and then to 'Play' with it creating what appears to be a mess but turns out to be much more effective as a film when compared to a chronological version of the film. A theory to look at when talking about time and space is 'Syuzhet & Fabula', The fabula is "the raw material of a story, and syuzhet, the way a story is organized."

One example to look at is 'Memento'...

This film if not familiar to it literally makes no sense in writing to have this film the way it is edited. The film is split into Black & White sections and Coloured sections, the black and white sections apply traditional conventions of story tell which is to show the very start of the story and plays them in logical order. Now the Coloured sections tell the story backwards with the ending of the story first. Then it gets more confusing, both of the sections do in fact meet up in the 'middle' of the film, at the end of the films time. So in other words the ending of the film is actually the middle of the film. Not only that but also these sections are mixed together making the events completely non chronological and whats seems to be a move that will just annoy the viewer with confusion and frustration. Although this doesn't happen because in actual fact it improves the films impact on the viewer and if understood and seen its 'under-skin', there is actually a great meaning to this film into why it is shot in that way.

You see the main character suffers from short term memory loss and because of this his 'world' is scrambled and confused to how it got there, this is very similar to the films structure.

Another film that you can look at is Pulp Fiction;

This films storyline also follows an unconventional story line where chronological order is completely ignored, this film cuts backward and forward in time and even shows the opening credits and the start of the film.

But why does films like this, Pulp Fiction, do this and somehow make it to the top 10 films of all time?

Simply put, the Uses of Gratification theory explains it, but to put it in a more retrospective look it is because of this Post Modernist idea which we get sucked into, the ideology behind it makes us as the viewer seem more important, we somehow have more control. But how?

Post Modernsim takes the idea of the 'author/director' of whom being the one in control of the media and saying its us, the viewer who has control. For example in 'Inception' the ending is left at a massive cliffhanger of where we as a audience are left uncertain whether it was all a dream or it was reality. This idea could possibly come from Blade Runner and supports this idea of the director not being in control because in the film, for example there is balanced reasons to suggest Deker is or isn't a replicant so naturally the viewer turned to the director Ridley Scott who supported the idea that he is a replicant but then Harrison Ford who plays Deker in Blade Runner said that he isn't a replicant. This leaves the viewer to make the decision about the film; the viewer literally can change and justify the whole meaning and purpose of the film without changing it physically but by perspective. This is a very Post Modern idea that encircles these films, I want to grasp this Idea of how time and space could become such a confusing idea that 'us' the viewer has to decide what the true nature of the film is and to have one preferred meaning that can be viewed in many different ways, which by itself then becomes Post Modern because I will be denying the Grand Narratives of the theory of a piece of media having ONE preferred meaning.

Another example to look at is a slightly different media which is a game trailer, Dead Island, where the whole trailer is played backwards in story and time, this becomes very, very effective because of how it ends. The trailer starts with how the story is meant to end with a little girl dead on the floor outside a hotel, then it reverses up through the hotel sweet where she fights her parents along with other zombies, then switching to her just turning. Throughout this section there is 'Time' flashbacks where she was running away from the zombies. The trailer ends how it should of started which is where the dad runs out to risk his life and grab the daughter, but what makes it effective is that the last shot is not of him going forward to garb her, but him attempting to grab her, but with the reversal of time he is backing away from her. This trailer turned a usually pure horrific scene with zombies destroying a family, into seeing the struggle of a family in such a crisis where they would risk anything for each other.

I would love to achieve something on this level, with having disturbing scenes also filled with elegance but I fear that this would be too hard of a job with the little time I had to produce the film.

Post Modern Ideas

I want my film to be post modern, although actually saying this is going against what post modern theorists say, because directors and producers make a film usually not intending for it to be post modern but when looked at it can be seen as post modern, this idea applies to Blade Runner. But I did say not all films apply to this rule, for example I believe the new film Inception made by Christopher Nolan was made and created as a post modern film because the amount of content that directly applies it self to post modernism Christopher Nolan wrote Inception around the time of the Matrix, but didnt produce the film until later on. Possibly because there was too many postmodern films at this current time. An example of this would be the amount of intertextuality the film pays; Whilst in the dream there is someone who creates the dream and shapes it to its will, this is called the 'Architect'. This it self is post modern because whilst in this fake, non reality world they can shape it to their will, they are literally playing God. But why is this intertextuality? This is because of what the Matrix has included in its content. The Matrix is the predecessor to Inception, with very similar ideas of living in a fake, created world that is created and entered upon the use of machines, but in the matrix their is a figure also called the 'Architect' where he makes and shapes the world each time they decide to 'Update'. Another area where it makes the film seem like it is directed into a post modern creation is the quotes they slipped into the film for example 'Reality is not going to be enough for her now'. This literally translates into a super post modern idea including 'Hyperreality', 'Distortions of Time and Space' and 'Rejection of the Grand Narratives'.

Relgion states there is absolute truth in everything, and postmodernism states that nothing is absolute. - Relativism

- Moral Relativism

- Viewpoint

- Subjectivity

Post Modern implemented into my film
The main aspect of the film is going to show religion in a controversial dark side where there is no good aspect of supporting religion, so when you die you will go to the same place, called: 'Void'.
But why is this controversial?
This idea counter acts the majority of human life who believe that when you die you either go to heaven of hell based on what you did as a mortal being. But for my film I am saying that you could either be a murderer or a priest and end up in the same way and treated the same. This idea is because of the 'God' figure who is sick of humanity and grows tired of them, because they where an accident of an experimental idea he made which himself and his highers could not of foreseen to unravel such events, this of course was 'Evolution'. Including this idea not only is controversial to religious people but scientists alike who believe that evolution wasn't an act of God or some higher power, but of biology. Another seeming controversial idea that I want to include in my film is that these books of religion, 'The Bible' & 'The Koran', are completely misleading and were made that of fortune and power, using influence as their weapon of choice. I want to go against the grand narratives of how religion and science are portrayed in the media whilst including intertextuality of other films. An example of this is where the main character figure is being tested by 'God' and once failed, this higher power creature will do a speak which I wish to literally lift of the first Matrix where Agent Smith is doing his speech to Morpheus about humans and how he wants to escape.
I also want the God character to not be the all knowing and all powerful, he was designated by a more powerful set of people in his race called the 'Olympians'.

This allows me to link my film into historical references but with a postmodernism twist of distorting the mythical beings and story of the olympians. I want them to be the creators but with humanity becoming an accident they signed 'God' to us as a punishment for his trickery in previous times. With 'God' feeling he has just been taken advantage over he wants once again trick the Olympians out of his punishment. God then effectively becomes the Devil, this is the origination of trickery by God deceiving he is the good one and the devil is bad, but in actual fact he is both.

In my film I want to somehow compose my film around the confusion of time and space which will be fragmented. How I will achieve this isnt final but I have looked at film like 'Inception', which I have mentioned before, but also I have looked at 'Memento'.

What Have I found from my Media Comparisons?

In my research I have compared my project to other relevant media texts and films, like for my ancillary task of conducting a Magazine Review for my Film I looked into film review magazine companies such as Empire and then looked into how you go about actually writing the review. What I have noticed is when writing the review you have to keep from being biased toward the film this will be hard for me because it is my own created and directed film.
I also looked into posters which is another ancillary task I need to conduct, so I looked at 2 posters, 'Casino Royale' & 'The Matrix' and payed special attention towards the Matrix poster because my film is very similar where I will probably include a Homage somewhere in the film. I noticed that a simplistic look is very clever for a post modern film because it goes against the Grand Narratives of the traditional action packed poster with as much stuff in it as possible.
Finally I compared some of the features in my film to Inception and Blade Runner, I done this because both of them are revolutionary films for Post Modern in my view and what I found was that the viewer likes to think about the film not to have the whole story line put on a metal platter.

The Sky is the limit

With technology constantly developing a few have caught my eye and interest to research and learn about the software. An example of this was Cinema 4d made by MAXON studios, which I took to and learnt the program to the best of my abilities but this isn't what I think is a technology that is going to take of because of the competition that surrounds it like Blender and 3DS MAX.

So a technology that is going to take of has to be a revolutionary, next generation piece of software. So I started to look at some software and an application on the web stood out, this is called PREZI.

Prezi lets you create zooming interactive presentation that is easily editable but provide a very professional look to it. Think of Microsoft PowerPoint which is a flat slide show presentation with little animations apart from transitions and intro/outro text.

I decided to play around with the application and decided to use it for one of my many script ideas...

Script on Prezi

Film Review

Another Ancillary task requires me to make and construct a magazine review for my mask task of making a film. To get an idea of how these are constructed I went online and looked at current film magazine reviewers such as Empire.

Something all of my research tells me to do is learn the content thoroughly so I can talk about absolutely everything. This is where I have a advantage because I was the one creating the film and the ideas behind it are all my, so I already know about all the connotations and preferred meanings behind the films meaning.

The next tip I received was to form a specific opinion on the film that cant be misleading, like rating the film 3 stars out of film as a example. Although this could be difficult for me because I am biased towards my own film so after I have completed my audience research I will show them the film and ask to perform a anonymous survey rating the film. I will take an average from these results.

Another tip is to grab the reader immediately so briefly review a key feature of the film by quoting it and then leading it on to relevant points, but I have to make sure that I look out for spoilers because if the audience thought that I was ruining the film they wouldn't read the review.

This leads on to the next point of briefly recapping but not too much so that the user gets bored, I will have to find the balance between recapping but not over-recapping.

The next point is obvious but worth mentioning and it is to make sure you are keeping your reading interested. I can achieve this by reviewing the key points of the film not all the small talk shots. Another way is to use metaphors, paragraphs, adverbs etc. This is used to make the image of the films purpose inside the readers head indulging them even more.

Finally it is key that in my film I will stay honest throughout trying to completely reject the idea of being bias in any way possible.

Animatics

I started of by creating the storyboards with pen and paper to get the initial ideas out in physical so I can further improve the ideas. After consideration to changes I made my animatics by taking the pictures as stills and uploading them to the macs so I can edit them in Final cut Express and iMovie.

I was already familiar to using iMovie because I used it in my AS project but Final Cut Express was a new program to me buy luckily I already new how to use Sony Vegas Pro. These programs are very similar but just organised a bit differently but once I had figured my way around I had it sorted.

Posters

For one of my ancillary tasks I have chosen to make a poster for my film that will express the nature of the film without giving away too much detail. I don't have any knowledge about posters so I decided to research about some of the 'great movie posters'.

Two posters stood out particularly for what I want to achieve in my poster, here are the examples:

The 'Casino Royale' poster uses various shadows and different focuses to help make specific images of this poster stand out. For example the title of the film along with his face half shadowed which could be a connotation for having a good side but also a evil side to him.

This poster for the 2nd Matrix film film in the trilogy focuses on being very simplistic featuring mainly only black and white shades on the foreground and background. This not only helps the text stand out because of the green glow around the edges symbolising the Matrix code, but also the character 'Neo' can stand out a lot more who is very recognisable for being this character.

When making my poster I will use techniques that they have used to make a great poster, and one thing I have learned is to attempt to include semiotics with several connotations with a proffered meaning.

Analysis of Inception

Inception bases its idea on multiple levels of reality that the viewer has to distinguish the real from the dream world. The complexity of this film leaves the viewer lost in the media causing them to contradict themselves to think ‘Are we in a dream?’ and ‘How can you tell?’. Inception thrills the viewer with action, but because inception is constantly changing and switching from reality it draws us, the audience closer and more indulged to the film.

Inception is a dream in a dream in a dream but it gets you to think perhaps that the whole story is a dream and all those other dreams are just contained inside one dream and none of the story is actually happening. Leonardo dicaprio could be dreaming the whole thing up but we as a viewer don’t know. Throughout the film there are hints to this and against but most noticeably is the ending where Leonardo spins his ‘totem’ to see if he is dreaming or not and the film cuts out before we know. This is very similar to the film blade runner where Deckard is hinted that he also could be a replicate but it is up to the audiences opinion to whether he is or not. This in some ways breaks the 4^th wall because now it is up to the audience to not just watch the film but to participate in the creation of the film.

Trickery is used to its full potential in Inception because it doesn’t have a real villain of whom plots against the ‘heroes’ other than the humans sub conscious, who will attack everyone but its self. I think this is key because does this link us humans back to our primitive state, in that will instinctively believe every man/woman for themselves. It makes the audience wonder whether us as a human race are just selfish and don’t think of others just to get benefits for ourselves.

The film also surrounds it self in ‘Hyperreality’ with effects such as warping the world to a preference the ‘architect’ creates and the multiple worlds that the characters venture of whom can seamlessly travel through using little if no effort. Also time is constantly distorted depending on the ‘Level of the Dream’, so the deeper in they go the fast time travels creating not only more Hyperreality but also the complexity of the story which you can only understand if watched multiple times.

This film makes the viewer wonder if they are dreaming watching this film or if they are actually there watching the film. Could it be the sub conscious telling the viewing they are in a dream by creating a film about dreams?

All these ideas make Inception incredibly postmodern with trickery, complicity, lack of a villain and the delivery of the film.

Theories & Theorists

Per Aage Brandt

What is semiotics?

Semiotics is the study f signs, their forms of expression and contents. So what is a sign? Maybe the best definition is the one that just states that signs in the non-metaphorical sense are phenomena produced intention

ally b humans and taken by humans to show the intention of the producer, and its content.

S is a complex, linguistic and gestural sign. The speaker-signer shows to the

listener-observer by performing it, namely by his grammatically organized words and his accompanying movements of fingers, hand, arm, trunc and face (especially his eye movements), that he wants to direct his addressee's attention to an item present to his mind. This item - here apparently including a bird - is then the content of his sign; the content of the sign is the part of what is present to the speaker - signer's mind that he wants the listener-observer's mind to also attend to. That part is expressed by S, which is therefore considered to be its expression.

If S only uses pictures, that is, photographs, drawings, and the like, or

gestures that 'draw' the contours of things in the air, in order to refer to things, events and

their circumstances, then these pictorial references to the content make S only consist of icons, or iconical subsigns. If S also uses imitations of facial expressions of affective and cognitive states of mind, or imitations of yawning, snoring, coughing etc. it includes indexical subsigns, meaning it has a direct relationship to the sign. Such signs, indices, are intentional versions of spontatneous bodily reactions that are not signs (but that are often called 'signs' metaphorically: "Fever is a sign of illness").

Furthermore, S can include gestures of politness, paramusical sounds like claps, clicks, cmall jingle-like songs, whistling, etc. to indicate modes of addressing the other; such subsigns

Marxist Theory

In Britain and Europe, neo-Marxist approaches were common amongst media theorists from the late '60s until around the early '80s, and Marxist influences, though less dominant, remain widespread. So it is important to be aware of key Marxist concepts in analysing the mass media. However, there is no single Marxist school of thought, and the jargon often seems impenetrable to the uninitiated. These notes are intended to provide a guide to some key concepts.

Marxist theorists tend to emphasize the role of the mass media in the reproduction of the status quo, in contrast to liberal pluralists who emphasize the role of the media in promoting freedom of speech.

A central feature of Marxist theory is the 'materialist' stance that social being determines consciousness. According to this stance, ideological positions are a function of class positions, and the dominant ideology in society is the ideology of its dominant class. This is in contrast to the 'idealist' stance that grants priority to consciousness (as in Hegelian philosophy). Marxists differ with regard to this issue: some interpret the relationship between social being and consciousness as one of direct determination; others stress a dialectical relationship.

n fundamentalist Marxism, ideology is 'false consciousness', which results from the emulation of the dominant ideology by those whose interests it does not reflect. From this perspective the mass media disseminate the dominant ideology: the values of the class which owns and controls the media. According to adherents of Marxist political economy the mass media conceal the economic basis of class struggle; 'ideology becomes the route through which struggle is obliterated rather than the site of struggle'

Creating 'Joe Media' Graphic

I decided to go ahead a bit with schedule and create a graphic not as a final but as a work in progress. Here is the final result

So how did I create it?

First I had to make a 3d sphere and extrude its shape;

Second I created a camera so that the sphere was in the centre of the screen;

Finally I made the text and added all the materials to the layers, ending with this, then I set it to render out into high quality formats;

Media Plan

This Video was made and created using Adobe After effects with everything in it being original. I screen capped me using Windows 7, Adobe Photoshop and Cinema 4d.

Inspiration for Creativity

http://creativity-online.com/

Being creative needs inspiration and one of the best in the world to admire in creativity is James Dyson.

James Dyson

You know the feeling when some everyday product lets you down. 'I could have designed this better myself', you think. But how many of us turn our thoughts into actions?

James Dyson does.

He is a man who likes to make things work better. With his research team he has developed products that have achieved sales of over $6 billion worldwide.

But what is creativity?

- Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight.

- The ability to think imaginatively and originally

- The experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative and idiosyncratic way which is characterized by a high degree of innovation and originality, divergent thinking, and risk taking.

- Promoting construction or creation; "creative work"

- Using imagination and expressing oneself in art forms.

Action Plan

My Action Plan for September 2010 - January 2011;

September 2010

- Complete research stages, this includes Content Analysis on relevant films, studying the target audience of whom watch/like post modern thrillers and the media technology developments.

- In depth study into Blade Runner

October 2010

- Start planning my production:

- Create the initial opening storyboard for the film on paper

- Create the mock-up graphics on various programs like Cinema 4D and After Effects

- Creating the Custom Animatic from paper to digital

November 2010

- Create a physical storyboard using play mobile to get a better view at what camera angles to choose and setting also

- Research into conventions and think about inter-textual references I could make for example a link to the matrix?

- Start work on the opening of the Live Action Film after all previous stages are complete, this will run along side creating all the digital work like graphics and animations if needed

December 2010

- Continue with making the film and shooting the film

- Start work on the sub category's of my production; the Poster and Magazine Reveiw

- Look at conventions of existing media posters for my genre and start sketch ups on paper

- Study and research film magazine reviews for films like the matrix in Empire and also begin mock-ups

- Start to produce the secondary productions in Adobe illustrator and Photoshop making sure I either obey conventions or disobey with giving reason.

- Show a small group of people my film giving me feed back to my work so I can improve upon it if needed to

January 2011

- Finish the film shooting along with the digital components allowing me to start work on the Editing part of the production

- Finish the Poster to a professional standard and getting it digitally copied to blog and printed out

- Finish the Magazine Review to my liking but also comparing it to relevant pieces

- Finally after all the above is completed upload the film online if possible and create a DVD menu and disc to go along with it

- Start Evaluation.

Planning My Advanced Production

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Conventions of existing media texts; In order to get my film to a high standard I will need to look at various present films that are relevant to mine, an example would be Blade Runner.

So what is Blade Runner about and how will it help my production?

Blade Runner is a post modern Thriller, the same as mine so learning of this can not only help my story but my cast, shots, mise en scene etc.

In short blade runner is inspired by a 1950s Film Noir. The original version of the movie has a voice over by Harrison Ford, similar to the bogart movies of the 1950s especially those based on Philip Chandler novels. The replicants are almost impossible to tell from a Human being, so how do you know what is real or fake? In fact Harrison Ford ends the movie with Shaun Young who is a replicant. All the replicants want is to be able to be treated by Humans, so they are trying to cross the artificial barrier to the Human barrier.

Usually in a post modern film they make inter-textual references or parody's, but most importantly they create Hyper reality;- The world inside the film, breaking the rules of realism and trying to represent media reality.

Technology I will use

I am going to use a wide range of technologies that I have, these include Cinema 4D.

This is a 3D software engineering program that allows me create such things as 3D text graphics (like at the start). Another program is Adobe After Effects CS5 which is a editing and special effects program for videos which will be key to my film. I will be using the Apple iMac Pro - snow leopard as one of the OS systems, this is because we have access to them at school which provide the means to edit, add sound and will allow me to piece together my film. Comic Life is a handy bit of software which can allow me to make essentially a 'Comic Strip', which I can use for my story board, plan and other things similar. Illustrator is another program by adobe which can allow me to use vectors accordingly and effectively when needing to export or import. On the Apple iMac's they come with iMovie which is a simple yet effective editing program for videos which I will use to its fullest ability. Adobe Photoshop CS5 is well renown, and I will be using this bit of software to make graphics and text for my video and the poster for my production. Google along with Google chrome is a key feature for my production allowing me to make this blog but also research on the internet and without it I could not do this. Finally the last peice of software I will use is Windows 7, this will be my main OS because it runs on my computer.

Here is a video on demonstrating my technology.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frnKaGefD8M

The Cast

Choosing the cast I will do carefully, making sure that it is the right character to fit for the role. I will look at the props and costumes also very closely because they will be key to making the film work. Some of my inspirations...