P1 CHARACTER BIOGRAPHYS

Jay- is your everyday teenager, who's 17 years old and attended merrier wether high. 

He has a tall thin posture 6ft3" with jet black scene style hair and blue eyes, his interests are making friends and skating.

His bestfriend is alexia but she's not all that she comes across to be.

Alexia is jays bestfriend but this happens over the pact of the story and she's always there for him to the end. 

She's short and dumpy 5ft5" with golden locks of hair and hazel eyes one with a distinct dilated pupil teardrop, she likes to do many things but the best thing that she does is caring for other peopl in her clan. But other than that she likes to be strong and vibrant with her powers.

P1. COMPOSING FOR FILM

Links used for research: 

http://voices.yahoo.com/10-tips-writing-music-film-movie-2300898.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Compose-Music-for-Film

Five Point Guide on how to compose music for a film.

1. Engage with the film you're making sound for.
    Start by watching the film once, to discover the story, then watch it again,  so you start seeing the different things and elements that you'll need, get into the rhythm of the film and relax.
2. Watch the clip back without sound.
   Do this by watching back the clip without sound and think about how you're imagining the atmosphere and setting for each scene and then think about the props you'll need to create it.
3. Know what the Director wants.
   Listen to what the director is saying when talking about the music. 9/10 the movie director does not know much about the music that you'll need in terms of how to set the mood for the scene. Such as the  director talking about how they need a tense moment in the music sense when a slasher is creeping up on someone mysteriously or how the music needs to be light and cheerful when the scenes happy.
4. Stick to the story.
    As you're watching the clip in silence to keep the imagination going remember you need to stick to the story line fully so there's the right pace of sound for people to understand as well not just yourself.
   
5.  Be original.
   it can get frustrating when a director limits you, just like any project where creative minds have to learn to work together.  There are hundreds of tracks available for use for a one-time fee. Make sure your music reminds the director why they've opted for working with a live performer instead of paying for pre made sounds.

Describe how Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan worked together to create the music for the Dark Knight?
The main thing about them working together shown in the video above was working to create the horror ambience for The Joker. Nolan had been sending Zimmer still aimages of horror themed clowns to boost his with inspiration over the time period they both talked about the tension that was needed and both realised what they wanted to create the feel of The Joker lurking in the shadows.

What was the process that Hans Zimmer used to come up with the music?Hans Zimmer decided to use music which was upon a very minimalistic tone that could point blank say what he wanted in the drone of string sound vibes.

What was Hans Zimmers intention when making this soundtrack?  
Hans wanted to create something that would be distort to other people among the feel of The Joker and something that was uneasy and uncomfortable for viewers in the pact of the disturbing character he shows. 

What qualities did Hans Zimmer want the music to have ?
-lots of strong tension.

-minimalism in The Jokers theme.
-punk and rock influences in The Jokers look and feel.

How do you feel about the final score and explain why you feel it works/doesn’t work.I think that overall the final score in which was given worked very well because it gave of they great sense of mystery that they intended to give us as an audience and the power of The Jokers character because it's not a tone which is of cheery detail it full on deep and dark, so it portrays the characteristics really well.

PROJECT ONE FINAL CLIP.

https://vimeo.com/86609151

P1 Effects for clip.

This shows the timing plan for the Fireball thats being fired at (Adam) Jay's character.
It's set so that the turbulence of it comes in on a set time ratio with both keyframes and anchor points for movement.
The Fireball is based in a new masked layer amongst the top of the clip.

The following here is the effect in wich is set out in the timeline for (curtis) Blake to dissapear to dust. Using a mask and backgournd layer to do this, then anchoring the mask for the Adobe After Effects CC Scatterize.

P1: Friday, 31 January 2014 Production meeting.

Present: Charlotte(me), Dana and AmberTime: 2:40pm
Date: 31st January 2014
Reason: Re planning of script.


Topic - Script and shots
We need to decide if we are keeping the script and story we are doing now or change it.

Ideas:
- Jay gets picked on by Blake for not knowing his powers. Blake - Fire power, throws fire at Jay (dodging the fire)
- Alisha hits Blake with lightning to stop him
- Heavy footsteps, everyone looks around
- Alisha thinks its Blake messing around
- Foot steps get louder
- Alisha screams
- Jay and Blake panic
- They run, Blake freaks out and fireballs Jay
- Jay runs away from Blake, Blake gets dragged up
- Jay runs behind a tree, tries to figure out his power
- Keep the ending

P1: Rough cut Lightning - After Effects - How i did it.

 The following information shows screen captures and steps of how i did the lightning footage scene for my projects rough cut.


Open up Adobe After Effects, and go to file > import > file.

Once i was into my documents I went through my files to get to the clip of which i wanted to import.

Once i found my file i the opened it up into AE.

 Once opened in AE, I dragged the MOV down to the little icon which looks like a filmstrip, this is what makes it into a composition e.g easier to edit the clip. This then changes the workspace below to show you what formats you have available, in my case the MOV and the Composition.

I dragged the composition down into another workspace. BUT because i want to do an effect, i need to create a layer which is compatible to what i need, so i opened up a new solid layer and named it to which i wanted "Lightning"

 Once i'd done this in my workspace the screen changed to a black colour and a new layer in the timeline was created amongst the top of the clip.
Show in blue and red.

 Now the important part, finding a preset for the lightning.
The one i used was the advanced lightning because it gave more of a drastic feel and colour to my scene.

After double clicking on Advanced Lightning, you'll see that the workspace changes and the Bolt appears. When you've done this you're then further able to change the movement and can also add in effects over the top and even more layers to give more Bolts depending on how many you want and the atmosphere you're wanting to create.

I was after a really life self explained moody heartless scene where i decided that i would input more layers as which can be seen in the evidence photos.
 
 To change how the lightning was placed and so it moved i used the keyframes to help with this, and also i used something in the effect controls that ables me to change the directions and the forking of the lightning to suit my work.

P1: Metadata

The following images show the given evidence needed for the layout and folder structure of Project One.

 This shows the named MOV clips for the creature footage overview.

 This shows the footage taken for the Phone MOVs and JPG files.