Font Results

I got all the results back in for my fonts. I asked a total of 50 people to choose which font would be best at the end of my film, and told them that the film would be a mobster style thriller, similar to the likes of Rockanrolla and Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels. Although I don't actually know my film title yet, I put the 3 font titles in the font on a page. Here are the results :-


Dinarjev Republika :- 6 Votes





Hang Up :- 6 Votes







Russian :- 4 Votes

Killed DJ :- 10 Votes

Punks Not Dead :- 19 Votes

Bedspread Assassin :- 5 Votes

So, I am most likely going to use Punks not Dead, although this poll isn't going to conclude my decision over fonts. I may use Hang up or Killed DJ, but I haven't decided yet.

Fonts

I have now started research on the font which will appear at the end of my film. I have got 6 fonts from a site called http://www.dafont.com/. I printed them off onto a sheet and now plan to ask several people in the school which font they think looks the best. This is the 6 :-

Location Scouting

I went location scouting this weekend. I found several locations which would be good for my film, but for several reasons they would not work. Here are some of the locations for the filming :-



















This first one is in the hallway of my house. It is good, because it has 3 doors to film from at the end of the hall, and it is well lit. I imagine i will use this for the scene where they steal paintings.



















This is outside my house, which I feel fits the scene where the men enter the house perfectly. Also, If I use this it makes it easier to film, because there will be no chance of obvious errors in the final film.




This is my dad's front room. I am allowed to move things out, so i plan to take all the pillows and ornaments out, including the table in the centre, and make it look less homely. I think that this will be good for the home scenes as the house has a yard and hall which would be perfect for the starting home scenes, so I could do all the filming in one day.



This is the front of my dad's house. I had though about using this for the entrance to the robbery, or having a piece of film filmed in the street, but there are a series of errors. The door is very close to a main road, so noise and disturbances will occur a lot. Another thing is that there is no brilliant places to film, i would either have to by too close or the other side of the road, so i am not going to use this location.

Mindmaps

A while back I had no idea what i was going to do in my film, so i brainstormed all my ideas in 2 separate mindmaps. I then looked across my ideas and was able to piece together my final idea, the idea that i am using now. Here are 2 pictures of the mindmaps :-

Storyboards

These are my storyboards which I made shortly after the mindmaps. I made them using a pre-printed frame to make them that extra bit more helpful to me. Here are the pictures of the 4 storyboards. Sorry the drawings are bad, I'm no artist. These are just basics, getting down my ideas into something slightly like a film. I will do more storyboards later on, when I am definite on set, music, cast E.T.C :-

Forum...

In an attempt to widen the amount of research that I would have at the end of my research section, I decided to join up to a forum. The forum was called Student Room (http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/). It was a massive waste of time. No-one answered to either of my posts so i got no closer to get as much research as possible. Overall it was a waste of times, and luckily I know what I am doing with my project now. I think I might try another forum, but I'm not sure, as I will be starting my main project soon.

Soundtrack

I was looking through my music collection at home, and using the Internet as research, and I have managed to come up with about 5 songs which I can use in my project. I took the advise to check the soundtracks of 3 films similar to my own, and none of them have any of my songs included. I'm still unsure where in the film would be the best point to use these songs, but they are all rock songs, and are all fast paced, very in fitting with my genre.

Update

As my blog has been looking very bare recently, I thought that I should put a post up just to say that I am doing alot of work outside Blogger, such as location scouting and planning, and I will put up posts soon showing what I have done.