FILMING:INTERVEIWING OUR CHARACTER

In today's lesson we completed a task of us interviewing my character 'Xander'  15 years into his career. It involved Ryan asking me a series of questions.  These type of questions consisted of 'what was your greatest achievement', to which I answered 'winning the top try scorer award in the 2019 rugby world cup'. This shows the audience how proclaimed and talented our protagonist is. The aim of this task was to deepen the understanding of the protagonist in our film, it gives you an insight to my characters thoughts and views on his career and life.

We got the idea of interviewing our character from the Film Escape website, the post is from Charlie Sierra where she quotes Pen Densham, an oscar nominated filmmaker with over 16 features and over 300 hours of TV. He talks about how interviewing your character can increase the depth and understanding of a character to the audience. It helped us as well as it was a way of opening up my understanding to who the character could be. You can see the website here.

 The video can be seen by following pressing here. 

CONSTRUCTION:CALL SHEETS

These stills and video was filmed on our school grounds on the rugby pitches and top of the hill which over looks the pitches. These shots were taken on the 26th of November in the afternoon, we chose to do it at this time as the pitches were not occupied so we could film uninterrupted for the afternoon.

CONSTRUCTION:STILLS AND VIDEO

Today we went out onto the first team rugby pitch and recorded some video footage of me kicking the rugby ball for our film. We then also took some stills of me on the hill which over looks the rugby pitches, this still will most likely be used for our poster. The reason we will use this image is that it clearly shows our target audience that the film revolves around rugby and it gives off a masculine vibe to the audience, making rugby fans wanting to see our movie.

This image is a close up of our protagonist, his masculinity is shown through the confidence which he has while holding the rugby ball, he is comfortable in this domain of rugby. He is ready to play, he is in kit and ready to play whenever he is told to, this shows that he loves the sport and relishes the moments where he can wear his jersey bearing his number '9'. Not only did we take these stills but we also took video of me being in the same stance but slowly turning my head looking over the grounds which lay in front of me. This is symbolic of my character looking ahead into the future, in particular at the rugby pitches.

CONSTRUCTION: MUSIC

Here you can see me writing the music on 'Sibelius'. I wrote this music for our movie as it addresses the musical side of our protagonist. As well as being an AS Media student I also study AS Music. This project was a great opportunity to incorporate my creative musical side into our film. It is an original composition which I made specially for our film and it helps carry the key narrative of our film as it is quite an emotional piece. It consists of a piano which carries the melody with an ostinato a bass line which changes from being highly played chords to a low grungy, driven bass line, and string instruments consisting of a violin and a viola. The string instruments help to add a theatrical feel to the song and adds to the emotional connection to both the piece of  music and our film. It does this through softly played legato notes being played, the viola playing the perfect fifth to the violin, adding as sense of harmony and texture.

CONSTRUCTION: CALL SHEETS

Here is the image of our call sheet when filming one of our rugby games. I believe we organised ourselves well as we got the shots that were required for the part of the movie in which they feature. 

CONSTRUCTION:STILL SHOTS

Today we went out to the rugby sport fields to take still shots for our film. This shot will be very helpful when putting together the title sequence at the beginning of our film as it shows the beauty of the sport of rugby through the fresh cut grass and the light hitting the posts. We can also use this in the montage sequence which appears in our film the display the beauty of rugby. This can be seen through the way the sun is shining over the pitch, creating picturesque shadows from the trees.

CONSRUCTION: EDITING

Here we started to edit our film in the early stages. We used the first shots we got from the changing room, the info can be found on one of my call sheets. These shots in the changing room consisted of a moving shot of Ryan, Ollie and I, and an ECU of me tying my boot laces. I directed this scene in regard to the placing of the characters and the type of shots that we used. We edited it to the music soundtrack which I have written on the music software Sibelius.