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.

PLANNING : CALL SHEETS

Here is a call sheet of when we went out onto the pitches to take stills of the rugby pitch. I believe this call sheet kept us organised as we were all there on time and took the shots required for our film.

PLANNING : CALL SHEETS

PLANNIN:TOPLINE, TREATMENT AND TWIST

Planning – Media

Topline: As a boy in his last year at school, wanting to make it as a big rugby player. Last game of the season – they are playing their rivals. Xander wants to persue a career in music, but doesn’t want to let his father down.

Father never made it, wants to push his son.

Cast:

Craig – Dad

Boothe – Coach

Xander – Player

Ryan – background

Twist: Father wants child to play rugby professionally, but child wants to pursue music career.

Treatment:

Present day. A loving father wants to push his boy into becoming a professional rugby player, as he never managed to make it when he was his sons age. XANDER enjoys rugby, however he is more interested in a career in music. He feels obliged to pursue his interest in rugby as he doesn’t want to let his dad down. He has supportive friends such as RYAN who is an aspiring professional tells him to follow him dream. Xander needs to make the decision of whether to go for music or continue playing rugby. The audience do not know what he chooses as the screen cuts to black.