Monday, 23 June 2014

Unit - 54


1)   Slender-Man video filmed either in Barrow Gurney or lee-woods.
I’ll have one person filming me as if it was a live documentary, and one actor that play the slender-man. The editing evolved in the video will include static on the camera and video effects.
                                                                                                                                         
2)   Portal 2 short films – This will evolve a lot of green screen and time. Which is fine because it’s Portal 2. Sound effects and voice manipulation is also something that will be included. This video is two minutes long so I haven’t got much time to play about with. A short idea that I have got is someone running down several corridors whilst constantly being targeted by turrets shooting at you. The actor will fire portals to get to places faster whilst being taunted with sarcastic harsh comments from the A.I core GLaDOS. The short film will end with the actor walking into GLaDOS’s chamber; GLaDOS says a ‘cliff-hanger’ sentence, which will then lead onto a subtle black screen to then reveal the credits.

3)   Haunted house – This can be filmed at gage’s house

4)   A two minute interview about something interesting

5)   Will include poltergeist activity and a lot of see through string

6)   Sit-com – This must include Ramseys  


The three ideas that I have chosen are with video links giving examples:

The Slender-Man video:


Portal 2 short film:


Sit-com:


Final Design Idea

The film opens with the main menu of Slender: The Arrival as if I was going to record another video and as soon as I start click ‘start game’, it switches straight to reality of a long shot with the main actor led on the floor asleep.

The camera switches straight over to a close up of the main actor led on the floor, his eyes open. The camera then opens up as medium shot of the main actor getting up and wondering where he is.

Just after, the camera changes over to a worms eye view next to a camera and a torch looking up at the main actor.










Initial idea for story



Final idea for story









Evaluation Bradley Hahn

Unit 54 was all about producing a film and developing your editing skills. We were all asked to film a series of sketches and edit them together.  Although filming can be fun, it was the editing that was getting marked upon.

The main thing in my opinion was the final film idea. After we made a series of sketches, we all had to make a film that was roughly 2 minutes.  I edit a lot of videos before so editing isn’t something new for me. I thought really long and hard about the different types of edits I could make that will stand out.

My main film was about slender man. I made an initial storyboard showing a rough idea of what I wish to happen in my film, then I made another storyboard showing the final idea of what I wish to happen.

We done research into films by watching a presentation from our teacher of different camera angles and then made a series of films showing different camera angles of our own.

A friend of mine lives in Portishead where there is a massive creepy forest which was great for where I wanted to start my film if me waking up in a forest at night.

A few mistakes that I feel I have made was the lighting on the camera, I feel that more camera angles could have been made as well.  At the start, the camera starts out with the forest with me on the floor and then it starts again with me stood up already. I feel that this can be improved a lot and that maybe next time I should add more scenes.

I learned that filming in general is a lot tougher that what I thought. Editing wise, I didn’t really struggle that much because I’ve edited a lot of videos in the past. Going to Portishead filming was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed this unit a lot.

If I were eligible to more time I would improve on adding more scenes and making the special effects for crisp. I felt that on the last few scenes when Slender appeared, it was too rushed and I feel I should have spent more time on it.

During the filming I felt that it went quite easy until it was dark. Walking through the forest at day was easy because navigation was visible. Walking through it at the evening was quite tough because it was harder to see and I felt un easy.

Later on in my film there is an abandoned building, which involved walking quite far and at night that was quite tough as well because I felt tired.


Next time if I were to make a film, I chose an easier location that doesn’t cost as much money and time to get to. I would have focused on getting more people involved so that camera management would be easier and better to handle. Slender is a very quiet “genre” to film so maybe next time I’d get more actors to help me out and make it more entertaining to watch rather than just walking around a dark forest on my own.

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