Storyboards

We uploaded our storyboards and published them online using a free web based software called Scribd. This is useful as it allows us to show our storyboards in an easy and clear way. This is them below:
The Running Man- Storyboards 1-44

Storyboard 1-4

Storyboard 5-8

Storyboard 9-12

Storyboard 13-16

Storyboard 17-20

Storyboard 21-24

Storyboard 25-28

Storyboard 29-32

Storyboard 33-36

Storyboard 37-40

Storyboard 41-44

Twitter & Flickr

Fuse films are now on Twitter, a Social Networking Site which is status based. This will allow us to connect with our audience telling them what we are doing and when, in the form of 'tweets'. A number of celebrities are on Twitter including Jonathon Ross, Stephen Fry and Chris Moyles. Our target audience will be familiar with the process of Twitter and the way in which it works and we felt this would be a effective way of connecting with our intended audience.

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, which allows users to share personal photos. The service is also used by bloggers as a photo repository. The site holds more than 4 billion images.

We created a Flickr account which we found really useful when uploading our personal photos of the general filming preperations and production. We also liked being able to show our audience what we were getting up to.

Animatic

After completing the storyboards I have made an animatic, a way to view our storyboards in real time. This allows us to see how our film will look when it is completed, it will also allow us to see any problems in the film before we actually film it.After viewing the animatic we felt that this was how we would like the film to turn out, however we are just short of 5 minutes and therefore we felt that we needed to add a few more shots to the film. This could be resolved when editing as we can change the length of shots instead of shooting new ones.
(Written by Mike)

Test Shots-Running Man

As we are getting closer to filming our final piece, we decided to do some test shots that we may incorporate in our film. We filmed a short sequence featuring me running in different parts of our school, the shots we filmed included: extreme long shots, low angled shots, mid-shots and point of view shots. From this we found that we really liked the low angled shot and the effect it gave and we also most definatly include the point of view shot.

With the footage we filmed we thought it would be useful to document it and create a mini-short film using the iMovie programme on the Mac computers. Our Media teacher then helped us to work out how to use it, however we found that the version of iMovie that we have does not have the split screen effect, which we did want to use whilst creating our short film, this may cause a problem so we may move our footage onto a different computer and use Adobe Premier Pro. as we are familar with the editing process. I am currently working to find an appropriate song for the running sequence.

Genre

One of the first steps when thinking up ideas and trying to plan out things, was choosing a genre in which to work with and applying to a target audience. We mind-mapped a wide variety of genres and discussed, in depth, the advantages and disadvantages of creating a short film concering the specific genre. For example it would be extremely hard for us to produce an animation film as we do not have the skills needed to make one. Whereas it would be quite possible for us to create a well made documentary or even a mock-documentary as we would have the right equipment and facilities to do so.

We narrowed it down to a choice of a light-hearted comedic/entertainment film, a Mock-documentary or horror film. We felt that, as we made a horror for our AS Media project we should do something else and that a comedy/pure entertainment piece was the way to go.

Roles and Responsibilities

In a bid to maximize the use of out time, we decided it would be productive to share out the roles in order to get more done. This allows everyone to have an active part in the creating of our film and ancillary tasks, so that we have enough time to complete our work by the deadline.
Roles
Filming
Director - Mike Fews
Camera Work - Josh Jotcham & Mike Fews
Editing - Josh Jotcham
Lighting - Dani Phillpott
Costume & Props - Lizi Wood
Music Finder - Lizi Wood

Blog Diary (Pictures)- Dani Phillpott

Ancillary Task

Film Poster - Dani Phillpott & Mike Fews
Radio Trailer - Josh Jotcham & Lizi Wood