Storyboard

We hacve changed our storyboard a lot since our fist copy of it. We changed it because we had restricions on where we could film and had some friends bail out on us in the last minute. We also changed it as some of the shots werent achievable with our camera and equipment. We also decided to change the general story line as we thought of better ideas along the way made it all able to flow together.

Crew

We used only a few actors in this but we did film a lot more than we had and without the help of many friends we couldnt have finished this project. These friends include: Nick Bromhead, Harry o'Brian, Taylor Caveney, Rhys Bell, Thomas Judge, Jayden Currie, Michael Read, Michael Nguyen, Samual Voisen, Sam Clemence and myself. These people not only helped with acting, make up and filming but also with giving us ideas along the way, sparking ideas in our heads.

Art Department

We didnt use many props for this project but they were quite effective. The main visual item we used was fake blood. After making a mixure using syrup, food colouring and a few other items we used this to splatter on the "cannibals" to make it look like they had been eating other humans or another animal. Some other props we used were things like ripped shirts, cups holding the liquid drug "Theoxidine" and items such as lighters.

Locations

We used a few locations in our project. These places included the forest area by the Burnside football club grounds. We did not need permission to film in this area as it is not private property. Another place we filmed was at a good friends house (Nick Bromhead). We got permission from his parents to shoot here. This was a good location as it had a good outhouse that we used and its quite a large property which is good to work with. The other place we filmed was in a large forest in New Brighton. This was quite a hassle to get out to but with the help of a few friends we got quite a lot of filming there. We did not need permission to shoot here as it was not private property.

Evaluation

1. We began by thinking of what genre to do our movie, we both agreed on doing a horror which proceeded to move into the zombie theme. We decided on the movie genre very quickly as we both shared the same love for the genre and we were both able to adapt to the others opinion towards the project. We started working on our script and our shots we were to use later on. Although some were outragious, we worked around them and found more realistic shots that we were able to use with simple camera controls. We used simple shots such as pan and zooming. We agreed that we would leave it simple but effective. We both decided on places to film both agreeing on a forest and and garage as the two main locations to use.
Sam was a very good partner to have for the project as he contributed to every aspect we did and even after a little procrastinating from the both of us, he was still able to convince me to keep going and stay on track. We also made a good production process by organizing a get-together every second sunday. This helped us out a lot and kept us on track.

2. I think i contributed to the poject very well by filming a lot of shots by hand and organizing scenes. I helped out to think of all our main shots in the production of our film. i could had improved by committing myself more to the project and putting more organizations towards getting other actors.  I also helped out by  creating some realistic camera shots that we could use and communicated to Sam about good settings to use and actors. Sam helped out a  lot in this process by communicating with me about he wanted from this and realistic camera shots. He worked well with getting other people involved and using locations. He organized some make up design aswell with fake blood and got it on location.

3. We both worked well together with post production. We used my computer for the process as it had the necessary programs. We both decided on the title to use and we communicated well with the narrating and transitions between scenes. As i take music technology, i was able to record some sounds over top and narration quite well with vocal effects. One of the most important audio parts we did was when we had to re record a whole scene over top of the original. In the original clip, there are bad background noises so we recorded the whole audio from scratch including doors opening and closing and voices. I could of improved my contribution to the team by studying the movie program a lot more and figuring out everything earlier. Sam worked very well in this part as he recorded his vocls over top of the original perfectly and also chose a lot of the titles and transitions to use.

Reflection

i think i did reasonably well for my exam. Although i do not really remember how much i wrote, i assume i completed atleast one task reasonably ok. i feel that i could have studied more as i seemed to procrastinate more than i should have.