Limbo - Elysium

It starts off with a character staring up at the sky, it is a first person sequence as the camera slowly pans up to reveal the tree canopy as leaves gracefully and peacefully fall off and descend to the ground. suddenly the sky leaves and trees begin to flicker similar to a monitor, the outdoors environment quickly shifts between the foliage and the ceiling of an indoor room. Now the scene has changed into a room environment. A voice over begins with soft and gentle piano music in the background (Andare), the voice over begins talking about an object such as a drug or the equivalent being able to give the subject enhanced abilities such as perception and awareness, as a result you become more conscious of the physical world and so a hallucination occurs in which the subject is transported into a an apparent serene environment in which the advantages could be used to ones advantage, such as possibly the slowing down of time, being able to hear peoples thoughts and so one, essentially in this part of the monologue the audience is introduced to this drug and only its benefits. then suddenly the music begins to fade and the lighting darken as the scene changes to the main character facing a mirror and slowly raising his head to be revealed by the camera, blood seems to be dripping from his eyes and nose as the monologue turns darker in turn. An eerie buzzing/booming sound can be heard as the camera zooms in towards the mirror. The character slowly closes his eyes and then the music stops as the scene fades to black, an eerie ambient noise of leaves rustling and the wind blowing can be heard as it one again switches to a Point of View shot as the camera rises and shows an outside environment, yet unlike the previous scene it is dark and more sinister. The camera cuts to a mid-close shot and begins to circle round the character followed by reverse zoom as the camera pulls away leaving the character in the distance and revealing more of the scenery, once zoomed back far enough what appears to be a person or monster can be seen hiding behind a tree... this scene fades to black and the movies title appears.

Psychoactive Drug:
                                 Name : Elysium
                                 Chemical formula : Ge2 N8 Es4 I10 S3 Fe2 Ar5
                                 Effects :

Small Dose : Enhanced perception (can see things clearer), attributes such as cognitive abilities are also increased. things appear in the surroundings that normally you wouldn't pay attention to (useful for solving police cases etc.).

Medium Dose : reality slows as they are transported into Light Limbo where the scenery is tranquil and peaceful. If taken at night one an delve into Light Limbo in their dreams and carry out actions until they wake.

Large Dose : Person is trapped in dark limbo facing inner demons, Dark Limbo is a sinister version of light limbo where it's always night.
                   

Evaluation Finished

PLANNING:

In the planning aspect of our preliminary coursework we feel we excelled with our storyboard, props, script and overall plot design.

Our acting was done fairly well but in the future we will attempt to become more suited to our roles via putting more input and practicing and polishing up on our script.

Our location was acceptable for the plot but we would have preferred to have a more suitable location for filming, one that both fitted in with the plot and was quite enough to avoid background noise.

One of the major problems we had to overcome was our plot, after having designed our scripts and storyboards for our initial script we began filming, we decided we didn't think this plot and overall theme was strong or engaging in any aspect so we began to write a new story and divided up the roles amongst us.

We also faced minor problems throughout like finding a suitable time to film and keep the continuity correct throughout, class change was also a minor hinderance as it prohibited when we could or couldn't film. We overcame this by putting in more effort as a team and working harder to think of better ideas and achieve what we wanted.

FILMING:

In our filming, we found that throughout filming nothing went significantly wrong, our best features were the use of lighting whether artificial or available and the use indoor and outdoor spaces and their environment.

We did use a variety of different shots and angles, each with a desired outcome such as the two shot and the over the shoulder shot being used to convey a conversational tone to the audience. or the various angles such as the low and high shot, as well as the aerial and panning shot are used to increase the tension and drama of the chase scene. Close ups were also used to divert focus to the subject and as a result makes the audience more likely to pay attention to the events that are occurring.

We think the choice of shot does matter in most instances, some times we had a choice of shots or techniques that we could have used, the may have been multiple shots that we could have used for each scene, so it was just a matter of picking our favourite.

We think we did fairly well in camera techniques, subject placement, and framing shots. We had no problems with this aspect of filming.

We followed the 180 degree rule throughout.

Our continuity in our final outcome was very successful, but we did run into a few problems throughout such as shirt sleeve lengths varying in each scene, shirts being untucked and tucked in certain scenes. We had to make sure hair length was continuous throughout and that sound was not disrupted during class change when the background noise of people could be heard.

We feel that mise en scene, lighting and sound where the best aspects of our film.

EDITING:

Editing really helped us spot any flaws in continuity in our filming, this allowed us to go back and film the respective scene.

We did run into a few problems with editing, such as certain scenes not appearing in final cut, heavy lagging and the timing of sound and transactions as a result.

We learned a lot from this, especially when regarding editing such as : how to include and edit intros and credits, colour match, cutting and slicing scenes, adding and splitting music and how to include transactions.

The only problems we encountered with editing was one scene kept on disappearing from final cut, so we had to repeat the import process and lag, with the timing being off as a result of image and sound transactions.

We feel that we had a lot of success with editing, from the use of colour match to give a more aged atmospheric feel, to sound and image cross cutting transactions for comedic effect.

CONCLUSION:

We have learned a lot from this experience that we indeed to use to our advantage next time, such as: we need to be more prepared from the start, to make sure we have a strong start with a good plot and engaging manner in which its portrayed.

We also need to make sure each person in our group has an allocated role and that they stick to it and work hard throughout. We need to also be prepared to put in good effort to get scenes filmed and re-filmed if need be, and may need to film at times outside of school.

We should get actors more suited to the respective role and make sure they know their lines and actions that the need for each scene, and also we need to make sure we have a more suitable place to film scenes.

Evaluation Questions - Finished

PLANNING

1. How well you managed to plan your storyboards, scripts and how you managed actors, location and props;

2. Did you encounter any problems at various stages with theses?  

3. Did you make any changes to your original plans? Why? 

4. How did you overcome any difficulties?

1. EVERYTHING OK COULD BE BETTER

2. YES - CLASS CHANGES, LOCATION AND TIMES

3. YES NEW SCRIPT HALF WAY THROUGHOUT FILMING OLD SCRIPT

4. WE SAT DOWN AND WORKED OUT THE PROBLEMS AND THE BEST ROUTE TO FIX THEM

FILMING

1. What was successful in your filming?

2. Did you use a variety of shots? 

3. What were you trying to achieve with certain shots and why do you think your choice of shot mattered?

4. How well do you feel you are framing shots, positioning subject, using camera techniques?

5. Continuity successes and difficulties?

6. Did you observe the 180 degree rule?

7. How did you manage lighting, sound, mise en scene?

1. LIGHTING, THE USE OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SPACE

2. TRIED TO - USED AS MANY AS WE COULD

3. FOREST, RUNNING, CANTED ANGLES, NERVOUSNESS

3. CLOSE UP FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT

3. TWO SHOT FOR CONVERSATION - PROFESSIONAL

3. OTS - DRAMA

4. GOOD RANGE, TRIED DIFFERENT IDEAS AND PICKED BEST

5. ANY DIFFICULTIES, DIFFERENT SHIRT SLEEVES ETC, CHANGED AFTER

6. YES

7. GOOD, SOUND BETWEEN RUNNING AND ELEVATOR WAS SLIGHTLY OFF COULD CHANGE, COSTUMES GOOD, BETTER ROOM, LESS PEOPLE ABOUT FOR QUIETER SHOTS

EDITING
1. How did you manage continuity using editing software?

2. Did you encounter any problems in the editing stages of your production?

3. What new processes/techniques have you learned using new software and how has the use of software enhanced your production?

4. What successes and difficulties have you experienced during editing?

1. HELPED, EASIER TO SPOT FLAWS

2. YES, THE SHOT KEPT DISAPPEARING, LAGGING, TIMING OF MUSIC AND TRANSITIONS, COLOUR MATCH

3. THEME ADDED, MUSIC, CUT SHOTS, SLICE SHOTS, COLOUR MATCH, INTRO AND CREDITS ADDED, TRANSITIONS.

4. ONE SONG OFF TIME WITH SHOT, SHOT DISAPPEARED, 

4. ATMOSPHERE, EFFECTS, THEME ADDED, BRINGS IT TOGETHER 

WHAT ARE THE KEY LESSONS YOU HAVE LEARNED THAT WILL ENSURE SUCCESS IN YOUR MAIN PIECE?

1. BE ORGANISED

2. WORK HARD

3. GET SORTED EARLY ON

4. GET PEOPLE GOOD FOR ROLE

5. LEARN LINES PROPERLY

6. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD PLACE TO FILM

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