Final Products

Directors Cut (10 minute cut of movie)

I would like to say about my products that the low quality B-movie style was entirely intentional and I purposefully shot scenes in a way that is reminiscent of an amateur camera man because I wanted to get the bootleg movie vibe across.

The narrative is disjointed because the characters are brainstorming and have not fleshed out their ideas fully which is why sometimes the cut-aways are a bit disjointed as the characters have not figured out what happens in between the scenes yet.  

During the processing stage there was a technical problem that neither I nor Sidney Stringer were aware of and my movie lost scenes, sound effects and some scenes were processed in a lower quality and frame rate. Due to Sidney Stringer giving me my movie so late in the course I was unable to re-edit the movie and fix the problems caused by the technical error. This has resulted in a watch-able but broken movie through no fault of my own. I have been deeply upset by this as I spent a incredibly long time and put a lot of effort into creating this movie.

Evaluation Answers

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks? What did you learn from audience feedback?

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, panning and evaluation stages?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

These are the links to my evaluation answers.

Poster Final Edit

This is the final poster edit. This edits adds new cast member Warwick Davis to the poster and adds him name to text near the bottom. 

Writers Block Post Production Wrapped

Post production has wrapped on the movie and now the movie is officially finished.

Article Edit

I have replaced my fake advertisement on my article with a competition to be in Writers Block 2. I did this because I felt as though the advert was overkill on the comedy element and looked stupid.  

Evaluation Filming

Filming for evaluation will start Monday 30th March. I have split the question into two sections one section shall be an interview and one shall be a behind the scenes documentary.

Movie Editing

Editing is scheduled to finish on March 31st when I have a six hour editing session.

WARWICK DAVIS CAMEO

I went to Birmingham Comic Con and met Warwick Davis and convinced him to film a cameo for my movie.

Evaluation Questions

I have decided to split my four evaluation questions into two parts. Questions one and four will be answered in the form of a behind the scenes documentary while questions two and three will be answered in the form of  a interview with the director.

Movie Review

I have written a review for my movie and in keeping with the comedic style of my movie I wrote a negative review for the movie. But in hindsight I have decided that perhaps it was the wrong way to take my review as I point out my own flaws. I will write another review but make this one more positive.

Poster Edit

I have edited the poster slightly. I made most the fonts on the poster appear less comedic to make the poster look even more ridiculous and  made the release date bigger because it was hard to see originally. I also added some anchorage text that confirms for the audience that this is a comedy.

Movie Runtime

My movie will run for longer than 5 minutes because I believe that cramming my story into 5 minutes will result in a lower quality final product than a slightly extended version. The extended version will add in scenes that give the movie more of a clear narrative that would be lost in a 5 minute version.
The movie will now be about 8 minutes long.

Editing

Editing is more or less done but I may need one more session to work on some little things.
The movie also runs for nearly seven minutes so I may need to cut some of the movie down.

Poster Feedback

After showing the poster to a group of people of many different ages and backgrounds I received only positive feedback.
One person found the poster hilarious and she laughed whenever she looked at it.
My american friends thought it looked great and funny.
Other comments were as simple as "AWESOME".

Poster

The poster for the movie.
I chose this design because it represents the plot of the movie. In the movie the character of Callum is helped by his friend which is why he is being carried. During the movie the writers pour out ideas which is why they are surrounded by their ideas. I chose the tagline 'we couldn't think of a good tagline' because it keeps in line with the comedic tone that I have being trying to achieve. I also wanted to make the movie appear to be a b-movie which is why it is fairly obviously edited because most comedy/ B movies have bad special effects which is the feel that I am trying to achieve.

Explosion CGI

Explosion CGI

I will add the audio during the editing process

Filming Percentage

Writers Block - 100%
Two guys making a movie - 100%
Camping Story - 100%
Alien story - 100%
Possible need for reshoots on alien story and camping story but initial filming is done.

Filming for Homeless Sketch

Homeless sketch has wrapped, I am happy overall with the footage and I am happy to say it is done.

Filming for Camping Story

Filming for the camping sketch has wrapped. Possible need for reshoots but filming is officially done.

Review First Draft

The first draft of my review. I have followed the conventions of a normal magazine review, the blank space is where a photo shall go. 

Logo for Production Company

Logo for my fictional production company.

CGI Store (Finished)

I have finished the CGI store, I just need to render the explosion and then the CGI is done.

CGI Store

A fairly early version of my CGI store that explodes in the 'Milk' section of the movie.

Slightly updated version of the model.

Filming Update

Actors have confirmed that they are free on Tuesdays and Sundays. Filming can now begin wrapping up.

Explosion CGI

I have managed to create a CGI explosion in Blender. It is still in fairly earl;y stages but I now know a fairly simple way of doing it.

Filming Update

Reshot scenes set at my house and I am much happier with the rerecorded scenes.
One of the actors has informed that he has now got a job and he will give me his work schedule so we can figure out when to record.