Glen Moving Image - Film Project on domestic violence Planning

Domestic Violence Film Project

Monday 6th October class

Me and my group have come up with some great ideas on domestic violence of a husband and wife fighting for our film project.

What we came up with so far is a story that we bullet pointed as the main and key points of this film. We put together a story where a little boy is neighbors with a couple that seem normal in the begining of the film as it slowly starts to reveal what is really going on behind closed doors of the house next door.

Although we seem to be getting somewhere with our ideas of a simple story, we are yet to find an x-factor to go with the ideas that we have already.

Wednesday 8th October class

Today pretty much all of my group attended the class lesson and together we came up with more and new ideas for the film.

this is what we have:

• Interview with victim talking about relationship while bruises appear on face.
• The same thing as above but the one hitting the victim receives bruises
• Split screen idea of two different families 
• We think keeping our footage and stuff inside the studio to save us the stress of finding places to film when it could be so simple and stay somewhere we have access to.
• We have x-factors now of the person hitting the victim in the face
• x-factor on the first idea we had of the child seeing the neighbors argue when really its his own house.

And thats pretty much it, all were doing from now on is trying to decide which one of the ideas above we would like to use and build on from there and it is most likely to be the interview idea in the studio, just dont know if its the male or the female being the victim.

Wednesday 15th October

We all decided to all work in one group on sexual abuse due to lack of communicating with each other on what we wanted to do and had no storyline.

The story we have is about a girl who decides to throw a party when her parents leave home through facebook. Then it leads to a boy coming over and something happens to her friend instead of her, well thats what we got :)

GAFFER

A gaffer in the motion picture industry and on a television crew is the head electrician, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design) of the lighting plan for a production. The term gaffer originally related to the moving of overhead equipment to control lighting levels using a gaff.

My role in the new group is the gaffer, taking care of the lights. We are planning on filming this film in the day time but we want it to be based in the night so me and peter are going to get some black curtins or anything black enough to cover the windows to bring out that effect and also other different lighting effects for other scenes yet to plan.

This is a link from pinterest that explains how to use the lights, talks about backgrounds, reflectors and how to set up scenes in your room and i think it might help with this film project especially for in house scenes.

http://www.adorama.com/alc/0014279/article/Home-Studio-Lighting-Gear-For-Students


 Lights we have already that we can use for our scenes:

Lights

• Redheads
• kino's 
• blondes
• 6 stands
• 6 sandbags

Difusers

• black difuser
• gel (colored) 

What we might want to use:

•  DIY Lights
• strobe light
• Smoke machine 

 The reason why i think we might want to use these is because it would look really good for the party scene that we plan on doing because it brings out that party vibe along with the difusers to give it a night time party because we are most likely to be shooting everything in the day time.

 21 October 

Today i just researched on some lighting techniques trying to find examples of some good lighting techniques through youtube and taking screenshots of them to help with the party lighting idea and this shot looks really nice and i could try set up something like this to experiment with when i have the lights.

This is a screenshot i took of this New Zealand advert on drinking and driving called ghost chips and i liked the look of this shot because you can see the different types of lights in it and just to help me have an idea of what i could do to make the party scene seem like an actual party by using and setting up lights in the area where we are filming.

Wednesday 22nd October

This is another good example of some lighting techniques from the website http://nofilmschool.com/2014/09/case-study-lighting-commercials that i saw that is good for experimenting with and just getting ideas from due to my job as the gaffer it is my job to know these things and try my best to light the atmosphere the create a flawless shot no matter what the situation.
 

I found the diagram above very helpful because the way it has been drawn is very basic and easy to understand and its a good way to take an idea of a lighting plan and making it your own just by being creative even more.

I think this method could possibly work well in our film but instead of the sunlight beaming through the windows, we replace the sun light with some sort of black curtins or something dark to cover the light to illuminate and darken the house so we can set up the lights on the inside of the house to make it look like an actual house party at night.

 Lighting Techniques Tutorial

 

This is a lighting techniques tutorial video by Eve Hazelton that i found on pinterest that really helps you get the best techniques on how to diffuse and smoothen light and how to make a good lit shot without being exposed too much with harsh lights being shun on you.

Thursday 30th October

Well yesterdays class we talked about what kind of lighting techniques we could use for the scenes but we all do not know how to plan lighting because we dont know what the house looks like inside and out. Therefore we cannot do much with the lights at this stage but what Glen was telling us is that we should just worry about the lights and stuff on the actual day that we shoot the film, but instead just keep all of our ideas of lighting techniques and focus mainly on the shots that we think would suit the scenes with the script sheet Glen has given us and that it would be due back with all shots planned on MONDAY for everyone to discuss and pick out which shots we think is the best and choose to use for the scenes.

That was mainly what we did the whole class yesterday, oh and i almost forgot, we also discussed what shots and stuff would look good. Also discussed clothing aswell, we know that the walls of the house is white so therefore we cant have anyone wearing anything white because the light would beam out from them making it too bright so we thought of what color clothing we might want for people to wear while still keeping in mind the color pallet that we would have which we are still unsure of, aslong as its dark clothing i guess.

 Its been a bit since i've been on my blog but today is not a class day and i just have this spare time to do some more research on some color pallets to help out with the color of clothing and stuff people should wear and so it doesnt look off or too colorful?.

So apparently the 'PARTY SCENE' is the big scene that we mostly discuss in terms of lighting because its a much more bigger deal and it might be full so its not going to be just your average looking living room light on but there would have to be a multiple number of lights and diffusers and also using the color pallet to keep the  party to one specific look that would actually catch on to and know that the colors in the party scene are not there by accident.

The colors that we talked about for the party scene look were mainly reds, blues, greens and yeah basically all the strobe looking light colors so here are some color pallet ideas that i found from color-hex.com that we could use for our color pallet and help out with what our party people should wear that would relate to it, not only thae party scene but color pallets for the other scenes aswell.

Color Pallets (Party scene)

 seduction color pallet

This pallet looks good because of its dark colors, especially if the house has white was all over then we could at least have a color pallet where people would have to wear dark clothing that relates to the color pallet and i just think a dark one but not too dark would look good.

Some more party like color pallets? maybe? yes? no?

 

 

 Cant seem to find any other nice looking dark colors so these are my favorites! :D

Monday 10th November 

Experiments with lighting 

Monday 17th November

 First class back since last week on the 12th and now i think we have all the footage that we shot that day/night and are now working on editing it today!.