Brainstorm

 

This is our Brainstorm of names in which we created on what we could possibly name our film.As of yet we have not picked a final name from the brainstorm but we have highlighted the certain names that we are peering towards. When we in the process of making names we wanted to consider it to link to the experience that our persona has been through as well as the psychological war that is in his head and will always be a part of him.

Credit to George Turner

From all of these names that we have so far, the ones that I am most leaning towards for the final title is out of these:

• Internal War
• Lost Identity
• System Of The Corrupted
• D.T.S.P

Vogue Research

Who Owns Vogue?

Conde Montrose Nast brought Vogue in 1905, however then died on September 19th 1942 once this has happened Anna Wintour took over.

What Else Do They Publish?

Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Dress, House And Garden, Travel, Merchants, Manufacturers and Journal.

In What Way Do They Use Diagonal Expansion? 

• Website
• Multiple Blogs
• Monthly Magazine
• Events such as runways; Fashion shows, Pageant such as 'Miss Vogue'
• Trends therefore making including Celebrity endorsement
• Shops which include Merchandise
• Video Channel
• News reports
• Teen Vogue- A Magazine aimed at a younger audience
• Voguepedia
• Special Edition Books

How Do They Use Horizontal Expansion?

• Frank Crowninshield is their editor who recommended for the company to cover Theator, Art, Literature and Sport as well as Fashion as this had never been done before in any other magazine creating an original new idea.
• Photographers argued that the images that were going to be used by the company had to be more 'realistic'.

How Does They Use Intertextuality?

• Vogue Talent Contest
• 'Vogue On' which are Special Editions in book form
• Vogue Recommendations
• Vogue Festivals which is in association with Harrods
• Promotions such as purchase 10 issues and get a free gift
• Vogue Arts
• Vogue Spy
• Vogues Website
• Vogue Notices
• Promotes other companies in their ownership- Vanity Fair £3 for 3 issues

Additional Information

Audience: 87% Female, 13% Male.

Online Audience: 1.6 Million

Magazine Audience: 11.3 Million
Google+ Audience: 221, 520 Followers and on going

The Company crashed during the Great Depression and World War 2

Actor Profile

Name: Frazer Camp
Age: 16/17
Occupation: AS
Previous Roles: School Productions

The reason behind our choice in Frazer being in our actor for our film is for the reason in which that he has experience within drama, therefore acting due to him starring in many past school productions as well as drama exams. The role in which we have set him for our movie-tailed is having him to play both the part of the older man and younger man, so that both our persona's will look the same as they should be and not have too much differences. As well as it would be hard to schedule with two actors as they both may not be able to have the same free time as one another, therefore we have more reliability than hiring an old man. This then leads onto why we chose him specifically as we chose him for his bone structure as odd as it may seem we can imagine our actor as an older character such as our persona. This was highly important to us as we need to sell the illusion of him being an older character to the audience, that he was older within the modern world and a younger persona within the time our war is set- World War II. To show that our actor had the potential to be an older character as well as a younger persona, we made him face the sun so that he would squint therefore making him to seem older than he is. As a group we are highly pleased with our actor and are confident that he will pull the role off perfectly.

Credit to George Turner

Typography Practice

As George is are main editor he thought as a group it would be best to practice typography before we had even shot the film as we could develop an understanding and skill with it. The reason in which we decided this is because George wants to be able to achieve what ever affect we desire to have as part of our film, without wasting alternative time trying to learn how to edit it.

Within the final title screen, George felt that for a first attempt it was not as bad as he thought it would be because it was in time with the non-diegetic soundtrack in the background as it came in and out without any jump cuts or bad editing. However we thought that we could have used/tried out a variety of texts to see if certain words stood out and whether not it was effective.

To make these clips, George was going to use after effects however it began to crash so he took he longer route of using the final cuts and built them in motion software.

The first thing in which George had to do to make this effective was to cut out his brother Joe, which he was supposed to use a mask for in after effects however due to it crashing he decided to adjust it in photoshop using a freeze frame from the video.

He then had to add text. He spent around 40 minutes looking through texts as he wanted to choose one that would look right and fitted into the right theme of the genre of film that he had made. Before he chose the text that he initially used he tried western fonts as he thought that the title screen could be similar to 'The good, the bad and the ugly' due to the use of red. However he went down another route and looked into more modern texts.

To add some depth into the title sequence, George used a grunge background to have a freeze frame on. The next thing in which he added to it to create effect was the smoke, in which he got the idea from an earlier film poster which he made for this film. The text then had to be made so that they would interact with each other, which took up a lot of time due to George having to keep using key frames.

Credit to George Turner

Searching For Props

After talking to Mr. Ford about our props the other day we decided to see what school resources we could use in our short film. The first prop in which we decided to search for was the wheel chair, therefore we went to the medical room and asked the nurse if it would be possible for us to borrow the wheel chair, in which she responded to agree as long as she knows where we are with the wheelchair due to incase of an emergency and she needs it back immediately. Due to the wheelchair being a success we moved to our next prop of the World War II helmet which we decided we would search for up in the art department, we went into the cupboard where all the ornaments are kept and asked Delaxie if it was okay for us to borrow the helmet which she responded to agree as well as we saw an old fashioned bucket with she also allowed us to take when needed. However as the hat had minor adjustments made to it by other student we then asked if it was okay to fix the helmet back to how it was for this we had to ask for an art teachers promission so we asked Miss Crow Stewart who was more than happy for us to reconstruct it back to how it was. Therefore I then mixed up some paint until it nearly matched the colour it was and painted over the top of what was already on the helmet, we took some pictures in the process and this was our outcome.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Research

The reason in which we decided into researching Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is for the reason that our persona will be suffering from it. Therefore we did not want to start filming or make assumptions on how they would act without even going into any research.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or a shorter term PTSD is an anxiety disorder that is caused due to stressful, frightening or distressing events which have happened within someones past. Events that can lead to a disorder such as this are:

• Road Accidents.
• Violent, sudden personal assaults such as sexual abuse, mugging or a robbery.
• Consistant sexual abuse, violence or severe neglect.
• Witnessing murders/deaths.
• Military combat.
• Being held hostage.
• Witnessing terrorist attacks such as 911.
• Natural disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis.

It can be developed immediately after an experiencing an event of such as the above or it can occur weeks, months or years after the event. It develops in about 1 out of 3 people who experience severe trauma which cannot be explained why some people experience it and some people can go without it.

People with PTSD their brain has parts involved in emotional processing appear different in brain scans. One part of the brain is responsible for the memory and emotions that us as humans consume which is known as hippocampus. People with PTSD their hippocampus appears smaller in size. It is thought to be that the changes in this part of the brain can be related to fear and anxiety, memory problems and flashbacks. If the hippocampus malfunctions i may prevent flashbacks and nightmares from being properly processed, therefore the anxiety they begin to generate does not reduce over any time period. Treatment of PTSD results in processing their memories so that over time the flashbacks and nightmares will eventually and gradually disappear.

Animatic For War Thriller

We made an animatic of what our film will possibly look like or roughly along the lines of the outcome, it showed how long each shot would be and which shots would be used. This allowed us to see if our idea would fit into the mark scheme that has been given to us, for example the time limit that has been set. However the time of this animatic is shorter than our limit this is partly because part of our animatic was not put in due to it being merely impossible to do, as well as some of our shots were cut shorter than we originally planned, there was also no dialogue or music included therefore making it partly short. This was our outcome and it was edited and made by George Turner.