Sound track

As there is not a dialogue in our short film we thought that we should add music to the film. We think that in doing this it would add another dimension to the film which would make the viewer focus more on what is happening in the film.

The sound track that we chose to use is 'play' by Flunk. we chose this song because we think it fits really well with our film yet you still focus more on what is happening in the film rather than the song. We have chosen to bring the song in when the robot starts moving, to suggest that the song is sort of the robots theme music.

Ending to our film

At the end of our last storyboard the robot is at the top of the car park due to changes we had made previously in our film we only had about 30 seconds left, so we decided to make him fall off of the top of the car park, find a lighter and set him self on fire. As a group we think this is the best way to finish off of the film as the title is Curiosity. We thought that this would emphasise the the meaning behind the film.

Aditions to our storyboards

After filming and editing for a couple of months we showed our teacher and they pointed out one issue that we had failed to realise, this effected the continuity of the film. the issue is between the two scenes of when the robot is created and when the creator walks to his car. Our teacher told us that there is a big chunk of time missing between those two scenes and that the viewer would get lost when watching it. What we had to do to solve this problem was film the creator walking to his car from the end of the first scene to the start of the second scene. this would involve just filming the Creator of the robot walking out of the collage to his car.

Slight changes to our story board

In our second scene on our story board the creator puts his bag on the parcel self of his car and then the robot climbs through the car to try and escape. When filming we encountered a number of problems with this, like limited space in the car try to film point of view shots, the continuity of the film didn't look very good as we found it very difficult to make the robot climb through the car.

To solve this problem when the creator approaches his car he opens his door and just simply chucks his bag onto the passengers seat. when we tried filming it this way we as a group felt that it worked a lot better than the previous way.

Story board scene 2

Test shoot

This is our test video we followed our storyboard as a rough guide and worked around the restrictions we had on the day of filming. for example: room where we could film, equipment like tripods. we also filmed an extra scene to give our self's and everyone else a more focused idea of what will happen in our short film.

i will post a full analysis of this video of what went wrong, what went well, our future ideas and what we are going to do from here.

Story board scene 1

Story boarding - Hitchcock

From Matt's blog

Story boarding is incredibly useful as it sets out a plan of what you are going to film, this is an application on the iPhone that lets you take pictures, annotate, add panning shots within the pictures and up load the story board to sites the blogger. 

Our group are going to purchase this application and use it to story board our ideas as we think it will be more effective and will help us demonstrate our ideas and shots better than drawing them would.

From Matt's blog