Production report

Our filming took us to campus on a Saturday... yea a Saturday :( it was terrible and awful. I'm suppose to spend my Saturday sleeping and relaxing and now here i am at nine in the morning at campus.. OK granted that we have class that Saturday and it was t 1 but i don't see the reason to come in so early.. if only the shop at my place are close i would have considered walking there.

so here we are on a Saturday at campus... OK it was fine to say we start filming at 9 but when i arrive there, there was no no one there it was quite expected of them... honestly i though of doing the same thing as well haha, but due to the fact that i was starving to the point of looking like Victoria Beckham i decided to go not cause we are filming but to eat... he at least I'm honest :P

so i waited from 9 all the way till we have class at 1.. it was depressing sooo lonely.. but i did have time to do some of my other assignments whilst waiting for my group mates. so we ended class at 4 and said OK we'll film now since every body is here...

We decided to do the underground scene that day because it was suitable as it was the only place that had proper lighting for the concept of noir. The place where we took the film was scary it took me a while to convince the 3 girls to come and shoot but eventually they did. 

We had some problems at first and got into and argument because we couldn't find the angel we wanted for the scene because light was different from when we took before. it was also a problem as everyone in the group had different ideas and we dint come to a conclusion until after about an hour.

this scene is where my character Tyler meets up with the 2 illusionist and hypnotist and i was to convince them to overthrow Ignis. it was quite difficult to do because we didn't have any script so every thing said had to be done on the spot. it was my first time acting to so i was quite nervous... 

our next scene we did it on a Sunday it was a car chase scene and a chase scene it was very difficult to do as i the main character had to drive >:D yea it was difficult to decide which one would have to sacrifice their car and ti was funny as well because i had no license hahaha so we did the car scene and then i drove over to the car park to do the chase scene.

the chase scene us where my character chase after Ignis played by nick. this scene was our biggest problem so far it was almost impossible to do in the dark and nick is a bit shortsighted. We had many run on different angle. 

we had from a afar to capture the speed and the size for the place were running

we had one from the chaser's point of view, almost like first person.

and we had one from the back.

we have a lot of editing to do and need to record sound over because it wasn't clear to do so. i wanted to film more however our filming was cut short as nick feel and had a little accident doing the running scene at the car park and cut his hands landing on the rocky ground.. The rocky ground how ever provide us with cool effects.. our feet had smoke coming off of it as we run because of the dust and dirt on it... 

 

And yesterday we did a scene for the new reporter with arisi. Sarah then went home and did some editing for it here it is on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DybT3tPyki0

Contextual approach

Production 1

• Select 2 scenes, explain and describe the visual concept based on
your understanding of design principles.

1.                                                                                                                                                                      This is a scene I choose to show my understanding for a visual concept. It show surreal use of lighting that allows a mysterious aura around the figure in the foreground. This allows audience to relate to the film by provoking one of the 5 senses of which is sight. This will make the audience ask question for them selves creating a visual effect.The use of r3 also help to capture the figure i the foreground making him stand out. It also give a calming balance as the nature of the lighting split the image in 2 side which is light and dark.
2.     This scene is again another one that shows high value within visual concept. The setting under the bridge is amazing for the depiction on the hieroglyph. giving rough surface on the wall which we will carve to show the olden days writing. Its sets also a rugged a atmosphere for the scene making it mysterious.

Design reference..

we did so much researc for our new story  line it was epic!!!! hahaha no seriously it was better than we did for the last one... we watch so much magic movies from harry potter to fairy tail to the illusionist...

Harry Potter

   

The story written by J.K Rowling  which sold millions of copies tell a story of a boy who's world was flipped upside-down when he was told that he was a wizard,,

Fairy Tail

   

The manga illustrated by the Hiro Mashima, tells a story of the guild fairy tail which stand for the principle of family. This principle alone is what allows them to overcome any obstacle. The way magic used in daily life is overwhelming and each character uses their own magic power, each one complies simply with their personality. This was very useful for the research for the characters as it provides us with multiple varieties of characters.

 

The illusionist allows us to understand the illusions we needed for the movie we are creating. There many form of illusions and each one was batter than the last. I find it very useful for the filming as we can understand how its done.

we even looked up on some of the moders magician such as david blane or dynamo... they all use very cever illusion for their tricks and we would get better understanding of the way magic works and how the eyes can be lied so much... it was very facinating and cool to learn all this magic tricks and it was amazing...

Character analysis

CHARACTERS

Main Characters :
1. Ignis Whittle Nicholas Lim
2. Tyler Fariz Fidraus

Supporting roles :
1. Umbra Sarah Jane
2. Ardillia Maegan Tan
3. Arasi

Characteristics.

1. Ignis Whittle
- main illusionist of the story
- founder of the cult Ignis Faatus ( objective : to take away happiness from the world just as how his happiness was taken away)
- vengeful
- introvert
- lost his parents at a young age, murdered.
- successfully created a cult
- has trust issues
- villainous

2. Tyler
- Ignis's most devoted disciple and illusionist
- lusts for power and control
- deceptive
- has a soft side
- fast learner
- two-faced
- performer (knows how to mislead Ignis's trust)

3. Umbra
- illusionist recruited by Ignis
- loyalty lies with Tyler
- uncontrollable
- has a grungy,rebellious look
- killed by Ignis during 'The Foray'
- close friends with Ardillia

4. Ardillia
- hypnotist recruited by Ignis
- loyalty lies with Tyler
- spooky
- dark
- close friends with Umbra
- killed by Ignis alongside Umbra during 'The Foray'

Scenes

Narrative Sequence (according to how it will be filmed)

INTRO :
~ The scene opens at present time.
- a plain black scene appears
- a match stick is being lit by an adventurous traveller in an ancient pyramid
- He starts reading the ancient hieroglyphs on the walls
- Suddenly the markings of a man appears and a brick opens, leading to an open compartment.
- It contains a scroll.... our story begins.

         

SCENE 1 (as the narrator reads, the scene goes back to past times) :
- The picture of a happy family of 3 appears
- Ignis Whittle - main character Nicholas Lim is introduced
- Suddenly, the picture starts to have drips of blood all over it
- The scene fades to black and we are standing over a graveyard, with Ignis's kneeling by the tombstones of his parents. There is anger in his eyes.
- Ignis starts to isolate himself from his friends and society, practicing on his magic tricks and illusions.

            

SCENE 2
- Ignis comes out of the shadows, suited up, and started performing to attract peoples attention.
- He gained more and more followers over time
- Focus is shifted to Tyler, who is amongst the crowd, bewildered by Ignis's magic tricks.
-Tyler joins Ignis's disciples and becomes his most trusted follower to a point where Ignis teaches Tyler his tricks.
 

        

SCENE 3
- Ignis has a big trick in mind, he tells Tyler his master plan out of trust
- His master plan is to hypnotize everyone into emotionless human beings because he believes true happiness doesn't exist (based on past experience) and eventually kidnapping them to be his followers
- He prepares his trick, and hypnotizes his audience
- At a snap of his finger, the scene turns pitch black

\SCENE 4
- The news report is turned on, and the reporter states that there are mass amount of disappearance happening lately.
- As the reports keep going on, Tyler switches off the tv.
- He cups his face with his hands in dismay as he hears reports of families being in pain that their loved ones have disappeared.
- His soft side kicks in and he decided to act on it by planning with Umbra and Ardillia (fellow followers of Ignis) to overthrow Ignis and set things right.
- The 3 of them (ardillia, umbra and Tyler) meet up and plot their attack
- Ignis over heard their plot to kill him and prepares for their attack.



SCENE 5
- Ignis goes to bed earlier, and Tyler slowly approaches Ignis and stabs him.
- It turns out that the "ignis" in bed was just an illusion
- The girls (Ardillia and Umbra) comes into the room
- As they close to door, the real Ignis appears behind them
- They approached Ignis, Ignis claps his hands and all 3 disappeared from the room and appeared at the lake nearly falling into it.
-It was in Tyler's intuition that Ignis would be at the main base, thus they rushed to him, via car.

SCENE 6
- They approached the meeting base and saw that Ignis was there
- Tyler and Ignis got into an argument and Tyler got mad and tried to stab Ignis
- Ignis disappeared and reappeared behind him near the two girl and kills them.
- After that he ran and threw razor sharp cards towards Tyler, and Tyler returned by throwing knives at Ignis
- Ignis got injured and tripped and fell.
- Tyler stabs Ignis, thus killing him.

 

ENDING
- Tyler stares at the dead Ignis startled at what he had done
- An idea sparks in Tyler's brain. Greed, power, domination filled his heart.
- He decides to take over the cult
- He becomes the new Ignis.

Our progress :)

Our progress so far has not been so good :(... We are masters of procrastinating and the more we slack the more I feel like my grades is slipping :( ... I realize we have sooo much to do and we are to care free to realize it...  But then it hit us on our first tutorial :O ... Our lecturer had given a us a bad response say that he doesn't get much from us and the fact that we don't do much about it... Bothers me a lot.. Really hard to keep focus when there are  so much going on in each others personal life and it hard to maintain balance between class and fun cause fun just seem so much.. fun.... hahaha I suppose our lack of discipline holds us back and when I need to realize that sometime we need to take matters into our own hand....

We did some research about noir and some on cult but it wasn't still enough as we only used the internet... I went and look at the some movie making techniques book for noir and the amount of information i found was over whelming....

At first I did some research on the play of lighting for the noir style movie.. I thought that all our procrastinating would get nothing done it was quite worrying.. But then an idea came along...i was reading the batman comic and thought how cool it was if we did a cult on the joker.. personally i loved the idea of worshiping the joker but the problem was that we had so much to do on him..the character of the joker kept changing over the yer and then it was difficult to choose.. how ever it did built to our later story line...

MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... LET THE IDEAS FLOW

>:D

The theme of our story originally was the idea the rebellion and anarchy within the world where the Joker cease to exist and then a single follower came after it but since there was no progress made we decided to change the story line and then improve on it even better we even out time to manage everything :) That's when we decided on the magician story... We were watching the movie that just came out now you see me and was immediately inspired by it...

secret societies and cult

Secret Societies
- Secrets societies are an organization such as a lodge that requires initiation and conceal outsiders from certain activities. Such activities consist of right and rituals and that is kept very secret because its a secret society .

Cult
- Cult is a small religious group consisting lesser than a hundred thousand people with its own set of belief and its own set of rules. Some cult seeks to gain more follower while others stay hidden such as secret societies.