FILMING LOCATION

we chose to film in a car park because it looks derelict and quite abandoned.

Art of production company

These were the first prototypes for the font of our production company name. Were we going with a formal type of font but wanted a slight edge to it to make it more fun and similar to the genre of our film
We decided to go with the first one "FBI old font"
once we decided our font we needed to make it into an actual logo for the production company
we had many different options including one with fire shimmering from behind the writing
But going on our title sequence research we found that simple one colour writing on a darker background were more effective for the Genre.
We finally found the colour and texture we liked but it wasn't enough, with a lot of production companies it isn't just writing but a hole logo, so we needed to add more.
We decided on keys as it symbolises opening a door and possibly opening new opportunity and types of films, we wanted our production company to symbolise opening a new generation to films and new different types of films.

This is our final decision on how our production company logo will look

WHO WOULD DISTRIBUTE OUR MOVIE.

When looking into distribution, we looked at a handful of apocalyptic/ dystopic films to see if any names were recurring. 

Paramount Pictures, Dimension Films, Warner Bros. or 20th Century Fox would distribute our film. 

Warner Bros. also distributed such films as 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' and 'I Am Legend' which are also in our genre.

However, 20th Century Fox has distributed more films in our genre, titles including the 4 films of the 'Alien' franchise, 'Independence Day' and '28 Weeks Later'. Based on this, 20th Century Fox would be more likely to distribute our film.

Filming problem

When we started our filming we at first decided to film in school, filming a few clips and even starting to edit, but after talking to our teacher and discussing with each other, we decided that it would be better to find a location outside of school that fits better with our genre. So we had to scrap the clips we had already filmed and start again, although it was for the best.

Pre filming

First problem

On our first day of trying to film unfortunately there was know one in our media office, therefor we couldn't get a camera or a tripod so instead of doing nothing we decided to work on the music and sound of our project
 

SOUND

We wanted our opening sequence to rely mainly on sound to convert the plot line of the movie and give a backstory. For this, we created a song and incorporated it into a radio broadcast.


OUR SONG.

We wanted the song in our film to play heavily with juxtaposition. The themes in our film are quite dystopic and hopeless so we went against this and created an almost music box like piece. The song features acoustic software instruments from garageband.

RADIO BROADCAST.

When we were happy with our song, we exported it to iTunes and began to record the radio broadcasts. The broadcast is how we conveyed the backstory of our movie, an apocalyptic future in which a vaccine turns patients into zombie-like creatures. We used different sound settings to make the different voices distinctive and create an interesting sound texture. We even translated dialogue into other languages using google translate and recorded the computer reading the dialog to emphasise that the whole world is included in the plot.

We also included garageband foley such as sirens and the sound of dogs barking.

STORYBOARD