ManFlick online activities

As production is drawing to close, I feel now may be a good to share and show off some of the services we have been using.
You may wish to check out our youtube page which has all the videos that we have made.

We have also made a photobucket account to host all the photo's that we have taken during shoots.

We have also publicised our film and promoted it through facebook
and we currently have 143 members, using this we have kept our fanbase updated on our ongoing filming activities and plan to release the film on facebook for them to see.

The Second ManFlick Podcast

The 2nd of 2 production Podcasts talking about Manflick's production of 'Witness'

In this one we talk about some problems encountered during production and the creation of our new soundtrack

Witness Soundtrack

We have finally written our own score for witness which can be listened to below accompanying our new logo for ManFlick Productions.

It is an original composition that I composed on Garageband to go with the theme and help follow the conventions of our chosen genre, thriller.

 It mainly uses strings, a feature used heavily in Thriller soundtraks do to their ability to play staccato and tremolo increasing tension in soundtravks. It makes heavy use of discords and the pentatonic scale to increase the unsettling tense mood we are trying to create, as well as a key change to the dominant of D Minor halfway through the foot chase to add that little bit more tension

ManFlick Ident

The ManFlick Logo and Ident have finally been made. This will be our stamp or approval and ownership on all future products

Letter to the college

As I said before on production Day 6 we had problems with filming on Eton College's land and unless we could produce a letter that they were happy with we would not be able to film.

So here is the letter we have written for them, it also has our Media Teachers approval and input.

Dear Sir/Madam

We are writing to you to ask you permission to conduct some filming for an AS Media Studies project on your land. Following a conversation with your site team we have provisional permission to do so but we have been advised to make a formal request to carry out this task. 

We are making a 2 minute opening sequence to a film which involves a driving sequence. The sequence has been fully choreographed on our story boards and both our drivers have valid UK driving licenses. We plan to drive along the road which follows the lake to the boathouse and film two cars from different points on the road. We have discussed in great detail the correct procedures the drivers will follow and all road regulations such as speed limits etc. on your land will be followed. We have also discussed health and safety with our Media Studies teacher. 

We don’t expect to take up a lot of time in doing this and we will follow any requests you may have for us. If you wish to know any more about our project we can show you the full planning of production which is available at the following link

http://wbsmediagroup6sam.blogspot.com 

We have discussed this issue with an Assistant Headteacher at school and he has seen this letter. He is happy to make direct contact with you to discuss our intentions if that is desirable. His name is Mr Titheridge and he is contactable at the school on 01753 716060 ext 234.

We would greatly appreciate your co-operation with our project but will fully understand if you cannot grant us this.

Many Thanks

Oliver Clubb

Jack Parfitt

Joe Sullivan

SamThorpe

Production: Day 6

Today was meant to be the final day of production involving the filming of the stationary and interior shots of the car chase. Unfortunately we hit a problem. The land we were filming on for the car chase was private land (the rowing lake) owned by Eton college. During filming a man in a land rover came up to us from the college site team. After a quick conversation we were told that they were happy for us to film at the rowing lake provided we brought a letter detailing exactly what we were going to be doing and one they were happy with, so we contacted our media teacher and wrote out a draft letter as seen below. Its not a big problem as they are happy for us to film there but it does mean we need to add yet another day to production. 

Luckily there is enough for us to be getting on with whilst the college decide if our letter is good enough.

Production: Day 5

Also more retakes needed today. It would appear the shots we decided to add in were not useble because unbeknownst to ManFlick, we were at the wrong location...

We headed back to stag meadow and re did the shots where the body is taken out of the boot by the killer. This posed a problem though; we had found time in the day to do this, early in the morning, but because of the time of day no matter where we put our tripod, shadows would always appear but lukcily we were able to find time to come back and continue shooting. All in all another good day of shooting with extra footage to go in our production diary at the end.