Mind map

This is a mind map drawn out in the very early stages of our project. At this point, we had chosen the 'computer hacking' theme and had a basic plot and character. 

Animatic

After creating our post-it note storyboard, we photographed each shot and used Premiere Pro to create our animatic. We found that this really helped us to visualise our sequence. We were able to spot any continuity issues in advance of our shoot, and it helped us to make sure we had a fair distribution of shot types.

Test Shoot

On Saturday we all went to Jeng's house and had our test shoot, which lasted from 8:00am to 4:00pm. The shoot went very well and we got all our shots on time. Now to edit our rough cut!

Storyboarding

We created a storyboard using a large piece of paper and several differently coloured post-it notes. Using post-it notes means we are able to make changes to the storyboard easily. Drawing a storyboard gives us our first insight to how our opening sequence will look like.

Hacking film research 3

The Matrix scene is here for two main reasons, it has an absolutely brilliant set design, which is what we were discussing wanting to do in our meeting, and it has very good on screen visuals.

Hacking Films Research 2

The Masterminds hacking scene has some good camera angles and movements. There are a lot of shots i could imagine being replicated with our project. Again this is not in terms of what is on the screen, but in terms of the sweeping shots across the keeyboard and then close ups of his face showing immense concentration.

Hacking film research 1

The social network scene I have selected is sort of what I envision the style of the hacking being similar to, not in the sense of what is on the screen but the way he is mentally logging everything he is doing by saying it as he is going along. I know in that clip that he writes it on a blog aswell, but i can imagine our hacker almost narrating what he is doing.