Inspiration

       I have talked to you guys before about how i got into this aide media class. My brother was in this class and he enjoyed it very much. I would always see how much fun it was and all of the interesting projects that he would participate in. My brother was also very good at editing and creating the films. Although i enterted this class because of my brother, I chose this specific topic of crime drama because of something else.

     I have been inspired by the movie "Taken". Taken is a crime drama that involves a kidnapping in a foreign country. The teenager that got kidnapped dad travels to this county and attempts to find his child and the man who took her. I have watched every single one of the taken movies and that is what inspired me to do a crime drama and a kidnapping. And although, my film will be different than taken there are some aspects of it that i would like to incorporate into mine. I will not copy how it is done in the movie but it gives ideas and definitely has inspired me to do this film.

    Below are some images from the movie that i have gotten inspiration from and are some of my favorite parts of it.

More filming

     Hi! Im very excited to say that i have begun the little parts of my film and have started to gather materials needed to make this project great! As stated in a couple posts ago, i have used my brothers voice for my news report in the beginning of my film. He will be helping me on this film because he is a previous student and has good knowledge on what i can do to improve myself and this project.

     This week I will be traveling to go visit him in Tallahassee and I will be renting a house. In this house, I will find a spot where shooting the scene of the victim and the kidnappper will be perfect. I have gathered materials for this part that should help in conveying the message more and making everything seem more realistic. I have bought things such as duct tape, fake blood, and rope so far. The duct tape will be used to put over the victims mouth as they scream for help and out of fear. The fake blood will be used to put on the victim and other places to show that there was violence involved and the victim is hurt as well. The rope will be used to tie the victims hand and feet together so they cannot move or escape anywhere. I plan on needing more materials once i start filming and realizing other things need to be part of the film. If this is to happen, it will be no problem and i will just get the materials needed and then continue working.
   
    I am very excited to start on this part of my film in just a few days! I will be back soon to update on how it is going and if anything new will be apart of it.

research...

   Today I'm going to go in a little more depth about the type of crime i will be using in my film and how it will play out and what the crime really is. I have done research on kidnapping and i plan on using on this new knowledge to help me express the ideas i have more.

    In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away and confinement of a person against his or her will. This is a very serious crime. It can also be defined as false imprisonment by means of abduction. The abduction element is usually conducted by force or fear. Which means that the kidnapper may use a weapon to force the victim into a vehicle, but it is still kidnapping if the victim is lured into entering the vehicle out of their own will.  Kidnapping may be done to demand for ransom in exchange for releasing the victim, or for other illegal purposes. Kidnapping can also involve violent acts towards the kid ad them ending up being hurt. 

    My opening film will include the kidnapper and the the victim in a hidden area. There will be a lot of blood to show that there was violence involved and possibly weapons in the kidnapping. I also plan to have the victim be tied up and screaming showing that it was very unwilling and not something he/she wants to be apart of. In my film i would like the kidnapping to be for ransom. This will mean that the kidnapper will threaten loved one of the victim into killing the child until they give the kidnapper a certain amount of money. 

start to filming!!

     Hi and welcome back to my blog post! Im sorry for being away for so long but i have been extremely busy with the beginning of the filming. This past week my brother, Danny Cooke was down for his spring break. He is a former aide media student who did extremely well on this specific project. I had asked for him to help me on some of the filming. We only got started with the very beginning but i will be seeing him again in less than a week and i hope to get more done then!

     So lately i have been brainstorming about some friends of mines voices and if i feel they are appropriate for the news story in the very beginning of my film. This voice needs to sound like it goes on TV and cannot be just any voice. As my brother was down here, I noticed that he had a very deep voice, so i decided to try it out. We started to write out the script for what needs to be said during this news report and had him try it out. It did not sound bad and probably is best than anyone else that i know.  Therefore, i am going to be using his voice for my news report to explain the summary of what is going on throughout the film. We had worked on this voice recording for quite a while as well as planning gout what will be happening next. I plan on trying to film the actually scene where the child is in an unknown area with the kidnapper. I want to find the perfect spot for this scene to make it feel and look as realistic as possible.

   As next week approaches i plan on having all my filming planned out and starting to work on it all! I look forward to sharing all the upcoming news with you!

Storyboard pt 2

Today in my blog post I am going to be sharing with you my new and improved storyboard. Last week I had given a part of my storyboard of what I had originally planned on filming.  After a lot of great feedback from my classmates I had decided to change up a little bit of what I am going to do for my project. Below is what I have come up with.

            My first pictures is the almost the same as my last storyboard because I will not be changing much on it. I will keep a news story planning but this message will explain that there is a missing child. This will explain the main topic of the film opening and give the audience a summary. My next scene will go straight into the kidnapper and the kid in a very dark, scary, in the middle of no where place. I believe that after this scene I will shot the family of the missing child and them panicking about the situation. This will give the audience a understanding of what is going on with the child as well as giving them a understanding of how the family feels about the situation.

More ideas!

    Today on my blog I will be explaining a little more of details about my film opening. On my last post I had talked about my feedback from my class group. There were many great ideas I got from my classmates that really helped to contribute to the plan of my storyboard and film opening. I explained most of them previously. However, my classmates also suggested that i need a good location to shot a part of my film. This is the scene where I am going to show the kidnapper aggressively handling the victim. This shot should be videoed at a professional looking area so nothing looks fake. I had thought of my attic or possibly a friends attic. This way, the rusty and oldness of the background will look like they are at a far away, in the middle of no where, dungeon.

     Having all this new information and ideas, I will have to redo my storyboard. I am currently finishing up my new and improved storyboard and tying everything together. By next post, I will have all my ideas put together and my storyboard completed!

 

Feedback!

      Hi! Today I'm going to be taking a break from my last post. This is because I would like to talk about my feedback from my group during class time. This feedback time was extremely helpful towards what I should be working on and all the thing I need to do to get my film opening perfect.

     During my feedback time, I was told that I need to start thinking of a name for my film and I also needed a name for my blog. I am still working on the name for my film but i was able to decide on a name for my blog. My classmates not only told me i needed one but they were very helpful with helping me think and decide on names to use.

     My classmates during feedback time also helped me think of a plot to use. They suggested that my crime should either be a kidnapping or a robbery. I am going to go with a kidnapping because i am more interested in something like that and would work better on film. They then suggested that i should start of my film with a news report about a missing child and people frantically running around. I then should directly switch scenes to the kidnapper and the kid that he kidnapped. There would be lots of screaming, fear and possibly blood. I believe this scene will go on for a while with more details about the kidnapping and how it happened. My film opening i think will then be over with.