the thing remake and reboot

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Video pod cast-The Thing

SHERNOT HOLMES SHORT FILM

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Shernot Holmes the finished short film is on this page

sherlock holmes equipment list

Camera- cannon 600D-  We used this camera because it has Professional filming potential due to it has many manual operating systems which help with white balance. The camera also the capability to have different lenses which can help film different shoots e.g. wide lenses for wide shots. However its sound is bad so we got a...

Boom Mic- We used a boom mic because it can get sound from the actors better than the sound on the camera as the camera will record everything when the mic will focus on actors lines. This ill also help with the problem of background sound like people talking or cars going as the camera sound will pick this up as well actors when the mic  will make the background sound quick so it stay background sound not the main sound.  This is due directional mic.

MY IDENT and evaluation

My Ident

My final Design was Desktop Story's  in which it was a wooden background that moves to the book. the wood represents the desktop and the book is a story book. I choose this idea because the Ident can be used in all  of films and TV then the others can only be really only be used for comedy, horror or kids films. Brandon Productions and Revolution films could of also been used for any genre however i don't like the idea of the Brandon Production as i makes it sound like i did all the work and don't need help from others and the names is cheesy as well. I did however like Revolution Film as the word Revolution means a change and i like to think that my ideas are different and new and the ident will show this. However i don't pick this because i don't yet have the skills to use adobe after effects to make this idea, so I pick my second best idea did that as my final idea. The idea of the wooden desktop come from how people used to right books with a typewriter on a desk. So i thought that this could show heritage to some story's  that are shown today. The idea for the book came from that a lot of films are based on books so i though ill point that out in my ident by having a book open up and showing the ident title in the book.

Shernot Holmos script

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folly script and script are on this page.

shernot holmos bugget

bugget for are film

deerstalker (already own)

hair spray(£5)

Fake hand (already own)

Pillow(already own)

Paper(already own)

221B and 221B and a half sign (nothing)

Sweets – lolly( 99p)

Photos (12p)

Toys(£5)

Pen(already own)

Phone home and mobile(already own)

Cat(already own)

Plaster(already own)

Drugs –paricetimol (already own)

Notes- Moriarty and help number(free)

Toast and coffee(already own)

Clock(already own)

Tools for evidence(already own)

Camera(own and boring from college)

Tri pod( already own)

Boom mic(boring from college)

editing software( own and college)

sound software(college)

Due to me being in college ill have the most of the equipment provided to me from college. so the total £11. 11 to spend on the film.

Bugget for film outside of college

deerstalker (£2)

hair spray(£5)

Fake hand (£1)

Pillow(£5)

Paper(£2)

221B and 221B and a half sign (£2)

Sweets – lolly( 99p)

Photos (12p)

Toys(£5)

Pen(£1)

Phone home and mobile(£20)

Cat(£25)

Plaster(£1)

Drugs –paricetimol(19p)

Notes- Moriarty and help number(£2)

Toast and coffee(£3)

Clock(£4)

Tools for evidence(£10)

Camera(£500)

Tri pod( £50

Boom mic(£50)

editing software( £200)

sound software(£200)

If i want to make this when i leave college college it will cost me total 1,032.30

Ident pre-production

my target audience is people who are aged 18-24 and ill appeal to this age group because of the effects i will use in the ident.

Nuka Duck technical design

Mattes- as the duck will be on top of a background and an explosion

Puppet tools- this till will make the duck and explosion move.

key frame- will be used to make the duck face move and make an explosion appear.

Text - Text will appear to the the audience the production company.

2D- as it only runs on the X and Y axis.

Revolution Films

Key frames- To make the Revolutionist arms none in anger. Each person will move differently ( the Images will be drawn so no puppet tool will be need to be used)

Alpha channel-will be used to make the people transparent so u can see the police through them.

Mattes-as it has 2 or more layers

Text- to show the company that made the production.

Camera tool- to make the images pan so different things will be in centre frame.

2D as it only X and Y axis and does not have the Z axis.

The idea i choose was Desktop story's. For it I will use a range of technical elements.

Key frames- so i can tell the ident were to start turning the pages in the book. Make the book slide in to centre frame and for it to be told when to zoom out.

Mattes- all the pages will be on top of each other.

Text- I will be using the Text tool to make text appear and say "Desktop story"

Fade- The text will fade out. 

Camera- for some of the scenes ill need to use the camera tool so that i can zoom in and out and pan the book in and out of shoot.

2D- This ident will be 2D as it will only have 2 Axis( x,y)

story boards for the 3 idents don't know why one is upside down though

mental health aweness Shernot Holmes

Shernot Holmes might seem to offend some people due to Sherlock Homes is a mental ill person. Shernot Holmes is a comedy in which Sherlock is mental ill. Were making the fact that's he's mentally ill  light heart and comical but not to laugh at him but what he does makes it a slap stick comedy.   .As of a result him being  a mental ill person. I did research into mental health. I work at a mental health charity  Mind  in Leigh on sea  and I talked to the manager about mental health http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/?gclid=CID87eWPrbsCFeLHtAodA1AAxg. I also look online and looked at the Mental Health Foundation http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CE4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalhealth.org.uk%2F&ei=YPOqUom8CfDe7Ab-l4CIAQ&usg=AFQjCNFAW-FYazOdRoL1pNiRS2Pl14fpcw&sig2=WuvPx6ubh8MTaNqlwZdvbg and the mental health act of 1983 law of practice and look at the people with learning disability's and people with personality disorder. http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Images/Code%20of%20practice%201983%20rev%202008%20dh_087073[1]_tcm21-145032.pdf. I also talked to a Lawyer to see if the film would breath this act. As of a result the short film Shernot Homes was deemed not offensive and does not breach the act of mental health by making him subjected to being laughed at.

Idents I like

E4 Ident

The design of this ident is 3 beach huts that open up and have random stuff coming from them like tentacles. The show logo comes out of the middle hut. The purpose of this is because it draws more attention to the middle in which its logo is at making the viewer know what its viewing. The intent of this ident is so the views can tell this channel is a comic channel or a comedy shown is up next.  This ident used the position motion graphics. This is told by the fact that the camera moves left to right but always  keeping the middle hut in centre shot.

Channel 4 ident

The design of this ident is the building make out the logo of the channel as the camera moves the logo get more reviled to the audience. you can see the 4 on the right  but its not fully made yet. The purpose of this ident is to make the audience wait and see what the ident makes. The intent of this ident is so the audience wait and guess what going to happen next. The motion graphics used in this ident is an alpha channel which is an black back ground with is transplant and its only black so you can see it when editing. They used this to map and add the shapes and background that they wanted on top of the alpha channel.  Rotation was also used for this ident as the camera rotates around the object(buildings).

Sky 1 Arrow ident

This ident design is the show Arrow in which he shoots an arrow at the the logo and it shatters. The purpose of this ident is so the ident is avitising the show Arrow for the channel as well as showing the logo of the channel. The intent is to show the what type is next and saying if you like this show you will like this show as their similar.This ident uses the XYZ axis as the camera routes around the person this mean the shape is 3D as the X axis goes though the X and Y. The ident also has rotation in it as it rotates round the object(person).




What i took form this ident is that I'm going to have my ident shown in the middle and draw attention to it as the strengths the logo and ident. I'm also going to have a camera move in my ident as all three of thiese indents do the something however ident 1 and 3 are used are certain types of shows when 2 and be used all the time so I'm going to use that idea from 2 so my can be shown on everything i make and i don't have to worry about that show or film genre it is.










These idents are the old ones for sky 1 and channel 4. E4 however don't have an older one.

The old sky ident design is simple just just Sky 1 in a blue and white background. The purpose for this is the whit represents the clouds in the sky and blue is the sky on a nice day. The intent for this ident is so the ident gets a round and so the channel is known.

The Channel 4 ident design is 5 differnt colours that form up the 4 for the channel. The purpose off this is to make the colour full and draws attention to it with the help of the black background. The intent of this so channel 4 can get its name around


other motion graphics that can be used but was not used in these idents was opacity which is how transparent an object or image is. It is used to fade out or in an image or object or have another image or object showing behind it and you want to show but object or images.

after effect lessons

This video has 5 of the same girl dancing with a moving background.

To do this I added a background to the girl otherwise she would have white background.
I also copied the girl 4 times so it makes 5 dancers i added effects that move left to right and move to the flow to the music and i also added text.

In this Project i lent to use shadow effect that made the Columns so give off a realistic idea for this photo.  I also Improved my text skills my making text move. I also adjusted the time range of the text animation by using the key frames.

In this lesson i created and animated a car moving to do this I added key frames to car. The background moves as well. The text moves zooms in till it get to the middle of the screen and the car and more tex move around that text. To make the car and text move I used the tracking tool and key frames.




Lesson 4

In this lesson i made a man walk and fall over a banana i did this by using the puppet tool to colour/shade in the areas i want to move, the ones i din't and separate the arms  and legs from the body so it can move like a human. i then used key frames to make him move and fall over the banana.

Lesson 5

In this lesson we used Photoshop. we lent how to use the tools and what the tools do. How to customise the work space and edit and image of a child playing. we needed to bring some life to the image by using the colour correction tools and we needed to get rid of background so we replaced it with other parts from the same image.

sound trake pro analyst

The green box is the audio (clapping sound clip) that I’m using in the film. The other 2 boxes below are different way to change the volume and pan of different parts of the audio.  I’m changing  the volume and pan in the clip. I’ve changed the volume so the sound of clapping dies out slowly in the clip. This gives the impact that the audience is real and not just an effect added as the clapping dies down like it would in an real life feel.

I also changed the audio pan from the sound coming for the centre to the right. This when clapping happened not everyone is in time so the clapping goes down and right so the sound  fixes on the last people clapping.

 This show the sound of a clip for my short film Shernot Holmes. the sound for this clip is in broad casting sound area which is -12 to -6. any lower the sound will be hard to hear, and any higher the clip will be too loud and will over take the talking or other sound that you want the audience to hear or make there ear hurt if there wearing headphones. however you might want some sound to be lower than -12 if u want something faint in the background and you might go a little over -6 if you want to make a sound strike out at the audience. E.G in Shernot Holmes we have a scene where some one dies so we might want their footsteps below -12 and slowly build up the other sound so the audience knows he's the villain and the sound when it get above -6 when the villain kills his target, also by slowly increasing the sound between -12 and -6 for this scene it wont make the audience jump up because the sound too loud.

The box to the right lets me add sound effects like making a normal male voice become a female alien. These effect want be used in the film however if we have to change the script to a voice over that the villain makes we might want to change his voice to make it more of a mystery on who the villain is.


I used these programs to make the foley and SFX. I  wanted tried to make my own foley sounds however due to time and to mic problems i had use sound trace pro as it had all the sound that i wanted on it. I used 2 different footsteps for the foley and 2 different bodies hitting the floor for the SFX sounds. i choose 2 different sounds for each as the walking foley was used for 2 different people both are different shoe size and high and weight. The body hitting the floor war also different people hitting the ground both different size and weight and 1 fell on the floor the other was pushed. As a result of this combination i thought it was best to have 2 different sounds for both Foley and SFX to give of realism to the short film.