NTU vs NCN

Today I took part in the NTU and NCN collaboration scheme, which simply gets ncn students into uni and give them a taste of multimedia through a workshop who Sid, Jools and I followed through.

We gave them a digital cameras to take photos to create a narrative. With the photos, they imported them into premiere pro CS3 and created a relevant sequence. If there were any missing photos, they had a chance to get more photos in the afternoon.

To conclude

We helped ncn pupils get an experience of multimedia and resulted with a film they could take back to college.

P.s. £8 an hour!!!!

The Trailer

Here is the trailer for "I've got to go upstairs", I converted this into a wmv, 3pg and Mpeg 2



http://youtube.com/watch?v=3P7xqo-U0iQ

Edit day two

Today I have finished my film, what I learnt today was that sound is crucial to the films misc en scene, ambience sound and slight tweaks on existing sounds make the difference. For example today, Owais helped me to put a reverb and an echo on "Will's" thoughts, at first before the reverb and echo it sounded ok, I could of gotten away with it, however, with the reverb and echo it sounds 10 times better! So to conclude, always think the sound in depth, as it is as equally important as the visual aspect of the film.

Edit day one

Today I started editing, I was struggling to cut the film down to 8 minutes let alone 6, so I asked Debra for some help. She showed me how to be ruthless and I have learnt I have to balance shot relevance to the story and amazing shots which just don't mean anything to the story. As the director and editor of this film, it was hard to balance the 2, but I feel like that I have done a good job.

Film Credits

Film Credits

Written and Directed by Richard Parr
Lighting by Richard Parr and Sukhdeep Nanua
Sound by Richard Parr and Sukhdeep Nanua
Camera by Richard Parr
Editing by Richard Parr
Will – Thomas Robinson
Robert – William Barton
Hollie – Hollie Starbuck
Will’s mum – Susan Parr
Make up – William Barton

I've got to go upstairs - The Film

Here is the final edit of "I've got to go upstairs". Enjoy



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5_vFPeIc20Q

Research

I’ve got to go upstairs – Research

How to create a press release

I was unsure on the layout and how to right a press release, so I decided to search a few sites for information. Here are the sites I used.
http://www.cinema.com/articles/4226/dirty-sanchez-the-movie-press-release.phtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/press/londonfilmfestival2005release.shtml
http://www.xenite.org/faqs/lotr_movie/press-release.html
http://www.vocus.com/uksearch/google/pressreleasedistro/index.asp?cid=ukps&gclid=CMDStvOWsZMCFQyN1Qod939mng
http://www.flickernow.org/article413.htm
Interactive Trailer

I had a look at several interactive trailers and normal trailers to help me base my EPK and trailer on, here are the sites I visited to gather this information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXDHSrNFbQ – Magnolia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrpIWAAU3Cs – Dead man shoes trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLn1y9v6yno – Oldboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc1KzpMnuX0 – Leon
I choose these films to research on because they interest me and they have a level of greatness that I aspire to.
Cinematography

I wanted to create a dark cinematography so I tried to find out the history of cinematography and how to create a solid cinematography.
http://www.precinemahistory.net/
http://www.foxcinematography.com/
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=1JL2jFbNPNAC&dq=cinematography&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=PDQRcV-qFj&sig=DxJqKKZhjlBunqvq-dXO6L8-q0Q
http://www.cine-holocaust.de/eng/
Royalty free sound

I wanted to find royalty free sound, to make my film totally independent. Also I wanted a car crash sound, creating a car crash sound would be expensive.
http://freesound.net/
http://www.sonomic.com/affiliate.jsp?code=GOOG&gclid=CJzYlbGbsZMCFQyD1Qodsm91ng
http://www.sounddogs.com/
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/sound-effects.html

Press Release

I’ve got to go upstairs – Press release

Crashing into a cinema near you

“I’ve got to go upstairs” is the newest film written and directed by Richard Parr. Richard Parr is a breath of fresh air for the UK film industry, with his unique approach to directing and dark imagination he has created this tale of unfortunate events where the lead character “Will” (Thomas Robinson) struggles with the guilt and consequence of causing a fatal car crash which involves himself, his best friend Robert Gamble (William Barton) and his long term girlfriend Hollie (Hollie Starbuck).
“I’ve got to go upstairs” is a very atmospheric film, mixing great mundane acting with a quirky soundtrack and a tense edit reveals an intense feature, which will get the audience wanting more after leaving the cinema.
The sublime audio within “I’ve got to go upstairs” really adds to the misc en scene, the ambience and thoughts of Will really gives the audience a sense of pain and anxiety.
Richard Parr directs the film in a way that makes the audience anticipates that within the car crash that Will has caused, his girlfriend Hollie has died. There is several clues to this story line, like Will staring at a photo of them for a moment, Robert suggesting that Hollie will forgive Will for the crash and audio clips of the accident. However, this story line is thrown through the window screen as we find out in a dramatic end that Will is mourning his best friend Robert (who he has a conversation with in the dining room halfway in the film), this twist is entwined with epic audio of the havoc of a doctor trying to save Robert but failing, perfectly synchronized with the realisation of Robert’s tragic death, however to thicken the plot, the Will wakes up at the end, suggesting, this all could of been a dream or some sort of terrible ground hog day experience.
Goober productions are very proud to present “I’ve got to go upstairs” and will be released on the 19th may.
Always wear a seatbelt.