Plans ahead

We have planned to meet up as a group and start to edit our Saw sweded film. We have also made plans to film our final scene, intro and credits on Tuesday as well meaningout Sweded film should be completed by Thursday which is our deadline as we go into sixth form on that day.

Credits

I have made a small list of cast that have helped to make our film or the role in which they played in it. We will show these at the end of our film as our credits as well as our Saw logo as our intro to give structure to our sweded film.

Theme song

Using Audacity and a Microsoft standard microphone, Harley and Adam created the theme of Saw using only their voices. 

This is the link to the theme is below: 

https://soundcloud.com/meplusone/saw-theme-tune

Bathroom scenes finished

We have now finished all scenes in the bathroom and are currently starting to record our theme song and prepare for our 'reverse bear trap' scene featuring Billy the Puppet and Amanda Young played by myself.

Zap character

Due to one of our groups absence we no longer had a character to play Zap. A solution we came to was to use a friend to play the character. We got Tom Grand to play the character as he is taking A-Level drama. This characters role was very short and due to Adam's (Dr. Lawerance Gordon's) absence, we had to make sure that he wasn't in shot but could be included in the later scene when editing all of our shots together.

His clothes consisted of a dressing gown on top of a hoodie to form a cloak.

Day 2 filming

We did more filming with the bathroom scenes today including the scene where Dr Lawrence Gordon saws off his foot. For this we made our own fake blood; this included flour, red food colouring, soy sauce and honey. This worked well on camera as it gave it a good consistency however wasn't very pigmented and was very transparent. We also used jelly to form the basis of the wound for John kramer's head. John Kramer consisted of a structure of towels and clothes to form a dummy in our set. This would be easier as then one person wouldn't have to lie on the floor and remain position until his role was placed in the major plot twist at the ending.

Day 1 of filming video

We breifly recorded a video of our day 1 of filming expirerance and uploaded it unlisted into You Tube. In the video we have Adam mainly speaking with a small imput of Aidan whilst I film. This link below will take you straight to the video.

http://youtu.be/DbdYF656f0Q

Photo of Wife an Child

This photo is a prop of our bathroom scene where a photo of Dr Lawerance's family are shown. The props we use are the black wig and a tea towel we used for gags

Filming Day 1

Today Adam, Aidan and myself are filiming the first few scenes of our film. We're filming in the bathroom of our groups house as its the best place for our film. We've sucessfully found all of our props and are filming with our tripod and camera we've borrowed from school. Adam is playing the character Dr. Lawerance Gordam and Aidan is playing Adam S. As Harley our Camera man is away I will be filming our footage. 

Props (2)

Prices: 

Face paint 1.99

Bald cap 1.75

Blood capsuals 65p

Fake cigarettes 90p

Dirty face soap 65p

These are the props that we purchased today. We have not yet set a budget however have split the cost of each between our group. We have made sure we spent the least we can bringing our so far total at £5.94. We still have props we haven't bought yet such as wigs however we will improvise with props such as chains by making paper chains made from grey paper.

Props (1)

Tomorrow my group should be buying props for our swede. Things we need to think about buying are:

- Chains

- Toy saws 

- Fake blood

- Bald cap

- Wigs

- White face paint

These are the things that we know we definatly need however some improvising will be made as to what we need. We also haven't set a budget yet though are splitting the cost between 4 of us. We are planning to buy the things we need as cheaply as we can to benifit our low budget.

Technology (2)

We were able to borrow a video camera from school however we also have wasy access to our phone video cameras or a flip camera just in case. We also have access to a tripod but we don't know if we are going to use it as the unsteadiness of usuing someones arm will give a cheapness of the swede. 

Characters/Cast (2)

These are the characters included in our scenes. We have yet to decide who plays each character. 

- Adam

- Amander 

- Billy The Puppet 

- John Kramer

- Lawrence 

- Lawrence's Child

- Lawrence's Child

- Police detective 1

- Police derective 2 

- Zap

Storyboard (2)

We created a mini story board of the scenes we are filming. This isnt out final storyboard as we need to include camera angles of our scenes. We will also include short quotes from each scene as a basic guildline when writing our script 

Storyboard an key content of Saw

 This is the key content that we throught was important to include throughout the film

We then eliminated less important content and prioritised key points and ordered them. This photo shows the start of our story board. 

Characters/Cast (1)

We are planning to set our cast list today once we know what characters are in our 10 desired scenes. We also know that some members of out group will have to play more than 1 character at a time due to out low numbered group. 

Technology

We are also hoping to borrow a typically used video camera to film on although we also have Iphones and a flip camera if the video camera doesn't fit our required low budget overall look of the swede. 

Key content of our film

Today we are re-watching Saw and finding key content to include in our swede. We are hoping to include 10 key points however we may need to increase or decrease the amount of scenes to fit in a 2 minute time limit 

Saw title

As we have to state our sweded name, I did some image research of the text and color of the saw logo. I then copied the font and colored it in black as it is mostly black in the films but ocasionally red on the film covers. This will be used in the introduction of our film.

Developed photos of our logo 

1) basic outline of the text

2) Black outline added

3) Final design colored

What Sweded film we have decided.

My group consists of four members of my class in my Sweded film group; Aidan Rawlingson, Adam Burton, Harley Goulder and myself. 

Firstly we decided the genre of films that we wished to swede which was those of a horror or thriller aspect. Once we decided the main genre we could then break down which films we can swede. Our options we discussed were;

- Pulp Fiction 

- Shaun Of The Dead 

- Saw 

- Terminator 

- Final Destination 

We came to a conclusion that with the amount of people we have in our group and how many of the cast and extras there were in films such as Shaun of the dead and Terminator, that Saw would be the most practical and due to its graphic content including the traps that are used in the film. Props such as the reverse bear trap could be easily made from materials such as carboard. The scene itself is set in a tiled room which again could be set in one of our groups bathrooms. 

In conclusion, we have decided that Saw will be our sweded film choice as its the most practical and suitable for our group

 

What is a 'sweded' film?

Sweded films are summarized recreations of famous or well known films using limited and low budget resourses (budget props to mimic source material) and technology such as a camcorder. These films are much shorter in length than the originals. 

A common example of a sweded film is 'Be Kind Rewind' staring Jack Black. After 'Jerry' accidently wipes all of the films at the video store he proceeds to shoot Sweded films in order to replace the films he wiped. Since then it has been widely popular to create Sweded films most commonly uploaded to You Tube.