construction part 1- the raw footage

To begin i decided to get the raw footage first. before this however i looked through mu plot and put together a storyboard of my teaser, thus allowing me to more accurately capture the footage i'm looking for. the storyboard shall be included in a later update. so with this in hand i got to work. i decided that in order to show its an immortal it should be a guy who looks dead and then wakes up. how do you know a guy is instantly dead? cover him in blood. so thats what i did, taking a normal shirt (which i slashed to get a more period type of look) and covered it in blood. i used my cousin to portray the immortal in the teaser (who is left deliberately unnamed in order to entice the audience) because he was of the right height and build, particularly in the face, to pull of the look i was going for, which is to say the stereotypical macho/handsome warrior/hero thing. i wanted him to open his eye after being shown to be dead because its was dramatic and fit with what most people would do if you survive something bad. i choose to having him laying down on the grass because 1. the green contrasts well against the red, 2. grass has connotations of open plains, the same kind of plains where big battles would take place. I decided to use an extend zoom into close up shot for the majority of my teasers length because it fits with the conventions of not showing much of the film and a slow close up works well with a voice over to create dramatic effect. i used a sweeping establishing shot at the beginning to show the setting of the film only. i did this from a natural high spot on top of a slide in a children's park that is on top of a very big hill. i used a more rural setting to contrast the normal convention of action films being set in cities, with the intention of implying that big things are secretly taking place in this outwardly normal place.

so, that's how i got the raw footage i did and the decisions that lead to the way that footage was gathered. next up, the editing process.

UPDATE: the images above are those of my storyboard, beginning from the bottom one and proceeding in ascending order. why are they like that? because the blogging system is dumb and every time i try moving them around the system freezes and i have to restart the entire computer.