Treatment

Dystopia is a post-apocalyptic thriller that follows young protagonist, Tom, through his endeavours to seek salvation in a violent and remote world. Tom escapes from his home after having learnt of the infection spreading across the population with his girlfriend Louise but are confronted by one of the many infected neighbours that inhabit his village. However, one neighbour, Sean, has not been infected and comes to Tom and Louise’s rescue wrestling the infected man to the ground. They escape in Sean’s car but a devastating crash kills both the driver and Louise leaving Tom to have to continue into the harsh wilderness alone.  He is forced to sleep in forests and eat what natural food he can find until one day, after having spent the night at the food of a tree, sleeping, Tom stumbles upon a house amongst the trees – Spiers Bank. Tom decides to investigate and manages to pick the door lock with his glasses. Once inside he navigates his way to the kitchen where he finds tinned food, he decides to steal the tins knowing that it could be the last food he ever eats but as he is doing so, the man who is living in the house returns home and is aware of Tom’s presence. The strange man makes his way through to the kitchen, gun in hand, but as the man is searching Tom sprints past the window. The man was too slow; Tom has escaped with his food and his life. Tom walks off into the distance still not knowing what lies ahead for him.

Dystopia - First draft

This is the first draft of our short film. We will recieve feedback on it from both our peers and subject tutors, and will make any changes to make it as good as it can possibler be.

Green Screen

During this A2 Media project we have experimented alot more with Adobe Premier. For example, we filmed on the green screen, and then used the Chroma Key tool to extract the colour green from the shot. We were then able to replace there area with another piece of footage, or an image.

This image shows the tranformation from filming to, having fully edited the news report.


This image is the bar shown above, to display the text 'Breaking News'. I have added a slight highlight to give it more of a 3D feel.



Although difficult to see, I made this image in Photoshop, and saved it as a PNG so that the background remained transparent and I could use it in Adobe Premier.



This is the finished bar. However, I did not merge it as one file, as shown here, I kept them seperate so that I was able to KeyFrame the text to scroll across the bar.



Titles

These are the titles used in our film. We created them on Adobe Photoshop, so that we were able to animate them in Adobe Premier by Keyframing them.

Credits music

This is the music we used for the credits. It is royalty free music that we found on Youtube. The piece is called Machinima Sound - Coloister of Redemption.

We felt as a team that this piece was perfect for our ending sequence. It fit the genre and the message we were trying to convey to our audience. I feel it is a fantastic way to end the film, and definietly leaves the audience asking 'what's next?'. It gives the impression the protagonist plans to continue his epic journey to survive.

Feedback Survey

This is the audience feedback survey that we created to hand out to people after they had watched our short film. We asked them a series of simple questions so that we could get an understanding of what they thought of the film and what areas that we could improve.

The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow is a Post Apocalyptic, Action, Adventure, Drama film directed by Roland Emmerich; director of Independence Day, Godzilla and 2012. Although it is a Post Apocalyptic film it challenges the conventions of most Post Apocalyptic, in that the apocalypse is triggered by the inconvenient truth of global climate change, rather than a stereotypical nuclear war seen in films such as Terminator.  This gives the film a unique selling point, as it was the first successful film to cover the extreme consequences of climate change. 

I feel it is important to investigate or simply watch films of a similar genre but totally different nature to give a good insight as to what is possible in the same genre; this helps develop creative ideas to challenge the codes and conventions of the genre and create something new.