Filming Process - Video

New Title Design

    This is the new title design for our film. We included flames/embers in this design as is represents the landscape and events of what has happened in our film clip.

Film Editing - Desaturation

We will be using a desaturating effect on all of our footage to give it an extra feel for the apocalypse. We have edited so of out still shots taken from filming and have applied an effect to see what our footage will look like once finalized.

 Unedited Still                                  Edited Still       

Unedited Still                                          Edited Still      

Unedited Still                                   Edited Still    

Unedited Still                                          Edited Still         

Research Into The Genre - Dystopian

The prevalence of dystopian genres within film have become greater over the past decade or so. There are many sub-catergories within dystopian cinema, here are all the examples:

Government/Social - A typical dystopia paints a picture of government or society attempting to exert control over free thought, authority, energy, freedom of information. Others focus on systematic discrimination and limitations based on a variety of factors - genetics, fertility, intelligence, and age being a few examples.

Some examples of these types of films are:
- 1984
- Batman Begins
- Blade Runner
- Book of Eli
- Children Of Men
- Cloud Atlas
- District 9
- Elysium
- The Hunger Games
- Looper
- The Matrix
- Total Recall

Alien Controlled Dystopias - Alien controlled dystopias are separate from general dystopias in that they are enacted on a people by an outside invader rather than members of the oppressed's own species.

Some examples of these films are:
- The Chronicles Of Riddick
- Dark City
- Monsters

Corporate Based Dystopias (nongovernmental) - A corporate based dystopia is similar to a government/societal dystopia with the exception that the repressing power is a private company or small faction rather than a government. These stories generally include the motive of commercial profit instead of, or in addition to, the benefits of increased power and authority. 

Some Examples of these films are:
- The Alien series
- Cloud Atlas
- Dredd
- I, Robot
- The Island
- Looper
- Resident Evil series
- Total Recall 

Cyberpunk/Techno - Cyberpunk is a science fiction subset, characterized by a focus on "high tech and low life" where advanced technology itself is dystopian. "Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, a ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body".

Some examples of these films are:
- Blade Runner
- Looper
- Pandorum
- Repo Men
- The Terminator
- The Matrix
- WALL-E 

Post-Apocalyptic - Post-apocalyptic storylines take place in the aftermath of a disaster - typically nuclear holocaust, war, plague - that justifies a civilization's restructuring itself with dystopian like behaviors. These dystopian traits commonly insure some societal/technological system's continuing existence or some attempt to restore/preserve some desired pre-disaster qualities. Although not a requisite, many post-apocalyptic visions have a man-made cause. However, there are some simplistic post-apocalyptic films that mainly have desperate survivors engaged in some struggle over scarce resources. These films are more heterotopian in nature since there is a general lack of some greater societal goal being served and thus becomes people merely justifying their survival over others.

Some examples of these films are:
- 9
- 28 Days & Weeks Later
- The Book of Eli
- Children Of Men
- City Of Ember
- The Hunger Games
- I Am Legend
- Oblivion
- Planet Of The Apes
- The Road
- Terminator Salvation
- WALL-E
- Waterworld

Filming Progress

On the 20-21st of December we continued filming for Media Studies. We managed to film over 10 min of footage and also took photographs of the surrounding area. We also took screenshots of different scenes within filming.