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Director’s Daily Production Blog:- Thursday 12 November 2015

Today I did loads of editing in the 3d software, B;ender 3d on a model set from blend swap. i rendered it and prepared it to go in to scene 6 shot 2. I’ve also created and uploaded a new trailer to youtube. And finally I’ve done a load of pr and stuff

UPDATE AND URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT

The film is now to be released on Friday 8 January 2016.

This is instead of Friday 18 December 2015.

This is due to edit progress and the need for more space to get the finalised distribution cemented.

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Director’s Daily Production Blog:- Wednesday 28 October 2015

Firstly I opened up After Effects and the Scene 6 Project. I started and attempted green screening with my footage, on Shot 1,but was having problems. While struggling with keying and masking, i re examined set set-up and thought it actually would look fine with tweaking and colour grading and lighting add ons and effects and light colouring.

I then moved on to shot 2 and started masking and etc. I tried to work out how to get a load of plug ins down loads cgi add ins / objects and set etc as a possibility to add on to my stuff. I will get free use and creative commons stuff from places like blend swap etc.

The rest of the day (work day) was spent working out the trailer for the trailer dead line of this friday / saturday coming. As i am far behind on my whole editing but have the key scene and stuff for the trailer. I just need to get sound effects and make a trailer score and then create it for friday. I will pend rest of the week focused on the trailer then finishing the edit. At first I was really struggling to think how i was going to get film done with visual effects, sound dub and music scoring still left to do by this coming week end  – especially this friday – and to get trailer made and uploaded for the same day on youtube it seemed an impossible task. I really thought i failed myself but had a brain wave this morning and remembered My film release is december in vimeo on demand and video on demand sources by december to january, (obviously i hadn’t forgotten my distribution plan just I was thinking I needed whole video to be complete before i did trailer as thats how my last video project at uni happened). However I realised that I had all material for the trailer complete as was my last resort plan. I also had a breakthrough in my trailer ideas and design and set myself the action plan and target i mentioned above for trailer. My film is not far off being finished – especially this visual effects stage – its just that the scene I’m on is the second big section to work on and bugger scale stuff which is quite a challenge for me. However this whole thing is so fun and challenging that i love the growth the work has caused me.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:- TRAILER AND DISTRIBUTION

Hi, Director, Producer and Writer Sophie J Lees Here.

The major update announcement is:

The Trailer will be released on youtube, vimeo and other sites on Friday 30th October 2015.

The film Release will be (Estimated) Friday 18 December 2015.

This film will be released on video on demand services, mainly Vimeo on Demand.

There will be more updates ASAP. so keep looking out

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: SHOOTING NEXT WEEKEND

Its been a while since our last post.
Its been all go wrapping up Pre-Production and getting towards Production and the shooting days.
But now we are almost there.
We are counting down the days and we now only have 8 days (including today) to go.
Keep an eye out on saturday 27 June 2015 and sunday 28 june 2015 for production shot and the shooting gallery.
Thanks for reading and look out tomorrow as the WEEKLY DIRECTOR’S PRODUCTION BLOG will be back.

Director’s Weekly Production Blog – Friday 27 February 2015

Hi, Sophie J Lees (writer, director and exec producer of Control Loss) here again with the latest edition of the BTS Director’s weekly production blog.

I must apologise for the last couple of weeks as I was ill on and off then had other media work commitments for a charity I am a member of and a PR officer for (which is very exciting and rewarding).

This week I had a creative revelation and spur, as I started the updated scripting, which broke me out of my creative blocks with a blast. This led to the complete change in the film and narrative. Originally this was going to be an alien encounter and an alien possession film and looked all set to be a brilliant 10 minute film. However something didn’t seem quite right as I looked through the narrative. It felt like it was getting to be an over complicated story. My inner feeling prodded me to keep it exciting but simple thus led me to the re-srcipting of it to just make it an alien encounter exploring the sleep paralysis and entity attack. This worked in very well as we have the re-launch coming soon. This will relaunch the branding as well as the updated narrative and look of the film.

I will be doing my funding pitches soon along with the branding re-shake and relaunch. Also hand in hand with this, i will be starting a Vlog so watch out for all the announcements and updates.

The next edition of the Production Blog will be Friday 6 March

Control Loss – Narrative Research: Sleep Paralysis

One of my main topics for the narrative of this film is Sleep paralysis.

Sleep Paralyses: “A condition in which, upon waking, a person is aware of the surroundings but is unable to move.” – REF – The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sleep+paralysis

  

I have experienced Sleep Paralysis many times and each time was different. On the rare occasion, I have experienced the typical scary and nightmarish Encounter and panic situation. Most times I know what it is and relax into sleep or hopefully a lucid dream, however sleep paralysis is very different for each person and each time and the scary encounters are very common.

The typical sleep paralysis looks like this.

You wake up, anytime between midnight to 5am, suddenly from a dream or night.mare. You have trouble breathing, it feels like there’s a led blanket on your chest. You try to move but you can’t. Twitching your fingers and toes with great effort and rolling your eyes is all you can do. Panic, fight or flight is the only things you can think and the only emotions you feel in that moment of time. Seconds feel like never-ending hours. Then you hear ringing in you ears or thrashing wind. More panic. Then you see something or a paranormal encounter happens. Often it is demons, ghosts, The Entity or Alien encounters, This feels like a real event. Is it a dream? You hope it is.