Luke Jackson

During the planning stage I believe we did well to plan every detail we could about how the shoot process. Our strengths really lied within the amount of detail we went into, for example we created a shot list based of the screenplay, which greatly help me in particular when it came to film as I had a sound understanding of how each shot was going to be framed and gave the producer and director clear instructions to give the actor. Despite this, we found that we didn't have time to block the shot list and so when we got to location on shoot day we were lost and had to setup the camera a lot bringing it back and forth until we decided to sit and try our best to block while on set. This helped a bit but next time I would want us to give ourselves some extra time for a little more planning. However, I found that the planning stage started too late not giving us enough time to work on production, this was due to us spending a large amount of time looking for a location that was within ...

H@CKED | Short Film from Luke Jackson on Vimeo .

H@cked from Luke Jackson

These are some screen shots from the editing process for this film. The two bottom images show the timelines for both the sound and video. On the video we decided to give each different aspect of the film a different colour. This included Office Scenes (blue), Flash Backs (green), Titles (orange), Timer (purple), monitor shots (pink) and Vignette and Black bars (light green).

Photos by Connor Christian

Shot 1 Take 1 Shot 2 Take 1 Shot 5 Take 1 Shot 5.5 Take 1 - shot added for the cross fade Shot 6 Take 1 Shot 7 Take 2 - take 1 too unstable Shot 8 Take 1 Shot 9 Take 1 Shot 10 Take 1 Shot 11 Take 2 - actor didn't click mouse enough in take 1 Shot 13 Take 3 - takes 2 and 1 too unstable and not centered  Shot 14 Take 2 - make shift curtains fell down in take 1 Shot 15 Take 1 Shot 16 Take 1 Shot 17 Take 1 Shot 18 Take 1 Shot 19 Take 2 - actor laughed in take 1 Shot 20 Take 1 Shot 21 Take 1 Shot 22 Take 1 Shot 23 Take 1 Shot 25 Take 1 Shot 26 Take 2 - take 1 actors face was not centered Shot 27 Take 1 Shot 29 Take 1 Shot 30 Take 1 Shot 31 Take 1 Shot 33 Take 1 Shot 34 Take 2 - actor laughed in take 1 Shot 35 Take 1 Shot 36 Take 1 Shot 37 Take 1 Shot 38 Take 2 - walked out of focus Shot 39 Take 2 - take 1 actor moved too far into frame Shot 40 Take 1 Shot 41 Take 1 Shot 42 Take 1 Shot 43 Take 1 Shot 44 Take 1 Shot 44.5 Take 1 Shot 45 Take 1 S...

Photos and Shots by Luke Jackson

H@CKED DRAMA Shot list from Luke Jackson

We got our inspiration for the lighting of this piece from the episode of Black Mirror in which a boy is being black mailed by an anonymous person. In the episode the boy is in his room and is lit dimly by a lamp and not much else. We wanted to replicate this to show that our character was working late when the incidents began happening. Another film that we took some technical inspiration from was the new movie Nerve. In this film they use a particular camera angle that can be seen in the image above where the audience is seeing the character through the lens of the laptops webcam. We wanted to do this in our film. However, we tweaked it a little bit as we used an 8mm lens to create a fisheye effect.

H@CKED - Written by Beth Kerry When a young girl contacts a computer software company for help, Caleb realizes he took on a job more dangerous than he had imagined. Can he save himself and all of his secrets before time runs out? Hacked is all about how our past always influences our future, we cannot escape or ignore our sins, and when it all comes down to it, are we willing to take away someone’s happiness to secure our own. The core concept is morality, or more specifically, how we balance our moral judgement with our self-preservation. Would we rather save ourselves from eternal damnation, or protect others and risk losing everything we have ever worked for? Caleb is a 23-year-old well driven, successful software company owner from Manhattan who believes he has it all. A fiancé, a big house, all the friends he could ask for and a lot of hard earned cash; but something from his past has been haunting him for the past 4 years. In order for all of his problems to disappea...

During our read through of the script it came to our attention that the main points used to propel the plot was the messages on screen and that we needed to bring in some physical elements to break up the action and have the actor move rather than sit in one location for the whole five minutes. We then decided that the flashbacks throughout the film would be triggered by different objects found around the room. As you can see from the diagram below the three initial objects where a shoe, some nail polish and a lock of hair. These each would link to a very small section of the flashback which we also put on this diagram. However, we later decided that the hair would be replaced with lipstick as we could not obtain any hair for the day of filming. During this planning session we also went over the traits of the characters as you can again see below we decided that Scott the protagonist in the film would be an average business man as he would be working in an office and he would be r...

This film has a clear theme of love, not just the love between a man and woman but also the love from a man to a job that many would consider boring and unfulfilling. The film maker clearly wanted to take a documentary styled approach in order to make the characters seem more real and by doing this created a connection between the audience and characters. A technique used to help create this realistic tone was the use of natural light of an overcast day in London. They also applied the use of over exposed shots and having the subject dip out of focus occasionally to further solidify the real feel to this film, which in turn helped the theme seem more real within the film. I personally liked this film as its a feel good film and I believe it was successful in portraying realistic characters and created a genuine documentary style. However, I do believe that the over exposed shots and dips out of focus created a more amateurish feel to the film rather than a realistic one.

Park Hill: I Love You, Will U Marry Me | Documentary on Vimeo .

Working title: ‘I love u will you marry me?’ Length: 6:19 minutes Format: Documentary Hook or tag line: ‘Decaying love upon the bridge’ Short Synopsis: A romantic story at the heart of Sheffeild starts with love and ends in tradegy. Able to be seen from Sheffield City Centre, "I Love You Will U Marry Me" is a contant reminder of the love that could have been. This documentary explores the world famous Park Hill Flats focusing on the iconic story of the "I Love You Will U Marry Me" graffiti. It tells this compelling story of how a simple proposal is now being used for financial benefit whilst the creator of the proposal is on the streets homeless. Analysis of Approach: Before creating this documentary we each took on a role to ensure the success of the documentary by matching our skills and experiances to the role criteria. These roles were: Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Recordist, Sound Design. Our chosen documentary topic required ex...

I Love You Will U Marry Me  by  Jack  on Scribd Created by Meg Masters, Jack Humphreys, Luke Jackson, Beth Kerry, Connor Christian, Harvey Mountford

We organised ourselves during this project well as we began production as soon as we could with a meeting that took place after the first session. We sat for over an hour and began to come up with ideas which we could do for the documentary before settling on the idea of a documentary about Park Hill and the I Love You, Will U Marry Me graffiti on the bridge. After the third shoot day myself and Connor got to work with the edit as to stay on top of all the work we had and so that we could be in sync with the shoot days so we could get any pickups and extra shots if needed. We then presented a 3 minute rough cut a received some feedback on what we did well, but more importantly what we could improve upon.  The first piece of feedback was regarding the narrator we had decided to use. We were told that the voice seemed out of place as he had a very staged voice and didn't fit with the strong Sheffield accents of Katy and Graham, our interviewees. Luckily this was an easy fix as Conn...

Above is a screenshot of the sound files recorded by Harvey Mountford. The first four files are ambience which was recorded on location at Park Hill of the distant sounds of the city and the inside of Park Hill itself. The second section of the list is of the soundtrack also recorded by Harvey which we end up not using as we though a recording a piano directly gave it a more organic feel and sounded less robotic than these files. Finally the ZOOM files are of the voice over which we had to rerecord using Connor's voice as we had feedback that said his voice better suited the tone of the film and fit well with the Sheffield accent. Sounds by Harvey Mountford 

Simple interview shots Day time shots of the flats Photographer: Luke Camera: Jack Sound Recorder: Harvey Interviewer: Connor

(Screenshots from actual shots) Park Hill from train lines (still shot 1) Park Hill from train lines (still shot 2) Park Hill from train lines (zoom shot) Lamp (still shot) Lamp to Park Hill (pan shot) Park Hill bridge (focus shot) Park Hill playground (still shot 1) Park Hill playground (still shot 2) Swinging rope (still shot) Street art (pan shot 1) Street art (still shot) Street art (focus shot) Street art (pan shot 2) Playground (slider shot 1) Playground (slider shot 2) Playground (slider shot 3) Playground (slider shot 4) Water dripping ceiling (still shot) Lift graffiti (still shot) Lift graffiti (zoom shot) Park Hill benches (pan sliding shot) Park Hill benches (360 sliding shot 1) Park Hill benches (360 sliding shot 2) Park Hill (still shot) Park Hill (360 shot) Post/Park Hill (flying over post shot) this shot was use...