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 ...

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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.