11th December 2013 - Fourth Day of Production

10th December 2013 - Third Day of Production

9th December 2013 - Second Day of Production

Shooting scenes #7 and #8

Our second shoot was a bit shorter than a first one due to us only shooting two scenes. The reason for that was those two scenes were shot at the same location - our school. Now we have 6 scenes shot in total and 6 more to go. The scenes we left our selves to shoot are ones down the St. Margaret's Bay, the A20 and in a house. We left those scenes 'till last as we need to get transport to get us there.

We plan to shoot the scenes down the A20 on the 10th of December, scenes down the St. Margaret's Bay on the 11th of December and at a house on the 16th of December.

4th December 2013 - First Day of Production

Shooting scenes #1, #6, #9 and #11

We did our first shoot. We shot these scenes together as they all take place in the same location in the story. They are all of the interrogation room scenes and since they all had to be shot on the green screen we had to set everything up in the classroom and in all of the scenes Alex had to have the same make up done. It was just easier to do all of them in one shoot.

This is the time lapse of the make up being done:

Short Film Final Idea

The Ghost Network is a short film about a group of hackers who are systematically shutting down the UK computer infrastructure. They do that in a two-step process, starting with crashing the satellites signal to prevent any on ground mobile communication and end it with crippling UK’s economy by crashing the stock market.

Alex, our main protagonist, was an undercover Secret Service agent whose goal was to infiltrate the group of hackers and try to stop them. When all the plans failed, he is now the only person who can stop the group from crashing the stock market. He has been brainwashed by them and he lost all the memories about this group, what they are up to and how to stop them. All he’s remembering is a sequence of numbers which mean nothing to him hence he is being interrogated by an unknown person.

Both Alex and the interrogator’s goal are to stop the group from the attack but will Alex remember anything?

Ending Scene Wall Breach

For the final scene where Alex with two other Secret Service agents find the server room, they need to breach through a brick wall to get into it. I created this short animation to demonstrate how this could look (of course it's not finished or fully rendered) and to get the feel of the shot.

As you can see this is not finished as it needs texturing, other particles, smoke and most of all the server room itself but this video was just to demonstrate how the wall explosion could look like.

Short Film Title Animation Idea

We as a group have not finally yet decided on the title for our film but we have few ideas. The top two are "Behind Closed Doors" and "Beyond the Darkness". In the video below I used the second option but it is not our final title. I only used it to come up with some ideas on how we could show our title in the film opening scene. The idea came to me after seeing a YouTube video which did most likely the same thing. It was a tutorial so the idea wasn't copy righted and it was used to teach people how to create logos/titles like that.

I think this idea will work pretty well as the writing just turns into smoke and disappears (this is not a full animation) and it represents our protagonist in a way. He doesn't remember anything he lost his memory, he is in the darkness basically and it's like his memory vanished just like the title animation above.