Easter egg

A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, computer program, web page or video game. The term was coined—according to Warren Robinett—by Atari after they were pointed to the secret message left by Robinett in the game Adventure.

 I first discovered this concept of an Easter egg in the film ‘dead silence’. The film is based around a young adult male who begins to be followed by the ghost of Mary Shaw who has died but lives on in her ventriloquist dummies. The director of this movie James Wan has also directed a selection of the ‘saw’ movies and so in the scene of dead silence where there is over 100 dummies all in the same room the director has placed the infamous jigsaw doll in the foreground of the picture when the focus is on the background. This is a common example of an Easter egg as it is the director connecting the piece to his other works.

ive managed to produce this shot in which you can see the jigsaw doll just infront of the pillar on the right hand side of the shot

This inspired me to discuss with my group about the possibility of putting in an Easter egg in our work. We decided as a group we would do this through changing the colour of my tie in most of the scenes as my tie is the least visible because of my costume e.g. waistcoat. So as we have been filming I have been bringing in different ties from the original baby blue to an electric blue and a black tie.

filming update

we are making very steady process in our filming and the group has really came together in the last few weeks to get this project done. i am proud to say as of tonight all our school scenes will be finished which then allows us to film on location in oxford on friday afternoon, weve checked the weather for friday and there will be grey sky with sunny intervals so we are hoping that we can film during these sunny intervals as the natural light is very prominate in the scenes we will be shooting in oxford botanical gardens. our filming may extent to the monday and tuesday afternoons and then our filming will be wrapped up and we can move on to editing which we believe we can get all done in a week after we finish filming.

final draft digipak

These are our final Digipak covers, the black and white outside covers contrasted with our colourful inside covers with depict us imitating the three political party leaders. Inside the Digipak will be our CD and our poster as bonus merchandise, the inclusion of our poster was influenced from Digipaks we earlier researched.

final picture for the digipak

This is Paige's Digipak photo where she immatates Gordon Brown. This will be added to the other photos and our final draft of the Digipak will be ready.

filming update 2

So far we have done four days worth of filming and are making steady progress we have about 60% of our filming done and we should have the rest done in the next week. what we have been focusing on so far is to make the scenes looks as professional and realistic as possible so far i believe we have improved on the original video by 'The Midnight Beast' by reframing our shots so not to cut half of a person out of the shot as we had seen was a common error in filming in our research.

filming update

we were unable to meet our planning expectation due to some technical problems with the cameras but we are happy to say tyhat we can begin filming again next week after school as we ahve planned to film all the scenes we can in the schools locations on monday and tuesday and then try to film all the location shots on wednesday and friday