Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Evaluation Question Seven
Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Looking back at my preliminary task, i feel that i have progressed my media skills and become more confident throughout the different stages of production. My development of skills is very noticeable when you compare the Preliminary task to my groups final product.
A big difference between the perliminary task and our film opening was the time we had to prepare. Unlike with the preliminary task we had a lot of time to research and plan our film opening, which gave us an advantage.
A progression made between the preliminary and film opening is that we were able to include more shot types. In the preliminary task we didn't include many different shots, meaning there were less cuts. However when filming our opening we included a variety of shot types such as high/low angles meaning there were more cuts. This made our product much more interesting to watch and created more pace. Our film opening was also more interesting than the perliminary task as we confidently included match on action.
Unlike with the perliminary task, we were able to experiment with lots of different camera angles. Although some of these shots didn't make it into the final prouct, it was useful to have a lot of shots so we could choose the best ones. However, we didn't have this luxury with the perliminary task meaning we were limited with the footage we could use.
We filmed the majority of the preliminary task on a tripod, which limited movement and the range of angles we could acheive. We learnt from this, and although we did still use a tripod, we took many hand-held shots which helped to create point of view shots and more movement throughout our film opning.
We used lots of different editing techniques during the post production of our film opening. This was crucial to making our overall product look proffessional. An example of this would be our realisation of the different lighting in our footage. As we filmed in lots of different locations the lighting varied throughout, to solve this we changed the contrast levels of each clip.
Film opening
Looking back at my preliminary task, i feel that i have progressed my media skills and become more confident throughout the different stages of production. My development of skills is very noticeable when you compare the Preliminary task to my groups final product.
A big difference between the perliminary task and our film opening was the time we had to prepare. Unlike with the preliminary task we had a lot of time to research and plan our film opening, which gave us an advantage.
A progression made between the preliminary and film opening is that we were able to include more shot types. In the preliminary task we didn't include many different shots, meaning there were less cuts. However when filming our opening we included a variety of shot types such as high/low angles meaning there were more cuts. This made our product much more interesting to watch and created more pace. Our film opening was also more interesting than the perliminary task as we confidently included match on action.
Unlike with the perliminary task, we were able to experiment with lots of different camera angles. Although some of these shots didn't make it into the final prouct, it was useful to have a lot of shots so we could choose the best ones. However, we didn't have this luxury with the perliminary task meaning we were limited with the footage we could use.
We filmed the majority of the preliminary task on a tripod, which limited movement and the range of angles we could acheive. We learnt from this, and although we did still use a tripod, we took many hand-held shots which helped to create point of view shots and more movement throughout our film opning.
We used lots of different editing techniques during the post production of our film opening. This was crucial to making our overall product look proffessional. An example of this would be our realisation of the different lighting in our footage. As we filmed in lots of different locations the lighting varied throughout, to solve this we changed the contrast levels of each clip.
Film opening
However we had a similar problem during the prelimimary task, one of our scenes involved different lighting as one of the characters was stood in front of a window, and the other was stood in a darker lit area. This could be an interesting effect, but wasn't what we were looking for. We didn't have the advantage of editing this clip therefore it didn't look as proffessional as our film opening.
Preliminary task
The credits we included in our film opening related to our theme, we put a lot of thought into this process to keep the standard of our film professional, whereas we didn't think so far into this when choosing fonts and addimg credits to our preliminary task.
Preliminary task Film opening
In the progression to our final product from our preliminary task, i have learnt to add music to the footage. Choosing the correct style of music was vital, in order to keep within our theme. Adding music gave our film more atmosphere, and overall made it look much more proffesional.
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Evaluation Question Six
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Evaluation Question Three
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
As our media product is an independent Art House film,
an institution that would distribute it would have most likely
already worked with independent film producers.
Although, this would depend on where our product
would be distributed to
It’s the type of product that, if it did well at a film
festival, it would do well theatrically. But otherwise,
we don’t feel that it would do particularly well in
large cinema complexes. It would probably be more
successful if it were to be shown on a terrestrial
television channel; most probably Channel 4 or ITV.
Another distributer which may be interested in our
film would be Wild Bunch international sales.
Wild Bunch are well known for their international
sales and aim to distribute a broad artistically
diverse selection of international cinema. This
would be convenient to us because our film is
based on an Austrian event. Also, Wild Bunch
are known for distributing challenging and
controversial films to film festivals. This would
be ideal because the subject of our film is very sensitive.
We also considered that Pathe might be a good
candidate to distribute our film. They have a major
presence in the UK film industry and not only
distribute films but also produce them. This vertical
integration gives them an advantage. Pathe may find
our film too controversial compared to existing films
they have distributed. Their film credits include
Slumdog Millionaire and 127 hours. Both of these
films are independent which shows that Pathe are
interested in distributing this style.
Monday, 2 May 2011
Evaluation Question One
One of our tasks for The evaluation was to create a shot-by-shot analysis for our film opening scene, this is what we created....
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Audience Feedback
Now that we have completely finished our film opening, we decided to post our footage onto facebook to see if we would get any feedback...
Alice posted the footage on her page in hope that her uncle (a professional actor) would give us some feedback! We had some positive responses from an adult audience, which is who our film is aimed at, as well as Alice's uncle! Overall our feedback was very positive!!
Alice posted the footage on her page in hope that her uncle (a professional actor) would give us some feedback! We had some positive responses from an adult audience, which is who our film is aimed at, as well as Alice's uncle! Overall our feedback was very positive!!
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Editing!
Now that we have completely finished filming, we have continued to edit all of our clips together, and have added visual effects, music and sound effects.
After re-filming certain clips we had a lot more angles to play around with, meaning we could add more cuts etc. This made the flashbacks much more realistic, and made a lot of difference to the previous long clips we had, which were pretty boring. However, as we had filmed in a lot of different locations, we found that the lighting was different in some clips compared to others. This problem was easily solved as we changed the contrast of the clips to match each other. Also, we added an effect called 'Old World' to the flashback clips which helps to give the impression that they are memories from the past. We were happy with the outcome of this, as we had wanted to achieve something similar after being inspired by the ending of Sherlock Holmes.
Example:
BEFORE
AFTER
After we had finished editing the clips, it was time to add some music.
We knew that our music would have to be Royalty Free so we started to look at some Royalty Free websites. We found it difficult to agree on an appropriate soundtrack, but all liked the idea of using a piano piece. We eventually came across a piece of music we thought would fit well with our film opening sequence. However, we needed the music to sound more sinister to fit with our theme, therefore we added another soundtrack over the top which resembled to low drones, creating an eerie effect.
Piano piece: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF WINTER piano solo MP3
Second audio layer: http://www.mediafire.com/?5zmpzm68ah38quf
Watching the footage with the music over the top made it look so much more professional and interesting! Our last task was to add the credits using our previously chosen fonts, this was a particularly tricky task as we found it difficult to get the timings correct but we were very happy with the overall outcome!!
Monday, 4 April 2011
FINAL day of filming- Monday 4th April
As the deadline is tomorrow (Tuesday 5th April) We desperatley needed to film our last scene, the teenage sleepover scene!
Myself, Alice and Alex stayed behind after school to get some editing done and then our friend (the other) Alice joined us to film our last shots at Alex's house.
These shots were quick and easy to film, we needed to capture some match on action and various angles. As we already knew what we were aiming for (from our previous attempt) it didn't take us very long at all!! Which left us plenty of time to import the newest clips onto iMovie and finish editing our film opening sequence!
We managed to completely finish our film this evening and nailed it down to 2 minutes exactly!!
Myself, Alice and Alex stayed behind after school to get some editing done and then our friend (the other) Alice joined us to film our last shots at Alex's house.
These shots were quick and easy to film, we needed to capture some match on action and various angles. As we already knew what we were aiming for (from our previous attempt) it didn't take us very long at all!! Which left us plenty of time to import the newest clips onto iMovie and finish editing our film opening sequence!
We managed to completely finish our film this evening and nailed it down to 2 minutes exactly!!
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Extra filming
After finishing all of our footage we captured it and begun to use Final Cut to begin editing, we realised at this point that we didn't have enough footage to experiment with. We would like to go back to our sets and take some extra shots including various different angles which would make the flash backs in our sequence more effective, and would mean we could speed up the pace, which would make the sequence much more thrilling and exciting.
As Alex has been ill :( , and we are down to tight timing, Alice and myself decided to crack on with any scenes that Alex isn't present in. We focused mainly on the pregnancy scene, filming in Alice's garage. We included various different angles, including low angles and a point of view shot.
This filming session was relatively successful and from our experience we have learnt that we will not know how effective the shots our until we see them on the computer, therefore we took a variety just to be on the safe side!!
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Film opening inspiration!
Now that we have realised our clips look more like a trailer rather than a film opening we have decided to do some more research into film opening sequences.
We came across the film closing for Sherlock Holmes and we were really inspired! We had previously decided that our opening would be quite slow pace, but watching this has made us change our minds! It has a very fast pace and we particularly like how the movement in the clip freezes as the credits appear on screen. We might speed up the pace of our clips, however keep within the art house theme.
They have also included an interesting effect which gives their clips a 'painted' effect. We thought using an idea like this would successfully seperate the flash back clips from the present time clips. We are likely to change the saturation etc. in order to achieve a look simular to this as creating this effect would be too difficult for us.
We came across the film closing for Sherlock Holmes and we were really inspired! We had previously decided that our opening would be quite slow pace, but watching this has made us change our minds! It has a very fast pace and we particularly like how the movement in the clip freezes as the credits appear on screen. We might speed up the pace of our clips, however keep within the art house theme.
They have also included an interesting effect which gives their clips a 'painted' effect. We thought using an idea like this would successfully seperate the flash back clips from the present time clips. We are likely to change the saturation etc. in order to achieve a look simular to this as creating this effect would be too difficult for us.
Filming- Friday 1st April
Today as Alex was better and able to re-join us! We decided to take some more shots at her house including various angles creating match on action.
We managed to complete the 'Amber scenes' (of young Elizabeth) and this time we created some very interesting effects, Including point of view shots!
We also managed to re-film one of the teenage Elizabeth scenes (Alice sitting by the window) We took various shots at different angles and the clips should hopefully look very effective once we put them all together!
After we had finished filming we started to edit the clips on iMovie. We are really impressed by the outcome so far and plan to continue editing in our double lesson on Monday morning!
Now the only flash back we have left to improve is the teenage sleepover scene, we will be filming this on Monday evening after school!
We managed to complete the 'Amber scenes' (of young Elizabeth) and this time we created some very interesting effects, Including point of view shots!
We also managed to re-film one of the teenage Elizabeth scenes (Alice sitting by the window) We took various shots at different angles and the clips should hopefully look very effective once we put them all together!
After we had finished filming we started to edit the clips on iMovie. We are really impressed by the outcome so far and plan to continue editing in our double lesson on Monday morning!
Now the only flash back we have left to improve is the teenage sleepover scene, we will be filming this on Monday evening after school!
Production logo!
Now that we are coming to the end of our filming, it is time to start drafting our production logo!
We have all agreed that we want to include an image of an eye within the logo, to come up with some production names we typed 'vision' into the online thesaurus, these are our favourite ideas we found:
–noun
We decide to try creating a production logo on photoshop, however it was far to friendly and did not relate to the genre of our film opening sequence. We drifted away from the image of an eye idea, and created a piece taking the words literally 'pipe' and 'dream' The image included fun colours and child-friendly pictures which contrasts with our film idea and doesn't relate successfully.
Therefore we went back to the online thesaurus to see if we had missed any other interesting names.
We found the definition of Foresight and thought 'Foresight productions' was really effective, and we could go back to including the image of an eye. We found an image of an eye on 'free images' this way no copyright would occur.
Together we agreed that the eye itself should be the main focus, so we blacked out certain areas.
We thought this could be made a little more defined and 'creepy' looking. Therefore after playing around with different brushes, Alice managed to cleverly create and eyelash effect. We made the eyelashes white so they would stand out and contrast against the black background.
We have all agreed that we want to include an image of an eye within the logo, to come up with some production names we typed 'vision' into the online thesaurus, these are our favourite ideas we found:
- conception
- perspective
- prescience
- standpoint
–noun
any fantastic notion, hope, or story
We decide to try creating a production logo on photoshop, however it was far to friendly and did not relate to the genre of our film opening sequence. We drifted away from the image of an eye idea, and created a piece taking the words literally 'pipe' and 'dream' The image included fun colours and child-friendly pictures which contrasts with our film idea and doesn't relate successfully.
Therefore we went back to the online thesaurus to see if we had missed any other interesting names.
We found the definition of Foresight and thought 'Foresight productions' was really effective, and we could go back to including the image of an eye. We found an image of an eye on 'free images' this way no copyright would occur.
Together we agreed that the eye itself should be the main focus, so we blacked out certain areas.
We thought this could be made a little more defined and 'creepy' looking. Therefore after playing around with different brushes, Alice managed to cleverly create and eyelash effect. We made the eyelashes white so they would stand out and contrast against the black background.
We were all really pleased with the outcome and needed to find the perfect font and style for the production names title! Conveniently Alex has a variety of fun fonts on her personal laptop which we could chose from. Alex put together this sample of fonts for our logo...
After a lot of experimenting we finally decided that this was the perfect font for our production logo which will appear at the beginning of our film opening...
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Extra filming
After finishing all of our footage we captured it and begun to use Final Cut to begin editing, we realised at this point that we didn't have enough footage to experiment with. We would like to go back to our sets and take some extra shots including various different angles which would make the flash backs in our sequence more effective, and would mean we could speed up the pace, which would make the sequence much more thrilling and exciting.
As Alex has been ill :( , and we are down to tight timing, Alice and myself decided to crack on with any scenes that Alex isn't present in. We focused mainly on the pregnancy scene, filming in Alice's garage. We included various different angles, including low angles and a point of view shot.
This filming session was relatively successful and from our experience we have learnt that we will not know how effective the shots our until we see them on the computer, therefore we took a variety just to be on the safe side!!
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