Friday, 30 April 2010
Making our Titles...
In my group we decided to FILM our Titles. So after choosing which Titles we wanted to include in our opening.
We used the same JVC Digital Camera we used to film our product, we cut out LETTERS
from Newspaper articles - this fitted in with our story line. We then placed them down on a piece of paper spelling out the different names of each Title we decided to use.
from Newspaper articles - this fitted in with our story line. We then placed them down on a piece of paper spelling out the different names of each Title we decided to use. Then using a FAN
we blew the NEWSPAPER CLIPPING off the paper.After uploading it onto our Video Drive, we used FINAL CUT to reverse the filming and slow it down.
This made it look like the TITLES were being blown backwards onto the screen.
This create an eerie atmosphere, and it was unusual as nobody else had done this.
EVALUATION Task Six
In this project I had to use many new technologies and sometimes be able to use different ones at the same time. I used websites such as 'Youtube' & 'google' to help me research my thriller opening. I also used other sites to help influence me with ideas and themes of what a thriller should be like; for example 'Artofthetitle.com'. This website has screengrabs from other thrillers which hav already been realeased into cinema and been successful.
We used a JVC digital Camera to film our media product, i found this product easy to use. While using the camera we used a mic called a 'boom', we used this to help enhance the sound as some of it was crucial to our video, eg. the phone ringing. The camera took a memeory card which helped when downloading our film onto our video drive, helping us to transfer it onto an apple mac. This helped to keep all our projects safe, as it minimised the risk of us losing work. We also used a digital recorder inorder to record our Voice Over.
We used:
Final cut to edit all our filmed clips to create our media production.
Soundtrack pro to create a soundtrack to add to our film.
Once we made our soundtrack we had to import it into Final Cut.
Although we didn't use LiveType, as we filmed our titles, we still learnt how to use it.
I found all of these programme quite easy to use, and so did my group. We liked the idea of how much we could play around with different ideas helping to improve our film.
EVALUATION Task Five
Uploaded with ImageShack.usOur audience for our media product would be a young audience
I would rate our film as a certificate 15
Our film would most probably attract a wide Female Audience as both the victim and villain in our film were female
Our film would most probably attract a wide Female Audience as both the victim and villain in our film were female
Ways in which we would attract an audience:
-Using the internet (Website Banners)
-Websites such as; Google, Facebook, Twitter & Bebo
-We could add a trailer/shot clips on Youtube
-We could also use Magazines, to help attract our Female Audience
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Planning for preliminary match cut.
Before we started filming our preliminary match-cut exercise, we made a basic story board. This helped us with our filming as it told us what we were filming. Our story board didn’t contain a lot of detail so we had to improvise a bit .i think having the story board there was a good guide and it helped us achieve the end result of our film. This task taught us about planning and the lack of it. I think if our plans were more precise and our story boards had more details the filming process would of been a lot easier .
Skills Audit: Filming
The filming process of ‘Pen Friends’ took roughly two days. We hoped that it would have only taken us a day, but due to complications we had to postpone filming and resume another day. Memory card B stopped working and memory card A was full. To try and resolve this problem we deleted all the unnecessary footage off memory card A, this allowed us to take a few more shots. When we went back to college we resolved the problem and we were able to resume filming the next day .
After filming our preliminary match cut film, we were all reasonably comfortable with using the cameras. We also used our time efficiently as we were well prepared as we had all of our props and our story board , which had enough detail to guide us through the filming process so we knew exactly when we wanted a match-cut and what effects and camera angels we wanted to go for. We re-filmed the same actions a number of times from different angles this allowed us to have a variety of shots when we were editing.
In our film we had an outside location and an indoors location. I found it a lot easier to film in the indoor location as it was a easier to keep everything constant, this helped to minimise continuity errors. It was hard filming outside as there was a lot more variables we had to take into consideration such as pedestrians and different cars walking past. I had to make s
ure that the same things were in each shot so them we edited it we had continuity. There was also a lot more distraction in our outside locations, there was road works going on and this drowned out some of our natural sound, but in a way it made it seem naturalistic as in everyday life you come across road works and other disturbances.
As well as the video camera we used a boom and an attachable light. We had dialogue in our film therefore it was vital that we picked it up and it was clear, so we attached a ‘boom’. There was not enough light in the indoors location so we attached a light, we were able to change the intensity of
the light so it still looked like the inside of a house.
I don’t the majority of the filming and I think the most interesting shot was when I set the camera up under the table in front of the shoebox that contained the threatening letters. When jasmine pulled out the box you was able to see her hands and her face. I liked this shot because it was at a different angel to all the other shots and it showed the box at an interesting perspective.
Personally I think the filming process went quite well, but if I had to film it again I would check all of our equipment before we left site, this would of made the process a bit more stress free. But apart from that I really enjoyed taking part in filming and directing the opening of this thriller.
After filming our preliminary match cut film, we were all reasonably comfortable with using the cameras. We also used our time efficiently as we were well prepared as we had all of our props and our story board , which had enough detail to guide us through the filming process so we knew exactly when we wanted a match-cut and what effects and camera angels we wanted to go for. We re-filmed the same actions a number of times from different angles this allowed us to have a variety of shots when we were editing.
In our film we had an outside location and an indoors location. I found it a lot easier to film in the indoor location as it was a easier to keep everything constant, this helped to minimise continuity errors. It was hard filming outside as there was a lot more variables we had to take into consideration such as pedestrians and different cars walking past. I had to make s
ure that the same things were in each shot so them we edited it we had continuity. There was also a lot more distraction in our outside locations, there was road works going on and this drowned out some of our natural sound, but in a way it made it seem naturalistic as in everyday life you come across road works and other disturbances. As well as the video camera we used a boom and an attachable light. We had dialogue in our film therefore it was vital that we picked it up and it was clear, so we attached a ‘boom’. There was not enough light in the indoors location so we attached a light, we were able to change the intensity of
the light so it still looked like the inside of a house.I don’t the majority of the filming and I think the most interesting shot was when I set the camera up under the table in front of the shoebox that contained the threatening letters. When jasmine pulled out the box you was able to see her hands and her face. I liked this shot because it was at a different angel to all the other shots and it showed the box at an interesting perspective.
Personally I think the filming process went quite well, but if I had to film it again I would check all of our equipment before we left site, this would of made the process a bit more stress free. But apart from that I really enjoyed taking part in filming and directing the opening of this thriller.
Skills audit: filming and editing preliminary match cut excercise
For our Preliminary match cut exercise we had to create a short film of someone going to someone and having a short conversation. The requirements of our film was a match-cut, shot reverse shot and the cameras had to obey the 180 degree rule.
The name of our film was ‘starr nine. We didn’t think too much into the story line but we decided to have a basic one just so our film had a bit of narrative. A girl was running into a building to meet some onto to give them something precious. Whilst filming we came across difficulties, because we were filming Jasmin running up the stairs through the window but there was a reflection of the camera crew. So we had to change the angle and the high to the camera so it minimised the reflection. We took several shots of jasmin running up the stairs so we were a bit to create good match cuts. We filmed jasmine running up the stairs from the front, from behind and her shoes. We wanted a variety of shots. One of the match cuts we used in our film was Jasmin running up the stairs through the window then her running up from behind then a clip of her running up from the front. We were still new at using the software so editing it to make a slick match-cut was difficult for us. The timing on the match-cut was not good and it speed up during it so you could tell another clip was being used. We used the razor tool to help us do our match cuts, and to cut out certain parts of the clips we didn’t want.
We found it quite hard for us to make our film flow , so we had to cut quite a lot of bits out to improve this problem this made our film a lot shorter than we originally planned. Our shot reverse shot involved close-ups of the two characters in the film. We had close ups of their faces as they exchanged dialogues and gestures we cut from one character to the other, we done this whilst obeying the 180 degree rule. When filming we realised the camera didn’t have a ‘Boom’ attached to it so the sound quality wouldn’t of been great, so we had minimal dialogue in our film ‘You got the stuff’.
We also added sound and titles on this film. We used Live type to create the titles. We had a plain black background with white thin writing with a faint white shadow. This title created an eerie mysterious effect and I think this worked well for our film. The sound was basic, we created it on soundtrack pro. The sound we composed repeated for the first half of the film we had the sound effect of a shot gun when the titles appeared I think this shocked the audience and kept them alert.
Overall I think the filming and editing of this film went reasonably well considering we have not had a lot of practice with the software. If we was to do it again I think we should of filmed a larger variety of shots and we should of added more titles.
The name of our film was ‘starr nine. We didn’t think too much into the story line but we decided to have a basic one just so our film had a bit of narrative. A girl was running into a building to meet some onto to give them something precious. Whilst filming we came across difficulties, because we were filming Jasmin running up the stairs through the window but there was a reflection of the camera crew. So we had to change the angle and the high to the camera so it minimised the reflection. We took several shots of jasmin running up the stairs so we were a bit to create good match cuts. We filmed jasmine running up the stairs from the front, from behind and her shoes. We wanted a variety of shots. One of the match cuts we used in our film was Jasmin running up the stairs through the window then her running up from behind then a clip of her running up from the front. We were still new at using the software so editing it to make a slick match-cut was difficult for us. The timing on the match-cut was not good and it speed up during it so you could tell another clip was being used. We used the razor tool to help us do our match cuts, and to cut out certain parts of the clips we didn’t want.
We found it quite hard for us to make our film flow , so we had to cut quite a lot of bits out to improve this problem this made our film a lot shorter than we originally planned. Our shot reverse shot involved close-ups of the two characters in the film. We had close ups of their faces as they exchanged dialogues and gestures we cut from one character to the other, we done this whilst obeying the 180 degree rule. When filming we realised the camera didn’t have a ‘Boom’ attached to it so the sound quality wouldn’t of been great, so we had minimal dialogue in our film ‘You got the stuff’.
We also added sound and titles on this film. We used Live type to create the titles. We had a plain black background with white thin writing with a faint white shadow. This title created an eerie mysterious effect and I think this worked well for our film. The sound was basic, we created it on soundtrack pro. The sound we composed repeated for the first half of the film we had the sound effect of a shot gun when the titles appeared I think this shocked the audience and kept them alert.
Overall I think the filming and editing of this film went reasonably well considering we have not had a lot of practice with the software. If we was to do it again I think we should of filmed a larger variety of shots and we should of added more titles.
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