Question 7 Evaluation (Draft)

For question 7 iv decided I’m going to use the website Prezzie to play our old preliminary piece of work which admittedly isn’t very good, BUT, in our defence we had only just started the course and I believe that the reason we were set this difficult task of filming it and having the Rule of thirds, 180 degree rule and using shot reverse shot was to show that in the media industry you will have to do difficult tasks within a short deadline. We will be playing our final piece of work alongside our preliminary task to show how much we have progressed through the time we have been doing the course. We will have voiceovers over them both saying what we have improved on. The blog tells us to concentrate on the editing and camerawork so we will be mainly focusing on that.

We will have the two videos side by side like this with text and voiceover to point out things we have improved on.

Question 6 Evaluation (Draft)

For question 6 we decided after sir showing us a video with students holding up all of the equipment and explaining what they did for our film that we would do the same.

We have already filmed the footage for this questions answer explaining..

• Tripod- Essential Piece of kit, to keep the camera steady
• Camera- Sony HDV 1080i
• Lights LED- To produce low key lighting, to create a tense shadowy atmosphere.
• Camera Tapes- to record it
• Bags- To keep the Kit safe

We also took pictures with a camera with us sitting at a computer using the different applications we used during the construction of our film.

Question 5 Evaluation (Draft)

For question 5 we decided to do exactly what sirs blog told us to do, we are going to have our film rolling with speech bubbles, Notes and even links going to pieces of our work that we have done in the past that are relevant. All of the annotations on the video will highlight how we made our film linked to other existing films to attract our audience, EG we will be comparing the character to the character Teddy Daniels as he is a middle aged police detective with mental troubles and a dark past.

Question 4 Evaluation (Draft)

Evaluation Question 1 (Draft)

Evaluation Question 1

Our Final Finished Opening Sequence "Infantcide"

Using Final Cut

Making our Production Ident

We wanted out Ident to move so we decided that we would make the windows be closed then open to reveal our production name, and a beautiful beach scene, which symbolises our imagination and passion for media, and making films. 

Opening Sequence "Infantcide" Rough Cut

After Effects

To the dream scene I'v added Zoom Blur and Vignette to make it look like the scene is though the main protagonists eyes, it also make the scene more interesting to the viewer. The Zoom Blur, make the scene look like it not real life and the viewer is not completely sure what's going on. 

Colour Correction

Using Final Cut and 3-way colour correction I was able to change what the scenes looked like creating a contrast between the dark and light areas and adding a blue tine over the top. This helps to build up atmosphere within the scene as it make it dark and more erie. 

Foley/ Soundtrack and Mix for our opening sequence.

Using Garage band I was able to find and create a soundtrack for our opening titles, as the images flash up on the screen I created a sound which would complement them and make it more dramatic to the audience. The soundtrack I'v created works well as it fits to the theme of our opening sequence, creating an intense opening. By loading the video into garage band I was able to make sure the sound fitted correctly into the timeframe I had allowed for it. By adding music it has created a layer of atmosphere on top of the movie and brings the opening to life. 

Re Shoot (Dream Scene)

This is what the new scene looks like know that we have integrated it with our original footage;

Changing and adding scenes to our opening sequence.

When shooting our opening thriller, our initial ideas changed and adapted to ideas that looked much better when capturing them. We took out the interview scene, and replaced it with a dream scene which helped to create a story and make the opening sequence understandable. Im glad we added the 'Dream' scene as it builds up this sense of mystery and atmosphere which a thriller needs to have, it also establishes to the audience that the main character (Detective) has issues and problems that haunt him.

Screen capture of the 'Dream' scene;