Tuesday 22 May 2012
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Evaluation Question 3
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Feedback from our premiere:
Evaluation Question 2
How does yHow does your media product represent particular social groups?our media product represent particular social groups?
Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Conventions of Openings
Powerpoint: Conventional order of Title Sequence
Final Cut: Stepfather vs. Stroke
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Colour Correction:
Colour Correction:
Evaluation Question 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
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Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Evaluation Question 6
Q: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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| Using 3 way colour correction with Final Cut Adding the pleasentville effect by selecting the colour red and inverting the colours |
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| Downloading and importing fonts into final cut then creating the credits for the opening |
Evaluation Question 1
Q: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products
Evaluation Question 3
Q: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Evaluation Question 7
Q: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Friday 9 March 2012
Thursday 8 March 2012
Issues we've faced
Unfortunately, earlier this week our hard drive failed and we lost the majority of our work. However, we managed to salvage enough work to remake what had been deleted. This has set us back by several days, but we are confident we can still make the deadline. It is frustrating but we will not let it get us down!
Friday 2 March 2012
To Do
- Create an ident
- Edit credits
- Sound layering
- Test with second version
- Possible additional filming
- Final editing
Editing Research Sin City Effect Tutorial
This effect was chosen as the thriller opening we are making is about an artist, the artistic approach of black and white and exaggerating the red was done in order to convey the nature of the film. (A serial killer artist)
Feedback for rough cut
This is the feedback from Mary:
Josh's View
Wednesday 29 February 2012
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Monday 27 February 2012
Editing Sound
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| We added the music we wanted to our opening in Final Cut Pro |
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| We felt the track was too fast for our liking, so we decided to slow it down |
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| 35% of it's original speed worked most successfully for us |
Editing Process: Colour Correction
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| We used the three-way colour corrector to pick out the red and to saturate the background |
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| This is the unedited shot |
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| This is when we saturated the red |
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| This is when we inversed the colours giving a Sin City effect |
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| Editing a person |
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| As you can see, it is difficult to pick out red tones without getting some of the skin tone. We got around this by deselecting the red tones in the face. |
Inspiration for credits
We based our credits on The Stepfather. We decided to go with subtle credits over the action in a discrete opening. We didn't want to take away from the action on screen with intrusive credits.
Friday 24 February 2012
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Friday 10 February 2012
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Sound Planning
This is the song we would like to use for our opening. We think it goes with the atmosphere of the setting and the action.
Another song that might go well for the scene is this,
however it may be to tense and eery for the scene compared to the original song we chose.
Monday 6 February 2012
Treatment
We decided on a Thriller/Horror film for our opening. This is the treatment for our film 'Stroke'.
We decided we wanted a stylized opening with long, slow close ups. We also want to create a false plateau to draw the audience in. We are aware that we don't want to give too much away as it is just an opening. It will be set in an art room within the college. We will light it differently as the room is currently too naturally lit.
- James Blackwell, 24, an art graduate working on commission, needs money to live.
- An art director, Julianne Lee, 42, offers him the opportunity to display his work in a horror/gore exhibition in Central London.
- Thinking this could be his big break, James produces painting after painting, but Julianne criticizes his work repeatedly for not being scary enough.
- Eventually, James snaps and takes it upon himself to capture, mutilate and paint members of the public, starting off small and working his way up until he kills his brother.
- The art director, unaware that James has become a killer, continues to criticize his work. Despite this, she books his spot for the night and gives him one last chance to produce a terrifying piece for the art show.
- James then kills Julianne and creates a piece of art out of her body.
- On the night of the exhibition, James proudly unveils his finest work of art to an unsuspecting audience; a tree made of limbs with Julianne as the centre piece.
We decided we wanted a stylized opening with long, slow close ups. We also want to create a false plateau to draw the audience in. We are aware that we don't want to give too much away as it is just an opening. It will be set in an art room within the college. We will light it differently as the room is currently too naturally lit.
Friday 3 February 2012
Our Pitch Prezi
This is the pitch for our film. It includes our treatment, our story boards, our plans for the opening and our risk assessment. We presented this to our peers and teachers and were granted permission to book a camera.
Production Schedule
We plan to start filming on Friday 10th February. We think one day will be sufficient as our opening relies more on post production.We have allocated the rest of our lesson time, and any free time to editing and sound up until our deadline 9th March.
Stroke Animatic and Storyboard
Various close ups of James working
Close ups and extreme close ups of his surroundings
Julianne's reaction to his work
Props
Dolls limbs will be splayed on the work benches as James 'inspiration'. They symbolize the mutilation he performs later on in the film.
We are using several bits of art equipment including paint, paint brushes, an eisel and a canvas.
We are also using an anglepoise lamp to create the right lighting. This could be used within the scene as it could illuminate the canvas as he works.
We are also going to have print outs of photos that will be in the room as some more 'inspiration' for James, these are some examples that may be included.
We are also going to have print outs of photos that will be in the room as some more 'inspiration' for James, these are some examples that may be included.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Using Soundtrack Pro
We used Soundtrack Pro to add the sound effects we couldn't recreate ourselves such as transitions and animal noises.
We added the sound of a dog barking and made it fairly soft to blend it in with the general ambience we recorded using our wild recording.
We added dark tones to our soundtrack to express the character's sense of disorientation and to add to the thriller feel we wanted to create.
We exported the finished soundtrack and added to our clip on Final Cut Pro.
Creating Foley Sound
This is an example of foley sound that we created. We used this sound for the car door scene. It works well within the scene, and it is impossible to tell that it is in fact a regular door.
We used Final Cut Pro to match our sounds to the video. In this instance we are adding the sounds of the footsteps to the opening of the walking scene.
We changed the volume of every sound to suit the circumstances. This is shown through the red dots and lines which we manipulated.
(CAUTION: LOUD) This is the shouting we used in the sequence. We edited and cut it to fit with the man's shouts. We had to repeat several "helps" as we did not have a sequence long enough.
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