FINAL FILM OPENING

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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 5

How did you attract/adress your audience?

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:

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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 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Colour Correction:

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

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Evaluation Question 1

How we attempted to 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 4

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 5

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 5

Q: How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 6

Q: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Using 3 way colour correction with Final Cut
Adding the pleasentville effect by selecting the colour red and inverting the colours

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 4

Q: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 3

Q: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Question 2

Q: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Social Groups on Prezi

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?

Josh's Final Word

Stroke Final Cut

Group 36 is proud to present the final cut of our Thriller opening, Stroke!

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!

Editing

Editing credits

Stroke Rough Cut

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

We have also been advised to consider removing the wide angle shots of 'reality' to avoid breaking the mystery. We have taken this on board and will test it in the following workshop.

Adding Credits

Font Choice

Here are the fonts we've chosen to write our credits in.

Editing Sound

We added the music we wanted to our opening in Final Cut Pro

We felt the track was too fast for our liking, so we decided to slow it down

35% of it's original speed worked most successfully for us

Editing Process: Colour Correction

We used the three-way colour corrector to pick out the red and to saturate the background

This is the unedited shot

This is when we saturated the red

This is when we inversed the colours giving a Sin City effect

Editing a person

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.

We used the colouring from Sin City to bring out the red in our opening. We feel this emphasises the artist's nature and focuses on the dangerous connotations of the colour.

Filming

Pictures

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.

Treatment

We decided on a Thriller/Horror film for our opening. This is the treatment for our film 'Stroke'.

• 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.

Our Pitch Prezi

Stroke on 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.

Target Audience Profile for Stroke

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.

These are unedited shots used in our preliminary filming exercise. We added slow motion and cut quickly between several different angles and positions to make it more appealing to watch.

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.