Feedback from class

Music: Varied, fitted running, fast pace showed urgency, diegetic sound worked well E.G knocking on door

Narration made the close up of face more interesting

Good editing and good development

Titles had a sense of branding, titles were difficult to read and first one was far too quick, distracted person from actually reading the credits

Filters showed it was definitely a flashback and was much clearer than the rough cut

Referenced "Prison break" and "Memento"

Hard to see man in tracking shot in forest

Blood looked good

feedback on final product 1

- Titles look great and have a very professional look

- Distorted effect feels over used

- Colour corrector could have been used to give a smoother feel to ordinary footage

- "Someone in wrong place at the wrong time gets convicted and wants revenge" for plot of film (this is pretty close to what we initially had thought)

- The credits are effective because they catch your attention, "Catch me if you can" style.

- Effects used on washing hands was effective in random ways

Title cards

During the editing process, we decided that we should create some title cards. We hadn't initially any thought into this during filming or during the other processes until now. We decided that in order to have titles that would fit the film, we should get a black and white picture of a convict and then write our information onto the picture. After this, we decided that we could animate the picture so it could be "running away' like the character on screen. The pictures above show what we did to the image.

EDIT: Here are our finished slides



We were going to use this as our beginning slide, however, we felt that it didn't surprise viewers when they saw it for the first time and wasn't really part of the film










This was the first slide we created, the production company was just all of our first letters of our names combined into one









This is the second slide we created, we had some difficulty getting the names to fit in the stripes but with a lot of patience we managed to make them fit









This is the third slide we created. Even though David W isn't actually a junior, we thought we'd add it because there was too much white space left on arm and we wanted to fill otherwise it wouldn't look right.

Filming the narration

In today's lesson, we intended to film our narration. The narration will be recorded in a quiet area with the lens cap on as it is only the voice that we want, not the picture.

Feedback on rough cut

Editing:

Positives
Black and white was effective, causes tension (which is what we wanted)

Areas of Improvement
Couldn't follow it, needs more editing for pace


Camerawork:

Positives
The tripod running shot was effective, interesting shots in general

Areas of improvement
certain shots were bit too long

Sound:

Positives
Typical of a thriller, builds atmosphere

Negatives
didn't fit properly (we were already aware of this and are rectifying the situation)

Mise-En-Scene:

Positives
Blood looked good, location was a good choice, effective use of shadows

Areas of improvement
Costumes weren't spectacular, blood on face where did it come from

Narrative:

Positive
Ideas and conventions are suitable

Areas of improvement
End of film was random, flashbacks aren't clear

Props for next shooting day

Knife - Cameron
Spray bottle - Cameron
Blood - David W
Gavel - David C
Kettle - College
Mug - College
Sink - on location
Chalk - David W
Bin bags/plastic sheet - Cameron
Newspaper - David C

All to meet at film studies room (G23) at end of day for filming

General Research

We decided that while the others were creating the animatic, we decided to take up some research. The thing we researched was how to make fake blood due to the fact we have no budget and don't really want to buy it.

http://www.halloween-website.com/fake_blood.htm

This website contains many recipes and we will choose which one looks the best to get it right for our film.

We also made a list of props that we need to aquire:

Knife
Prison suit (IE boiler suit)
spray bottle (for constructing one of our shots)
Fake blood
Gavel and pallet
kettle
lighting in some form
mug
teabags
complementary mint (after eights except its not after 8)
digestive biscuits
newspaper (some civilized newspaper, preferably a broadsheet)
belts
masking tape

Previous student example

We liked this video out of the ones we viewed because it managed to build up an element of suspense and captures the viewers attention. It is also easy to se that the film is an opening to a thriller film due to the music and bleak colours.

LEARNING FINAL CUT AND GARAGEBAND

We created this video using Final Cut and Garage band. We feel that we have learnt the essential basics in order to create a short title sequence. We tried to use as many different transitions as we could to create an example of a title sequence. We also experimented with Garageband to see which instruments can be used, this can be heard in our video E.G funky guitar, bells, R&B horns.