Question 1 Evaluation Draft

Evaluation Question 1 (Draft)

Evaluation Question 1

Question 4 Evaluation Draft

Question 4 Evaluation (Draft)

Question 5 Evaluation Draft

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 6 Evaluation Draft

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 7 Evaluation Draft

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.

Test Shots For Opening Credits

These are Shots of the pages in the Opening credits in order they are in the film.
We added the pictures on the pages to add to the theme and to thicken the plot.
we decided to do our opening credits in a prop format, we got our inspiration from the film "Seven" which is also based around a scrapbook. We decided that we would have our opening credits in a prop format opposed to digital text on the screen as we thought it was more relevant to the thriller genre.

Opening Sequence "Infantcide"

Youtube Account Created

I have created a youtube account so that we can broadcast our masterpiece to the world! we have sent around the URL to people asking for some feedback so fingers crossed we will get some interesting feedback. The name of our Youtube account is "WindowViewProductio1"

Foley for Thriller Sequence

I used garage band to put the sound over my sequence, i used the loops that you are given to put over your video.

Dream Scene Effects Edit

During the dream scene we decided to put a green tint over the top of the bottle shots to make them look more expensive and professional.

I decided not to put any effects over the shots in the bathroom because it already has a very natural blue lighting to the room which enthuses the fact that the little brother is drowned, we didn't want the room to look warm and glossy as that wouldn't fit to our story-line.

Re Shoot (Dream Scene)

We decided to have a dream scene to cut into the middle of when the detective is sleeping. This is a timeline of the final edit of how me edited in this dreamlike cut. During this shoot Georgina had control of the camera whilst i controlled the lighting to created the shadowy figure, we both shared the job of directing by both having imaginative ideas and mixing the best of them into our shoot.

opening Title credits Sequence Progress

This is the raw footage of what we shot without any effects over the top of them.

Then after i had a tweak with final cut effects after watching a tutorial on youtube and this is what the title credits looked like.

I added a gentle black and white using the color corrector  three way.

These are the effects i used over my opening credit titles

Shooting Cancelled

During the Christmas holidays we had agreed to shoot our opening sequence on the 21/12/11 and the 31/12/11 but sadly i was not available on either dates due to work as well as georgina that had work on these dates. It wasn't down to bad planning as the shifts were both given to us last minute and we couldn't decline as the Christmas period is the most busy in retail. We tried to change the dates to shoot but both of us were just overrun with different problems so we came to a decision that we would shoot after the christmas period.

We were aware that as we missed our chance in the holidays we also missed our slot to use the equipment but we are going to come to an agreement with sir over getting us another slot.

If we were paying for renting the equipment then we worked out how much it would cost

Camera- £300
Lighting- £150
Tripod- £15

In total that comes to £465 and thats a lot of money out of a Film Producers Budget, but thats a mistake we wont make again.