In class we all watched each others rough cut Film Openings and gave feedback for the
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
We were also asked to decide/plan
- What you intend to change?
- What is still to be done? e.g. titles, sound, visuals
Before submitting the final cut of the film opening project.
The feedback received for 'Something Wicked' in class was:
- very atmospheric
- need to re-shoot or re-edit the end shots of book so the cut/fade isn't jumpy
- mysterious
- should try to use the same effects on the titles as on the footage to see how it adds to the atmosphere
Then each group paired up to give feedback for each other. The feedback received from group 4 - Max Rob and Elliott was
Strengths:
- The soundtrack rounds off the atmosphere and creates a almost creepy uncertain of what is going to happen feeling.
- I think the shaky affect on the titles at the beginning (production company ect) makes the text a little hard to focus on.
- The way the sequence is shot makes the viewer almost in awe of every little detail, for example the bolt on the door.
- Establishing shots are well placed
- Good use of natural light to give an eerie feel
- Text effects are impressive, the way they jitter in gives the viewer the sense of a horror or maybe supernatural film
- Font used also gives of supernatural feel
- Placement of props (drills, blocks of wood) describe a gritty, workshop environment
- Doesn't give away too much of the story and not too little
- I like the darkness in the video, how everything isn't quite explained, it adds to the mystery of the scene.
- The close ups work well, I like the detail in the scene
Weaknesses:
- Music is good at the beginning but loses dramatic effect when the strings come in
- Shot after the title "something wicked" doesn't seem to have a lot going on or anything interested to catch the eye compared to the other shots
- Some shots fade in and then the camera starts moving, it makes it look a little strange to see things start and stop.
Recommened changes:
- The only think i think could be improved on this is the text at the beginning
- The fade from the close up book shots at the end.
- Replace shot after main title with new establishing shot or remove the shot
- Keep the music nice and simple without the need for strings or find a way to make the strings fit more with the overall loop (i'm not sure whether you guys made it with garageband or not)
- Maybe more shots of the protagonist entering the room (more foot shots?)
Things I plan to do:
- Make and then edit the rest of the titles, which shouldn't take long as i've already started making them
- Re-edit the last few shots
- Help Angelica with her comic book opening
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Re-shooting
This morning Angelica and I went on location to re-shoot the last few shots of our film opening. These shots were mostly of hands rummaging and finding the significant object (the book).
However when we got back to Coleridge we noticed how light the footage was compared to the other footage I shot last week. So using video effects we made the footage darker.
I did this by going to
- Effects
- Video Filters
- Colour Correction
- and then Colour Correction again.
Once the effect had been selected I began to edit the lightness and saturation levels untill satisfied with the colours.
Although the last few shots that are on the rough cut look better then the old shots, there is still a problem with the way they fade and so need to be re-edited.
However when we got back to Coleridge we noticed how light the footage was compared to the other footage I shot last week. So using video effects we made the footage darker.
I did this by going to
- Effects
- Video Filters
- Colour Correction
- and then Colour Correction again.
Once the effect had been selected I began to edit the lightness and saturation levels untill satisfied with the colours.
Although the last few shots that are on the rough cut look better then the old shots, there is still a problem with the way they fade and so need to be re-edited.
Monday 19 October 2009
Reflection
Nick asked us all to draw a shot that we thought worked well during filming.
This picture represents myself and Angelica sitting at our Mac, editing a shot that fades to black and then into another shot really well, thus making us happy.
During shooting I tried to make most of the shots in the shed to go to black, which was pretty easy seeing as it was so dark in there, and it really payed off in editing, as when a shot fades to black it allows another shot to fade in from black which looks effective.
Nothing came to mind so I decided to draw something that I thought went well during Editing.
This picture represents myself and Angelica sitting at our Mac, editing a shot that fades to black and then into another shot really well, thus making us happy.
During shooting I tried to make most of the shots in the shed to go to black, which was pretty easy seeing as it was so dark in there, and it really payed off in editing, as when a shot fades to black it allows another shot to fade in from black which looks effective.
Sunday 18 October 2009
Film Title
Although I had started to think about film title idea's, nothing had really stuck out to me.
However I did have the idea of using the 'WS' letters on the book in the film opening as the letters for the main title.
Thats when Angelica came up with 'Something Wicked', even though the letters are the other way round, it still works and we are using it for the project.
However I did have the idea of using the 'WS' letters on the book in the film opening as the letters for the main title.
Thats when Angelica came up with 'Something Wicked', even though the letters are the other way round, it still works and we are using it for the project.
Saturday 17 October 2009
Editing
I began to edit on Friday morning dropping the footage I shoot on Wednesday into the timeline on Final Cut Express. I began to build my opening up, placing the footage in the right order, cutting and cropping down shots where needed, with input from Angelica. I then began to look at where I wanted the main title to be and how I wanted it to look (etc).
Luckily Angelica and I found a font last week called Kingjola on Dafont.com which we both thought would work well.
Using the font I started to create my own titles step by step.
Luckily Angelica and I found a font last week called Kingjola on Dafont.com which we both thought would work well.
Using the font I started to create my own titles step by step.
Firstly I opened the font, taken from the website, in Photoshop CS4
I then used the Magic wand tool to make the colours invert (so the font colour is white and the background colour is black).
I then made the text and the decorative part of the font into two different layers so that in Final Cut Express the two layers could move individually.
This is what I was left with
Then opening it in Final Cut Express I added video effects. The effects I used were
- Gaussian Blur
- Earthquake
- Directional
I like the way the effects make the font look old and distressed, which help towards the supernatural thriller aspect.
I then used the Magic wand tool to make the colours invert (so the font colour is white and the background colour is black).
I then made the text and the decorative part of the font into two different layers so that in Final Cut Express the two layers could move individually.
This is what I was left with
Then opening it in Final Cut Express I added video effects. The effects I used were
- Gaussian Blur
- Earthquake
- Directional
I like the way the effects make the font look old and distressed, which help towards the supernatural thriller aspect.
Screen grab of the filter effects used:
Next I placed in the music from the online game I posted on my blog. The music works really well and I think I may keep it for my final piece. My only concern is that I did not create the music, so I may open the track in garage band to modify it to make it my own.
At the begining of next week, Angelica plans to start to create her comic book opening using still-frames from my footage, which I shall help her with, like shes been helping me with my opening. I am also aware that she is going to take photo's of a main character as she wants an introduction to a character in her opening, unlike me.
Rough cut of the opening to come soon.
At the begining of next week, Angelica plans to start to create her comic book opening using still-frames from my footage, which I shall help her with, like shes been helping me with my opening. I am also aware that she is going to take photo's of a main character as she wants an introduction to a character in her opening, unlike me.
Rough cut of the opening to come soon.
Filming
On Wednesday I took a camera home so that I could start to shoot my film opening.
I shot my footage at around 6:30pm, so that is was not too dark but not too light as to get the right lighting for the right effect.
I stuck to the storyboard pretty well, however I changed the shot of the characters legs walking from the side view, instead I set the camera up in my green house and shot the legs from behind walking away from the camera.
Planned shot:
Shot I changed too:
I think this looks more effective as it adds to the mysterious atmosphere I was trying to create.
At the time I thought I managed to get all the footage I needed, however during editing I discovered that the two end shots of hands rummaging around items and then finding the book arent framed very well, so I shall be re-shooting that on Tuesday.
Aprt from that, I am quite pleased with my footage.
I shot my footage at around 6:30pm, so that is was not too dark but not too light as to get the right lighting for the right effect.
I stuck to the storyboard pretty well, however I changed the shot of the characters legs walking from the side view, instead I set the camera up in my green house and shot the legs from behind walking away from the camera.
Planned shot:
Shot I changed too:
I think this looks more effective as it adds to the mysterious atmosphere I was trying to create.
At the time I thought I managed to get all the footage I needed, however during editing I discovered that the two end shots of hands rummaging around items and then finding the book arent framed very well, so I shall be re-shooting that on Tuesday.
Aprt from that, I am quite pleased with my footage.
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Location
I took these photo's of our location, so that I could show Angelica what I had in mind for the location.
I think it would be useful for Angelica to have them as she might be able to edit them on Comic Life or Photoshop to use in her comic book effect opening.
I think the washing line kind of ruins this photo.
Taken from inside my green house.
I think it would be useful for Angelica to have them as she might be able to edit them on Comic Life or Photoshop to use in her comic book effect opening.
I think the washing line kind of ruins this photo.
Taken from inside my green house.
Angelica's influences
The film openings Angelica has been looking at to help her with her comic book effect, are
The plot summary of the film, from IMDB;
In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family's mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.
- Sin City
- Repo: The Genetic Opera
- American Splendor
Sin City (Frank Miller 2005) uses colour themes throughout the film, these colours are mainly black, white and red. In the opening titles the audience is given an introduction to the character's in cartoon form and how they look in the comic.
"Sin City" is four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The first story (The Customer is always right) is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The next story is Part 1 of "That Yellow Bastard" about a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The third story (The Hard Goodbye) features a man taking revenge on a heartless killer who murdered his one-night stand. The fourth story (The Big, Fat Kill) stars a man who must dispatch a cop's body, but it will be a tough ride to do it. Following that are two conclusions to Sin City, the ending of "That Yellow Bastard" which is set 8 years later, and a short story that ends Sin City.
Repo: The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman 2008) has a variety of different scenes in a comic book as the opening.
The plot summary of the film, from IMDB;
In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family's mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 2004)
The plot summary of the film from IMDB;
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
Sunday 11 October 2009
Fonts for titles
Here are a few fonts Angelica and I considered for the titles in my film opening.
All of these fonts can be found on dafont.com
We looked in the categories
Gothic - Medieval
Fancy - Decorative
Fancy - Distorted
All of these fonts can be found on dafont.com
We looked in the categories
Gothic - Medieval
Fancy - Decorative
Fancy - Distorted
Music
We have started to look at possible music we might use in our film openings.
The music on our animtic is from an online game called William an Sly which can be played here.
The music is not copyrighted so there are no issues there if we wanted to use the music in our final film opening, however we must give credit to the artist.
The music can played (with out the game) here
I think this music could work well in my film opening because it has a supernatural feel to it, and is quite mysterious, which would keep the audience interested.
The music on our animtic is from an online game called William an Sly which can be played here.
The music is not copyrighted so there are no issues there if we wanted to use the music in our final film opening, however we must give credit to the artist.
The music can played (with out the game) here
I think this music could work well in my film opening because it has a supernatural feel to it, and is quite mysterious, which would keep the audience interested.
Saturday 10 October 2009
Rosemary's Baby
The opening to Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968) is a film opening I watched in class. The opening sequence is tracking shots of buildings in a specific location of the film. It uses pink decorative font for the titles, which is where I got the inspiration for my titles and has very sinister music.
The music is actually what attracted me to create a supernatural thriller for my opening and I wanted to use music similar to the music used in this opening. The music is of a woman singing in a lullaby mannor, with slow/gentle but creepy instruments underneath the vocals.
Plot summary from IMDB
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbours have special plans for her child.
Friday 9 October 2009
Comic Life
The plan is that Angelica is going to take still frames from my footage and edit them on Photoshop and a program called Comic life. This is because she wants to create a comic book film opening.
So we downloaded the 30 day free trial and began to edit some photo's of people we know to test out styles and and speech boxes/text boxes.
Here is a screengrab from Comic Life
Descripton from the Comic Life website
Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos... and more!
The easy-to-use interface integrates seamlessly with your photo collection. Drag in your pictures, captions, Lettering text (‘ka-blam!') and speech balloons and your work is done!
Comic Life gives you fun and professional templates for instant, impressive, photo layouts.
Tweak your creations to your hearts desire!
So we downloaded the 30 day free trial and began to edit some photo's of people we know to test out styles and and speech boxes/text boxes.
Here is a screengrab from Comic Life
Descripton from the Comic Life website
Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos... and more!
The easy-to-use interface integrates seamlessly with your photo collection. Drag in your pictures, captions, Lettering text (‘ka-blam!') and speech balloons and your work is done!
Comic Life gives you fun and professional templates for instant, impressive, photo layouts.
Tweak your creations to your hearts desire!
To Kill a Mockingbird
I looked at the opening of To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) on Art of the Title for inspiration for my own film opening.
The sequence consists of a variety of shots, manily close ups of objects in a box. It is quite abstract which is why I was interested in it to begin with.
I also think the little girl humming works well and adds to the atmosphere.
Film plot from imdb:
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead.
The sequence consists of a variety of shots, manily close ups of objects in a box. It is quite abstract which is why I was interested in it to begin with.
I also think the little girl humming works well and adds to the atmosphere.
Film plot from imdb:
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead.
Animatic
Angelica and I took photo's of our storyboard today and then opened them in Final Cut Express to create an animatic. An animatic is a moving storyboard.
We then put in music we both liked, found from a online game, in our animatic. The game is called William and Sly and can be played here.
Here is a draft version of our animatic (without titles)
We then put in music we both liked, found from a online game, in our animatic. The game is called William and Sly and can be played here.
Here is a draft version of our animatic (without titles)
Thursday 8 October 2009
Cronos
After talking to Barney about my film opening idea, he suggested that I watched Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1993)
Film plot:
In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997 when it shows up to an antiquarian. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris (Luppi) doesn't note that there's more than one person looking for it. The promise of eternal life has become an obsession to old and sick Mr. De la Guardia (Brook). He and his nephew (Perlman) will do anything to get the "Chronos Invention".
He thought it may help me with my idea as the opening is set in a antiques shop where the owner finds a significant object which is important to the rest of the film (a small golden device that gives its owner eternal life)
Which is roughly what I want to try and acheive in my opening.
Film plot:
In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997 when it shows up to an antiquarian. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris (Luppi) doesn't note that there's more than one person looking for it. The promise of eternal life has become an obsession to old and sick Mr. De la Guardia (Brook). He and his nephew (Perlman) will do anything to get the "Chronos Invention".
He thought it may help me with my idea as the opening is set in a antiques shop where the owner finds a significant object which is important to the rest of the film (a small golden device that gives its owner eternal life)
Which is roughly what I want to try and acheive in my opening.
Storyboard
Today I began to storyborad and timeline my opening sequence
The storyboard consisted of intials ideas/rough blocking on post-it notes
The timeline was to see how the order of the sequence would go, where titles would appear and how long the sequence is going to last.
Here are the photo's from this session
Storyboard:
The storyboard consisted of intials ideas/rough blocking on post-it notes
The timeline was to see how the order of the sequence would go, where titles would appear and how long the sequence is going to last.
Here are the photo's from this session
Storyboard:
Shot list
Just a rough outline
Shot 1 - Establishing shot of the location
Shot 2 - Low close up of characters legs and feet (front view)
Shot 3 - Low close up of character walking (side view)
Shot 4 - Mid shot of shed
Shot 5 - Mid close up of Shed door
Shot 6 - Extreme close up of door handle (with pad lock and such)
Shot 7-10 - Tracking shots of camera walking through door frame and looking round the dark shed (from characters view)
Shot 11 - Close up of hands looking through things
Shot 12 - Extreme close up of significant object character finds
This doesnt include titles, as I havn't decided if the titles will appear ontop of the footage or cut to a black background and appear.
Film Opening Idea
Here are a few notes on my film opening idea for a supernatural thriller
- Begins with establishing shots of a location (Garden/shed at the bottom of the garden)
- Close ups of significant object (undecided yet, but along the lines of a book)
- Music to create a supernatural atmosphere (like Rosemary's baby opening music)
- Shots of character holding the significant object (hand shots) and walking (leg shots - low close ups)
- No introduction to character(s)
- Titles to start on a solid black background
- Young actor used (costume ideas - school gitl outfit such as skirt and knee high socks)
- Film during dusky hours (first thing in the morning or around 6 o'clock in the evening)
I want to keep my film opening simple but effective in creating the atmosphere, I also want it to look quite abstract.
- Begins with establishing shots of a location (Garden/shed at the bottom of the garden)
- Close ups of significant object (undecided yet, but along the lines of a book)
- Music to create a supernatural atmosphere (like Rosemary's baby opening music)
- Shots of character holding the significant object (hand shots) and walking (leg shots - low close ups)
- No introduction to character(s)
- Titles to start on a solid black background
- Young actor used (costume ideas - school gitl outfit such as skirt and knee high socks)
- Film during dusky hours (first thing in the morning or around 6 o'clock in the evening)
I want to keep my film opening simple but effective in creating the atmosphere, I also want it to look quite abstract.
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Edward Scissorhands
The title sequence I looked at on Art of the Title was Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.
Here is the 9 frame grid of the film's title sequence:
The sequence is 1minute and 45seconds long.
The use of dark black/grey colours and the use of images is effective as it sets the atmosphere of the film.
It is also something i'd expect from a Tim Burton film.
You can watch the opening of the film on Art of the Title website or here on youtube.
Whilst watching the video I created a timeline to note down what titles appear, e.g. Cast, Director, Producer, Cinematography by (etc) and in what order they appear. As well as the times they appear, e.g. how long the time period is between each title.
This task allowed to me to understand title sequences better which will help me a lot when producing my own film opening.
Here is a photo of my timeline:
Here is the 9 frame grid of the film's title sequence:
The sequence is 1minute and 45seconds long.
The use of dark black/grey colours and the use of images is effective as it sets the atmosphere of the film.
It is also something i'd expect from a Tim Burton film.
You can watch the opening of the film on Art of the Title website or here on youtube.
Whilst watching the video I created a timeline to note down what titles appear, e.g. Cast, Director, Producer, Cinematography by (etc) and in what order they appear. As well as the times they appear, e.g. how long the time period is between each title.
This task allowed to me to understand title sequences better which will help me a lot when producing my own film opening.
Here is a photo of my timeline:
9 Frames - Opening titles
The task set was to create 9 frames that display titles for a film opening.
Angelica and I chose random pictures off of the interent and pasted them into Photoshop, and then added in titles.
Here is our 9 frame title squence
The point of this exercise was to see what titles are used in openings of films and how they are positioned (etc)
This task was inspired by Art of the Title a website about title sequences.
Angelica and I chose random pictures off of the interent and pasted them into Photoshop, and then added in titles.
Here is our 9 frame title squence
The point of this exercise was to see what titles are used in openings of films and how they are positioned (etc)
This task was inspired by Art of the Title a website about title sequences.
UNDERWATER COW Ident
L3 CHRISTINA-IDENT_FINAL from cmdiploma on Vimeo.
This is the production logo I made (my ident)
I first made an image of my ident on photoshop, creating new layers so that i could animate it later on in Final Cut Express.
I got my font from dafont.com and decided to have 'Under water cow' and 'productions' in the same font because it seemed to work.
In Final Cut Express I used fades and key frame points to create the right animated effect.
I then went into Garage Band and found a noise of a cow mooing and dropped it into Final Cut Express.
It seem's quite random, but it's based on an animation project I have been working on at home.
Sunday 4 October 2009
Pitches
To help us think about film opening ideas we were given examples of 25 word pitches so we can then come up with our own 25 pitches.
The examples I found on bbc news and liked were:
Egomania by Paul Alexander and Simon Braithwaite - Hotshot young lawyer Michael Stark becomes so successful, so arrogant and so full of himself that his ego decided to go solo - with disastrous consequences.
The Cleaner by Peter Michael Rosenberg - When a crime scene cleaner haunted by his past uncovers evidence that suggets LAPD cops are working as assassins, he becomes their next target.
Shoeless Joe by Andrew Clyde - A holiday of a lifetime across desolate heart of Australian outback turns into a living nightmare for five friends.
Storage by Chris Denne and Mat Winn - Terror stalks a storage facility. Survival for those trapped inside depends on the secrets in those endless units. But some doors are better left locked.
Here are my own 25 word pithes based on my two film opening ideas.
Man wakes up not remembering anything, beautiful woman finds and looks after him. Both soon find out man has powers. Villians out to destroy him.
My second pitch is based around brief two (A supernatural thriller that will appeal to female audiences)
After death of a close family member, female character begins to have dreams/visions about supernatural disasters, that begin to come true.
Perliminary Task
What is continuity editing?
- Continuity editing is the arangment of a squence of shots that suggest a progession of events.
In the task we did on Tuesday (29th) we followed three rules that tie into continuity editing. These rules were:
1. The 180 degree rule
2. Match on match action
3. Shot/reverse shot
Using these three rules we planned, filmed and edited a short sequence where a character is seen walking along a corridor (establishing shot) followed by a close up of the character opening a door. it is important that in this task that you see the character before they open the door so that the audience has already already been introduced to the character and are not confussed by the second shot of someones hand opening a door.
The next shot in the sequence is a long shot from the other side of the door, this is to allow the audience to see the character enter through the door.
The second and third shots are where rule number two, match on action, comes in. it is important that the door opening from the outside and the door and the door opening on the inside match up so the video has a constant flow.
- Continuity editing is the arangment of a squence of shots that suggest a progession of events.
In the task we did on Tuesday (29th) we followed three rules that tie into continuity editing. These rules were:
1. The 180 degree rule
2. Match on match action
3. Shot/reverse shot
Using these three rules we planned, filmed and edited a short sequence where a character is seen walking along a corridor (establishing shot) followed by a close up of the character opening a door. it is important that in this task that you see the character before they open the door so that the audience has already already been introduced to the character and are not confussed by the second shot of someones hand opening a door.
The next shot in the sequence is a long shot from the other side of the door, this is to allow the audience to see the character enter through the door.
The second and third shots are where rule number two, match on action, comes in. it is important that the door opening from the outside and the door and the door opening on the inside match up so the video has a constant flow.
The next shot is a close up of the second character reacting to the enterance of the first character, this shot is followd by a long shot if both characters together (in the same room).
The next few shots that take place use rules one and threee. Shot/reverse shot is used to show one character (often off-screen) looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Most commonly used to show a conversation between two characters. This connects in with the 180 degree rule.
This rule states that two characters in a scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. The shots then continue using the shot/reverse shot and 180 degree rule to show the first and second characters in conversation.
I worked on this tak with Liam, Zven and Charna. We allocated roles for the task which were
Character one - Liam
Character two - Zven
Camera operator - Charna
Director - Myself.
Charna and I then edited the footage together whilst Zven and Liam edited their own verison using the same footage. Here is our final video from this task
I think my group did well in the task and stuck to the rules well, particularly the match on action shot where in editing we managed to keep the video flowing throughout. One thing we did have a problem with when editing was speech. The dialogue was a bit too early with some shots however it was a problem easily solved.
Friday 2 October 2009
Credits list
An UNDER WATRER COW Production
A Long Road Film
Cast
Costume Design by
Art Director by
Production Design by
Casting by
Film Editing by
Cinematography by
Original Music by
Produced by
Directed by
Main Title:
A Long Road Film
Cast
Costume Design by
Art Director by
Production Design by
Casting by
Film Editing by
Cinematography by
Original Music by
Produced by
Directed by
Main Title:
Moodboards
Angelica and I came up with two moodboards relating to brief one, a mainstream action film that will appeal to 15-25yr old males.
The first moodboard we created were for images that reminded us of comic books.
The second moodboard we created were for fonts that reminded us of comic books.
The first moodboard we created were for images that reminded us of comic books.
The second moodboard we created were for fonts that reminded us of comic books.
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