Our final opening

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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?'

Looking back at my prelim, I think that we have improved majorly. Our prelim was about a investigation, we had to use different camera angles, and show our editing skills. For our prelim we did a story board and an animated clip made from our story boards. These made us understand the stages we had to record.
We had to use a dark room for our prelim, which was pretty hard to find. For our actual opening, we were able to record at night and in the dark by switching off the lights, and only having the light dimmer as our only source of light. In our prelim we didn't really use much mise-en-scene except the hood on one of our characters. For our actual video, we were able to dress our character, and add make up to it too. The camera skills in our prelim consist of match cut and

Trying to keep in mind that we had to keep to the 180 rule was tricky for both of our videos. For both, there was little space, so it was harder for us trying to keep on one side.  Filming the actual opening did take us extra time, approximately 4 days. Setting up the equipment for our opening was more easier than the prelim since we had practiced and gotten used to it.

The editing process for the prelim was easier than the final film. Everyone took turns in editing so we could all get a hang of it. We didn't really use any sounds except the ones that were recorded (whilst filming). We did not use Foley sounds which was a little bad since we couldn't understand some of our characters.

Whilst the course of our final film and everything in general, I was able to understand how to edit, record and use other equipment. Across both productions, I have learnt how to keep with the 180 rule and try out different camera angles so that the video is interesting, and that it is not only concentrating on one part. What I found hard was to be able to learn how to use Sound Track Pro, but I got the hang out it after a few tries.

EVALUATION Question 6 'What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?'

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EVALUATION Question 5 'How did you attract/address your audience?'

Looking back at our roughcut feedback, I think we have improved it a lot. We have added in several more titles such as screen play and costume design. As our teacher had said, that the last section seems to happen too quickly, we edited this and made the video longer. We had to book the cameras for a day so that we could record an establishing shot of the setting/location. Another thing we added was the soundtrack. This would have appealed to our target audience because it sounds very creepy and thrilling. We used a snow globe that I brought in to record it and slow it down. By making it echoe, it gave the opening of a more thriller movie effect. 

Here is the roughcut and the actual video:

  

EVALUATION Question 4 'Who would be the audience for your media product?'

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EVALUATION Question 3 'What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?'

In our opening, we used CandiStudios as our distribution company and D.E.E.O Productions as our production company. CandiStudios is the ident for our College’s name. My group came up with the production comapany’s name by combining all our names’ initials, which equalled to be D E E O, in alphabetical order.

They are both small independent companies. We have produced a low budget British film such as Attack the Block, My Brother the Devil etc. These are low budget British films. If our film ‘3:01’ was to be distributed in cinemas, I think the suitable distributor would be Film 4. This is because Film 4 seem like the type to be able to spread our film around the UK. Also, Revolver Entertainment have produced a few hit British films such as Anuvahood and Black Death. These movies are majorly known in the UK, so I think they may have good skills to distribute our film well to popularity.

EVALUATION Question 2- How does your 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?

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The movies that mainly inspired us were Eastern Asian thriller/horror movies. These thriller horrors consist of females being portrayed as supernatural killers. We have conveyed this into our opening too. We used an Asian girl with long hair. By adding dark make-up to her pale face adds to the dar side of her that we get a glimpse of.
Films such as Ju-Rei, The Wig, Whispering Stars are Japanese and Korean thriller horrors. The Japanese film industry is very known for its thrillers, they attract viewers from all over the world. Also, most American thrillers are all Japanese remakes. Sometimes they do well in the market but most viewers still prefer and say that the original from the Japanese are more scarier.

 

Editing credits/Influences

Our influences on editing came from the film Insidious and Orphan we liked the way it was styled and its editing. The  speed was also convenient and the way the music also gave way for the title sequence and how the both merged together. It was inciting to see how producers can do so little with title sequences, although it is the first thing you see.

Editing Process

This is a screen grab of the editing process, i used LiveType to create the title sequence, LiveType was very easy to use and the effects were great as they added a more gothic feel to our opening. The different fonts defined our opening more. This screen grab is of our title we used two effects so that the title stand from our other titles. 

Inspired Movie

Our opening was inspired by Paranormal Activity. We tried to create a scene similar to it, form the first movie where the actress is in her room walking around etc.We were thinking about using a timer, but we thought it would seem more like a trailer than an opening to a movie

                                Paranormal Activity                                                               3:01

The scenery is slightly different compared to ours but we did try put best to make it as good as PA1. As you can see the bedroom in PA1 is bigger and ours was smaller. They were both set in bedrooms mainly and the night camera effect was used

We did have problems with the lighting, but we were still able to shoot the scene of her walking around the room. 

Roughcut

Personal view on how filming went:

In my opinion, I think that our filming went well. When all of my group members arrived, we had to wait until it got dark since our opening was mainly set in a dark room. The scenery we had was good, we had enough time to get everything ready and to be shot. We all took turns in using the camera, teaching each other how things worked. This enabled us to work as a team and work progressively.

What was sometimes hard during filming was the amount of space we had in my room. Sometimes it felt like we were in the way of the camera, so we went outside of the room and waited until the scene was done.

Another thing is the fact that because we switched the lights off and only had a a dimmer, the room was still pretty dark. We could have made it more lighter, but to keep that light the same throughout all the scenes was tricky. When we reviewed some parts that we took, it seemed to be too dark to put in our opening and therefore had to be cut out.

Since we cut out a few scenes, just last week we had to go and film again, so that we hada sufficient amount of video to last. Me and my group member Ola, went back to my house so that we could film the street and then the hall way, then the doors to my room. We have already edited it and it looks pretty good. This was just another way of making our opening to our fim a little longer, because before it only lasted 1 minute. Now that we have added more to it, we have extended that time, (cannot give a estimate yet since we are still in the process of editing and putting in title sequences).

Opening of thriller: Editing so far

Planning Story Board & Animatic

Planning our story board was challenging as we had so many ideas, but could not include them all. The story board consisted of our opening scene , and what blank spaces needed, till the end of the film. As we went on with our planning each picture was drawn accurately to how our scenes in the opening will occur.
In addition the animatic was an easy process as we have done it before, the only challenging thing is getting the timing right  and the speed correctly.

Planning Costume & Props

Although our initial idea of costume was a victorian white dress gown, to be very creative. It did not come together and we had to find an alternative which was a plain white shirt and leggings.

                                                         





Here is a snow ball/crystal ball we used to emphasise the character in our films innocence, and the progression of it, though it is slightly ironic. we also used it as it had a useful lullaby that could be used in our background sound.

Here we used a snow globe/crystal ball emphasising the  Actresses innocence, giving off a theme of slight innocence as well, which is fairly ironic. Also it has a lullaby with it that will come in handy with our sound.

These are other props we used, like the drawings, pencil, make-up etc.

Thoughts on the filming process.

Day 4 of Filming

On the fourth and final day of shooting the thriller opening we shot the two very last scene, which is also a vital scene as it shows what the main character is capable of.

The mixture adds a gory feel to the peice.

We then filmed a final panning shot of the room.

We used acrylic paint mixed with water so that the colour would resemble blood, we then did a pan of the room in the morning, so that the audience could see that the bedroom was different to how it was after 3am.