Thursday 31 January 2013

Monday 28 January 2013

SHAUN'S BLOG FEEDBACK

Today we received some feedback from Shaun our teacher regarding our blogs and what grade the blogs are on. He said that my blog was at a C grade and if I needed to push the grade up I should reduce the pictures and add more writing because myt blog lacked enough written work and there were too much irrelevant pictures on it. I reduced the pictures and only left the relevant ones, I also explained the pictures and the procedures of how I did the things on there because before it was just pictures and no explanation.

He also said that I needed to increase the length of my title sequence analysis for a better grade because they were too short. I added more analysis to 'Dawn of the Dead' and 'Creep" title sequence.

I also decided to upload the rough cut for my title sequence, feedback from teacher and others and possible improvements.

Friday 25 January 2013

DIARY ENTRY 14


 AUDIENCE RESPONSE TO SOUNDTRACK

AUDIENCE RESPONSE
SOUNDTRACK
             1
SOUNDTRACK
           2
SOUNDTRACK
            3
SOUNDTRACK
              4
Facebook
9/10
4/10
7/10
2/10
YouTube

7/10
3/10
6/10
6/10
Blogger
9/10
4/10
3/10
1/10
Sound cloud
7/10
5/10
5/10
3/10
Twitter
10/10
3/10
8/10
2/10
Tumblr
10/10
2/10
5/10
1/10
Questionnaire
8/10
3/10
8/10
3/10

After gathering information on people's opinion on my choice of song for the title sequence I then decided to use the first track because it had the most vote and I think it goes very well with idea for the title sequence and it has an action beat to it and that will add seriousness to the title sequence. The first track is has the fastest face and I need a fast paced soundtrack for my title sequence.

Thursday 24 January 2013

DIARY ENTRY 13

THURSDAY 24TH JANUARY 2013    (SOUND TRACKS)
Today I had to look for a suitable sound track for my title sequence, add it to the rough cut of the title sequence and get audience opinion on them. I chose four sound tracks with the intension of using only one.
FIRST SOUND TRACK
 This soundtrack is fast paced and works well with    the action part of the film. I got this track Audio network, a copyright free music website and it has a very strong opening. 












SECOND SOUND TRACK
 This soundtrack is not fast paced but it had a horror mystery tune to it that will create enigma for the audience. However it could create genre confusion as the track sounds a bit western and it will make the audience wonder what type of setting the film will be.










THIRD SOUND TRACK
 This soundtrack is fast paced but it is an action comedy soundtrack and it can create confusion in for the audience as to the numerous genre of the film and this could result in misinterpretation of the film.












FORTH SOUND TRACK
 This sound track is okay for the genre of the film but it does not give the audience an element of tension and it is too normal like nothing has happened and it doesn't interprete the genre of the film so it might be a bit confusing for the audience to understand the film's genre in relative to the title sequence.






Tuesday 22 January 2013

DIARY ENRTY 13

TUESDAY 22 JANUARY 2013  (EDITING THE TITILES AND SCENES)

I decided to create my titles on Final cut pro instead of importing them from photoshop because it was easier for me and I could easily add effects to them.

I used the text on Final cut pro, went to control and typed in what I wanted to be on the title sequence and I also chose the font and I could control the size of the font, the color and how it appeared on the screen.
 The effect I added to the titles was bad film effect so it will have a shaky unsteady bloddy drool effect. This goes well with the subgenre of the film which is zombie. This helps the audience foreshadow that there might be gore scenes in the film.

After the effect had been added the color of the title faded into a blood like color and the title was like a blood drool unsteady effect.
The last thing I did was to add the shoots that I had taken and in oder. I just imported the footage and I didn't add any effect to them because that was how I wanted them to be. However there were two footage that needed editing on Adobe aftereffects because they were done on green screens.

After this editing task I know know how to edit well on final cut pro and a minimum knowledge of adobe after effects and how to add background on scenes shoot on green screen. I now know how to add texts on final cut pro and what and how to add effects to certain footage imported.

Monday 21 January 2013

GREEN SCREEN TUTORIAL

I needed to use green screen in my editing because I filmed the news report scene and the scientist scene in class using a green screen. I looked up how to use a green screen online and asked Shaun Grimley and Jack Hill for help because I was not very good at it and I kept making mistakes.
This is the tutorial video I found online.




After this tutorial I was finally able to add a background and effects on the scenes I shoot on a green screen.

Thursday 17 January 2013

DIARY ENTRY 12

DAY OF FILMING
Today I filmed the news report scene, the chasing scene and the scientist scene. I filmed the scientist and news report scene in class because I needed a background, I used the green screen to create a false background for the two scenes because I couldn't film in a real science lab or a real broadcasting studio.




This is a close up shot of the setting of the news report scene and this shows how the scene will be filmed with the two chairs and the green screen behind the chairs.
This is a picture of the news report scene and the camera shows how it will be when filming is over. Unfortunately the green screen was not wide enough and I was unable to get a wider one in time so that affected the scene.


This is a picture of the scientist scene. The scientist was closer to the green screen than the news casters because I wanted it to be like he is the only one there and that he is filming it himself.






Wednesday 16 January 2013

TITLES

I decided not to follow the conventional order of title sequence and I decided to add the title of my film at the end of the sequence.
This is the order in which I added my title sequence:

Studio Name- Columbia Pictures Studio

Directed by- Fex Orumwense

Cast-  Lauren German
          Shane West
          Michael Cera
          Taylor Kinney
          Rebecca Collins
          Rachel Jones
          Jack Hill
          Madea

Sound by- Jack Hill

Costume/make up by- Sherryh Meghie

Film Title- CIVILIZED

Tuesday 15 January 2013

DIARY ENTRY 11

TUESDAY 15TH JANUARY 2013
I continued making the title sequence without the help of my team mates. I have been making the title sequence on my own since we started and I have spoken to my media teacher (shaun) about it. maling the title sequence is a bit frustrating because we did a very small amount of filming and I have very little footage to work with. the footage i'm working with was filmed by me after school and that is the only one we have. We have not filmed the first scene of the actual movie and the deadline is on thursday.
After trying to edit the title sequence alone today I decided that there is a possibility we might change the film idea and the film title sequence. We will leave the genre as horror but the idea will be changed.

During Leanne's lesson she split the group up and decided that I should do the work on my own and Elle and Alfie should work on their own. she said that we can use the clips we already have but we should present our work separately and that it will be graded separately.

Our work done on final cut pro can not save so we have to save them to a shared user account and Jack has the user account.
We decided to film the scenes as they are on the story board and not change the order.

Friday 11 January 2013

DIARY ENTRY 10

FRIDAY 11TH JANUARY 2013
I started making the titles on final cut pro because it looked better and had more effect. I used the bad tv effect for the titles and I used a constant font which I downloaded from DaFont and it is called cold night for Alligators.
I chose this font because it had this horror, bloody look to it and I felt it will go really well with the genre of the film.
I finished making the titles and I saved it but when I tried to open it again to do some more work on it I couldn't get it. Jerry said that it was the fault of the server and I should re make it. I remade it, saved it and when I tried to open it, it was lost agin.
At this point I have to title sequence and I decided to change the idea of the title sequence to be in narrative form and not just thematics.  I decided that it will be better if there was a character telling the tale of the zombies and how the world was overrun and it will help the audience understand the idea of the film.
This are the names of the cast in the order they will appear on the title sequence and the font they will be in.
I created this font on photoshop as a sample of what I wanted the final titles to look like then I made in as text ( using the same font) on final cut pro. Doing this increased my knowledge on photoshop and how to separate the different sides.



STORYBOARD ANIMATICS





This is the animatics I created of my film's storyboard. It is the order in which the title sequence will be shot and the final sequence will be.

STORYBOARDING




TYPOGRAPHY IDEAS

                                                      FEAST OF FLESH

This font  has a theme of horror and that is why I considered it but I want the font to foreshadow what the film will contain and this font does not because it is a zombie film and it will have gory scenes but this font is not gory enough to be used in the title sequence.


ZOMBIEFIED
Like the name of the font it fits the name of the film. It is a horror themed font but it is like a rough font and not what I wanted so I didn't use it.


COLD NIGHT FOR ALLIGATORS
After careful consideration I finally decided to chose this font "cold night for alligators" because it has this drippy bloody gory feel and that was what I was going for. It will go well with the genre of my film and it is a theme on its own because it describes the sub genre, it will foreshadow the goriness of the film.
                                     
All the fonts I considered have a horror feel to it but I wasn't just going for a horror feel but a font that will be a theme in my film.

Monday 7 January 2013

DIARY ENTRY 9

MONDAY 7TH JANUARY 2013
On the first day back we were told by Grimley that we need to complete our project by the end of the week but the Macs had crashed so he said that we should log on to the macs with Medai1 as the username and apples as the password and Jack will make sure the work we did today will go straight to our account. He assured us that our work was not lost because the system automatically backs up when we save our work.
Shaun made everyone in the class make a calendar on the things that we need to do in January so we can finish our work in time for the screening.