to do list

hi poppy your blog was full marks but this year we want to complete three documentary films instead of three essays, so i will go through this tomorrow.

Finished underwater Storey board shots

shot 9

shot 10

digital film evaluation

Calendar

After Effects

On reviewing the film, we felt that a filter effect called " day for night" would transform our clips to something more earee. Night is typically known for dull moon lit compositions and wanted to try this out on After Effects. We imported our film introduction into After Effects and applied the effect " day for night" with a minimum strength of tone. We wernt sure weather the audience would respond to the change in lighting but when we asked 6 students, all thought the darkened version was scarier. Although we liked the effect, we didn't like the effect on the titles as instead of the writing turning from white to red, it turned to blue from red. This looked really awful so using after effects we needed to remove the "Day for night" filter on the titles and institution. This will be the last step to the completion of our film introduction.

Sound

Once all visual apects of my film were complete I needed to add sound to my film introduction. I felt that a sound track or song would be far to cliché but atmospheric music and sounds from bridge pro scores mixed together would create the correct atmosphere wanted. We added a sound bridge at the beginning of our film introduction which consists of an atmospheric track from bride pro scores. the sound bridge stays at the same level throughout the intoduction until its broken by a decrease in volume when the tital is shown on screen. This was done by lowering the sound levals at the partiular points where the tital where shown on screen. the sound bridge ends just before the underwater scene where a new sound bridge is put in place. the new bridge sets the scene for the earlier underwater scene as I felt this sound needed to be at a different tone to the rest of the introduction. The sound bridge fades out throughout the underwater shot until it cuts to a shot of "The Common" in which a short, intense sound is played which will emphasis the idea of suspense and will want the audience to watch the rest of the film. Sound motifs are played at the start of every shot just after the lowered volume of the titles. this will emphasis the importance of what's happening in the visual clips of Vanessa and less emphasis on the titles. To get the clips from bridge into imovie to edit i imported them.

A close up of my sound editing using iMovie on my half of the film introduction

Titals

Screen grab of us using After Effects

Onse completed my editing using both iMovie Hd and after effects i needed to create titals for my film introduction. I want my film introduction to be effectivly simple and striking and wanted this to be mirroed in my titals. Using i movie both me and my partner kimberley began with a black background. We then chose a striking font which was inspired by the simples titals from "The Grudge"using the "Helvetica" font. we wanted the font to be white then transitioning and fadeing into a deep red representing fear and then fading back out again. we then repeated the teqnique 8 times authough moving the placement on composition slightly on each tital to give variety. Our titals last 4 seconds which in total adds an extra 32 seconds to the film introduction

Once we had out titles complete we needed to create a shot that would say “ The common” which is the title of the film. This shot will be shown at the end of the film introduction. To create this shot, the font used on the front covour was our inspiration. It was more complicated than the subtitles but not over the top. The red font saying “ The Grudge” is eye catching and stark and had a texture effect to it. To re create this eye catching font I used an image of a rock surface with deep texture as a layer underneath “The Common”. we then chose a black background so that the to be white and red writing would be vivid against the dull background. We chose a similar font called “....” although we felt it was to simple and not profetional enough for what we wanted to achieve. We then went through all of the fronts until we found the font “ Cracked” which looked like “ The grudge” font we had found the perfect text for our introduction. We used the fading tool so that “The Common” would appear a dull white then gradually fade into a red representing rage. I then adisted the opacity leval of the coloured layer of the font enabling the textured rock pattern to show through giving a rustic effect. The rock represents the habitat of the common. on reviewing the font for the “ The Common” title I felt it still needed an effect. I experimented using the blurring and distortion effects until It looked professional and earie. It shows on the screen a distorted blurry structure then focusing into “The Common” font white turning red then distorting back out again. The screen turns back letting the viewer take the intensity in enabling them to watch what would be the rest of the film.

The Stone Photograph we used as a layer

Screen grab of us using After Effects

One of The finished Titles

Titles for film

Today we looked at subtitles from "the grudge" to see the size and amount of titles shown.

This will help us to decide what titles and what text we would like to use.

Titles From "The Grudge"

Colombia Pictures
A Film By...
Name...
Title
Name...
Name...
Name...
Name...
Name...
Name + Name...
Name + Name...
With...
And...
Casting By...
Music By...
Editor...
Production Designer...
Director of Photography...
Co-Producers...
Executive Producers x 2...
Produced By...
Based On & Written and Directed By...
Screen play by...

Titles For "Alien"

A..Production...

A Film By...

Name...

Name...

Name...

Name...

Name...

Name...

And Name as...

Music By...

Executive Producer...

Screen Play And story By...

Produced By...

Directed By...

ALIEN

I feel both these films had far to many titals that interest would be lost by the viewer. For my film introduction 8 titals will be keep the viewers attention on their highest leval.

27th janurary

Today I am going to start to edit my film using imovie. I am going to experiment with the brightness and contrast to see if in fact colour in my movie introduction would work better. My decision changed because my underwater shot would look really uninspiring in black and white. 

Using After effects

This was edited using adobe after effects. I decreased the brightness and increased the contrast to give some depth to the atmoshpere. i also copied a section of my shot where the water was moving and pasted it into the shot where the ceiling was very visible to reduce the look of it as that isn't at all realistic for sea.

last shooting

today i went to portelet common to film my last shot of Vanessa pushing her Innocent victim off the cliff. I positioned my camera on the beanbags on the floor for a low angle shot. the reason for this being it needed to look like she was pushing the actor off the cliff but she was really just pushing him down the hill. the weather was clear and dull, which will help my film shots to flow and not disjointed as my other filming day had the exact same weather conditions.

Problems i faced were the grass my actor and actress had to stand bare footed, and lie in were very thorny. This created a lot of discomfort. the male actor had to help the younger actress along the grass by carrying her.

I have completed filming my 5 shots and i am able to start editing using iMovie and After effects.

four splash shots

reminder for me

storey board... underwater....

Filming the underwater shoot

myself and max Holley, who is the male actor in my film organized in advance to film at Langford pool today which is the 19th of January. in these two shots i will be filming i got my male actor to wear a dark shirt and jeans which he would be wearing similar in the not underwater shoots. inspiration for this shoot greatly came from the shot in the borne ultimatum. i placed the camera at the base of the pool which would enable the exact--- shot i was looking for. i got max to fall into the pool backwards and float lifelessly ( just like in the borne ultimatum).

once uploaded, i feel that these shots will look really effective in my film. Using After effects will help dramatically with this. I will experiment with After effects tomorrow.

problems i faced were:

the pool was 1.8 meters deep which didn't enable a full body shot as it hit the water, but on rewing it, i think its far more effective.

the clothes i provided max with were far to large round the waist so i had to find a rope to tighten the waist band with.

the lights were purposely turned of in the swimming pool for the dark and dismal look i was looking for although some natural lighting couldn't be blocked out. This will mean in post production i will use after effects to create the correct lighting.

filming two

On the 26th,27th and 28th of january we are going to film shots 2,3,4 and 5 during our lunch breaks. On the 23rd of January i am going to film shots 9 and 10 which i will film in langford pool.