Tuesday, 24 March 2009

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

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

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




Monday, 2 March 2009

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.