This week we had the first show case of our opening sequence to students in our class. This was an interesting experience as we were showing what we had done so far to people that didn't know anything about our story.
The only opinions that we had gotten so far was from our teachers.
Through doing this exercise we realised that the feedback we got consisted of a majority of people not really understanding the storyline. This was predicted as the opening sequence was not finished and the vital part of the story was not seen as of yet. Anna commented on the fact that the split screen had a really good effect and was interesting but by then end, of what she had seen not he end of the sequence, it had gotten slightly boring. This was something that I really took on board as we didn't want our sequence to be boring although we now we have a lot of the same action.
The positive outcome of this was that a majority of people complemented us on the editing of the split screen. I think that our sequence relies on the split screening so the fact that the audience liked it and thought it was unique and interesting was really good. Lucy commented on the fact that what we shot could have been boring but the way in which we had edited it made it more interesting. This was a comment that i was pleased about because the main thing we didn't want to do was to bore our audience because it is a lot of the same action of a Tramp walking through London. She had also mentioned that she was able to clearly see who our main character was, this was another one of our objectives.We also had a few comments on the continuity which they thought was good. A lot of people came back writing that there was a good use of location. Eva also illustrated that the costume and mise-en-scene was nice and complemented our story, even though she was unclear of what it was.
As mentioned before it was interesting getting everyones feedback to what they had thought so far. I think some of the comments we would really concentrate on as we have now realised were the person was coming from and saw certain aspects of shots differently.
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Week 9 5th-9th March
Editing 6
This week has been extremely productive as we have done a variety of things. As we had Academic Mentoring Day during the week it enables us spend a whole day editing and progressing more with finishing our sequence.
After a long and frustrating battle with the map we had gotten them all PhotoShoped and ready to put on our opening sequence. Besides from getting the pictures onto the map this was another area were problem occurred. The map would appear on screen in which the way we wanted it to. This made it difficult for us to try and think of an alternative. We had chosen to use a zoom setting to make our map appear on screen.
In our initial idea we wanted to have a voice over at the beginning of the sequence, this was an idea that we al still liked as wi thought there was something missing at the beginning of the story. On this day we all realised the exact aim of the story which inspired us to write the script of the voice over, which made the complex story easier to understand. As well as writing a script and making a clear outline of our story we had also come up with a name for our film, which we had all struggled with doing in the past. After many unusual suggestions and chats we had concluded with 'Chroniker' which relates back to our story.
Within this day we also had established that the map was not as well constructed as we had hoped> when planning we all had an idea of what the map would look like. Once having achieved the closes alternatives to what the map looked like in our sequence we all concluded that we didn't like how it looked as t was very quick and unclear of what was happening. After contemplating we had chosen to scrap the map and only use one aspect of it. This meant that some of the time we spent editing and PhotoShoping the map was useful but we did spend a large amount of time trying to figure out how to do the map.
Once having made this decision it felt as though we had made a major step in finishing our opening sequence. From the beginning when planning we had always wanted our credits to be a bit different and funky so we still tried to intend to do so. Making the credits was slightly longer than I thought but i think this was due to us doing something a bit more complex than usual credits. It was slightly easier to do the credits as Tom had previously made a list of names needed. We had done our credits on Final Cut because they were incorporated with the different frames and shots.
I felt very excited after this week as I feel as though we are now coming close to finishing our sequence and a lot of our the hard decisions had been made and many of the problems we have had for a while have been resolved.
This week has been extremely productive as we have done a variety of things. As we had Academic Mentoring Day during the week it enables us spend a whole day editing and progressing more with finishing our sequence.
After a long and frustrating battle with the map we had gotten them all PhotoShoped and ready to put on our opening sequence. Besides from getting the pictures onto the map this was another area were problem occurred. The map would appear on screen in which the way we wanted it to. This made it difficult for us to try and think of an alternative. We had chosen to use a zoom setting to make our map appear on screen.
In our initial idea we wanted to have a voice over at the beginning of the sequence, this was an idea that we al still liked as wi thought there was something missing at the beginning of the story. On this day we all realised the exact aim of the story which inspired us to write the script of the voice over, which made the complex story easier to understand. As well as writing a script and making a clear outline of our story we had also come up with a name for our film, which we had all struggled with doing in the past. After many unusual suggestions and chats we had concluded with 'Chroniker' which relates back to our story.
Within this day we also had established that the map was not as well constructed as we had hoped> when planning we all had an idea of what the map would look like. Once having achieved the closes alternatives to what the map looked like in our sequence we all concluded that we didn't like how it looked as t was very quick and unclear of what was happening. After contemplating we had chosen to scrap the map and only use one aspect of it. This meant that some of the time we spent editing and PhotoShoping the map was useful but we did spend a large amount of time trying to figure out how to do the map.
Once having made this decision it felt as though we had made a major step in finishing our opening sequence. From the beginning when planning we had always wanted our credits to be a bit different and funky so we still tried to intend to do so. Making the credits was slightly longer than I thought but i think this was due to us doing something a bit more complex than usual credits. It was slightly easier to do the credits as Tom had previously made a list of names needed. We had done our credits on Final Cut because they were incorporated with the different frames and shots.
I felt very excited after this week as I feel as though we are now coming close to finishing our sequence and a lot of our the hard decisions had been made and many of the problems we have had for a while have been resolved.
Friday, 2 March 2012
Week 8 27th Febuary -2nd March
Editing 5
Map
This week Michael had taught us how to PhotoShop pictures onto our map into our opening sequence. This was a very hard long and time consuming process. From this week I now know how to do a variety of things on PhotoShop and I now have gained knowledge on the software. The map is a major part of our storyline as hard as it has been to incorporate it we have tired our hardest to make it look the way we had envisioned it.
Production Title
This week we had started to design our production title that would appear at the beginning of our opening sequence. We already had the name of our production company, which was 'Aftershock Productions'. We now needed a symbol/logo to go with it and some form of a small extract that we could insert at the beginning of our sequence.
We had done our production title on a software called LiveType. This was a software we would possibly used when doing our credits. LiveType was slightly difficult to use as no member in our group had used it before. We used the process of exploring to self teach ourselves how to use it. We had now gotten a background and our production name done and we needed to import our symbol, which is a black lightening bolt onto it.
Split Screen
We continued to split screen al of our shots and all the shots we wanted to be split screened were now done. We had also chosen to only do the shots that would work well to split screen as we didn't want the split screening to look drag along for our audience. We had only done the shots we had thought would either look good and work well as a split screen or the shots that we thought would be boring to look at.
Now we were coming to see our opening sequence starting to finish we thought that we would try to cut down the time of the sequence as it was currently at 3 minutes 40 seconds. Tom was no in the lesson when we had thought of this so Sam, Ella and I had to become ruthless to which shots we were definitely going to keep and which we were going to completely scrap. This was a difficult decision for all of us to make as we all liked different shot but as we came to realise it was about the shots that the audience wouldn't miss out on and the shot that if not there would the audience still understand the story. Once having done this we had cut it down to 2:40. This was still with spaces for the title of the film and where the map was going to be placed.
Alongside doing this, Tom though it would be good start to think about credits. He researched into all the necessary names that would appear on our credits so that when it came to the time of doing our credits we had a list of titles that we need to use. I thought this was useful as when it came to the time when we needed to do our credits we would be very efficient and prepared.
Map
This week Michael had taught us how to PhotoShop pictures onto our map into our opening sequence. This was a very hard long and time consuming process. From this week I now know how to do a variety of things on PhotoShop and I now have gained knowledge on the software. The map is a major part of our storyline as hard as it has been to incorporate it we have tired our hardest to make it look the way we had envisioned it.
Production Title
This week we had started to design our production title that would appear at the beginning of our opening sequence. We already had the name of our production company, which was 'Aftershock Productions'. We now needed a symbol/logo to go with it and some form of a small extract that we could insert at the beginning of our sequence.
We had done our production title on a software called LiveType. This was a software we would possibly used when doing our credits. LiveType was slightly difficult to use as no member in our group had used it before. We used the process of exploring to self teach ourselves how to use it. We had now gotten a background and our production name done and we needed to import our symbol, which is a black lightening bolt onto it.
Split Screen
We continued to split screen al of our shots and all the shots we wanted to be split screened were now done. We had also chosen to only do the shots that would work well to split screen as we didn't want the split screening to look drag along for our audience. We had only done the shots we had thought would either look good and work well as a split screen or the shots that we thought would be boring to look at.
Now we were coming to see our opening sequence starting to finish we thought that we would try to cut down the time of the sequence as it was currently at 3 minutes 40 seconds. Tom was no in the lesson when we had thought of this so Sam, Ella and I had to become ruthless to which shots we were definitely going to keep and which we were going to completely scrap. This was a difficult decision for all of us to make as we all liked different shot but as we came to realise it was about the shots that the audience wouldn't miss out on and the shot that if not there would the audience still understand the story. Once having done this we had cut it down to 2:40. This was still with spaces for the title of the film and where the map was going to be placed.
Alongside doing this, Tom though it would be good start to think about credits. He researched into all the necessary names that would appear on our credits so that when it came to the time of doing our credits we had a list of titles that we need to use. I thought this was useful as when it came to the time when we needed to do our credits we would be very efficient and prepared.
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Week 7 20th-24th February
Editing 4
Split Screen
Last week we had hit a slight dead end to new ideas of how to edit our sequence as we had done all the continuity shots. In this week we saw an opening sequence from a foreign french film called Meserine. All of our group were really inspired by this opening as it was simple but yet very effective.
As we had gotten very inspired by this sequence we decided to use the same concept for our opening sequence and put our own spin on it. This was convenient for us as a majority of our sequence was of our main character walking through London which the audience would start to find boring and loose interest in.
We were able to corporate the same effect of shots as we had taken multiple shots of the same action. We came in handy as it was vital for us to achieve the same look as Mesrine. Although we did have more than one shot type for the same action, if we had decided to use the Mesrine style of opening our sequence initially we would have been able to achieve the style better by possibly using more than one camera at the same time when shooting.
Having now officially determined to use this style for opening our sequence. We had got taught how to exactly do the method of split screening, which is the style of the Mesrine. This process was easier than it looked. We had done the split screen on Final Cut so we didn't need to transfer shots we just worked with the current shots on the timeline. I am glad to say that i thought that I thought I took a handle to doing the split screening well. As other members of my group had done and were doing the editing and felt more comfortable doing that instead.
Split Screen
Last week we had hit a slight dead end to new ideas of how to edit our sequence as we had done all the continuity shots. In this week we saw an opening sequence from a foreign french film called Meserine. All of our group were really inspired by this opening as it was simple but yet very effective.
As we had gotten very inspired by this sequence we decided to use the same concept for our opening sequence and put our own spin on it. This was convenient for us as a majority of our sequence was of our main character walking through London which the audience would start to find boring and loose interest in.
We were able to corporate the same effect of shots as we had taken multiple shots of the same action. We came in handy as it was vital for us to achieve the same look as Mesrine. Although we did have more than one shot type for the same action, if we had decided to use the Mesrine style of opening our sequence initially we would have been able to achieve the style better by possibly using more than one camera at the same time when shooting.
Having now officially determined to use this style for opening our sequence. We had got taught how to exactly do the method of split screening, which is the style of the Mesrine. This process was easier than it looked. We had done the split screen on Final Cut so we didn't need to transfer shots we just worked with the current shots on the timeline. I am glad to say that i thought that I thought I took a handle to doing the split screening well. As other members of my group had done and were doing the editing and felt more comfortable doing that instead.
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Week 6 February 6th-10th
Editing 3
We have now got all of our shots planned in the right place on the timeline, it was now time to start doing the proper editing.
As we didn't really know where to start our editing as we had so many thought the logical thing that we decided to do was to start at the beginning of the sequence.
We had began with doing the continuity shot first along the sequence. Very early into the editing we hit a problem as we had realised one of the good continuity shot that we had of our character crossing a road had an implication to it. We had realised that in one shot there was a car and in the next when the tramp is crossing the car turns into a bicycle. We had spent a while trying to figure out what we could do to over come this and got teachers opinions. One of the alternatives was that we could have a blackout,with a credit or title name, in the exact moment when the car turn into a bike.
Once we had thought of all the alternatives to this situation we decided to move on to another part of the sequence as we were spending a lot of time on one part when there was still a lot more to still edit. We were going to come back to that problem with a fresh mind and new solution.
As we had shown our teacher what we had done so far, we came across a smaller problem as one of the extras in the sequence looked straight at the camera and we were unable to use that shot. We needed to look at the other alternative shots which we were going to now use.
By the end of the week we had began to get frustrated as we had hit a dead end to where to continue with the editing so we had thought of only editing certain bits of the sequence that we wanted to instead of doing it in a particular order.
HALF TERM
When we get back...
We have now got all of our shots planned in the right place on the timeline, it was now time to start doing the proper editing.
As we didn't really know where to start our editing as we had so many thought the logical thing that we decided to do was to start at the beginning of the sequence.
We had began with doing the continuity shot first along the sequence. Very early into the editing we hit a problem as we had realised one of the good continuity shot that we had of our character crossing a road had an implication to it. We had realised that in one shot there was a car and in the next when the tramp is crossing the car turns into a bicycle. We had spent a while trying to figure out what we could do to over come this and got teachers opinions. One of the alternatives was that we could have a blackout,with a credit or title name, in the exact moment when the car turn into a bike.
Once we had thought of all the alternatives to this situation we decided to move on to another part of the sequence as we were spending a lot of time on one part when there was still a lot more to still edit. We were going to come back to that problem with a fresh mind and new solution.
As we had shown our teacher what we had done so far, we came across a smaller problem as one of the extras in the sequence looked straight at the camera and we were unable to use that shot. We needed to look at the other alternative shots which we were going to now use.
By the end of the week we had began to get frustrated as we had hit a dead end to where to continue with the editing so we had thought of only editing certain bits of the sequence that we wanted to instead of doing it in a particular order.
HALF TERM
When we get back...
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Week 4 January 23rd-27th
Editing 1
This was our first week back once having filmed our sequence.
In this week we had uploaded our footage which was just over an hour long, as we had shot multiple versions of each shot.
When uploading our footage we had a few problems as our group was unaware of the fact that the computer we upload our fottage on was the computer that we needed to so everything on such as editing, sound ect. As a result of this we ended up with uploading our footage twice on a different computer that we were able to have easier access to.
Once having our footage on the computer we briefly looked through all of it to refresh our
minds of everything we had shot and to cut out all of the unnessersary fottage that was previously on the tape.We then began to start cutting everything down into each of their shots. This enabled us to move shots around easily.
This was our first week back once having filmed our sequence.
In this week we had uploaded our footage which was just over an hour long, as we had shot multiple versions of each shot.
When uploading our footage we had a few problems as our group was unaware of the fact that the computer we upload our fottage on was the computer that we needed to so everything on such as editing, sound ect. As a result of this we ended up with uploading our footage twice on a different computer that we were able to have easier access to.
Once having our footage on the computer we briefly looked through all of it to refresh our
minds of everything we had shot and to cut out all of the unnessersary fottage that was previously on the tape.We then began to start cutting everything down into each of their shots. This enabled us to move shots around easily.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
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