Editing sound

Editing rough cut feedback

After Rebecca looked at our blog she gave us some feedback.

• She told us to tighten up our clips, getting rid of parts that are not needed. 
• The shot with Solomon coming outside of the bridge needs to be longer.
• Make the clip of the bench plaque shorter.
• Move our tunnel short to a more suitable place.
• With the spinning shot of Solomon on the bench, we have to make jumo cuts and change the direction so it reverses.

Overall our rough cut doesn't have sound yet and at the beginning we still need to include our production company logo's. 

research sound

Editing Rough Cut

edit 2

Edit 2 on Prezi

Edit 1

Edit 1 on Prezi

second day of filming

Solomon had to cross over the bridge to get to the other side so we can get the shots of him on the stairs.

We got the shot of him on the stairs. we thought it looked really good because you can see the rush of the water behind him giving it a freaky feeling. Also he's quite close to the water.

Luckily the weather was nice so we got to film.

Filming the 'In memory of Elizabeth Kirby' footage. it was annoying because  the footage seemed bent even thought our tripod was fine.

This is the shot going around Solomon. We had to do it by hand and it was difficult because none of us had steady hands.

first day filming

For our first day of filming we went to the canal. We played around with the camera and got use to filming with it. we got a few good shots that will be used in our final edit of our opening to our film.

Teacher Feedback

Hello group 12
Your blog is looking good - I like the photos and vlog from the filming session.  Adding captions to the photos will make it look even better.

Keep up the great work.

evidence first day filming

Recording of memorial for film opening

One of our recording destinations

View of recording destination

Canal

Recording of bridge and canal

Recording of bridge and canal

Recording of bridge and canal

What the shot of bridge and canal looks like

taking turns in recording the shot

First day filming flip cam

First day of filming went well. In our angel (canal) location.

Pitch: Evidence

We were first to show our pitch to the class.

Going through the brief about what our film is about.

Going through everything including our genre and inspiration.

'Props and costumes'

Going through our storyboard. We got told we had to make the images more clearer   for example our close up shots drawing didn't really look like close ups.

Planning: Audience detail

Our target audience for our movie are 25-40 year old mainly males. they would have to be educated because our film will need concentration throughout. The film also gives out little bits of information slowly which could be hard to understand. They will be interested in psychological thrillers as well.

              Our secondary audience would be young adults 16-24 (which is the age range that go cinema often). This would be suitable to them because our film certificate is a 15. The movie could still interest young adults because it interests our group who are aged 16 and 17.

Planning: Institutional details

Viral Release

Cinematic Release

Dvd being Released

Being Released On Vimeo

Planning: skills audit to date

•We have learnt how to use the camera’s and how to attach and detach it from the tri-pod. We also learnt hw to put in the memory cards.

•We learnt many different shots such as over the shoulder shot, extreme close up.

•We learnt how to edit clips on final cut pro, such as cutting a scene, video transitions, slide transitions. How to add effects like slowing or speeding up a scene. We learnt how to add sepia to a scene.

•We learnt how to import and export our edits.

• we learnt how to use soundtrack pro and how to add different sounds. Plus how to then put it back onto final cut pro.

•From blogging we learnt how to make an animatic.

Planning: Risk Assessment

We will be filming some shots next to a canal so we would need to be carful and not go close to the edge

Set up the camera and tripod correctly to ensure that nothing will fall and also remember the camera fixes on by sliding from the back to the front of the tripod

Don’t leave the equipment alone when where filming outside

Don't travel with the equipment by yourself (safety in numbers)

Avoid filming in the rain. If this is necessary then take a camera umbrella from college




DO NOT change the menu settings on the camera otherwise the files may not be compatible with final cut pro on the macs and this means you will have to re-film

Planning: Production schedule

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Planning: preliminary ideas of sound

For our opening we plan to use a low beat track, drum instruments. 

We also plan to use eerie  sound effects from soundtrack pro because we have a discrete opening therefore we only need a singular sound track.

planning: mis en scene

•Stuffed creepy looking doll

•Rosemary beads

•Scrap book

•Old chair

•Son: Vest or T-shirt (white and stained), ripped chinos, old shoes

planning: storyboard

plannning: genre and subgenre

The subgenre we have chosen is psychological thriller.

We have been inspired by the openings and / or storylines of Memento, Seven, Number 23, Law Abiding Citizen.

Planning: title of movie

We have chosen this as our title because it relates to the type of phycological thriller opening we are doing. As you can see delirious means 'mentally imbalanced' this adjective perfectly describes the father in this opening.

Final Idea for our Film and the Opening

Our film is about a man who was a serial killer and always hung his victims. To hint at this he leaves behind a creepy looking stuffed doll hanging off of something by rosemary beads.  The film is all about his life and the killing events. The son was put into foster care when his mother was murdered and he didn’t know who his dad was. The murder of his mother is what sent his father crazy. In the end the son figures out his fathers identity and soon after the father gets caught. His son is so affected by the past years that he becomes mental and carries on his fathers ways.

The title sequence will hint what happens at the end of the film. It will be a discrete title sequence will elements of a narrative. We will see the son sitting in a remote place on a chair. We will also see the doll and the rosemary beads and someone that has been hung. We will also include the fathers scrapbook he keeps of all the killings and notes he has made. The title sequence will use quite a lot of special effects and video transitions.

Planned destinations

Brick Lane (photos to come)










Few Randoms to be confirmed. (school rooms etc.)

Film Location Ideas

Foley Sounds and Using Soundtrack

When making Arlington Road and our Prelim, aswell as recording our own foley sounds we also took sounds from soundtrack. 


Further down our blog you can see photos and short clips of us recording our Foley sounds amongst our work for Arlington Road. Soundtrack is full thousands of pre recorded sounds that you can re-edit and use when making films. In our Prelim we added the sound of a door opening as our recording of it wasn't very good. 

Prelim Video Feedback and Evaluation

Overall as a group we think our prelim went really well. We feel that the match cuts went together good. The thing we think that we could have improved on would be some of the lighting and sounds. We wanted to add a soundtrack but struggled to find something appropriate. Below is a screenshot of some feedback for our prelim that we received as Hafiza posted it on facebook.

Our First Idea For An Opening

Our first idea is to have a discrete title opening.

The film was going to have a flashback of the sons memory of his dad dying.
The scenes would be blended in with each other.

The destination is empty and simple. This shows the mise en scene of something secret happening.
The dad was going to be a spy and his son would want revenge on the killers of his father.

This would then lead onto the son going into the spy agency his dad worked for.