Final Task: Editing

Last week Manny edited the footage and added the titles because i was off so i couldnt help with the editing. We have now edited the beginning of the opening sequence i think we will have a good rough cut by the end of this week which is the deadline for the first draft to be done. The Titles which are flickering lightening bolts look quite attractive and they draw in the audiences attention. We have decided to keep the footage the way it is and not try to make it darker because on the computer it dosen't look as if its night time and this was a problem for us as we still want the audience to sense the mysteriousness of the sequence. We may feel that we need to shoot some of this footage again when it is darker if it dosent look right we will decide if it is a suitable lighting when we watch the full rough cut of the opening sequence. We have looked through our footage to check for any continuity errors and we have noticed that in one of the shots the pills container is lying down on the kitchen bench but when the camera cuts to the next shot the pills container is upright on the bench and so we have cut one of the shots out tto eliminate this error. We also editing the end of the sequence to make it look blurry and this is creating the effect that the girl is very dizzy.  We are also going to add in the sound effects as well.

Final Task: progress

Today we are continuing with the editing, we are trying to make sure that it is done in time for the deadline. We have started putting the titles in and add in effects to fit the genre of the film. We have decided add an electricity effect which looks ok. We have also decided to call the movie "Linked". We have used appropriate typography that fits the genre of the film. But we encountered some problems as when the title is inserted the background is completely grey when we wanted it to show the shot. So we are trying to sort this out.

Final Task: Editing progress

Manny and me have been editing the footage for a few days now and are still trying to adjust the colour and the brightness of the clip. We have also listened to how it sounds and we like the sound of the girl crying but have also decided that the part where she is walking up to the house is quite long so we may add some music or sound effects in. This will also be the part of the sequence when the titles will come up. We are going to upload some of our footage so that other people can give advice on how to improve it.

Final Task: Editing

The deadline for all the shooting to be done has now passed and we have everything shot and now have to start editing and create a rough cut by the end of term. We have already started editing as we finished filming all our footage before the deadline. Today we have decided to render the footage because it looks really jumpy and not smooth so we hope that this will improve how smooth it will look before we start edidting some of the footage. Manny and me decided that we wanted to shoot it from the girls perspective and therefore we don't mind if the camera is slightly shaky. We also need to make the titles look like they are flickering to add to the mystery of the clip. We have been given some ideas such as lightening coming across the screen but we are unsure about the effect this will give. We have now made the clip look darker so that it looks eerie which is what we wanted it to look like. We have yet to add in the sound effects which will add suspense and tension to the sequence we are going to add in sound effects like an ambulance siren at the end to give the audinde a sense of panic and it indicates that an emergency as happened. We also want ot add a heartbeat sound effect when the girl is falling to show that it is serious.

Final Task: Distribution Logo

At first we made a basic design of the logo we did it first on microsoft publisher bet then we got told that it would look more preoffessional if we did it on adobe photoshop. We decided on calling the distributor Arrow up. This is our basic design for the logo:

Based on this design the teacher has put together an animated version of the clip which looks much better than the one made in flash. This is the animated version of it :

http://vimeo.com/19028321

Final Task: Progress

We have now shot all of our footage that we need for our opening sequence as we shot the rest of the footage last week. We are now starting to produce a rough cut of the final sequence. We are trying to make some of the footage darker so that it appears more mysterious and creates more tension as in our research we learnt that this is an effective component of an opening sequence and we are intending to keep the target audience in suspense and we think that the darkness will produce this effect. Although the footage we shot was in the day time and looks quite bright we have been told that we can edit the footage to make it look as if it was shot at night. The second time the footage was shot the props we used were better and looked more realistic than the ones we used in the first shoot. We are going to go and take photos of the location and upload them to give an idea of the location where we shot.

Final Task:Possible Titles for our Film

We have been thinking of Titles that would be suitable for our movie we have been thinking about this for a while and have come up with a few ideas for the title which are : Suspision or Linked. We have yet to decide which of these two ideas to use or if we should think of another idea. I came up with the idea of calling it suspicion as the films plot is finding out the girls motive for killing herself. The incident of the girl commiting suicide is very unexpected and mysterious. I thought this was a good title as it links in with the plot of the film. Manny also came with a good idea of calling the film linked. We have decided we will go with the Title that best suits the genre of the film after we have finished filming and viewing of our final footage that will be used for the opening sequence.