Tuesday 21 April 2015
Monday 20 April 2015
Editing session
In todays editing session me and Alex began to edit the the audio with the footage, I think we found it easier than it should of been, this is because creatively we are very similar and both of us have the same/similar ideas, we both work together to develop each others ideas. We both have experience using premiere pro, so this made the task easier. However sometimes we did get stuck on how to do certain things, therefore we had to ask for help, or do our own research to find how do do these tasks. Overall I think it was very successful because of how well we work together.
(credit to Jordan)
Due to not being great at using programmes such as premiere pro, in this particular area I have to take a back seat and watch how Alex and Jordan work it for future references where I can them apply my skills I have learn. however for now I don't know enough about the programme to put too much of an input in however I do give my opinions and advice to how the shot could go and so on.
(Credits to Georgie)
This is our first draft of our thriller "The Decoy". A lot of small things our needed to be changed, we need to change the audio because of copyright issues, which the Muse song breaches, therefore we need to find some royalty free music to use for our title sequence.
Also we need to add in the titles, and roles of each of us. This will be very simple, I know, what names I want to put, and where I want to put them due to the storyboard, also we have already researched the typography, so we our well prepared for this task.
We also need to edit the title sequence, the colour needs to be changed to make it darker, this is too keep more relevant to our opening, also it will continue the thrilling factor, and it refers back to our espionage sub-genre, I know this because of my research.
video needs to be added
(credit to Jordan)
Responding to teacher feedback
After I had put in all of this audio and our rough cut was finished. I asked Mr Michie to watch our video and give some feedback to us on what we could improve. he suggested that we should not have three soundtracks used in a two minute opening and that we should get rid of the Muse soundtrack because it is copyrighted. He also suggested that we should use the running sequence music as the title sequence music to keep that familiarity within the two minute opening. Mr Michie did say however that he did like the theme of our idea and how it played out and said that the editing of our continuity within the sequence was good. He also said that we need a bit more footage at this point because we have not reached the full two minute length of the opening sequence as it only reaches to about one minute and thirty seconds.
To respond to this we will come in the next day to film more footage that we will be able to use to reach the full two minutes. Furthermore, we will also cut the audio of Muse out and put the running sequence music for the title sequence as we also believe this will make for a more effective two minute opening. Overall, I think we are finally getting to the stage where we will almost be finished.
(Credit to Alex)
It was helpful for Alex to get advice of Mr Michie due to him knowing what is good and what has been done many times before and so on. As well as this, I do agree with Mr Michie when he said that having three soundtracks in such a short clip would be a bit much because it messes with the audiences predictions in a strange way.
(Credits to Georgie)
After I had put in all of this audio and our rough cut was finished. I asked Mr Michie to watch our video and give some feedback to us on what we could improve. he suggested that we should not have three soundtracks used in a two minute opening and that we should get rid of the Muse soundtrack because it is copyrighted. He also suggested that we should use the running sequence music as the title sequence music to keep that familiarity within the two minute opening. Mr Michie did say however that he did like the theme of our idea and how it played out and said that the editing of our continuity within the sequence was good. He also said that we need a bit more footage at this point because we have not reached the full two minute length of the opening sequence as it only reaches to about one minute and thirty seconds.
To respond to this we will come in the next day to film more footage that we will be able to use to reach the full two minutes. Furthermore, we will also cut the audio of Muse out and put the running sequence music for the title sequence as we also believe this will make for a more effective two minute opening. Overall, I think we are finally getting to the stage where we will almost be finished.
(Credit to Alex)
It was helpful for Alex to get advice of Mr Michie due to him knowing what is good and what has been done many times before and so on. As well as this, I do agree with Mr Michie when he said that having three soundtracks in such a short clip would be a bit much because it messes with the audiences predictions in a strange way.
(Credits to Georgie)
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/76HQV9X
This is the survey Georgie created in order to get feedback from viewer to see what they liked about The Decoy and what they think we should improve on. these questions will help us when coming to writing the evaluation, as it will determine whether or not we have successfully achieve what we wanted for The Decoy short opening clip.
(Credits to Georgie)
This is the survey Georgie created in order to get feedback from viewer to see what they liked about The Decoy and what they think we should improve on. these questions will help us when coming to writing the evaluation, as it will determine whether or not we have successfully achieve what we wanted for The Decoy short opening clip.
(Credits to Georgie)
Monday 13 April 2015
Evaluation Questions(Notes)
• In what Ways Does Your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product Represent Particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who Would Be the audience for your media product?
• How did you Attract / address your audience?
• What have you Learnt about technologies from the process of Constructing this product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you-have Learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
• In what Ways Does Your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product Represent Particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who Would Be the audience for your media product?
• How did you Attract / address your audience?
• What have you Learnt about technologies from the process of Constructing this product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you-have Learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Editing sessions
Third editing session
Today I started the third editing session of our final video cut. I mostly spent my time editing the audio for the video as this was incomplete and needed working on. I decided to change the music for the running sequence because I felt that it just did not fit the theme of espionage and also did not fit with how the sequence played out. It was originally the instrumental for ghetto Kyoto which Jordan decided to choose but then we both agreed that this was not going to work. I then spent my time looking at what would fit with what we wanted and then I stumbled across the Kendrick Lamar song Backseat Freestyle (instrumental). This was the perfect sound to use for our video because it had that effect of attracting the audience to watch the film while also having a suspenseful and thrilling side to it.
After I found this I put it into our video and cut it down so that it fit just with the running sequence and nothing else within the video. I made sure that the opening of the track was repeated until the title popped up and then after this it would cut to the main instrumental with a heavy drum beat to it. After this I realised that we needed to have a background track to the dialogue scene. This is because it would add to the atmosphere of the dialogue and gives an indication that this is a very tense moment for the protagonist. It also establishes that this is a very shady place and the person that the protagonist is talking to is very mysterious. The track that I used was Crush by El Huervo. Along with these soundtracks the Muse music will also be added to the title sequence at the end. Overall this music is vital to the project as it really adds to the detail and atmosphere of the opening sequence.
After I found this I put it into our video and cut it down so that it fit just with the running sequence and nothing else within the video. I made sure that the opening of the track was repeated until the title popped up and then after this it would cut to the main instrumental with a heavy drum beat to it. After this I realised that we needed to have a background track to the dialogue scene. This is because it would add to the atmosphere of the dialogue and gives an indication that this is a very tense moment for the protagonist. It also establishes that this is a very shady place and the person that the protagonist is talking to is very mysterious. The track that I used was Crush by El Huervo. Along with these soundtracks the Muse music will also be added to the title sequence at the end. Overall this music is vital to the project as it really adds to the detail and atmosphere of the opening sequence.
(credits to Alex)
2nd Day of Re-Shooting
On the second day of the re shoots, we shot the establishing shots and we re-done the dialogue scene.As of today we have finished all that needed to be improved on our project since there were many issues with some of the shots.
We re-shot the the dialogue scene because we needed to improve the continuity
(credit to Jordan)
Re-shooting
Today whilst on the re-shoots, our group went to the location, firstly we re done the shots of Alex running outside, these shots went very well, and we hopefully will not have to film this part again. We shot them again because the first one, the panning was not smooth enough, and this become more obvious when we started editing. Also we added in a shot, of Alex jumping over the fence, we done this to give our opening more of a thrilling factor. The shot also gives the audience a better understanding of what is going on, and the scenery, this also went very well, its adds more diversity to our opening two minutes.
We then went inside to film the dialogue, we got half way through the filming, and unfortunately our camera ran out, so we could no longer continue, from this we learnt that we have to put more preparation before filming, and that planning is key .
(credit to Jordan)
Today's filming
For today filming we had to reshoot certain shots for our short film due to small errors such as Alex's hand is different in one shot when it is suppose to be in the same position as the scene before, as well as this the scenes when he was running were too slow so we had to reshoot them so he ran faster, not only that Alex had to jump higher, which looked much better once we had reshooted it all. However the camera ran out of battery as we were doing the last scene so we will have to continue filming tomorrow.
Filming today
Filming today
Today we were filming the last few scenes of when Benoit is giving Alex the bag that contains the bomb due to last time Alex's hands positioned differently to the previous shot. However today we struggled abit due to the lighting in the training room appearing too dark so we had to film in a different part of the room in order for the lighting to be effective.
(Credits to Georgie)
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