The Ending.

This is our final cut of our thriller film, The Ending.

Adding titles

In the group, I took on the role of completing the title sequence, I had to decide whereabouts the titles would go in each scene and what effects I think would look best over them. I used the programme final cut, to place in the correct places. At first I had to experiment on the programme so I could get used to using it, but then I started to add the real titles and effects. I thought it was quite tricky at times and if i could do it again i would make sure to take more time and choose different effects.. one of my favourite effects was the bad film, as it made the shots look more like a thriller. I chose to use this all the way through.

Storyboard for our title sequence

In our group we had to create a rough design of our storyboard for our thriller title sequence, we added some more scenes when we were filming as we came up with more ideas..

Timeline

For the final week of finishing our thrillers and blogs we had to make a timeline each in our groups to decide how many hours we were going to spend working on our thrillers before the final deadline.

This is my timeline...

Title Sequence-group meeting

Today, my group re-shot the title sequence making sure that we had all the right equipment and props to make it link in with our film, we used a tray, water, photos, camera, camera bag, police documents, newspaper articles and line&pegs to show that we were developing the photos from the stalker.

We then uploaded the footage to final cut and edited it until it fitted in with our thriller. I then started to add the titles before we ran out of time, so I will finish them in tomorrows lesson. 

Some of the photos we used:

Titles

When our group decided what person would be completing what task, I decided to choose titles as it was new to me and I would learn something new a long the way. I had to go through a tutorial of how to use the programme, After Effects and experiment with it so I knew everything I needed to do in order to get effective titles. I also looked through dafont.com to look for effective fonts for our titles that would link in with our theme of death& photography.
I also looked for possible title animations,
- Flash
-Emerge
-Word flash
These were the only animations that could possibly link in with a camera.

What do we need to do?

In last weeks lesson, we had to have a group meeting and decide what tasks need to be done in order to meet the deadline. We had to make sure we knew what tasks each person was responsible for and when they were going to be done by.

We decided:
What:
Sound/foley  - Georgina - Weekend, 28th February
Titles - Andrea - Wednesday 30th Feb
Re-shoot - Group - During school on Tuesday 28th feb
Final Edit - Danica - Wednesday/ Thursday 29th Feb&1st March

Terminology

Sound motif:
Introduces the character with sound and tells us something about that character.

Motivated cut:
Character is doing something that we have to follow.

Prominance:
Time on screen, who we are following in the story.

Diegetic:
A physical sound - a sound you can see.
e.g radio in a car - turning it up&down.

Non-diegetic
Sound you can't see
e.g Soundtrack

Roles

These are the roles we gave each other within the group:

Director: Georgina Ladley
Camera - Andrea Nicholls, Georgina Ladley, Danica Ebers
Actors - Georgina Ladley, Andrea Nicholls, Danica Ebers
Editing - Danica Ebers
Sub- Editing - Georgina Ladley&Andrea Nicholls
Foley - Andrea & Danica

Effects - Georgina 

Brainstorm- Title sequence

In our group, while Danica was uploading the footage, me and Georgina thought up of a number of ways on how our titles could appear in our opening sequence. We need it to look interesting as it is an important part of the film and will help us achieve our marks.

Props - Editing police documents

In our group, we decided that we would have a job each to save us time. Me and Georgina decided that we would find some police documents/ criminal records from the internet and edit them myself so that they are not copied straight from google.
I chose a document from the internet and placed into Photoshop.  i then experimented with the tools and found a blur tool which would allow me to cross out any unwanted names and dates. It also made the document look quite old which is a good thing. I then used the pencil tool to cross out some random sections , that made it look like a police investigator had done it. I also used a red pencil to circle any names that i had added to make it look more effective.

Film Producer

Today we had a film producer come and look at our thrillers and give us advice on how we could improve them to get the best grades available. Kwame, asked us what challenges we found throughout our filming and what we think we could improve on ourselves if we are re-shooting. He also told us what challenges he found when shooting his films. As my group didnt have our footage with us today, we looked at some of the other groups' to see what kind of films they have been shooting and how he helped them with theirs. He also taught us how to use colour on Final Cut, so we can make the films look more expensive and movie like. I think he is very inspiring and I hope to put all the new ideas into our re-shoot.

Group Meeting

Today in lesson we had a group meeting and looked at the footage of our thriller film so far. We decided that there were some effective shots but not enough of them so we are going to re shoot our film this week or next week and try to make it look more like a thriller and less like a horror. We wrote out a new shot list, that included some of the angles we were going to use and what actors& props would be in the scene.
The title of our film has stayed the same as well as the plot. We also decided what our title sequence was going to look like.
We also decided a new location as the location we were going to use in the first place didn't reply to our letter so we had to improvise. This didn't turn out as we had hoped so we decided on a new location.