Monday 10 May 2010

Film Trailer evaluation

http://www.scribd.com/doc/31135147/Media-Evaluation-Presentation

Above is the link to the scribd document of the evealuation of my groups film opening. In order for this evaluation to be easier on us, we decided to do a collective evaluation with each of us making a seperate contribution. The parts I contributed to the presentation were the How did you did you attract/address audiences and the What have I learn't slides.

Monday 22 March 2010

Final Cut of Film Opening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVjgrHoo0WQ

Above is the link to the final cut of my groups film opening. It is an improvement and an upgrade from our groups first attempt, because in this cut we have input all of the advice that our teacher gave us in regards to how it could be better.

Wednesday 17 March 2010

The First cut of our Film opening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu_ZqGgbckw



Above is the first draft of our groups film opening including all the editing that we have put in. Becuase this is only our first draft we have the time to add or change certain aspects of it in order to improve it. After discussing it with our teacher he gave us some advice on the things that could be improved such as.....

The length in time of the whole opening
Adding music
Adding a logo
shortening some of our scenes

We intend on inputing all of this advice into our film opening as it will improve and could increase our final grade for the whole project.

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Filming of the Last Scene

During our last filming session we filmed the scene where two of the characters are falling asleep while preparing for the documentary filming. First, we started by looking for an area to film in. At first we thought the common room would be a good area to film in but when eventually got there, we found that there were people sitting in there already and we felt this would be a distraction to our filming process, so we found an empty classroom and decided to film in there. In this scene we would see the two characters doing research work for the filming of their documentary, which would then lead to a dream sequence where one of the characters has a nighmare about being chased by a murdurer while the group are filming. This scene was quite easy to film but we did have to time in seconds how long it should take for the character to slowly fall asleep in order for the scene to look more effective and convinving. After this we decided to film the part where the character wakes himself up from the dream. Again this was quite an easy scene to film but like the last scene it had to be timed so it looked more realistic and effective. But in the end it came out very well.

Re-Filming corridor scene

Since my last blog post, we decided to re-film the scene of the characters running through the corridors from murderer. We decided to do this because we had made the decision to change one of the roles of the characters so they had to be out of this scene. Therefore, we had to re-record this scene without one of the characters in it so that our opening would make more sense to the audience. This scene was fairly easy to film because we had done it before and knew what we would want from it. At first we did a few practices of the scene, so that the characters would know what had to be done. Then we decided to record, which took a few takes at first but came out good in the end. Overall the scene came out very well, and appeared to be effective in its purpose.