4th January 2011
Today we studied our tape and decided which clips were the best ones to use, and which ones were not so good.We eliminated the bad shots as some footage were either of the same thing or an error was made whilst filming. For example, the camera jerked whilst zooming in, making the shot look unprofessional.
6th January 2011
During this lesson, we completed choosing the footage for our film. When we had done this, we changed the order of the sequence so it ran in the correct storyboard order. There was an issue however and we realized we had made a mistake with the software and a few of our slips had been deleted, so we had to take the time to re find them in the sequence.
7th January 2011
In todays lesson, we slowed down the end footage to lead into the credits and added our desired music to the clip, cutting a section of the music we found most appropriate and adding that to it. We also changed the lighting on some of the clips to make them darker and tried to work out issues with jumping shots.
10th January 2011
Today we decided to make the title of the film and add it to the sequence by using adobe after effects. We added a ‘shatterize’ effect, also known as the pixel polly plugin to the title, and also a metallic background, so the texture seemed more realisticAt first, the text was too large to fully fit onto the screen of the thriller, so we edited it to make the font size smaller.
11th January 2011
During this lesson, we decided to create the credits of the film on adobe after effects by using an effect which would make the names of each member of our group fly in letter by letter which we found appropriate. These were added to the film as a test and placed at the end of the sequence before the title of the film, where they fit well.
14th January 2011
During this lesson, we had to do some more work on credits. We had to rasterize the clips before adding them, so we did that with both the credits and the title of the film. This was because when we tried to get the clips, it told us that the media was offline and we realized the clips needed to be rasterized before they could be added to the sequence.
17th January 2011
In this lesson, we decided that the best option was to leave the credits and focus more on the actual editing. One key issue was lighting, as the different shots were shot at different times in the day so sometimes, the lighting was different. Whilst we were doing this correction, we noticed that the length of the Thriller was longer than we'd expected. This was an issue we had to take on board and fix, and we had to deleted several shots in order to keep it at the correct length.
18th January 2011
We got feedback from our tutor on the filmand once again began to work on continuity and lighting errors. We had to make sure that the film still made sense and paying careful attention that it looked realistic. For example, our actor, Max Knowles, is crossing off a picture in one shot then the next showed him without a pen. This would make the audience confused; so we edited it so it wasn't visually confusing.
20th January 2011
We finished off the editing; once we were happy with the sequence. We watched it thoroughly and noticed that we needed to retouch our credits as we originally wanted the credits to play over the footage but the effect that we used wouldn't let us have a transparent background, so when we'd put it on top of the footage, it had a black box around the text; so we'd left the credits until the end of the sequence. The length of the Thriller opening was already an issue. This lead us to change the effect of the credits; choosing one that would let us use a transparent background. We decided to use title crawl and at first we had difficulty getting the text to crawl across on the left side of the screen. We soon resolved this problem by making the font size smaller. Our final decision was to keep the title of the Thriller, Target, at the end of the sequence.
Today we studied our tape and decided which clips were the best ones to use, and which ones were not so good.We eliminated the bad shots as some footage were either of the same thing or an error was made whilst filming. For example, the camera jerked whilst zooming in, making the shot look unprofessional.
6th January 2011
During this lesson, we completed choosing the footage for our film. When we had done this, we changed the order of the sequence so it ran in the correct storyboard order. There was an issue however and we realized we had made a mistake with the software and a few of our slips had been deleted, so we had to take the time to re find them in the sequence.
7th January 2011
In todays lesson, we slowed down the end footage to lead into the credits and added our desired music to the clip, cutting a section of the music we found most appropriate and adding that to it. We also changed the lighting on some of the clips to make them darker and tried to work out issues with jumping shots.
10th January 2011
Today we decided to make the title of the film and add it to the sequence by using adobe after effects. We added a ‘shatterize’ effect, also known as the pixel polly plugin to the title, and also a metallic background, so the texture seemed more realisticAt first, the text was too large to fully fit onto the screen of the thriller, so we edited it to make the font size smaller.
11th January 2011
During this lesson, we decided to create the credits of the film on adobe after effects by using an effect which would make the names of each member of our group fly in letter by letter which we found appropriate. These were added to the film as a test and placed at the end of the sequence before the title of the film, where they fit well.
14th January 2011
During this lesson, we had to do some more work on credits. We had to rasterize the clips before adding them, so we did that with both the credits and the title of the film. This was because when we tried to get the clips, it told us that the media was offline and we realized the clips needed to be rasterized before they could be added to the sequence.
17th January 2011
In this lesson, we decided that the best option was to leave the credits and focus more on the actual editing. One key issue was lighting, as the different shots were shot at different times in the day so sometimes, the lighting was different. Whilst we were doing this correction, we noticed that the length of the Thriller was longer than we'd expected. This was an issue we had to take on board and fix, and we had to deleted several shots in order to keep it at the correct length.
18th January 2011
We got feedback from our tutor on the filmand once again began to work on continuity and lighting errors. We had to make sure that the film still made sense and paying careful attention that it looked realistic. For example, our actor, Max Knowles, is crossing off a picture in one shot then the next showed him without a pen. This would make the audience confused; so we edited it so it wasn't visually confusing.
20th January 2011
We finished off the editing; once we were happy with the sequence. We watched it thoroughly and noticed that we needed to retouch our credits as we originally wanted the credits to play over the footage but the effect that we used wouldn't let us have a transparent background, so when we'd put it on top of the footage, it had a black box around the text; so we'd left the credits until the end of the sequence. The length of the Thriller opening was already an issue. This lead us to change the effect of the credits; choosing one that would let us use a transparent background. We decided to use title crawl and at first we had difficulty getting the text to crawl across on the left side of the screen. We soon resolved this problem by making the font size smaller. Our final decision was to keep the title of the Thriller, Target, at the end of the sequence.
24th January 2011
We double checked the film to make sure everything still looked okay, and then we exported our film and placed the final product up onto youtube along with a questionnaire that our target audience could fill out
Questionaire
Result Graphs
The Majority of people found the opening to our thriller to be quite entertaining, with the average ranging at a rating of 4 out of 5.
Everyone who we asked thought that the music was very effective for the tone of our project and that it added suspence to the opening.
The majority of people thought that our thriller ranged at a 3-4 in the suspense category, and that it worked well in creating tension.
The Majority of people we asked all thought that that the sequence flowed well together, whereas some thought it didn't and that it neeed to be worked on.
The Majority of people stated that our thriller had successful continuty, but 6 people noted that it needed to be worked on.
19 people thought that the editing for the thriller was suitable for the film, this was with the credits and the shatterizing effect also.
The majority of people believed that the narrative in the film was clear and well explained.
This result was a mix of opinions, and some people thought that compared to other, more professional films, we did quite a good job.
The majority of people thought the camera work earned a rating of 3-4 on the scale, indicating that it could use some work, but was still quite good.
The majority of people believed that the surrounding area suited the film, and many commented on the fact that they liked our use of night time in the surroundings.
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