Wednesday 31 March 2010
Evaluation
What kind of media institution might distribute your media project and why?
After researching Psycho (1960) and Fridaay the 13th (1980), which are both thriller movies that we have previously used for planning and research, we found that they had both been distributed by Paramount Pictures in some way. (Psycho from 1960-1968, and Friday the 13th in North America). As our film is also a thriller with similar aspects from these two movies, such as the narrative and lighting, we feel that 'The Unknown' could also possibly be distributed by Paramount Pictures in terms of genre and narrative. As well as distributing Psycho and Friday the 1th, Paramount Pictures also distributed Double Jeopardy (1999)- another psychological thriller. The fact that Paramount Pictures has distributed so many thrillers from so many different eras,(60's, 80's and late 90's) shows that they are used to doing so. We felt that as our film would probably be released as an art-house or independant movie, we should research whether Working Title movies could distribute it. We found that State of Play (2009) was a Working Title movie which is also a thriller, however it was distributed by Universal Pictures making it more Americanized and commercial (hence the American actors). Therefore Working Title nay not be the best to distribute our film. We have therefore concluded that distributing a British, independant thriller may be a new or rare concept.
After researching Psycho (1960) and Fridaay the 13th (1980), which are both thriller movies that we have previously used for planning and research, we found that they had both been distributed by Paramount Pictures in some way. (Psycho from 1960-1968, and Friday the 13th in North America). As our film is also a thriller with similar aspects from these two movies, such as the narrative and lighting, we feel that 'The Unknown' could also possibly be distributed by Paramount Pictures in terms of genre and narrative. As well as distributing Psycho and Friday the 1th, Paramount Pictures also distributed Double Jeopardy (1999)- another psychological thriller. The fact that Paramount Pictures has distributed so many thrillers from so many different eras,(60's, 80's and late 90's) shows that they are used to doing so. We felt that as our film would probably be released as an art-house or independant movie, we should research whether Working Title movies could distribute it. We found that State of Play (2009) was a Working Title movie which is also a thriller, however it was distributed by Universal Pictures making it more Americanized and commercial (hence the American actors). Therefore Working Title nay not be the best to distribute our film. We have therefore concluded that distributing a British, independant thriller may be a new or rare concept.
Evaluation- Podcast
For our evaluation, we decided to do a podcast because we felt that this would be the most effective way to present our opinions about our film.
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Our Final Piece!
This is our final piece! After alot of hard work and effort we finally finished our film. Eventhough, it isnt like the way we exactly imagines but it is alot nearer to our expectation. But we also believe that we could of done much more better than this.
Monday 29 March 2010
Thursday 25 March 2010
Process of Evaluation
Today, again I (Gurleen) went in my free time to finish our evaluation. I converted our first film (which we re-filmed) into a quick time file so we can upload it to our blog and show how much of we changed as the people we showed didn't understand the narrative before as much as they do now. after a while Alia and Zaynah came and helped me out. Tonight Me and Alia will be making a power point for our evaluation to make it more visual and more interesting.
Our First Attempt.
This was our first film,we edited everything of this film and then showed it to our peers. After showing it to them, they gave us their feedback and most of them said that the narrative and lighting was the main points that didn't work out for them. So then we planned to changed our narrative and have better lighting at our location, so we decided to re-film our whole project. Looking at this piece and our final piece, you will see a huge difference as it makes much more sense and is clearer to watch.
This was our first film,we edited everything of this film and then showed it to our peers.Our final piece is a big improvement from this! After showing it to them, they gave us their feedback and most of them said that the flow of the lighting, as we could have made it look more intense. We researched into a few horror movies, and were inspired by their techniques such as their use of lighting and sound. We also changed our narrative, to create more narrative enigmas and make it more scary as we wanted to put the audience in a more vulnerable position by creating suspense.
We think we achieved this as a few of our scenes related to the horror films we had researched.
We tried to upload this film clip straight on to our blog, but due some technical problem we couldn't. So as a alternative, we uploaded the video on to YouTube and then added the link to our blog.
This was our first film,we edited everything of this film and then showed it to our peers.Our final piece is a big improvement from this! After showing it to them, they gave us their feedback and most of them said that the flow of the lighting, as we could have made it look more intense. We researched into a few horror movies, and were inspired by their techniques such as their use of lighting and sound. We also changed our narrative, to create more narrative enigmas and make it more scary as we wanted to put the audience in a more vulnerable position by creating suspense.
We think we achieved this as a few of our scenes related to the horror films we had researched.
We tried to upload this film clip straight on to our blog, but due some technical problem we couldn't. So as a alternative, we uploaded the video on to YouTube and then added the link to our blog.
Making Changes and Evaluation
On the 23rd and 24th March, we started changing parts of our film which our classmates had suggested we improve on. We have almost finished doing this and are now working on our evaluation!
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Film Feedback
On Monday the 22nd Macrh, as a class we all watched each other's work and made some feedback for each group on a sheet. We all gave each other marks for Camera work, Editing, Mise-en-scene and etc. Also, we gave our opinions as a group on how their films worked was and what they can improve. After watching everyone's work, we got our Evaluation feedback sheets from the other groups in our class.
some of the reviews were:
1. How successful is sequence in engaging the audience?
"The music adds an eerie atmosphere and builds up tension"
2.Is the sequence recognisable as a film from a specific genre? what genre is it?
"Yes, Thriller"
3. Outline one outstanding feature and one that might be improved
"Maybe lighting-it was quite dark in some places"
4. Is there anything that can be improved through further post-production?
"Make it a little shorter, titles slower"
5.Please add any other comments you consider useful to the production groups evaluation.
"we thought it was good-perhaps a little dark"
Moreover, we were given marks by groups on our skills, one of the groups gave us these marks:
Camera work-53/60
Selecting mise-en-scene-44/60
Editing post-production, use of titles (including sound e.g. sound bridges, titles)-54/60
Use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound (use it appropriate, does it add meaning?)-53/60
Producing a sequence which is reliable as the opening from a thriller-54/60
We were pleased to get these reviews back as we got some good criticisms and some constructive criticisms. With this we can change parts of our movie to make it better and also take note of the things we did well to include in our evaluation.
some of the reviews were:
1. How successful is sequence in engaging the audience?
"The music adds an eerie atmosphere and builds up tension"
2.Is the sequence recognisable as a film from a specific genre? what genre is it?
"Yes, Thriller"
3. Outline one outstanding feature and one that might be improved
"Maybe lighting-it was quite dark in some places"
4. Is there anything that can be improved through further post-production?
"Make it a little shorter, titles slower"
5.Please add any other comments you consider useful to the production groups evaluation.
"we thought it was good-perhaps a little dark"
Moreover, we were given marks by groups on our skills, one of the groups gave us these marks:
Camera work-53/60
Selecting mise-en-scene-44/60
Editing post-production, use of titles (including sound e.g. sound bridges, titles)-54/60
Use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound (use it appropriate, does it add meaning?)-53/60
Producing a sequence which is reliable as the opening from a thriller-54/60
We were pleased to get these reviews back as we got some good criticisms and some constructive criticisms. With this we can change parts of our movie to make it better and also take note of the things we did well to include in our evaluation.
Saturday 20 March 2010
Re-filmed Editing
Today Me, Zaynah and Alia spent over 4 hours finishing our film and editing it. We added music on to it and the title and the credits. Gemma couldn't be there due to other work reasons. One of the main skills we all learnt today was that how to add sound/music/audio from the Garage Band to iMovies. We also learnt that through Garage Band we can produce our own music or get sound effects from there and save it as a iTune file so then we can add it to our film.
Thursday 18 March 2010
Re-filmed Editing
Today, I (Gurleen) went in my free time to edit our re-filmed footage. Also, today I finished all of the editing but i will have to show it to my group so we can re-edit any parts which are not suitable for our film. Moreover, Alia and Zaynah went after school in their free time to add background music to our film.
Hopefully tommorrow we will finish adding the background music and our title for the movie.
Hopefully tommorrow we will finish adding the background music and our title for the movie.
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Re-filming Editing
From 16th March we loaded all the footage on to the Mac and started to edit again.
The scenes we uploaded were better in sense of lighting and the camera angles.
The scenes we uploaded were better in sense of lighting and the camera angles.
Friday 12 March 2010
Re-filmed Editing
Today we imported all of the footage that we have done so far on the Mac.
The Mac we used to import our footage, is not working at the moment as we have come in our free time to edit, we will have to delay our editing for now until monday.
The Mac we used to import our footage, is not working at the moment as we have come in our free time to edit, we will have to delay our editing for now until monday.
Wednesday 10 March 2010
Re-Filming Process
Today we all went back to our loaction and re-filmed our project, mainly for the reason of lighting and our narrative.
We were going to shoot our filming with a HD camera but due to the fact that the charger of the camera was unavailable we had to use normal camera.
So far we have filmed most of our footage and still have to about 5-4 shots to do, which will be done by monday.
Me (Gurleen), Alia and Zaynah changed the narrative and planned out all of our shots all over again. Gemma will be drawing our final story board and we all will be finalising our background music.
We were going to shoot our filming with a HD camera but due to the fact that the charger of the camera was unavailable we had to use normal camera.
So far we have filmed most of our footage and still have to about 5-4 shots to do, which will be done by monday.
Me (Gurleen), Alia and Zaynah changed the narrative and planned out all of our shots all over again. Gemma will be drawing our final story board and we all will be finalising our background music.
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Inspirational Videos :)
After finding that our edited footage wasn't scary enough for the usual genre conventions of horror movies; we looked at some classic horror movies to get some ideas to improve our work. We noticed good lighting techniques from this scene from Friday 13th.
After watching Psycho, we got an idea of the type of music we needed to include in our video.
Monday 8 March 2010
Re-Filming
On 8th March, we went back to our location with the intention to completely re-film out whole film. We had planned our new narrative out and knew how to improve it from the last time. We used different lighting, making it look more scary, and we were filiming with the exact type of music we wanted in mind.
By the end of the day we had filmed most of it, but there are still some scenes we need to finish.
By the end of the day we had filmed most of it, but there are still some scenes we need to finish.
Sunday 7 March 2010
Editing
We started to edit our project since February 23rd, and while editing we learnt new skills such as extracting audio and placing it under different clips.
We also learnt that we have to duplicate many of our clips because just in case we may need them later on to add more to our whole project.
We downloaded background music from www.freeplaymusic.com where you can download royalty free music. we downloaded quite a few of the horror based sound clips which we then edited on to our film.
After editing with the background music all we had to do was add our title to the film but before that, we thought we should show it to people in our class and teacher and get some feedback on our film. From the feedback we got, we decided that our narrative did not follow through and our narrative enigma didn't make sense.
Also we looked at some classic horror movies such as Psycho, Friday 13th and Scream which gave us much more clearer ideas on how to make our film more scary and believable.
We also learnt that we have to duplicate many of our clips because just in case we may need them later on to add more to our whole project.
We downloaded background music from www.freeplaymusic.com where you can download royalty free music. we downloaded quite a few of the horror based sound clips which we then edited on to our film.
After editing with the background music all we had to do was add our title to the film but before that, we thought we should show it to people in our class and teacher and get some feedback on our film. From the feedback we got, we decided that our narrative did not follow through and our narrative enigma didn't make sense.
Also we looked at some classic horror movies such as Psycho, Friday 13th and Scream which gave us much more clearer ideas on how to make our film more scary and believable.
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