THRILLER TITLE SEQUENCE FINAL EDIT

Bag Swap - First Film Task

PRELIM MATCH CUT PROJECT

Audience Feedback.

This is a clip I've created by collecting feedback from other Media AS Students.

Evaluation Question 3&4. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?

Our movie opening might be seen as a similar to the American Teenage Movies such as, Mean Girls or She gets What she wants.

Both of the movies are about teenage friends, who are nice and friendly, but nasty and unfaithful behind each other's back. In our movie - the friendship between two characters is being disturbed, because of the boy. There are elements of cheating, betrayal, jealousy and a bit of violence.

The movie has been written by us - females.

We're amateurs though, so that our movie would probably be a low budget. As we're still unknown we have decided to produce our movie with Candi Studios. This is one of the best companies that can support us and help to get more experienced in the film industry.

I also think that we could advertise our movie in Social Websites such as Facebook and Bebo, also in Teen Magazines such as Sugar, CosmoGirl or Look.

Peace Movie Advertisement,

I think the cinema is the type of cinema my movie would be screened at as it is a low cost price for tickets and a high percentage of teenagers go there.

i would also put up a youtube page as many teenagers and young females go on to youtube and have youtube accounts.

the type of magazines that would promote my thriller movie is look magazine and glamour magazine as in both front covers they have young female stars showing to us that it is highly read by female audience.

All of these things would help our promoting as it would reach out to the female public today and most of these things are brought of watched each day of the year.

Evaluation 5. Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for our media product, would definitely be female.

Teenagers mostly, but also women upto 25 years-old.

Feedback from the Audience.

We have received a lot of feedback from the audience, it was mostly positive, as people liked the storyline and editing - most of our opening sequence was done in black and white which was meant to show that it was a flashback.

There weren't many people who used it so it made it look more unique.

Although some poeple said that the pace was a bit too fast, and we should have worked more on the transitions, as when the Peace Logo came on the screen the dialogue was still playing, and that wasn't meant to be exactly like that.

evaluation task 7

From our preliminary task we have improved drastically and it was more easier to create our final piece after doing the practice for the preliminary task.
By looking back at our match cut several of our match cuts in Peace to the earlier one you can tell that we have used more effects and editing skills.
In our match, we used different clips that did not really match. And did not make the film move smoothly Micky taught us the effects we can do to make the flow more quicker without filming transitions get all our match cuts to the best of our ability. This meant that we were putting our inputs and outputs and had to use the razor tool more often to create the perfect match cut.


A dramatic improvement we made, in contrast with our first task, is the dialogue. Even though we used a lot and the same in both, it shows that there have been improvements made to our final film. In the first one the dialogue did not match and we were out of time with each other, however in the final one we managed to edit some dialogue and make it short and snappy.

SoundTrackPro.

For our soundtrack we have used Soundtrack Pro - which is a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc. which includes a collection of just over 5000 royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects.

I think this programme was the hardest to use, even though it seems like it isn't hard to create a little piece of music using different instruments.

We've had to create a suspense with our sound, and we were working on it until we've finally decided that the sound we've made is good enough.

Digital Camera.

We have used a still Digital Camera to take pictures of two main characters - to show that they were very close, practically always together.

I enjoyed taking pictures, and they came up very nice and girlie.

LiveType.

For the Titles we used LiveType - the software developed by Apple Inc. to create animated title sequences for video projects. Livetype includes over 11GB of content including fonts, textures, objects, templated and effects. It can import any standard media files and can create text tracks whose style can be meticulously specified.

Using LiveType was hard, and even after using it for a time, we've had many problems with it as whenever we didn't save it properly and rendered it our titles were going Off Line and we were getting confused and angry. Although I think that LiveType is a very good and professional programme with a big range of effects.

Final Cut Pro.

In the opening of our thriller sequence, we have used Final Cut Pro - a professional non-linear editing software application developed by Apple Inc. Final Cut provides non-destructive editing of any Quick Time compatible video format. It supoprts an unlimited number of simultaneously composited video tracks, multi-camera editing for combining video from multiple camera sources. It comes with a range of video transitions and a range of video and audio filters such as keying tools and mattes.

I found it quite difficult to use, but the more I've been working with this programme the easier it has become. After we've finally edited all our clips and put them in the order, we had to put transitions in between them, because there were few jump cuts, and it didn't look good. Trying different transitions and playing with them was fun, also it made our video clip look much more professional.

Planning Preliminary Match Cut Exercise

Location(s):
-House/Room-Outside the block of flats.
Props:-Mobile Phone
-Alcohol bottle
-Bed
-Peace Chain
Camera Shots:-Over-The-Shoulder shot-
Medium Shott
-Point-Of-View
Editing:
-Panning
-Transitions;
-Peace Sign, with voice over.
-Soundtrack

Current Evens and Affairs.

Mother in court accused of murder of children in Sussex

Post-mortem tests showed Harry and Elise died from asphyxia
Lawyers for a mother accused of murdering her two young children are expected to enter a plea when she appears in crown court later.
Three-year-old Harry Donnison and his two-year-old sister Elise were found in in the boot of a car near the family's former East Sussex home in January.
Their mother, Fiona, 43, is charged with their murders and was previously remanded to a psychiatric unit.
She is due to appear for a plea hearing at Lewes Crown Court later.
Mrs Donnison, a former city worker, of Lightwater, Surrey, is accused of killing her son and daughter between 26 and 27 January.
Safety concern
They were found in separate holdall bags in the boot of a Nissan car near the former family home in Heathfield.
The results of post-mortem tests so far released show the children died from asphyxia and had been dead less than 24 hours when their bodies were found.
Sussex police have referred part of their inquiry into the deaths to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
This follows claims by the children's father, Paul Donnison, that he had expressed concern to police about their safety.
After their deaths Mr Donnison, who was estranged from his wife, issued a statement describing Harry and Elise as "the lights that shone the brightest in my life".

He loves me, he loves me not.

This is a picture from He loves me, He loves me Not.

This movie appeals to the same audience as our movie, as it's very girlie.

There's a logo used - a heart, same as we have used the peace sign in our movie.

After I read feedback on our movie, I was very pleased that people liked it and they understood everything we were trying to show.

Most of the people said that it was very girly and scary in the same time, as 'The peace was disturbed' and everyone knew that something really bad has happened.

Our movie was aimed at teenage audience mostly, we said 16-24 years old and our class got it right.

LiveType Intro.

In lesson we have been given an introduction to the Live Type Software Programe developed by Apple Inc to create animated title sequences for video projects, we have had loads of fun while exploring the program as:

LiveType includes over 11GB of content - including fonts, textures, objects, templates and effects. It can import any standard media files and can create text tracks whose style can be meticulously specified. In the canvas, the contour that the text follows can be edited, so that the titles can be on curved or shaped paths. All attributes of each title or character can be changed and keyframed, including the size, drop shadow, outline, extrusion, glow, opacity and tracking of the text.

A 'LiveFont' is one of the program's key features. These are fonts with animated characters. Examples of the LiveFonts shipped with LiveType are animated handwriting, smoke writing, fire, and blinking LED characters. It is also possible to create custom LiveFonts, but the necessity of generating a separate movie file for each letter makes the file sizes very large.

Effects : various animation effects can be applied to type, either LiveFonts or normal system fonts. There are, for example, glows, scrolls, fades and zooms. The timing of the effects can be customized and new effects can be created from scratch using keyframing.