Audience feedback

We created a tweeter page and this screen shot demonstrates a positive feedback from our audience.

Question 7

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

By looking back on our Preliminary exercise I feel that we have improved greatly. One thing that we improved greatly was the title. The Preliminary exercise title was simple and unoriginal. Whereas in our final piece it looks professional and unique. This shows that we have research into other films openings to see how they have edited their films to make them look original and have designed our own to fit the purpose of our film.
-prelimanry and laugh out loud pic here

Another way we have improved is by learning how to film better. We have shown a clear improvement in panning the camera. In the Preliminary exercise it is shaky and rough whereas in the Final clip it is smooth and steady showing that we learned how to professionally control the camera. The print screens below show the effectiveness of the camera and editing as  the one focuses on the center character and keeps her in middle third so the audience is always looking at her. However with the Preliminary the camera doesn't follow at the right speed meaning the character moves into each of the thirds.
 

In our preliminary exercise we had some minor faults including the lens being just partly covered. In our  final piece however we made sure this problem did not occur as we took great care into avoiding slight errors.

The sound we have used has also improved from out preliminary exercise. in our final piece the sound is clearer and easy to understand whereas the preliminary was quiet and pointless. Also our final piece has non-diagetic sound making it more professional.

Question 6

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
This is a picture of Adam Whaley taken while he was shooting on set. As you can see from the picture he is using a camera and a tripod to accurately record one of the shots, we found that the extendable legs of the tripod came in very useful when finding the right height to record.The swivel top on the tripod also made it a lot easier to pan different shots . We found it significantly easier to use this tripod than the previous one given to us. I feel this was because this tripod was larger and the swivel was not as stiff.

We had to use two different cameras during the process of making our film opening the first camera we used had a fault in the editing software and froze up when any kind of title was added. The first camera filmed in 1080p and 16:9 aspect ratio. This proved to be a problem as our backup camera was only able to film in 480p and in an aspect ratio of 4:3. Adam managed to minimize the effects of this is editing but couldn't completely remove the difference between them.

We also learnt that editing can be very temperamental at times and when videos are rendering they may fail. We were also able to develop our skills as editors and learnt a lot of new things about Premier Pro. A key special effect we used was a lighting one which helped us maintain a constant level of lighting.

We also used YouTube a lot through out the course of us making our film opening. The features that are offered are extremely useful, being able to edit after we uploaded are video is a bonus as we can fix any lighting issues YouTube creates.

Question 5

Question 4

Question 3

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The Production company i feel that would distribute our film of 'Laugh your last breath' is New Line Cinema. This is because the genre of our film is Action Thriller and New Line cinema has distributed films such as Shoot 'em Up, A nightmare on elm street and the film we looked at, throughout the creating of our opening, Se7en. However New line Cinema is set mainly is US so the production company i fell that would distribute in the UK is Entertainment in Video. They distributed films such as Texas Chainsaw massacre Apollo 18, Saw and of course Se7en.

The production company we created was World's End Productions. The logo is a photo of the earth. The reason for this is our production company is based worldwide and organise with many different other companies.

The reason we have focused on Se7en is because we feel our opening is very similar in ways it starts and also that while creating our opening we kept looking back at Se7en for inspiration. Another film that is also similar to ours is the movie Dextar. It starts with a psychopath getting ready just like ours and makes the audience attached. The titles we have used show the people who are involved in the creation of our opening. We put the director last as he was the person who made it happen.

Question 2

Question 1

Question 1

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

Our media opening consists of many different codes and conventions. These include:

• Creepy Voice over
• Low key lighting
• Gun
• Victim
• Psychopath

We used the creepy voice over because it shows that our main character is insane and feels pressured to killing the girl. It also suggests that he has no one else. This is typical in a Thriller film. The low key lighting when he loads his gun gives it a intense feel and makes the viewer realize he is dangerous.Low key makes it look creepy and twisted. The setting we used (Outside) looks old and Erie which is typical in a thriller. The kitchen scene is mainly black and white. This is because the white shows the innocence of the girl but the occasional black item shows that it has been tampered with and slowly being tainted. The super imposed editing in the kitchen scene gives a fast paced feeling and multiple points of interest. Shot 6 shows the aggressive nature of the psychopathic

Film opening- Final

This shows our final clip, we have improved by adding a voice over,
cut some scnes and improved some of the scnes. We also added
effects like dissolving the action when John(George)
is in the kitchen to make the time speed up.
This was published on Youtube on the 24/04/13.

Storyboard

 This shows our storyboard, we made some positive changes,
when we made the final clip. (All the scenes are in order)

Research into movies

Gun Prop

 
This shows our main
prop,the gun that
John(George)used to
kill Grace(Aimee).

Sweeney Todd Opening Scene

This shows a film opening of Sweeney Todd which is a horror/thriller movie.
I decided to pick this movie to do codes and convention because my film
opening is also a horror/ thriller clip, the main character is similar to the psychopath
in our film opening.

Codes and Conventions of Sweeney Todd film opening

Amended Film Title

This shows our new verson of our title. We changed it
because it matches out new style of our film opening and we also
chnaged it because we changed the story of our film opening.

Improved version of the rough cut

This shows our clip, but this time we have improved on
scrip and cut off some scenes.

Feedback from our media teacher

After we showed our film opening, we had some feedback.
This shows feedbakc from out media teacher.

Rough cut film opening clip

 

This shows our rough cut of our film opening. Doing this rough cut
allowed us to expirence with the camera, and spot any mistakes and
avoid them in our final piece.
This was filmed on 19/01/13

Twitter acount

This shows our twiter page, we decided to create this page to spread

the word about our film opening and production company.



Risk Assessment for the new opening idea

Attendance issue – contact numbers are available, Meeting place has been organised, stand in’s

Camera issue – spare camera available, well laid plans

Safety issues – first aid kit with first aid trained staff

Weather issues – There are no specific weather requirements, although camera’s should not be operated in the rain. We have arrangements for the camera positioning if it does rain.

Lighting issues – Alternative lighting arrangements can be made.

Prop issues – we have back up props available

Interference issues – cars and people tend to walk by the house, luckily we are filming at night so we can go out when its empty

Copy Right Permission

In our film opening we are having non digetic music playing on the background,
to have the music playing in our film opening we needed permission from the person.
This picture below show that we asked permission to use thier
song in our film opening.

Re-Filming

Today we had a group meeting and we decided to re film what we
had filmed on the saturday 19th.This was due to the timing, as it wasent
long enough as we had only 48 secounds because we only had 10 shots. 
We are thinking about meeting up together and re- filmthe film opening
 on the sunday 3rd of febuary.  The filming will have to be
completed by the soon.

Research in film titles

We research into the film tiles so when we came
 to make our own film tile we would have an idea of
what professional looks like, and would try and make
our film opening look professional.

Potential masks ideas

Since we have changed the main character we decided
that the character should wear a mask to hide his
identity as this would then turn things more mysterious and scary
 this is what we want out audience to feel like.
Here are some of the ideas for the possible mask designs.

The New Script

Media script

The starting scene is of a dark room and of a single figure, The scene has strong back-light and the character is barely visible. The character (Scott)leans forward revealing his face. He is drinking shots of Vodka and is clearly a little bit drunk.

He is waving a gun around in the mumbling to himself Inaudibly. Extreme close up of the vodka being poured into shot glasses and his hand picking up the glass. Camera follows hand to show him drinking the vodka. Then just shows his face as he appears to be starting at something behind the camera. He then smugly smiles.

He stands up just about and head over to the stereo and puts on a form of classical music. Mid shots

Start montage thing of him getting ready to go out Keep the light filter low and the room. Fast paced, shows different shots of him getting ready.

Walks down street with hood up. Walks past camera with classical music still playing.

Gets to house and then picks the lock on the door. Extreme close up of lock and his hands as he picks the lock and then him grabbing the handle and opening the door.

Pan medium shot. Shows Scott walking into house and shutting the door then pans to show girls walking down the street.

Then shows Scott in the house, he walks in turning no lights on and sits in a chair in the living……

The shot then goes to the two girls walking down the street. They are smiling and looked like they had just returned from clubbing. They unlock the door and walk in. Tania goes start to the restroom. Aimee goes to the kitchen and pours a glass of water.

Aimee then goes into the living room with the drink.

She turns on the light and sees Scott sitting on the chair with the gun concealed

Aimee freezes, drops her glass of water but doesn't scream.. her mouth opens but no sound is heard. Scott laughs hysterically and then there is close up of the gun. The screen goes dark and the title appears on the screen and a gunshot is heard.

The Risk Assessment

Risk assessment

·    If the camera battery dies – Bring spare batteries

·    If a costume tears/rips – bring sewing kit for repairs

·   If it’s raining – if it is raining lightly we may continue to film as it will add effect, if it is too heavy film the indoor scenes

·  If an actor is unable to be there for a scene – film scenes that do not require that actor

· If there are other people in the area - film the scene later when there are less people around

· The make-up smudges /comes off – to avoid this we will shoot the scenes in the correct order and if the make-up does remove then reapply it using the previous shots.
  

      ^^This is what could go wrong while making the filming the opening of the film.

New Group ideas

The group changed ideas, we choose to change the clown
 for a psychopath who breaks in "Grace" house and kills "Eva"
 her friend. We are still keeping the hole idea about them
arriving from a party at the beginning and we are also keeping the
group logo, but we are changing the end of the scene.
This is our new ideas for Scotts costume who will be playing the
psychopath  John in the clip and Adam who was playing the
clown will be filming the scenes.

The outfit for the psychopath will be
a hoodie this is to hide his identity and jeans.
He is going to look normal at first
but when the audience get introduced
they will start to see changes...

The second picture show the face
expressions that we expect a
psychopath to have.

The original Draft for the title

This is our film title
"Laugh Your Last
Breath", it was created
by Aimee using Fireworks.
The background would be
what we normally see
at a circus.As the hole main
character is a clown.