Friday 28 March 2014
Friday 21 March 2014
First Preview of Title Sequence with Feedback
In Wednesday's lesson we showed our title sequence to the class and Mr.Grimsley for the first time, as well as watching every other groups title sequences. Whilst watching other groups title sequences, our group was given a feedback sheet in which we had to fill out after we watched the rest of the class's title sequences. These are each of the feedback sheets that we were given back after the viewing of our 'Post Mortem' title sequence.
Our feedback was very positive with the highest star score occurring on 5 of the sheets. The main bits of feedback that we received was that it was very alike to the "Se7en" title sequence, but we didn't mind this too much as it was our main inspiration for our title sequence.
Thursday 20 March 2014
Day 2 of Re-shooting
We had to re-shoot one last time on Saturday 15th March 2014 as there was still some shots that we were unable to do due to me not being in full costume such as being able to shoot my feet walking past. Me, Teela and Liam scheduled to film during the afternoon, but soon we realised that there were a few problems with this such as Liam being busy and also it was still too bright outside for it to look okay when filming. So instead we waited until 6:30pm to meet up, but I was running late so Liam and Teela did attempt at shooting some of the shots that didn't show any of my body but only the killers hands, and also shots that didn't actually involve me in them at all.
We went on to film again, this time being considerate when it came to how much light we actually used in the shots. We had to be sure that we had enough lighting in these shots because in previous shots that we had filmed on other days, the shots were far too dark to even show up on the Macs when Liam began to edit them. Our group was told by Mr.Grimsley that it is okay if we were to give the shots too much light as you can actually darken them if needed, but if we didn't give the shots enough light then there isn't much you can actually do when it comes to editing it and trying to make the shot brighter.
We used this time to our advantage by adding extra shots in which we felt was necessary such as the scalpel shot. This shot was filmed when I turned up to Liam's house late, with Liam being the actor in this scene. Liam runs the blade up and down his fingertips and his palms, alike to John Doe in the "Se7en" title sequence. This shows the audience that the killer doesn't leave a trace of his identity which is exactly what we wanted as a group.
We had to re-shoot one last time on Saturday 15th March 2014 as there was still some shots that we were unable to do due to me not being in full costume such as being able to shoot my feet walking past. Me, Teela and Liam scheduled to film during the afternoon, but soon we realised that there were a few problems with this such as Liam being busy and also it was still too bright outside for it to look okay when filming. So instead we waited until 6:30pm to meet up, but I was running late so Liam and Teela did attempt at shooting some of the shots that didn't show any of my body but only the killers hands, and also shots that didn't actually involve me in them at all.
We went on to film again, this time being considerate when it came to how much light we actually used in the shots. We had to be sure that we had enough lighting in these shots because in previous shots that we had filmed on other days, the shots were far too dark to even show up on the Macs when Liam began to edit them. Our group was told by Mr.Grimsley that it is okay if we were to give the shots too much light as you can actually darken them if needed, but if we didn't give the shots enough light then there isn't much you can actually do when it comes to editing it and trying to make the shot brighter.
We used this time to our advantage by adding extra shots in which we felt was necessary such as the scalpel shot. This shot was filmed when I turned up to Liam's house late, with Liam being the actor in this scene. Liam runs the blade up and down his fingertips and his palms, alike to John Doe in the "Se7en" title sequence. This shows the audience that the killer doesn't leave a trace of his identity which is exactly what we wanted as a group.
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Re-shooting and Camera Change
We had to re-shoot due to some of our shots coming up far too dark on the Mac computers. This meant that me, Liam and Teela had to go back to Liam's during our double media lesson so that we could re-shoot as many shots as possible, but we could only do a few as I did not have the exact costume that I used before when we first filmed.
The camera change occurred when we realised that Teela's camera that we was using before didn't have autofocus and also had to repeatedly change the AA batteries (14 times to be precise). This led to us renting out a DSLR camera from school which had autofocus and a rechargeable battery pack. This meant that we could now film shots without having to guess whether it was in focus or not (this is when we couldn't see the screen as we did a shot facing from a different direction.)
We went from using this camera:
To using this camera:
This significantly improved our shots as it also shot a better picture.
We had to re-shoot due to some of our shots coming up far too dark on the Mac computers. This meant that me, Liam and Teela had to go back to Liam's during our double media lesson so that we could re-shoot as many shots as possible, but we could only do a few as I did not have the exact costume that I used before when we first filmed.
The camera change occurred when we realised that Teela's camera that we was using before didn't have autofocus and also had to repeatedly change the AA batteries (14 times to be precise). This led to us renting out a DSLR camera from school which had autofocus and a rechargeable battery pack. This meant that we could now film shots without having to guess whether it was in focus or not (this is when we couldn't see the screen as we did a shot facing from a different direction.)
We went from using this camera:
Music for our title sequence
This is going to be the music that we use for our title sequence. We decided to use this music as it is alike to the title sequence from the film "Se7en" which our work was inspired by.
https://soundcloud.com/industrial-records/sets/throbbing-gristle-tracks
This is going to be the music that we use for our title sequence. We decided to use this music as it is alike to the title sequence from the film "Se7en" which our work was inspired by.
https://soundcloud.com/industrial-records/sets/throbbing-gristle-tracks
Sounds
For our sound we used the following background music and little clips of sound.
http://www.freesfx.co.uk/soundeffects/industrial/
https://soundcloud.com/industrial-records/sets/throbbing-gristle-tracks
We felt these were the best sounds we could use as it linked up with our title sequence really well, giving it extra eeriness and also creating suspense.
For our sound we used the following background music and little clips of sound.
http://www.freesfx.co.uk/soundeffects/industrial/
https://soundcloud.com/industrial-records/sets/throbbing-gristle-tracks
We felt these were the best sounds we could use as it linked up with our title sequence really well, giving it extra eeriness and also creating suspense.
Tuesday 18 March 2014
Editing the shots
When editing the shots, Liam had found a good effect that we could use on our shots for the title sequence called "Bad TV". This effect distorted the shot and made it to look like an old static TV. We used this on the majority of our clips as we really liked the effect as it gave the title sequence and aery feel and also gave our title sequence the same kind of feel as the "Se7en" title sequence.
First day of Shooting
On our first day of shooting, me, Teela, Rosie and Liam met up at around half 3 in the afternoon at Liam's house as he had the most appropriate filming location for our title sequence. We used his shed in the back garden as it had a desk that was perfect for our title sequence and was fairly rotted and had an aery vibe to it. We began to film on the first day using a torch for lighting but this turned out to be a bad decision as the light already began to run out of power very quickly into the day and was too yellowish for our liking. Because of this our group had to re-shoot 12 of our shots but instead using a light that was on our phones which produced a better quality of lighting for our shots. Re-shooting didn't take too much time so we wasn't really set back too much for our schedule that we had made. On Friday the 23rd of February Liam had began to edit our title sequence by putting the shots with the correct lighting into place and also put the soundtrack that we had found which will be an underscore, this is where the music will be conjoined and overlaid with other scores and sounds.
On our first day of shooting, me, Teela, Rosie and Liam met up at around half 3 in the afternoon at Liam's house as he had the most appropriate filming location for our title sequence. We used his shed in the back garden as it had a desk that was perfect for our title sequence and was fairly rotted and had an aery vibe to it. We began to film on the first day using a torch for lighting but this turned out to be a bad decision as the light already began to run out of power very quickly into the day and was too yellowish for our liking. Because of this our group had to re-shoot 12 of our shots but instead using a light that was on our phones which produced a better quality of lighting for our shots. Re-shooting didn't take too much time so we wasn't really set back too much for our schedule that we had made. On Friday the 23rd of February Liam had began to edit our title sequence by putting the shots with the correct lighting into place and also put the soundtrack that we had found which will be an underscore, this is where the music will be conjoined and overlaid with other scores and sounds.
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