In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop Or Challenge Forms And Conventions Of Real Media Products?
Monday, 25 January 2016
EVALUATION Question 5
How Did you Attract/Address Your Audience?
I made a visual presentation of all the elements in my film that I thought very well made, and thus attract our audience.
I made a visual presentation of all the elements in my film that I thought very well made, and thus attract our audience.
I also reflected on the feedback the audience gave for the rough cut and applied it to the final product.
Some of the responses to our film.
How We attracted our Target audience.
After we finished filming, we interviewed our lead actress; Emily, and got her thoughts about the film and how well the filming went. She gave us inspiration on the film's title, and just general feedback.
EVALUATION Question 6
What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?
please visit the link to view the presentation I made.
EVALUATION Question 7
Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To The Full Product
EVALUATION: Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
EVALUATION: Question 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
Reviews after the premiere (also embedded in the emaze above):
Reviews after the premiere (also embedded in the emaze above):
We also interviewed our actress, Emily, to see how she felt about the experience of filming "Emily":
EVALUATION: Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
EVALUATION: Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
EVALUATION QUESTION 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
EVALUATION QUESTION 6
What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product
Evaluation Question 6 - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Here is a video I made where I show how my group used Premiere Pro to edit our film.
EVALUATION QUESTION 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Task 35: final title credits
These were are ordinal ideas for the titles but since we changed the genre from horror to thriller we didn't think the titles fonts matched our ideas. We also wanted to fit the titles onto pictures and shape them to fit the objects, but we decided it looked too amateur and took away from our title sequence.
We finally decided on a simple font in white, which is typically used in thriller films as it doesn't take away from the action on the screen.
1) Distribution company - D.R.A.G.O.N Inc.
2)Lead actor
3)Lead actor
5)Supporting actor
6)Supporting actor
7)Casting by
8) Music provided by (Purple planet music)
9) Music by
10) Production designer
11) Editor
12)Director of photography'
13)Producer
14) Executive producer
15) Written by
16) Directed by
We included each of our names in the title sequence, and made up the rest. All the titles had a fade in and out effect, put on in after effects.
Sunday, 24 January 2016
Saturday, 23 January 2016
Task 39: Final Story Board
This is the final storyboard that I made. I used thinkling to add annotations to the shots that were changed. They can be viewed by hovering over the blue dots
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Task 48: EDITING - Day 6
Today was the last lesson before our deadline tomorrow, so we really needed to finish adding our credits. We managed to do so by creating the titles in after effects as shown in the image below. We also stayed behind until 5:00pm to finish this.
As well as adding credits, we finally found a song for the getting ready scene. We decided to go with Schubert- Ava Maria (royalty free). We felt that using classical music would be effective in this scene as it is so calm and relaxing, which really juxtaposes with the whole situation.
As well as adding credits, we finally found a song for the getting ready scene. We decided to go with Schubert- Ava Maria (royalty free). We felt that using classical music would be effective in this scene as it is so calm and relaxing, which really juxtaposes with the whole situation.
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Task 38: auditions
In out title sequence we needed Two actors to play the victim and the killer. When thinking about who to cast we first looked at the conventions of the genre, and then at the people in our group. We decided to follow the conventions and go for the middle class white actors, to play both of the parts.
At first we thought that Jessica fit the part of the innocent looking killer, and that I (Maria), could be the party girl victim. But if we cast people in our group as the stars, that would mean that only two people were left to look after the camera, lighting, and sound. So we decided to cast people outside of our media group.
We had multiple volunteers to star in our Title sequence. We had to evaluate all our candidates and see which ones were best suited for our film. Some people were busy and couldn't come to all the filming times. Others, such as Anthony (picture on the left) didn't fit the conventions, and the characters that we wanted to convey. We finally all agreed on casting Emily as the killer because she had the innocent look, and Stevie as the Party-girl victim, because of her blonde hair and bubbly personality. We thought that the contrast between Emily and Stevie, worked well, and we were very pleased with their dedication, and constant hard work.
Monday, 18 January 2016
Task 48: EDITING - Day 5
Today, we focused on adding sound to our title sequence. We managed to add all of the sound needed for the murder scene. One problem we faced was with the actual murder itself as we needed a realistic sound effect to use. We found a male choking noise and made the pitch higher in order to make it sound female, and got around our problem.
Another problem we had once we finished the sound on the murder scene was finding the right music for the getting ready scene. Many of the music clips that we find do not fit the pace of the scene, they do not effectively create tension, or it does not match with the sound from the next scene.
We decided to move on from this and began adding credits. The font/size/effect on our credits have been noted down for future reference:
Here is our to do list before our deadline on Friday the 22nd of January:
We decided to move on from this and began adding credits. The font/size/effect on our credits have been noted down for future reference:
Here is our to do list before our deadline on Friday the 22nd of January:
Friday, 15 January 2016
Task 48: EDITING: Day 4
Today, we went to the media workshop to add on sound to our title sequence. We mainly focused on the background music for the murder scene. In total, we layered three songs from purple planet over one another to create a tension-building sound scape. We plan to add even more sound effects to this part such as a high pitched beeping sound when the camera cuts to shots of the dead body.
At first we added two clips: Entombed and Phantasm. However, we did not feel that these pieces of music sufficiently built the tension up to the point where the victim is murdered. In order to achieve this, we also added the clip "Insidious", also from purple planet. We are happy with this outcome, but still need to finish the sound on the rest of the title sequence.
Thursday, 14 January 2016
50. Rough Cut 2 and feedback
Uneven edit, make sure shots are evenly paced.
Use a CCTV camera effect on when Emily is coming in
We used foley sound well
We need to add music to make it more engaging
Tighten edit the edit, as soon as the action finishes cut because it slows it down. We need our title sequence to be fast paced so the audience does not lose attention.
The pan is too long in the establishing shot. Cut it.
Monday, 11 January 2016
Task 46: FILMING - Day 5
During college, we decided to re-film some of the close up shots that we had previously taken in Maria's house, as most of them were blurry. As we were only doing extreme close ups, we could film in an empty room in college instead of going all the way back to Maria's house. We managed to get the shots that we need to replace in our title sequence.
Later on in the day, we re-shot some of the murder scene. We decided to do this because we felt as if we could have taken advantage of the space by getting establishing shots, and we also wanted to use the stairs so we could make match cuts during editing. Another reason we decided to re-shoot was because it was like we were missing things and it did not really fit together well or make sense. After our filming session, we feel that we now have a sufficient amount of footage to make for an effective ending to our title sequence.
Task 48: EDITING - Day 3
Today we tried to add our distribution company clip to the beginning of our title sequence. However, we encountered many troubles when trying to do so. Firstly, our sound file had gone missing and so we had to re-download it. We also could not get it to be compatible with Premiere Pro.
We also deleted some clips so our timeline would be ready for the new clips.
Lastly, we created our Wix website to promote our film. The link to this can be found on blog "Task 46: Promoting Our Film".
Task 45: Promoting Our Film (wix)
Here is our Wix page in which we will be promoting our film: Emily.
http://rhiannajadeeugene.wix.com/dragoninc
http://rhiannajadeeugene.wix.com/dragoninc
Sunday, 10 January 2016
Planning Our Re-shoot of the Murder Scene
The image on the right is a short list on extra shots we would like to get as we feel they would build tension, which we really want as it is an important factor in psychological thriller films. At the moment, we feel like there is not enough tension being built.
Our plan us to re-shoot on Monday the 11th of January after college.
Thursday, 7 January 2016
Task 48: EDITING Day 2
Today, we carried on editing our title sequence. After filming on monday, we added that footage to our video drive and into our sequence.We reflected upon our rough cut and decided that we need to re-film some close ups and re-edit the murder scene as the story does not flow consistently.
We feel that this shot was a drastic improvement from the previous lip stick applying scene as it is more in focus.
As well as editing, we were planning our soundscape. We visited purpleplanet.com to find royalty free music that we would be able to use in our title sequence when the vinyl player is turned on and for the murder scene. We had to find music that fit the pace of the scenes but also added tension. We found a few options that we will decide on later.We also planned any foley sounds that we would need to record to develop our soundscape.
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
Task 29: Sound Design
Sound is very important for a thriller. It creates suspense, and helps to quicken up the action scenes. This is why when planning my title sequence I spend a lot of time to think about my Soundscape. As a practice I have created an outside tension building soundscape, using the Imovie sound effects. I used sound effects such as barking, traffic, children talking to create a feel of a street/ outside. Towards the end i added some tense sound effects such as thunder, heart beating, footsteps to create tension and set the mood for the murder that's about to happen.
I then decided to create some very basic sound effects, that could be used to create a soundscape for the actual title sequence (as they are mine and not copyrighted) I used my phone to record these sounds, and then I edited them together in Imovie.
Over all I think my soundscape sound have:
- traffic sounds
- people talking
- dogs barking
- cars beeping
- music playing
- sound effects of items being picked up/ placed back down
- girly laughter
- perfume spraying
- door opening/ closing
- footsteps
- deep breathing
- heart beating
- the sound of rubber gloves being put on
- heels clicking
- screaming
- police sirens
Blogging Health Check 3
Since the last blogging health check, my work has gone up from a B grade to an A grade. I am very happy that my blog has improved very much according to my teachers. I am specially happy about the pitch which we had presented as it was very nerve wrecking to present our idea to the class.
However there are still tasks that I will need to do in order to make my blog better.
As seen above I have set targets for myself from the feedback I have received which will help increase the overall mark of my blog.
Task 47: Blogging Health Check 3
My Targets:
- Blog individually about how i feel the filming and editing went.
- Complete blog 49 (rough cut feedback).
Task 47: Blogging health check 3
I am very happy with my grade, and glad that my blog is improving. I went from a B at the last health check to an A. I hope to remain at thsi level, and to continue to work hard.
My targets:
Post at least one vlog
Try to keep the tasks in order, and make sure they are all clearly labeled
Make sure all tasks up to 46 are done
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Task 33: Branding The Blog
When Branding our blog we thought about the genre of our movie (thriller). We believed that cool colours and tones would work well, to keep up with the cold vide of our killer. we also used red for the titles to symbolise blood and murder. We kept the layout simple thought, so it would be user to look through the blood, as some of the offered temples were very complex and inconvenient to use.
We switched our backgrounds a lot, from flowers, to pictures of blood splatter. We finality decided on using a photo of our "murder plotting board" as represents our film and adds a more personal feel to our blog
Task 31: Final ideas
Our idea changed drastically as we wanted to avoid stereotypes, and make our title sequence too predictable. We also faced the problem of not being able to bring knives outside. So we decided it was easier to alter our killer, and victim instead of trying to fix everything that was wrong with the previous one.
The final idea is to have an innocent looking girl, be the mass murder. She would be getting ready in her bedroom, and everything would appear normal at first. But at a closer look the audience would be able to spot some strange objects along side the makeup, e.g knives, lighters, rope. This would show that something is not right with the girl. When she finishes getting ready she would leave, and her murder plotting would be revealed. The girl would then proceed to murder her victim. And the title sequence would end with a few shots of the victims body. We thought that this idea would work well as there are few young female killers in horror films, so this would be something fresh and people would want to see this.
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