55. Final post

We are finally finished our course work for as media, it us been a long journey, but we learned a lot. We bonded as a group and produced a great title sequence. Thank you for reading our blog, and goodbye.

EVALUATION: Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

EVALUATION: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION: Question 3

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

EVALUATION: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

EVALUATION: Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?





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?

Task 52: Final Embedded Video

8. Jessica, Maria, Rhianna, Danielle from 283goswell on Vimeo.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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

Planning Our Re-shoot of the Murder Scene

After reviewing our existing footage, we have decided to re-shoot the murder scene. This is because we feel that it is not clear as to what happens, and the audience would probably be confused. Therefore, we felt a re-shoot was necessary.

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.

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.

 Demonstrated in this screen shot, we were replacing our old, blurry footage with the footage that we filmed on monday.

We feel that this shot was a drastic improvement from the previous lip stick applying scene as it is more in focus.

We also started to use after effects to try out various filters and effects to fit our genre conventions and to add suspense and dramatic elements to our title sequence.







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.

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 46: FILMING - Day 4

More filming 👍🏾👍🏾 pic.twitter.com/HUOXzTST8Y

— AS Set2 Media Group8 (@Candigroup8) January 4, 2016

Today we had a re-shoot at our killer's house as we felt that we did not have enough successful shots to use it our title sequence. Unfortunately Danielle could not be here as she was severely ill, but we still managed to get what we could without her.

There were a couple things we needed to get from this shot for our title sequence. For example, there is a shot where the killer is putting on lipstick in an extreme close up. However this shot was quite blurry so we had to get another one to use. We also realised that we didn't have a match cut of the killer using a makeup brush, so this is another shot we got from today.

Today was very good as it allowed us to look back on what we had missed out the first time when shooting and get what we needed to make a good title sequence.