Thursday, 26 April 2012
Editing the Film
During the editing process of our title sequence we used these effects:
- Replacing a green screen with an image
- Transitions
- Crossfades
- Putting the news broadcast over the television.
- Fade to black with the titles on the black screen.
- Black and white on some parts.
- Sound effects (news report music, van screeching)
Production Diary
On Sunday 12th February my group had organised to film our original title sequence at a friend's house. Unfortunately we weren't able to use her house so we had to change our plans of the sequence.
The following weekend filmed the sequence of my brother getting kidnapped at my Dad's house. I used a tripod so it looked steady and fluent. When my brother was being put into the back of the van I took the camera off the tripod to create a more realistic effect and so the audience can feel like they're standing there watching what is happening.
On Monday 20th February my group had a meeting to discuss what we were going to do next. We decided that they were going to film another kidnap scene of a little girl getting kidnapped but they never filmed that.
On Wednesday 22nd February, none of my group were in so I had to try and edit the footage I shot on my own. I made it flow by using Match-on-Action and I followed the 180-degree rule whilst I was filming.
I decided that my group weren't very reliable and I had to organise another dicussion about how we are going to finish filming our footage. We then decided we were going to have multiple kidnappings happening with two different kidnappers whilst a news report was going to be intercut between them.
On Friday 9th March we filmed the rest of our kidnappings and put the footage onto the editing software (Adobe Premier Pro). We put the footage in order and edited it so the footage flowed.
On Friday 16th March we filmed the news report in the television studio using a green screen.
After that we continued editing to make our film look better and so it flowed more. Our actors weren't very good so we had to edit the bad sections out to make it look more professional.
The following weekend filmed the sequence of my brother getting kidnapped at my Dad's house. I used a tripod so it looked steady and fluent. When my brother was being put into the back of the van I took the camera off the tripod to create a more realistic effect and so the audience can feel like they're standing there watching what is happening.
On Monday 20th February my group had a meeting to discuss what we were going to do next. We decided that they were going to film another kidnap scene of a little girl getting kidnapped but they never filmed that.
On Wednesday 22nd February, none of my group were in so I had to try and edit the footage I shot on my own. I made it flow by using Match-on-Action and I followed the 180-degree rule whilst I was filming.
I decided that my group weren't very reliable and I had to organise another dicussion about how we are going to finish filming our footage. We then decided we were going to have multiple kidnappings happening with two different kidnappers whilst a news report was going to be intercut between them.
On Friday 9th March we filmed the rest of our kidnappings and put the footage onto the editing software (Adobe Premier Pro). We put the footage in order and edited it so the footage flowed.
On Friday 16th March we filmed the news report in the television studio using a green screen.
After that we continued editing to make our film look better and so it flowed more. Our actors weren't very good so we had to edit the bad sections out to make it look more professional.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Script
In our title sequence, we chose to only use speech during the news report, all of the kidnappings are speechless because we thought it would be easier for our actors as they are inexperienced. Also, we like the suspense it created.
This is the script for the actor that played the news reader.
This is the script for the actor that played the news reader.
The Pitch
Our pitch was done before we changed our initial idea so none of it makes sense to our final product now. Because we are a shy group, the feedback we got was mostly telling us to talk more and be more confident. We didn't get any feedback about the actual idea.
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
The Edit
When we edited our sequence we needed to put visual effects over the footage we shot of Ed infront of a green screen. We added a background and a banner at the bottom of the screen so it looks like a real news broadcast.
Shot List
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Shot
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Actors
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Props
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Boy walking into kitchen
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Matt
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Boy getting kidnapped
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Matt, Steve
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Van
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First girl kidnapped
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Ben, Anna
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Alcohol bottle
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Second girl kidnapped
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Ben, Charlotte
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Mobile phone
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Third girl kidnapped
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Ben, Alice
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News report
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Ed
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This is our shot list.
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