Progression In Editing

Here are some still shots of what we done today, we worked on Editing and getting the right clips together. This is showing our process towards our final production.

Here are screen shots of our timeline on what we have produce so far.

Above is our clips that we have filmed put onto the programme final cut. this also gave better access for us to get different clips in order to but onto our timeline.

Student Film

The student film I have chosen to study is 'Violet', bye Nathan Miller and his group.

Mise-en-scene
The mise-en-scene used in a film can determine weather a film looks good. In violet we see a large use of mise-en-scene to determine how it looks, there is a lot of blood used, not only outside but inside also.In this image we see a hand which is covered in blood. The mise-en-scene in this sene is the bath and the artificial blood used. The bath is a good place to allow the murder scene to be in. The imitation blood on the hand allows the scene to not just be more realistic but for the audience to be freaked out more, to an extent where they think the blood is real and there has actually been a murder.

Review

Clip on First Day of Recording

We have recorded a part of our filming to show you what we have been doing. We can see how our day went, and see the things we had to go through. You can see how we recorded and the people that supported us/helped us throughout our filming. 

Clip of First Day Back After Half Term Holiday.

In this clip we tell you about what we are doing during the lessons, and describe what our next plans will be after we have filmed outside. We are starting the editing of the clip. 

Title Sequences

There are four main types of Title Sequences:

NARRATIVE OPENING:
This is where the title sequence at the beginning of the film comes together with the whole narrative of the film. This means the opening would be continuous onto the next part of the story line, an example is 'The Shining'.

This choice of opening can seem boring to a viewer as not much will take place however the director normally gives away a few hints within the narrative opening. In The Shining tracking shots give the idea of a 'bird of prey' whereby the sense that the car is being followed comes into the viewers mind. This begins to introduce the story.

DISCRETE OPENING:

This type of opening is where different edited sequences separate to the film are joined to make a short film before the actual film begins. This creates a lot of suspense for the audience. An example, 'Se7en'.

STYLISED EDITING:

This type of film opening has a lot of editing and cuts involved, very precise and very heavy stylised. An example, 'Mesrine.'

The opening of this film shows a shot of a man, from three different angles. 

This creates the sense that he is being followed, very carefully. This type of opening is tricky and very hard work.

CREDITS OVER A BLACK SCREEN:

This is a simple opening whereby the credits to the film simply come up on a blank screen, an example 'Donnie Darko.'

This styled opening is used, whereby the director simply uses font and sound to create a suspenseful atmosphere for the audience. 

I would like to do a Narrative Opening for my film.

New Pitch

For the above slide, we have decided to change the title as we feel that 'The Diary of Sarah-Louise' is a better and more relevant to our film opening.

Skills

                              Skills

We learnt how to use the equipment and much software, which allow us to perfect our piece of work. The equipment we are using is a camera, battery, memory card, and tripod. We had a tutorial lesson on how to use the camera safely, which means we will not brake or damage the camera, plus we will not have any technical difficulties. We also know how to use final cut pro. This means we can edit our work to make it look well controlled (allows the clip to run smoothly without difficulties to the audience). In final cut pro we can cut clips and put different shots in place to make the storyline make sense, plus we can add effects to make the clip look more perfect and appealing for the audience. Finally we are able to use soundtrack pro. This allows us to add sounds in the background to make our clip look more effective. We can add instrumentals to give the audience and emotion during the action shown in the clip, or we can add diegetic sounds to make the clip look more realistic, and not make the audience feel like something is missing. Blogging was introduced to us so we could upload many ideas we had about media in general. This allows us to do work at home and upload things we done during the lessons to keep like a sort of diary. 

Thriller Sub Genre

Here are some examples of Thriller Sub-Genres, this will help us decide as a group what sort of thriller to make and how it will appeal to our target audience. 

Mystery Thriller - The Orphan (2007)

Action Thriller - X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Horror Thriller - The Woman In Black (2012)

Thriller Films attract allot of younger viewers from the ages of 15-18. Having a Thriller for our opening will be beneficial as it will then attract more audience that this genre is targeted at. 

Independent Research

Before starting to use Final Cut Pro I've done some re-search into how to use the programme before starting editing for my film.

Thriller Opening Change

Some parts of our thriller got scrapped as we were telling the whole film during just the small opening.

Thriller Pitch

These are the slides from our pitch. Most of them need to be corrected as our idea for the thriller has changed. The bathroom scene has been scrapped from the opening as we only have 2mins to complete it.

Soundtrack Ideas For The Thriller

These are some different sounds that we are interested in from Soundtrack Pro. Heartbeats etc that we hope to use in our film opening.

Animatic for Pitch

This is an animatic, created by Stephanie, of the storyboard for our thriller opening and the specific shots we wanted to use - HOWEVER our idea was very detailed and we had too much for just an opening. This is our initial storyboard animatic and there will be another for the new shots we intend to have.

Sound for the Pitch

                SOUND

I chose a couple of sounds from ‘soundtrack pro’ to give you (the audience) a taster of what kind of sounds will be heard in our ‘thriller opening’. I looked for scary sounds that would make the audience jump and shocked. This will make the clip more like a thriller.

I put in sounds like ‘Heart beats’, to build tension for when something bad is about to happen. This makes the final emotion of the audience more effective.

I also put in slow, low pitched ‘orchestral instruments’, to make the clip have a base sound, so people know what kind of clip they are watching from the sounds they hear in the begining.

Diegetic sounds will also be used to make the clip look more realistic, and not to give an effect on the audience that something is missing. For example, ‘knife sounds’ or ‘footsteps’.

I will also add a breathing sound, to make a sence of ‘following’ in the clip. When the man is being followed, breathing sounds would make the audience more scared and worried for the man. It will make the women look evil/psycho.

Finally, i have come to a conclusion that the sounds should be negative and evil. These are the sounds that will make the clip look more like a ‘thriller’, and make the audience feel the emotions that are suppose to be presented.

Health and Safety

                            Health and Safety

In the lesson about help and safety we learnt many new things about the equipment we use to do our practical coursework.

Tripod. With the tripod we learnt how to insert the camera in to the slot correctly. We then got taught how to put on the secure lock so the camera doesn't slip off.  With the tripod we also  got told a common mistakes which occurs when filming. We got told to always extend the same clip from the tripod so that the tripod is not bent.

CameraWith the camera we got taught a lot of things for our film. We got taught techniques which will be very useful during the filming. 
One thing we learnt is that the camera can be put in 'AF' (auto focus) or 'MF' (Manual focus).
Between the two there's a large difference as an auto focus will not allow you to get the depth field required, weather it's shallow depth of field or deep depth of field.
One more thing we learnt was the zooming, we got taught how to zoom incase we need to focus on something at a greater distance. 
The last thing we got taught is how to use the playback setting so we could view what we just recorded, to check if it is the filming we require. 

Memory card

One thing we learnt about the SD memory card is that the card size allows us up to 2 hours filming time at top quality image. This is vital for us as we need to know what we have to film so we do not go over.
The second most important thing we learnt is that the little switch on the right needs to be up so we can record and have no issues after playing back and possibly deleting  the material we don't intend to use.




Battery
With the battery we learnt that we can use the battery for up to 2 hours. We also got taught how to insert the battery into the camera properly. And the versa, we learnt how to remove the battery also.

Prelim Editing

Me and my group went out and filmed 2 people (me and diego) having a conversation. We took many different shots during the opening and conversation. For example we used;

This is a Medium shot


We can see diego walking towards the door, we can see his waist up meaning it is a medium shot.

Two Shot 

We can see me and diego in one shot, this makes it a two shot. 

Close up 

We can see my hand very close, this makes it a close up. 

Extreme closeup

We can see my hand mostly in the shot, this makes it an extreme closeup

Fade-out  

We can see the shot going black, this shows a fade-out. 

Over The shoulder 

We can see a bit of my shoulder and the other person i am talking to, this shows it is an over the shoulder shot. (conversation)