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Question 7

http://slides.com/bushraali/prelim/live


My question 7 has been put on Slides. If you click on this link then it will direct you straight to my presentation.

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With this prezi me and summer worked together to create it , we researched it separately and then put our research together to create this prezi as one.

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Final cut is also another technology that I used,it helped me achieve my editing stage for my title sequence. It was useful in adding filters and cutting parts out that was not helpful and by cutting them parts out improved the title sequence.

This camera is what I used to film my title sequence. It was helpful as it was top quality and could film outdoor with good picture.

Question 7

This is my Prelim and my final title sequence film , to show and compare how much progress and skills have changed and improved.

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Question 3- What institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

For this question me and Beau decided to help each other create this Prezi, by researching through the work we had done previously in classes and putting out information together.

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Evidence of Editing

 

This is evidence of me editing. I tried to create and duplicate the pattern that my group member beau did. I experimented quite a lot before I made the final one.

Garage band

Garage band

 

 

 

We used plenty of sounds from garage band. We had one specific sound that ran all through the title sequence. We got this idea from Taken this gives our title sequence a scary/ eerie effect.

 

We then added some sounds that would really create a dark and horror atmosphere

 

In order to make our sound better we decided to record Summer saying things that would make us really feel some sympathy for her. It would give the audience a sense of just how scared the character Jess must have been. Her fear comes through in the little lines that we have put in the title sequence. She says 'WHY ME', 'I THINK SOMEONE IS FOLLOWING ME' and 'HELP'. With a few screams that we have recorded all of this shows us what Jess must of been going through. The audience is sure to be very confused because they wont know what is happening however that's the mystery we were trying to create.

Motion

Motion

We decided to make our titles simple but not boring. If it was too complicated it would not be very realistic.

We made a list of titles that we planned to use. Instead of using our names over and over again, we used names of friends and people that we know (to make it more realistic).

We experimented for quite a few lessons before making our final titles. We used a white background with black writing. This seemed like a good idea however when we put it on top our scenes we expected it to automatically become transparent but this did not happen.

We were told that we had to use a black background so we got rid of everything we did and started again. This time we used a black background with white writing. When we merged the titles with the scenes it become transparent and the way wanted it.

Deadline

Deadline-

The day of our title sequence deadline, two of our group members came together after school to put the final touches on our title  sequences. We had our sound finished on garage band, we had our titles finished on motion and we had our scenes finished on final cut pro.

We had many issues leading up to the deadline. We realised that the titles we made on Motion were not transparent therefore were not able to go over our scenes. We struggled so much but the help from the technicians showed us what we were doing wrong. Once we were able to figure out what we were doing, we made the titles much quicker and much more efficiently.

After we did that we added the music, the titles and the scenes together. With help from our teacher and flow students advice, we made the changes that was required to make our title sequence better.

We have until the 20th of March to finish our blogs which means I am able to use the feedback I have received to improve my blog/

Filmic Influences

FILMIC INFLUECES

 

 

The title sequence for this movie is decretive. This is what influenced my group to do a decretive title sequence for our youth drama.

 

A decretive title sequence is what creates a horror and scary mood.

 

 The reason we used this type of title sequence because we wanted to put all the scenes we filmed into a random order. This was to create a sense of mystery. This would give the audience a chance to really see what happened to our main character during the rest of the film The title sequence of SE7EN also has many filters and that is what we used as well. The storyline has nothing to do with our title sequence however the mystery and the horror is what we used to influence our title sequence WATCHED.  

Feedback of Draft

Feedback of Draft

evidence of editing

This is me editing the poster shot , I done lots of different things such as change the rotation and how fast or slow i wanted it to rotate. This was the first time I used this editing skill , but now i know how to do it so in the future I will be able to use it more.

Feedback

Blogging Checklist

I have received extra feedback from my teacher. Since we are getting closer to our deadlines I have a personal checklist of stuff that i need to add to the blog in order to get my grade up. With this feedback I know what i need to do and how i can improve my blog post.
Before Friday I plan to have completed this checklist and updated my blog.

BEAU

Taken

Taken- We have used taken as inspiration for our title sequence.

The signiture colour red is something that we are plan to use with our titles and with filters over our scenes. 

The continuous music used to create a horror effect is something that we also plan to use in our title sequence. 

We don't plan to copy everything from Taken however when watching our title sequence it will be obvious what our inspiration was.

Feedback

FEEDBACK FROM ONE ON ONES-

The feedback I got from my one on ones told me what I was lacking from my blogging and what I was doing well. When it comes to the planning for filming and the pitch I was told that I was doing very well. I was clear about what our plan for our title sequence was.

What I was- told to improve was the rate of which I blog. I need to blog more instead of blogging all at once in one day. Every time that we film or we edit it would benefit me if I blogged straight after that.

What I have done since my feedback

• I have made a diary of filming so that when we film I blog straight after it.
• I have been screen shotting all the editing we have been doing and blogging it.
• I have been getting feedback from students and using it to improve our title sequences.

Planned Titles

Production Company

'WATCHED'

1) Summer Borland


2) Bushra Ali


3) Director- Beau McNamara


4) Producer- Summer Borland


5) Music Director- Bushra Ali


6) Writer- Beau McNamara


7) Costume Director- Bushra Ali

8) Editor- Beau McNamara 

9) Written by- Summer Borland

10) Director of Photography- Bushra Ali

Evaluaion of Rough Cut

Evaluation of Rough Cut:

From completing our rough cut we have learned what we are doing well and what it is we need to improve on.
The different scenes and the random order of our rough cut highlights the decretive title sequence we are aiming for. We used different colours and some slow motion to make our title sequence have the genre of thriller/ horror. It also makes our title sequence more interesting.

We have many improvements to make before our title sequence is perfect. We need improve the transition between the scenes so our title sequences flow better. Also from the feedback we have got we know that we have to add more scenes to our title sequence. At the moment it is very short however we filmed many scenes so we have a widened variety to choose from. This will benefit us to make our final title sequence longer. Our rough cut at the moment does not have any titles apart from our movie name and production company. We plan to add many more for our final title sequences.

garage band - rough cut

This is a rough cut of our soundtrack that we made on garage band , we was just looking around at the different sounds that we could of used in our title sequence, because our rough copy of the title sequence wasn't ready when we was doing so we couldn't have have the film in the background so we had to guess where to put sounds. However , at the end we come up with some good ideas to use.

Dans feedback

We made dan watch our title sequence how we have done it so far , he like it and he thinks that it is much better than the one we showed him a few weeks ago meaning we have improved it and listened to his other feedback.
This time he only had 2 critics to say about it.:

1) His not to sure on the colour red for our title 'Watched'

2) The shot with the phone he says that its like dialogue and doesn't fit in.

we listened to his feedback and will addd to it. However, we do not agree with his comment about 'red' as we are using that colour because it is what has inspired us from the film take. But we have took on his other comment and we are going to improve for next time he watches it.

Motion

I experimented with motion to see what type of interesting titles we could use. 'summer borland' is the actress playing the main character and i used her name to give me an idea o what all the other titles would look like. The bottom image shows that i tried different angles to make it more interesting.

Editing process.

  In the editing process , I went through all image control to see what effects will be useful to use in our title sequence. I came across 3 effects that I liked and which will link with our theme of thriller/horror, and as we are doing a discreet title sequence these effects will show throughout the title sequence. I chose the dark and mysterious colours to give of the mysterious vibe to the audience. One I got the hang of it it was easier and quicker for me to edit shots and put effects on them with out any struggle. 

Another editing process I repeated though out what to dissolve shots over one another to create a dramatic feeling and looks more professional.

Below are screenshots of the effects I used and how I used them:

For this shot I used a negative effect, as it shows the setting I thought it would give of a negative vibe which links to our thriller title sequence.

For this shot I chose a sepia effect and I repeated it throughout the sequence on different shots that I thought would look good.

I also used a negative effect here but i repeated the shot , so all shots are in different effects to carry on the descreet title sequence.

This is just a screen shot of my editing process and how I put on the effects.

Categorizing title sequences

Task 15 analysing High School Drama (Easy A)

This is some of the work I have completed in class, in which i had to analyze the camera, editing, mise-en-scene and sound of a High School Drama called Easy A.

editing process- 9/2/2015

As we have changed our title sequence to a discreet sequence I have been experimenting with the editing. I have done quick rapid shots so we don't give to much of the story away but also made it quite scary and gloomy for the audience to watch.

As a group we changed it because we was influenced by the title sequences;

Arlington road
















Seven

We was influenced wight the odours and the shots that have been used in these sequences.
Also the music you could hear whilst we watched these sequenced made an impact on what our music wanted to be like.

Update on title sequence

We are currently in the middle of editing our title sequence through garageband as we are adding all of the non-diagetic and diagetic sounds to make our title more effective. This is coming along very well as we are using sounds that fit into the theme of the title sequence. 

This is a screenshot we have taken which Beau is currently editing while Bushra is making the titles through motion capture. We decided to voice record my self on one of our phones of different recordings of me saying things that will be said in the film. This has worked out well as it combines with the images that come up when there is a voiceover of different memorable sayings.

Rough cut of Watched

This is our rough copy of our title sequence which we still need to add sound and make the sequence longer as it is too short. We also need to sort out the jump between the production company and the name of our film as this is an error that needs to be fixed. We are now currently working on the soundtrack using garage band to be added to the title sequence.

Sub-genre conventions

Easy A:
This is a very complex title sequence which includes a lot through the use of camera, editing , mise-en-scene and sound.

Mise-en-scene: The mise-en-scene is the main part of the title which shows us the different locations/settings and the characters that are going to be involved in the film. The fact that at the start of the title sequence shows us blue skies which then moves down to a flag of USA , straight away tells us its in a hot place in America. Which is then moved on to a sign saying 'Ojai' ( the town of where the film is taking place). Further on into the title there is a shot of a school name, therefore giving us further information of the main location which is clearly a High School. The fact that there is bright lighting throughout the whole title sequence indicates that it may have taken place in the summer due to the images of the trees, oranges etc.  We then get an establishing shot of the playground showing the different kinds of stereotypical groups of teenagers (e.g. popular girls, nerds etc). This gives the audience an idea of the main plot of the film through the use of the locations, settings. characters and the different things discovered through the images for example the shoes hanging on the tree.


Sound: The sound is also a very important technique as it sets the tone of the title sequence. Therefore through the use of having an up beat song playing at the beginning allows the audience to get a positive view point on the film and therefore intrigue them to want to watch more and creating a good atmosphere. The fact that the bell rings while the synchronous music is playing tells the audience that the start of the film is about to begin. There is then a non diegetic voice over of a girl speaking explaining the main plot of the story making the audience interested and listening to what she has to say.

Editing: There is a lot of editing that has taken place in this title sequence through the use of lots of different techniques. At the beginning there is a jump cut from the setting of the film to a sign showing us where the film is being taken place. Furthermore, the name of the film is also edited into the title through photoshop as it is noticed on a shot of shoes hanging from a tree to show the start of the film. Another editing technique is when there is a narrative voice over explaining the plot of the main character which is taken place while the title credits and setting are still being shown to the audience.

Camera;  There are a variety of different camera shots in this sequence such as close ups, titling down movement, tracking and much more. At the beginning of the sequence the camera tilts down to the production company name so that it is the main focus of the screen to intrigue the target audience and making them well aware of the production company. Furthermore, there is an establishing shot of a orange garden which is then jump cutted to a close up of on orange this may be to emphasize the setting as it may be a main part of the film. There is also a lot of tracking from when the school bell rings of the different students rushing around to the classes which then focuses on to the main character by tracking lots of different students then stopping on her.

Analyse two title sequences

Spring Breakers:

This title sequence is very plain but very effective as it is on a blank black screen not inferring any clips of the movie. This therefore limits the target audience information on what the film is going to include but due to the fact that they have used letters that are customised to look like different objects in the film which can intrigue the audience. Furthermore the fact that the colours used to emphasise the text allow us to know that the target audience is aimed at young teenager girls which also contrast with the upbeat music being played while the titles are being shown.

This title sequence is very short due to the fact that it is a mainstream production as it does not include all of the actors at the beginning which is different to many other titles. It is also apparent that it is a animated title sequence as the font would have been edited to look an exact way to intrigue the audience and make it interesting.


Coraline:

This title sequence is very different in contrast to spring breakers as it starts to tell the story of the doll Coraline therefore giving away the main story line plot. This is a narrative title sequence due to this fact and is clearly not an stylized title sequence as it does not include current editing software techniques. Furthermore, it is a very interesting title sequence which includes a lot allowing the audience to be intrigued by all the information portrayed through the doll being created. While this is being done this is when the different titles are shown of the producers/ editors etc, which is an effective way to do it as it is not to distracting from the main focus of the  title sequence.

It is also a much longer title sequence then the first one I have analyzed as it is a narrative title it therefore has more to include and more to show about the film, the fact that it is a childrens films as well is that fact that they have to explain what is going on in the film so that they do not get bored of it.

Recording - editing

This is a recording of me editing and tryong new things such as effects to see what it looks like. the more and more i try new things when editing the more i learn new things.

Missing poster

We have created this missing poster with all the information about our character 'Jess'. We plan to have this at the end of our title sequence which then prompts the rest of the movie where Jess is being found with flashbacks of what happened to her.

Also as you know at the beginning our title sequence was influenced by the film 'Taken' , therefore , the colour scheme that we have used is red and black because of the film 'Taken'. We find that the colours are very catchy and could give a clue to the audience that the title sequence is a 'thriller' because if the red symbolizing blood and black symbolizes dark and scary atmosphere. 



 

As you can the red font of the name stands out the most and draws you in straight away, and thats what we are trying to do with our title sequence. Eventhough we are doing a descreet title sequence and taken is not one parts of that film we have used to help make ours such as the colour , font and layout.

My feedback - 2

28 posts

you have some very strong work on your blog Beau but there is work missing that is preventing you from attaining a mark into level 3, which is more reflective of your potential.  Please reflect on the feedback below and complete the to do list at the bottom.

Strengths:

Some good detail in the posts

Visually nicely organised and presented

Less strong:

•             Frequency of posting to the blog – only 1 post between 10/01 and 03/02

•             Lots of planning posts are missing e.g. no storyboard, pitch, production schedule etc… without evidence of these things your mark cannot go into level 3 (C+ and B)

•             Taken isn’t a teen drama so you need to record / discuss some teen drama influences too

To do:

1.            Improve your frequency of posting to the blog

2.            Post up all your planning blogs that are missing

3.            Begin to use a greater range of ICT

4.            Improve your posting to the blog during the filming and editing stages

5.            Post up the research into other influence films and sequences as well as taken that are from the teen drama genre

What we did today

• We shot the last scenes of our title sequence.
• We began editing our rough cut.
• We got feedback from a student about our rough cut.
• We started to watch title sequences fro past students and Homeland which influenced us to change our title sequence to discretive - we have decided to change our sequence to this because we don't want to give to much away to the audience we want to keep them wondering whats gonna happen in the film.

Change of display and Layout of blog.

This is how our blog was originally designed before we decided on the type of genre, it was plain and had no theme to therefore coming across as very simple. The fact that the background was very plain and the writing didn't really stand out not making it seem like a Thriller title sequence.

I then edited the blog through using a different type of layout and creating a dark atmosphere to portray the mysterious theme, by changing the colours of the text and the colour of the background. This links to our title sequence ' Watched' as it is very mysterious and the fact it is a thriller themed sequence displays the  genre through the use of colours.

Reflecting on our current sequence and some changes we would like to make

As a group we have created a rough draft which is going to be posted shortly and from viewing it, we have discussed that a narrative title sequence is not very effective for our storyline. Therefore we viewed a few of our friends ideas that study media at A2 and have previously created title sequences and trailers in different colleges. This influenced our ideas as we then decide that it would be better to create a discrete title sequence as it will link to our mysterious storyline. Due to this, we then showed our teacher our current rough draft which she then gave feedback that it was effective and there is slight improvements that need to be made. This is when we discussed the idea of changing it to a discrete title sequence, in which she showed us the opening title of Arlington Road giving us  a immediate idea of how we would like to present our title sequence.

 As an effect of watching Arlington Road title sequence ( which is embedded into the blog) this has given us many ideas that we are going to include in our title sequence, which is currently now being re-drafted. Therefore as result of changing our type of title sequence we hope that it will create a more effective and interesting look which will intrigue our target audience. 

Furthermore, the fact that is it a Thriller genre it links to the idea of it being a discrete title sequence as we  don't want to give away too much of the storyline as we want it to be mysterious. Which will then make our audience to want to continue watching and be interested in our film.

Student Feedback from rough cut

We asked a fellow student to watch our rough cut of our title sequence. We asked her what was good, what was bad and what we should change. Since this is a teen drama, the feedback we got from Shayma helped us to change our title sequence to improve it

photos of filming sessions

This is our twitter account that we have made to keep in contact with our college, This was evidence to prove where we was and that we was filming.
We took this picture to show the location of where a bouts we was filming and this picture is down regents canal.
The canal was where we filmed the main character 'jess' getting chased by the stalker.
This was on the 19th of January.

Just another tweet to prove we are filming.

This was on the 4th of february where we filmed the main characters normal day at college. This picture shows that stalker watching Her as she was entering college.

More title sequence work

This is some of the work we did on the categorization of title sequences which therefore allowed us to then explore the different types of title sequences available. Which then eventually lead to us choosing what type of title sequence we were going to do.

Forms of distribution

We have been through all of our footage , which we have put together using Final Cut Pro and which will in the future be edited and titles will be added into it as-well.  Therefore we are going to start marketing our title sequence to persuade and allow people to have an idea of what our title sequence is going to be about and what it involves.

We are going to create a twitter account as it is one of the main social networking sites that young teenagers use , therefore allowing us to reach our target audience and promote our title sequence.

The reason for us using a twitter page is because it is free form of advertising and is the best way as when we was researching we found that social networking is the mainly used by teens which is what we are looking to attract.

We have also decided that we are going to create a facebook page as it is the most popular social networking sites which provides both our target audience and secondary target audience.

It is also a good idea for us to create this page as we can keep people updated about when we are going to be posting our rough draft on to this page and we can then see how many people will like and share our title sequence draft.

Blogging feedback

1st blogging feedback:

This was my first feedback i received which I then started to post more blogs as I was behind, this shall therefore allow my grade to go up and will let me know how I can improve the quality of my posts.

Production Schedule

This is our planned production schedule we showed during our presentation which allows us to work around the days that we can film all together as a group which then allows us to have enough time to edit our title sequence. 

We are currently nearly finished our filming and we are going to start editing as today (2nd February 2015).

We feel that we have given our self a lot of time to feel and therefore have more footage than we need so that we have a choice of the different clips/shots we want to utilise in the title sequence.

Day 2 of Filming

Day 2 of Filming

Day 2 of filming was done on the 28 of January 2015. We made our way to the park opposite college.
We filmed the scene where Amy is going to meet Jess to hear about what is happening. During the conversation it is clear that Amy is not bothered about what is happening.

We then made our way to the regents canal where we beagn filming our chase scenes between Jess and the stalker. We did many retakes at differnt shots to establish what was happening and during our editing precess we have many shots to pick from.

 

 

 

Since it was heavily raining we were worried about the equipment and  we were not able to do all the shots that we planned to do. We made our way back to college and decide to film the scene where the stalker has many pictures of teenage girls infront of him to highlight his obsession and then we had him circle the picture of Summer who is playing the role of Jess.

We filmed in a dark room with all the lights off and we had one light coming form the camera which created thriller mood.

 

Camera shots used on Day 2

 

Long shot

Close up

Establishing wide shot

Over the shoulder shots

Day 1 of filming

Day 1 of filming

Filming our title sequence 'watched' began on the 26th of January 2015.

We started filming at Summers house. We began filming our last scene where the main character Jess wakes up and is in her bedroom.
We also filmed the scene where she spots the stalker walking outside her house. She doesnt think much of it and carries on with her usual business. She gets ready for college and we film her leaving the house.

After that we filmed Jess coming back from college and she notices someone
following her so she rushes into her house and drops her keys because she is
overwhelmed by fear.

The final scene we filmed on Day 1 was the scene where Jess texts her freind Amy about being followed. Her friend Amy takes no notice of the text as she thinks it is not a big deal.

Camera shots used on Day 1

• Match cuts
• Close ups
• Wide shot to establish the surroundings