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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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