Thursday, 10 May 2012
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Final Piece- Mind Games
Our Final Piece
This is our final piece; we were able to get to this stage by taking on board the comments that were made by the audience. The original idea for the storyline had to be changed because of the challenges which we face, for example the corridor light were automatic meaning that the fill would be too bright for it to have the thriller theme to it.
People's Opinions On Our Final Piece
We asked people to watch our final piece and comment on the
good and bad things of our movie. From the audiences comments we saw that
everyone enjoyed our movie. This meant that we managed to create an opening to
our movie to good standards as the audience were attracted to it.
Changes we made to the scenes
Our story line had to change from our initial storyboard due
to a number of reasons. One of them being the reliability of the actors who we
needed were unable to make it during the times were we wanted to film. This put
more pressure on the group in terms of time and keeping to a schedule. To go
around this issue we were able to obtain a new character, Mario Tofaris who was
our new character in the role of Christina’s father rather than David. This
allowed us to be more flexible with filming as Mario attended our sixth form as
a collegiate student making it easier for us to film after school without so
much of a delay.
Another reason for changing the story line was due to issues
with the school as we were not allowed permission after the first filming to
shoot on site. This gave us even more limited time on filming and put more
pressure on the group to finish. Luckily we were able to find permission to
film on another site – Trinity at Bowes.
However as the building changed we were unable to film the scene with
the corridor as it internal design was different to that at school and would
affect the consistency of the filming if our character would be viewed in a
blatantly different location.
We attempted to get around this issue by turning the lights
off in one room and shine a torch on our character. This made it unclear of the
room and would only view the location as though it were a corridor. However
because the lighting was too dark even with the torch it still appeared too
dark for us to film. This led us to come up with the idea of the lift scene
which was also in the new building where we were filming. After the attempt to
film the corridor scene in the one room did not work we had to quickly think of
how we were going to film this part of our thriller and how we would link it
straight after the toilets scene. We decided add more suspense to our thriller
through the CCTV camera which allowed us to use the conventions of thriller of
the use of black and white.
For our thriller we had intended to use white noise to
reveal Mario in the toilets scene with Christina to add to the sense of
suspense and give it that skipped heart beat effect. However because of the
short amount of time which Mario was viewed in the filming we decided to keep
it out and leave it only on the background music. This also kept the texture
lighter so that not too many sounds were layered all at once.
Challenges we faced with our location
Our Locations had to be changed. This is because the site
manager at our school was delaying his decision on whether or not he would give
permission to film on school premises with boys for the third time filming. We
required filming this many times because we didn’t have the sufficient camera
shots. In addition, some of our camera shots weren’t to the best of standards
which meant that we had to re-film them. As our school closes at 6pm and needs
students to start leaving at 5:45 we only had a limited time to film. This is
because we had to wait for the majority of the school students to be off the
premises, which were at around 4:00 – 4:15pm, before we started filming.
However, after about a week of waiting, we were told that we
couldn’t film at school with boys on site for the third time. This hugely
impacted our planned filming and also resulted in three scheduled days of
filming to be cancelled. We therefore had to decide whether we changed our
storyboard completely and changed the location or if we would find somewhere
similar to film. After some persuading, Beatriz’s volunteering place, Trinity
at Bowes church, allowed us to use their halls to film our coursework. However,
they asked us to agree to repay them by filming a music concert that was
happening on Friday 30th March.
As our filming was pushed back so far, we had to work extra
hard to complete the editing of our two minute movie opening. This also meant
that we had to attend school during our Easter holiday on Thursday 5th
April to finish our blogs and final two minute movie opening. Beatriz Arredondo
recorded the final version of the voices we used in our final piece. She also
edited the credits. Roshani Perera created the CCTV monitor effect. Mary-Grace
Vicente was unable to attend as she had to go to work.
Checklist
This image is a printscreen of the checklist that each of our group member had. It allowed us to be organised as we used it to check what step we had to complete next.
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Rough Cuts
This is the first rough cut; we had scenes missing as we
were not able to film the rest of our scenes in school due to boys not being
allowed on site. Therefore this meant that we had to change our initial story
line for the final piece. This is the reason why we have two rough cuts.
This is our second rough cut. After changing most of our story line we managed to get our movie filmed. But, the rough cut still needed to be improved. We changed many things such as the credits ‘beep’ noise stopped playing halfway through the credits. Then we noticed that the toilet scene was too jumpy due to the camera shots, we fixed this by using different types of shots such as mid shots and close up.
What people had to say about our movie
To get an audiences view of our rough cut, we showed some
people and interviewed two of them. They gave us some constructive criticism which
we took on board when making our final piece.
Credits
YouTube video on fading images on flash
This YouTube video helped us a lot as it showed us step by
step how to create fading on flash. The fading was used on the credits after
each layer came of the stage.
The video above was used as inspiration when creating the creadis.
As the image above does not show on the document below, I inserted a printscreen of it so that the colour and text type is shown.
This document contains printscreen and explanations
of the making of the credits.
The final credits which we used in our final piece is displayed above. We split the credits into two pieces so that the 'mind games' could be put at the end of out final piece and the other one could be inserted at the beginning of our opening.
Final Music
Creating the music
The music was created by us as we recorded it using our
music player. The instruments which we used were a piano and a keyboard. Then we
layered them together using Audacity and the software Power Director. Also, by
cropping some parts of the recording and placed them at different times created
a variety in the music. Lastly, we made some parts of the music faster by
altering the tempo to give the effect we wanted and build tension to the
audience through the fast music.
Music Inspiration
The
first video inspired us to use the piano and the second one gave us the idea of
adding a different effect to our music.
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
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