Week Nine -The video

Week Nine -Finito

   Here are the pictures i took on my phone of my laptop screen showing our video uploaded onto Youtube. Adam did this last night. If you were wondering why i didn't just printscreen, it's because i didn't know how to save a printscreen as an image and it wouldn't upload any other way.

    Adam also uploaded it to Facebook and posted it as both a status, and onto each of our walls in order to get some feedback on the video which i will document and upload onto the blog.



Week Nine -Voki -Christmas

   Here is a voki just saying what my plan is over the Christmas holidays. Just in case my voki isn't clear as i was rushing due to the ridiculously short time limit on them, here is basically what i said.

-I will be answering the seven question using 7 different types of media.
-I will do it over 1 week, most likely one a day.
-I will save them all into drafts.
-I will publish them all in one go when i get back to school which with be on the 4th-ish.

Week Nine -Editing

   I'm finding it increasingly hard to choose different coloured fonts to use in my blogs :(. I think i've used this one two or three times.

   Okay, well in today's lesson, we continued with the editing and also went to a quiet room to record Fehinti's voiceover. Fehinti read from the script that i wrote for him and i think it sounded quite good. When we added his voiceover to the footage that we already had, we did not have enough footage of the interrogation room to cover the length of it. Instead, we decided to put it into slow motion which would have the same desired effect, but would fit the length of the voiceover. From here we decided to add dramatic piano playing over the top of Fehinti;s voice but in the background. I believe this gave the video a more dramatic edge .

   At first, the piano seemed to drown out the sound of Fehinti's voice so we've tried to reduce the sound of the piano to be more fitting.  All we have left to do now if add two more credits and that is pretty much it.

   Our studio logo in my opinion, is still quite metalic. I thought it was going to be black and white which Adam says it is, but it looks completely grey/silver. I don't think this is very fitting  as i think i've mentioned before, gravitational studios sounds natural, as gravity is natural, i think this should be reflected in our logo. I will talk to the group about this again on Wednesday and see what they think, i will feed back then...

  

Week Eight -Voicethread (editing)

    This is a voicethread of me explaing what i did whilst editing. It's just a quick video, i wasn't entirely sure what i should explain but gave it a go :)

Week Eight -Where we are now

   Today in the lesson we all had our individual jobs. I was on finishing the editing for the footage that i shot from the interrogation room whilst Fehinti and Adam worked on the titles.

   Adam and I stayed behind to finish all the editing and put everything together from both locations and the titles. We managed to have 99% of the titles added to the footage and all the scenes added together. I think it looks really good and think it's better than a lot of media film openings that i've seen. All we need to do now is add our logo and the 20th century fox logo, the remainder of the titles then eveaulate it and we are ALLLL DONEEE !!!!!!!!!!

Week Eight -Font

 

   when Making the logo I used a program called live type , the apple software allowed me to a simple yet professional looking title. Above you see to the right side a tool bar that allows you to pick a font and edit it (Its really that simple) it gave us the option of animating the text as shown bellow


   However we though that to animate it would be a bit much when we already have an animated logo , it would be easy and better fitting if we just kept it simple just like the other titles we looked at in the power point I uploaded.



When I got a the font I wanted I exported it to the desktop. Although it does not have a black background, when put in to the film it should have one but we will only put it in when we have finished editing the film footage

 

 

 

 

 

   This is from Fehinti's blog and was done at a time that i was not available but have been caught up to speed.

Week Eight -Institution Logo

   Okay, well ive changed my mind. I've just done a bit more research and looked at the trailer for taken. The institution  Taken has used is 20th Century Fox. This institution will be the one we use the reason for this is because 20th Century Fox is very successful and produces a wide variety of films. I believe this would well represent us as a film. This institution has been around for a very long time -since it was founded on May 31th 1935 by William Fox.

We will use this in our film.

Week Eight -Filming

   Right. Well today we finished our filming that we would have finished last week but couldn't due to strikes. I filmed the scenes and Fehinti and Mr. Ellis acted as nine and the detective. Adam helped with the positioning of the actors, etc as he was not filming because he filmed our first location scenes.

   I becan editing the footage that i had filmed that day, cutting out the part that i believe did not flow. Adam was Fehinti was.

   I was given the  job of deciding which insititution we were going to use in our film. One of the options i looked at was Paramount pictures.

   After researching the type of films Paramount pictures make, i thought that this institution could be a very good one for our film because the films they make are the bigger, more successful films. A few films they have made are: Hugo, Puss in boots and Paranormal Activity 3. These are highly popular films and i believe that if we use it in our film, it would suggest that our film would be in the league that Paramount pictures films are in if it were a real movie theatre film.

Another possibility is Universal Studios. This was also a very high contender as our chosen institution logo because of the success of the insitution.

   Some of the films Universal Studios make are: Cowboys and Aliens, Larry Crowne and Tower Heist. These films are successful but aren't as well known which would suggest that the institution is not as big as Paramount Pictures which if this was to be a real movie, it may not get the same publicity as it would if we used Paramount. On the other hand, i think 'Universal Studios' sounds big and powerful which is a bit like out insitution's name 'Gravitational Studios' so i think they would go well together and sound more like a close partnership.

   The last institution i'm going to talk about is Dreamworks.

   I have decided to evaluate this institution because i wanted to show what i didn't want. I believe that Dreamworks would be the wrong choice as our institution logo. This is because the type of films that Dreanworks produce and our film are not alike. Some of the films that Dreamworks have produced are: Shrek, Monsters v.s. Aliens and Kung Fu Panda which are animations and suitable for children. I think that if we used this institution then it would mislead our audience as they may think that as Dreamworks has worked on this film, that it's going to be a certain type of film (light-hearted and fun).

Week seven -Location Scouting

As you will have already seen this is the location we want to shoot in . Although it is easy access and reliable I have some concerns about it , in terms of how we will properly use the space and still keep our modern take of gritty film noir mise en scene.



One of my concerns was the use of space. In order to make sure we have enough space to use the techniques we have learned e.g the 180 degree rule we must properly plan where things will be placed. The picture above illustrates one way in which we may place the table ; if we did it this way each person would be either to the let and right of this picture meaning that our camera shots would not show the door nor anything else that might obscure attention away from the actors although the room is bleak any way. This placement may change when we get to the space as we may decide that is not the best way to do things however for now this stands as we can use up our time more efficiently instead of wasting it moving things around.


Another massive concern was the use of lighting, the lighting in the room is quite bright as you can see and this is not held by that fact that the room is a bright reflecting colour (which mean light is brighter as it ray bounce of the paint more and are not absorbed). also circled on the picture is quite a large amount of natural lighting coming through that cannot be blocked , as a large amount of light coming from the long office lighting at the top of the room.The reason this is a problem is because the more lighting we have the less the scene fits the film noir feel we are going for with the interrogation. However there is a way we can combat this and use the natural lighting to our advantage




If we place the camera to shoot from behind 9 (as planned) but at a lower angle we will make is face darker just like in the movie review I did a few weeks ago. I cannot be sure this will work without trying first so I will try and take some photos of the use of lighting before shooting properly.
Also to make sure the light is not over powering we will have to film when it get darker which shouldn't be a problem as it is the winter and it gets darker sooner.







   This has been taken from Fehinti's blog. When Adam and Fehinti were at this location, i was given the task of researching fonts as to maximise the amount of work we got done in the short amount of time that we had.