To make our film stand out and to make it look like a professional film after researching other films, we have seen that before the film starts there is a green screen with writing on it to say that the film as been approved for certain audiences.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Completely changing the beginning
Yesterday, me, Elle, Emma and Soph all went to Ms Foster's office to borrow a netbook and as we were there me and Emma wanted to show her what we had edited recently on Monday.
She liked the black screens we entered at the start spelling, 'MURDER IS LIKE MUSIC T
O MY EARS', and particularly liked the overlapped clip at the end. She also agreed with the fact that we decided to delete the blood scene as she had told us to this a long time ago but we never listened.
However, from watching it several times she thought that the montage at the beginning consisting of fast clips made our '2 minute film opening' appear more like a 'film trailer'. This would be going against the specification and could lower our grade.
The five of us disagreed on whether we should delete the whole montage or not as me and Emma felt that this was the most effective part of the film opening whereas Miss, Soph and Elle all thought it looked more like a trailer.
From this split decision, Ms Foster tried to convince us to agree with her and played our film opening with her hand covering up the montage and telling us to imagine black screens instead with text about the production etc. and the film starting with
the shot of the music box spinning and then zooming out onto Elle spinning.
After this, I was convinced that the montage did look too much like a film trailer and so we headed up to the media room to edit the beginning.
The montage itself lasted about 20 seconds so we had to make up this time and fill up the spaces where the montage was with black screens lasting the exact same time so that it did not affect the music.
So from ideas from other films, we inserted about 3 screens reading;
1. A S.E.E.N Production- The name 'seen' being an acronym-the first letters of the four of our names. I also spotted this as being quite ironic as the word 'seen' is associated with films because we watch films.
The five of us disagreed on whether we should delete the whole montage or not as me and Emma felt that this was the most effective part of the film opening whereas Miss, Soph and Elle all thought it looked more like a trailer.
From this split decision, Ms Foster tried to convince us to agree with her and played our film opening with her hand covering up the montage and telling us to imagine black screens instead with text about the production etc. and the film starting with
the shot of the music box spinning and then zooming out onto Elle spinning.After this, I was convinced that the montage did look too much like a film trailer and so we headed up to the media room to edit the beginning.
The montage itself lasted about 20 seconds so we had to make up this time and fill up the spaces where the montage was with black screens lasting the exact same time so that it did not affect the music.
So from ideas from other films, we inserted about 3 screens reading;
1. A S.E.E.N Production- The name 'seen' being an acronym-the first letters of the four of our names. I also spotted this as being quite ironic as the word 'seen' is associated with films because we watch films.
2. Jackel Presents-Initially we had 'Fox Presents' but we thought that Jackel would look less copyrighted.
3.We also decided to have the title at the beginning.
All these clips lasted about 6-7 seconds each to fit in with the music perfectly.
Also on Wednesday, we wanted to hook our audience at the end and keep them 'hanging off the edge of their seats' as one would say, so we inserted a quick flash of a shot of Billy appearing behind Elle in the car park so they would want to know what is going to happen next so will continue to watch the film.
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