Last...few...steps...

     
      Here, I present to you our very nearly finished title sequence. All that needs adding now is the voice-over and a few checks and touch ups with the soundtrack. With the titles I tried hard to fins the correct font so everything tied in. Today we were given our 7 evaluation questions and told to work on the first.

Rough Cut Feedback

Today Bex and I showed our rough cut to the class and here are a few things we noted down;

1. Detach audio from scenes added today!
2. Keep the eye-line match with Bex and the Pier - (don't interrupt with the letter writing.)
3. In the shots of Bex writing a letter, she hasn't written much - continuity?
4. Increase the opacity - ghost is too ghostly. (Someone in our class didn't see it! O.o)
5. Re-consider clothes of the ghost.
6. Hand or shadow rather than whole people/evil/sound music to make it scary.
7. Clever continuity/illusion.

Of course we are a way off completing our final title sequence, but after this we have decided to of course work on the areas that came up.

1. Detaching the audio was just something we forgot to do given the time of having to upload the shots before showing it to the class!
2. The point on eye-line match is a very good point and I totally agree with this, so of course this will be changed.
3. Where Bex hasn't written a lot is a fair point, so we will have a long think about re-filming as such a late date. 
4. Same with the ghost, it will take a while to find the perfect opacity, we just didn't have the time in one lesson today! 
5. Not sure why we would need to, but we will think about it. :)
6. I don't quite fully understand this point yet, the soundtrack we had playing was just a protocol, whilst Bex was working on mixing a few together and creating something perfect!
7. Well, this was our aim! ^_^

Production Diary Entry 7 - ROUGH CUT

      Today we completed our rough cut as much as we could with the time we had. So far we are short of titles, the ident and many other small things such as the soundtrack, voiceover and scratching to put over the photo shot. Bex has been working on the soundtrack and combining pieces she has found and one small piece she created herself on a samsung tablet. I have been completely focused on all the editing and piecing together of all the shots to create the rough cut I present to you here;

Production Diary Entry 6

      Today Bex and I filmed the last of our shots needed to complete our Title Sequence. Over the week I re-watched the title sequence from Se7en and was extremely inspired by the 'book flicking' technique used at the very beginning. So today Bex and I tried this, it looks pretty good and we are hopeful it looks even better! I then mentioned to Bex that we should consider having our titles in it if we were to slow it down ever so slightly. Here's the one I mean;

      I realize our won't quite be so brilliant, but it was worth a go eh!? We weren't going for the '7 deadly sins' feel anyway!

• What went well

General filming and ideas for improvising.

• What might need improving

Sey up of scenes and where we place what. We want the best result for the flashbacks.

• Any progression on ideas

Etchy scenes for flashbacks.

Writing a longer script for the voice-over.

Using the sound of the fountain pen when writing.

• Any changes to schedule

Sadly the buses to no run over the weekend to Clevedon, so we will have to use the scenes we have as we only go to film Bex writing today.

• How the overall shooting has gone

Pretty good I believe, we used a great variety of shots today so we can pick and choose!

New Shooting Schedule

      Due to a few corrections and areas Bex and I need to improve on we have drawn up a new shooting schedule for this weekend that will enable us to stick to our new plans and finish all shooting that we need!

Production Diary Entry 5

Editing for Rough Cut

Rough Cut due date: 19th March 2013


What went well

Selection of scene, cutting and piecing together as well as colour enhancing the scenes to emphasize the effect of a flashback.

What might need improving

Selection of shots.

Continuity.

Soundtrack.

Any progression on ideas

The scenes we have to date are to be used as flashbacks that Amelia has when she is writing in the diary.

More shots are needed (to be filmed on Sunday).

1 minute shoot of Bex writing in a diary that will relate to voiceover.

Any changes to schedule

This Sunday we will re-shoot a few scenes to continue with our idea of the flashbacks. We will also do a 1 minute shoot of Bex sat at a desk writing in her diary as we plan to vary the shots of a mid close up of her face and then possibly one over the shoulder so we can see what she is writing. 

How the overall shooting has gone

Overall things are going ok, we just have a few areas to touch up on, especially our continuity but everything is scheduled.

Techniques used when editing 

Transforming the recording to have more of a cinematic 16:9 feel rather than a standard 4:3 video aspect ratio.

Colour correction on the video so that it has a more professional visualisation, although it may not be a natural colour tone it is one that will enhance the shot to collaborate with the mood of the scene and emphasize the idea of a flashback. 

How the editing went. 

So far so good, mainly been exploring Final Cut Pro and all the many things you can do on it.

Production Diary Entry 4

      Today Bex and I met in town to film the rest of what we need for our title sequence. This involved taking a panning shot of the view from the Pier that will be featured when Amelia takes her eyes off the picture to look out to sea as we include the sound of the photo being scratched and then a reaction shot of Amelia's face when she notices that one face in the picture has been scratched out.