Research and Planning: Video



Final Video:

 

Research and Planning - Print

The ediitng was done. so now we had to move onto the researching planning of the film poster and review. We had to look at other film posters and magazine film reviews to get inspiration. I looked at 'Q Magazine' to get case studies off. I also looked 'Empire Magazine.'

Editing the Video

Today we had set about in reducing the length of our film as it had gone over 5 minutes. Our teacher helped us with us as she told us where she believed there were unnecessary scenes. We had cut down  the film to 5 minutes, which was the maximum film tim. Even though our film did not come to our predicted time of 4 minutes, we were still really proud of the finished product!! By the end of editing I had learnt to use Final Cut Pro very effectively and could now use it easily.

Editing the Video

The film was nearly finished!! We just had to add in the finishing touches to it. Today we decided we'd spend this lesson on making the car crash scene. We didn't really know how to create a car crash effect. So we looked on youtube for inspiration.

We used this video to help us. We thought we'd speed up the clip which would make it more realistic. Also we slowed down the build up to the car crash. The scene where the protagonist is going to cross the road was slowed down. The car crash now looked more realistic. After the car crash we left a 3 second gap to build more tension. We used the group selection tool to move some parts of the clip to make a little gap. We were really proud. Our teacher also approved and said it does look real and so did other students. By the end of the lesson we were done. But we needed one more lesson to cut down some unnecessary clips as our film had gone over 5 minutes.

Editing the Video

Today we had to find a theme tune to play through our film. Me and my partner decided to use "Leona Lewis - Keep Bleeding." Adding the music did not take that long. But we were unsure on how loud the music should be. We kept the music at a medium sound and every time there is diegetic speech we put the music all the way down so the speech is clear and easy to hear. We used the razor tool to stop the music at the right time and also used the gradient tool which made the sound slowly fade down as speech was coming. I was really getting the hang of using the tools on Final Cut Pro, it became easier for me lesson by lesson.

Editing the Video

Today the teacher had set up a feedback session where the class would view each groups video and give feedback. This worked really well as we got a lot of feedback. A student said we could add in borders into the flacback scenes as this would reinstate that we are in a flashback state. Another student suggested we should use just one tune/song throughout the whole film as this would be more simple. The feedback was really helpful and we decided to embed feedback given into our film.

Editing the Video

This lesson we decided to add all the effects into our film. The technician helped us with this. To connote the flashback effect we added in a vignette which portrayed a flashback state very well. We embedded a vignette and borders into all of the flashback scenes . The film was really starting to come together now.

Editing the Video

Today we had much cutting to do as our film had gone way over 5 minutes. We started off cutting unnecessary clips. By the end we had cut the film to 5 minutes 4 seconds. We had cu off a great amount but this had to be done. After we had cut down the film we started embedding effects into the film.

Editing the Video

Today we started off by adding together the beginning parts of the film, we had set a target of piecing together the whole film by the end of today. It was difficult and frustrating but in the end we did it. The length of our film had came to 5 minutes 40 seconds and this was a big problem. The length had gone way over our limit. So next lesson we had set  a task of cutting down clips and add in the effects.