Feedback on Sven and Jahmal's opening sequence

L3 - GROUP 7 (Jahmal & Sven) Film Opening Rough Cut from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

1.What are the strengths of the work?
There are a range of different shots used, and angles. I liked the part of the sequence where the two characters pass each other in slow motion.

2. What are the weaknesses of the work?
There is no sound or titles. Also there is no dialogue, so the viewer does not really know what is happening.

3.What should be changed?
None of the footage needs to be changed.

4.What is still to be done? e.g titles, sound, visuals
Sound and titles still need to be done.

Mine and Charna's rough-cut of our opening sequence

L3 - GROUP 6 (Sophie & Charna) Film Opening Rough Cut from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

After we had finished our rough-cuts, they were shown to the rest of the class, so we could have some feedback on them about what were the strengths and what were the weaknesses with our film opening. I think the piece of music in the middle of the rough-cut, is suited best to our opening, because it is mysterious and eerie, which helps set the scene.

1. What did people rate as the strengths of the work?

The shots and angles give a full view of the frame. The dark background works well with the bright fire and how the titles are positioned.

2. What did the people rate as weaknesses?

The music has not been timed very well with each shot, doesn't fit in with the plot of the film. The opening looks more like a trailer, because of the layout and the order of the titles.

3. What do you intend to change?

Change the music, because it doesn't fit the opening. maybe put dialogue in, so people understand what is going on.

4. What is still to be done? e.g titles, sound, visuals

Change it slightly to make it look and feel like an opening. Don't need to add anything else

Screen grabs from our opening

Above, are 4 screen grabs, with titles on, from our opening sequence. I think the titles work well, because they are white and the footage is dark because it is set at night. I also think the font works well, because it is sort of fairyish.

Editing our opening sequence

Above is a screen grab of the editing of our opening sequence.

Reflecting back on the filming for our opening sequence

We had to draw a picture of what we thought went well when we did our shooting. I drew a picture of the camera on the tripod, because I liked setting up the camera and getting all the shots set up right.

Similarities continued

This is a screen-grab from Torchwood- Small Worlds, which shows the fairies. Also our opening is similar to Torchwood, because we set our opening in a small woods, similar to the one above.

Similarities between our opening sequence and Torchwood

Here is the clip from Torchwood- Small Worlds.

The similarities between our opening and Torchwood is that both of the clips contain fairies.

For our sequence we have used fire,whereas in Torchwood there isn't fire.

Editing of our footage so far

We have started editing some of our footage, but we decided to take the dialogue parts out, because we thought that the dialogue didn't really make it seem like an opening sequence. For our titles we have decided to use the font 'Inked God' which is shown further down in a font board. Above are some screengrabs of our footage.

Shooting on Tuesday 13th October

On Tuesday, we started our filming for our opening sequence. We used a small woods near Charna's house to do the shooting. We went in the lesson, to Charna's house to drop off the props and set up the tent in the woods, so we would be ready to shoot straight after college. We were going to shoot in daylight and then use different effects in Final Cut to make the footage seem like it was taken in the dark, but by the time all our actors had arrived it was dark anyway, so we benefited from that and don't have to worry about using the effects in Final Cut. We managed to shoot all our dialogue in the woods in that one evening.

The cast:

• Character 1: Me
• Character2: Charna's brother, Adam
• Character 3: Kirk
• The girl: Alison (brought a dress to wear, that would make her look more like how we wanted the character to look.

Props:

• A tent
• Fire wood
• Lighter
• Marshmallows
• String
• Fire wick
• Wet blanket (for safety)
• Newspaper
• Lantern

Dialogue:

Sophie: So what if there is something in these woods? what will we do?

Adam: Listen, that girl just ran away it has nothing to do with these woods.

Kirk: Yeah and, we are here now, so we might as well just enjoy it.

Sophie: Yeah suppose your right.

Sophie: Are you alright over there?

Alison: Huh!? yeah I'm fine.

Sophie: you seemed a bit away with the fairies thats all.

Adam: (LAUGHS) so anyway were running low on firewood any volunteers to go get some.

Sophie: No.

Alison: (SIGHS) I will go and get it.

My Opie

This is my Opie, which I made in using Photoshop. I took a picture of myself and then made it into a cartoon of me. I used the pen tool to go around features, such as my hair and shoulders and then filled them in with colour, so that it resembled me.

Greenscreen activity

For this exercise, Jahmal was on a treadmill, in front of a greenscreen and then filmed. We also took a picture of Long Road and turned it into a cartoon. I then took the footage and edited it in Final Cut to make it look like Jahmal is moving across the screen in front of the college.

Test footage for night time scenes

Forward planning for Tuesday 13th October

Tomorrow morning, we will be at Coleridge, where we will start shooting for our opening sequence. We are going to do part of the filming, because we will not be able to use all the actors we need, because it is in college time. Hopefully we are going to be shooting off the Coleridge site, because we need to shoot in a woods for the camping scene. We are going to Cherry Hinton Hall, to use the woods there, and also this place is only 10 minutes away from the Coleridge campus. We have two lessons to shoot some of our material.

Timeline for Edward Scissorhands

This is my timeline for the film opening of Edward Scissorhands. I wrote when the different titles came in and when they faded out.

Our Animatic

This is mine and Charna's animatic, which is a moving storyboard. We took pictures of each of our different frames and put them in Final Cut, so we could make them into our animatic. I think we would have been able to put some music on our animatic, but we didn't have enough time to.

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Opening title sequence from 'Edward Scissorhands'

My Ident

L3 SOPHIE (Gold Star Productions) IDENT from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is my finished ident, I done this by using Final Cut. I got an image of a star from google images and then in Final Cut I animated it and then I used Garageband to make my own music for my ident, which I then imported into Final Cut.

Test opening titles

For this task, we had to use photoshop to make a contact sheet of what our opening titles may look like. We took 9 images from Google and dragged them onto a grid. Then we put on the different titles and used two different fonts, such as 'Angelic War' for the names of people and 'Apple Symbols' for the jobs that the people do in the film.

Ideas for the opening sequence

Our ideas for the opening sequence are fusing together both mine and Charna's supernatural thriller ideas. We have decided that we want to have a girl going missing and she ends up in a woods and encounters a strange light which she follows further into the woods. It leads her to a clearing in the woods.

Feedback

I'm really impressed with how your blog is coming along- well done!

Film pitches

Brief 1- A mainstream action film that will appeal to 15-25yr old males.
(Based on a 'fictional' comic book)

My brief- An action film, where a man comes into contact with some poisoned food, which transforms him into a superhero.

Brief 2- A supernatural thriller that will appeal to female audiences
(An international co-production)

My brief- A thrilling movie, where two girls go off out and end up mysteriously disappearing and cannot be found anywhere.

Brief 3- An independent movie featuring a young protagonist
(Financed through regional funding)

My brief- A young boy runs away from his home in London, and ends up having to fend for himself.

Brief 4- An animated feature to appeal to adult audiences
(Based on a 'fictional' novel)

My brief- A man becomes obssessed with dead people and goes on a rampage, killing anyone he sees.

Fonts

Mood Board

Credits for Opening Sequence

1. A Long Road Film presents
2. Gold Star Productions
3. Sundance Productions
4. (Cast) Jerry Richards
5. (Cast) Alice Williams
6. (Cast) Sandra Peters
7. Costume Design by Catherine Taylor
8. Art Direction by Amy Crowe
9. Production Design by Shaun Prince
10. Casting by Harry Barton
11. Film Editing by Zoe Long
12. Cinematography by Jason Hartley
13. Original Music by Mary Black
14. Produced by Lance Green
15. Directed by Edward James
16. Main Title

Preliminary task

For this task, we had to work in groups of four and come up with a short clip following some rules we were given, such as 180 degree rule and close-ups. We had to do a shot of the character 1, walking along a corridor, and then a close-up of them opening a door. We then had to do a shot from inside the room, of character 1 entering. Lastly we had to do the 180 degree rule, where the two characters had a conversation.

My video production logo

This is my video production logo. I chose to have the star placed on a black background, to make it stand out. Also with my writing, I wanted it to be gold over the star and then white over the black background. I used photoshop to design my logo and used the brush tool, to paint in the white on my writing, I think I have done quite well with this design, and I am going to use Final Cut to animate it and also I am hopefully going to add some music.