Recent Editing Progress

Last week we were working on our production logo. Jess and I were working together on figuring out different aspects of creating our logo. We have been through a few different ideas over the time of creating our opening sequence. We did a mind map in one of our meetings which consisted of the ideas;

-Wonky Donkey Productions
-Lighthouse Productions
-Newhouse Productions
-Lightbulb Productions
-Transform Productions

We came to the conclusion that the best names we had were the 'Lighthouse' name and the 'Lightbulb name. We made a production image for both and chose that the best one was our Lightbulb idea, so we went for that. I sat with Jess and we made sure that we had done everything we could to make it as good as it could be. We sent it over to Efosa and he added it to the beginning of the film and we watched it a few times and it looks appropriate and works with our film.

Current Progress- Sound and Editing

In the first part of today's double lesson I was helping both Efosa and Jessica with the different things they were doing. Jess was working on the sound for our opening sequence and Efosa was focussing on the editing. I was going from one to the other giving my input and explaining how I thought it could be improved. Both are coming on very well and I am excited to how the finishing product is going to look, as I can see it all coming together. Very exciting!

In the second part of the lesson I was working on making sure all of the work in my Film Production Guide was all up to date and ready to be scanned into the computer and put on my blog and the group blog. I feel as if we are working at a steady speed and are working well together as a group.

What I learnt from Preliminary Sequence Activity

The Preliminary Sequence activity was extremely helpful as it helped us all to understand how to use the editing software so we all felt more confident in using it. We all took it in turns to have a practice so we were all ready for editing our real sequence. We learnt how to select the different parts of filming that we needed and separate the parts we didn't need. Also we learnt how to change the edits for example we could make it a wipe or a straight cut or a graphic match. The exercise helped us a lot with the editing of our real opening sequence so it was very useful for us a group.

Inspiration behind Opening/Thoughts about choice

There were many different things that inspired us to choose to film the opening the way that we did. We decided as a group that the easiest genre to choose would be horror. We watched several Youtube videos to give us an idea on the typical conventions of horror and we found that we needed to have quite dull colours and sounds/background music that was effective to what was happening. For example the opening of the film scream, uses dark lighting to give the impression of bad events to happen later on in the film. Also we found that lots of the horror openings used pathetic fallacy so the audience would get an impression of what would happen in the rest of the film. We did mind maps and lists of ideas we all had after watching the openings so we could put them all together and come to a final conclusion.

Own initial idea submitted to group for consideration

When we were given our groups we were told to go off individually and create our own story boards so we would have four to choose from to create our final idea. My idea was based around the genre of horror (which we then used in our real opening). It was about a man who went to a grave yard and killed someone and ran away and we saw blood drip from his hands and heard his heavy breathing as he went home and had to explain himself to his family. It contained lots of quick straight cut shots to create tension and effectiveness (which we also used in our final opening). We took a small part of everyone's idea to create our final opening which was really helpful as it made thinking of our actual idea much easier.