Showing posts with label James Muir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Muir. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 March 2013

Editing: Final Stages

 
 This is our final stage of the editing process as we are choosing the correct non diegetic sound to add and synchronise with our film.


 
 


Thursday, 7 March 2013

Editing Day 3 - Vlog


This is how far we are in the editing stage of our opening. Fahmida is currently creating the distribution ident, while Eugenie is editing transitions into the footage. Also, Nicole is blogging and finding appropriate foley sounds.

Editing - Vlog

Fahmida and Eugenie deciding on how the title sequence should appear. At this stage, all the footage is in the correct sequence and now we're trying to finalise our opening by adding the title sequence and sound.

Editing Process - Sound

This is the programme we are using to add sound to our opening - Soundtrack Pro. 
We are using Foley sounds for the knocking of the door and the opening of the door. 
We will also use this programme to find background music. 



Monday, 4 March 2013

Filming: More Photos

As our thriller was too short once we had cut the clips down, we decided to get some establishing shots to add at the beginning of the title sequence in order to help make the thriller slightly longer.























Thursday, 28 February 2013

Rough Cut: Feedback

Receiving feedback from peers and our teacher was crucial as we were given constructive criticism and helped us see what our thriller opening looks like to an audience so far. We were also told what was good about our opening so far.
The first thing which was picked up was the colour of the titles - red. We were told that this did not suit our opening as it is not a horror movie.
Another problem which some people encountered was actually understanding the concept of our opening. It made sense once it had been explained; however we realised that if this was to be a real thriller we would not be around to fully explain the story. Therefore, we must change some of the camera work and re-work the order of the title sequence somehow. 

A strength of our opening was that we used match cuts, close ups, and other various shot type well. Also, the music accompanied the opening most of the time despite not being fully planned and synchronized.  

We have taken note of this feedback and will work on fixing these errors in the coming days.

Rough Cut of 'Two Minds'

This is the rough cut of our thriller opening 'Two Minds'. We haven't added all of the titles such as production and distribution ident and we are yet to edited them in terms of font, colour, size. We have some diegetic sound on set for e.g. footsteps and the door creaking when it opens, and we are going to amplify these sounds to make them louder which we have not done yet. We have also short listed some non diegetic sound for us to add to the thriller, but we have not synchronised the sound with the film. We have no transitions at the moment, but we will had some in later when editing. As our thriller is only 1 minute, we are going to add some establishing shots in the beginning.



Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Editing - Title Sequence

This is the Title sequence of our opening. We followed the order of the conventional title sequence. Our title sequence goes as followed: 

Production Company Ident

Distribution Compnay Ident
Actor 1: Fahmida Begum
Actor 2: James Muir
Actor 3: Alex Smith
Actor 4: Lynne Sharper
Actor 5: Terry Allen
Crew
Casting by: Tyler Camino
Costume Designer: Fahmida Begum
Music Supervisor: Ray Charles
Music by: James Muir
Editing by: Eugenie MacDonald
Product Designer: Andy Strong
Director of Photography: Nicholas Lopez
Executive Producer: Stacey Mac
Producer: Sally Rollip
Writer: Ashley Reis
Director: Nicole Miller
Film Title : Two Minds

Editing Process

This is the sequence so far of the opening. All of the footage has been used and most transitions have been added. What's left to do is find a soundtrack that fits in and to add foley sound.

Monday, 11 February 2013

Filming: On Shoot Photos

The filming process went well for us as we managed to record all the footages we needed. We managed to use various shot types and everyone had a go at filming
By being able to film everything on the day, we reduced any continuity errors which could've occurred if we filmed on separate days. 



Setting up the tripod and camera


Our very own special camera man


Both the camera men working well








Filming - Props




The props which we had originally intended to use had changed because we did not think it would have much of an impact in the thriller. Therefore, we decided to use props which created a better context; such as a telephone, letters and flowers which would create a more realistic and office-like atmosphere. Most of these props were already in the office which we decided to film in.

Newspaper article we created


Diary

Flowers used to add an atmosphere that the office belongs to the detective


Objects to make it look like a real office

Letters
Adding small props like hand cream and calculator helps to make the office seem more realistic

A Desk

Files

Computer