FINAL THRILLER OPENING

FINISHED!!!!!

It feels so good to be DONE!!! We are so proud of ourselves with everything that we have done, hope we get the grade we deserve!! =]

A quick film we made talking about our finished opening.

FINAL VERSION!!!!!!!!

Editing sound

This just a screen shot of the editing we had to do to the final edited opening with the sound. It took a bit more time but we eventually got through that little phase and managed to get the sounds all at the right place.

Change of title AGAIN

Once again we have had to change our title due to the fact our teachers don't highly approve of it. This however has made us pick a simple title which we all consider as nice to fit to our film. It is called 'Amy'.
After hearing the criticism, Mickey advised us that our title sequence should also be a bit longer, he thought it was too short.

Concerns from the rough cut sample

Having showed three of our teachers the rough cut of our film opening, their opinions have varied mainly positive. However there are some concerns such as the length of the film, the genre and the title change.

Time length:
Dan and Usman have both considered our film as short but can be worked with when adding title sequences by extending them. Right now our film is 1min 20 seconds and it is required to be maximum 2 minutes so we have a lot of spare time to use. Whereas Mary agrees with us that we definitely need to go out and film more footage because we have a great film opening but it is just too short. Hence we have decide to film Tuesday morning, tomorrow.

Genre:
Again our genre is meant to be a psychological thriller however our teachers, having watching our rough cut have said that it is becoming a bit out of context of a psychological and looks/has more horror elements making them consider our genre as maybe being a horror thriller. However we have explained our storyline to Mary - which is focused on the girl's disturb and her journey through the mental illness - and she has seen that it can be then said to be a psychological thriller, with some elements of Horror, and so we can stay with this initial genre.

Title Change:
We as a group have decide that we feel to change our title. At first it was called 'Shanelle' but due to changes of the girl and putting the actual name to what we have edited it just did not fit. So we decided it was for the best to change it. Asking Mary for her opinion on this we finally came up with a new name called 'Untarnished'.

Our film New Title: UNTARNISHED

We have decided to rename our film and call it:

 UNTARNISHED


Untarnished means not tarnished or discoloured not tainted or spoiled.
We decided to give this our film name because our main character in the film is seen to be guilty in reality but she just has her own perception of reality therefore making her guilty in the eyes of others.

The title of our film has two meanings:
1) Her actions are out of her control which means she is untarnished
2) However because she does not know what she is doing therefore makes her the opposite of our title.

Editing- Title sequence

Today's lesson, Mary told us about using the 'title safe'. This guarantees that no matter what kind of screen our film is played on the titles will not be cut off as long as it is within the first rectangle. This was actually a good thing that she told us this because when we put it on some of our title sequences were out of this rectangle box so we had to quickly change this.

More Rough cut feedback

We have had the feedback and we will take on the criticisms.

Interviews asking about what we did

Here we interviewed each other about what we did to contribute to help our film opening.

Working in Lesson

This is us working during lesson. We all do different things during the lesson.

Angeline usually does the editing of the music and blogging.

Anaya usually helps us with the group blogs and with editing.

Rachelle usually does the group blogging and helps editing.

Fabiolla usually does the editing.

Additional Filming

We had to do some more filming as we did not have enough footage. Therefore we have decided to film some of the following:

- Anaya's Cat
- TV- Cebeebies
- Mirror with writing
- Kids Drawings
- Location of Anaya's House

Extra Blogging-Help from teacher

When we did not understand something, we took the initiative to ask a teacher for help.
here is an example...

Adding title sequences

We have basically decided that because we are doing a discrete title sequence using the film 'se7en' as our guideline for our title sequences.

We copied their order of how they did their title sequence with the name of production, we too did that. Copying from se7ev included putting our titles the same place but not for all of them. The title and title sizes were also similar if not the exact same as se7en.

 To create a similar effect to the title sequence of Se7ven we moved slightly each title to gain a shaky effect.

Rough Cut Feedback

This is a reply from our teacher, Dan. He has told us about the good and bad things about our opening and where/what we can improve on. Overall we received a positive feedback. However, based on his criticisms we have been thinking and considering to change our genre. Dan explains he change of genre could be from a Psychological Thriller to a Horror Thriller.

Rough Cut

This is our rough cut. Hope you like it 

Editing 3

The shots that we took were slightly dark so we went to the following to change the level of lighting.

Editing

We started adding effects in today's lesson, by going to effects-video filters-image control- choosing a suitable effect. For example, threshold which is shown below.

This effect is black and white but gives off a dramatic sense.

Another effect which we added to the above black and white was by going to effects again but instead of  image control we went to distort and then clicked earthquake. This made it a bit shakey.

We then tried to experiment other effects such as colour correction.

To do this we had to  click on the colour circle below and choose what colour we wanted to use, we could see what it looked like next to the clip.

After adding the colour effects, we added a transition between the edited clip and normal clip to make the change between them natural and not different. This was done by going to video transitions- dissolve- cross dissolve.

This shows where we put the effect in the middle. This was done by cutting them in the middle to put a blinking effect.

Then we edited the effect to another clip from our filming. We did the same thing again going to effects- video filters but then trying something else by going to stylize then solarize.

This was how it ended up looking like, shown below.

Video filtered the swings by going on glow then clicking on over drive. This made the background a little bit blurred.

This effect is one that most of us liked. Again we went to video filters but this time clicking on 'key' then 'spill supperssor-blue'

This was how it came out, at first we were just trying different effects but ended up using this.

Editing

Today's lesson we were checking if the footage is up to standards and we found out we will need to reshoot the TV, which will be done tomorrow. Here is a screen shot of our editing so far in Final Cut Pro, we were simply putting the shots together and in order. Further more we will start doing the stylised editing and add the title sequence.

Filming

We started our filming in the 9th February before half-term. Unfortunately we forgot to bring a camera to take pictures of the process. That day we filmed in Finsbury Park some toys. There was snow in the park, which would not affect our opening in terms of context because it is discrete and a bit detached. However the snow made it a bit difficult to work our the best lighting as it was a very foggy day and everything was very bright. 

During half-term, on Thursday 16th February we finished (nearly everything) our filming. First we finished all the filming inside of the house, then we went to Finsbury Park to do the necessary filming with the girl. Some things did not go very well, the girl we had to use was not the same we were planning to and it was essential to finish all the filming with her that day. Also, the cat got operated and we couldn't film it as well. There was one scene that we had to reshoot at the same day.

Main character outfit - white top with flowers, skirt, flowery tights, twintail. Childlike to represent innocence and establish the 'fake' normality. 

Making the drawings needed.

The scrapbook reflecting the girl's tormented mind.

Making the cuts in her arms.

Today's lesson we finished filming the adoptions paper which was the only footage missing.