Sunday 20 February 2011

Journal Post 18/02/2011






Today we filmed something more for our title sequence; it was of a man wiping blood off of his chin. Personally, I don't like it because of how the background is white and I don't think that it was close enough to his chin, also there wasn't enough blood on his chin to make it look convincing that he was a vampire. Hopefully once we have filmed the opening scene in Madrid we will just get rid of the extreme close up, because there may not be enough room for both clips to fit as at the moment there is only 10 seconds to spare. Having to do all of this has really concerned me because of how far behind our group now is, as we will have to do the audience research and evaluation when we come back which I really wanted to have already had done when we came back off of half-term.

Journal Post 16/02/2011



Today we managed to get a lot done: 
  • We found new music and got it onto our title sequence on Final Cut Pro and we think that it works much better than 'Creep'.
  • We slowed down quite a few clips so that it goes in time with the music.

  • Sonal found a new really good font that was an effect on Final Cut Pro; it fades in and out nicely and goes well with the whole sequence as it gives it a sense of sophistication.
 Unfortunately we won't be able to have our title sequence done by half-term as we will be filming again during half-term on a school trip in Madrid. Some feedback was to get our opening sequence filmed because it might make the sequence look better.

Wednesday 16 February 2011

Animatics



Our animatics don't look very good because the first few images are faster than the other images. Also, there is no music to it so it isn't much like our title sequence at all.

Journal Post 14/02/2011





This week and last week has all been a bit of a rush with trying to get our editing done and as a result of this I did't manage to keep up with my production journal. Part of our feedback was to get rid of the shots of the wall as they gave away too much of our vampire. Once we had done that it seemed complete but just needed improving. Some improvements that we think we may need to add are:

  • Some shots of the vampire, for example, an extreme close up of him wiping blood off of his mouth, and someone holding a photo of Emily (the victim) listening to the song 'Creep' grieving.
  • Thinking about music that sounds better with our title sequence because there aren't any lyrics to our song as we never managed to get them recorded due to timing between us and the girl that was going to sing it.

Sunday 6 February 2011

Journal Post 04/02/11





All this week we have been busy getting our editing done. Early in the week we decided against filming our opening sequence because we were already up to 1min 40secs and we hadn't finished slowing down the pictures or the clips and realised that it would take us well over 2 minutes. Today we recorded a number of screams to go at the end of our title sequence, because the original one just didn't sound life-threatening, and we now have a realistic scream. Also, we changed the way our titles transitioned, it was called 'Dither Dissolve' which worked really well. We also changed the way our pictures transition in the next making it look more like a flash of a camera. I feel that we still have a lot to do and am slightly worried that it may not be finished in time, as we still haven't got our vocals recorded which is needed so we can see what clips we want to slow down in time to the music.