Final Cut and Link To Evaluation

http://lilipotterxo.wix.com/fatal-evaluation



Fatal OTS. Final Edit from Emily Apps on Vimeo.

Here, is the final cut of of our Opening Title Sequence for Fatal.

Feedback of our first cut

Fatal- Opening Title Sequence from Emily Apps on Vimeo.

This is our first cut of the fatal opening title sequence. In order to ensure our media suited and attracted our target market we presented our OTS to the class and recorded our feedback. This allowed us to watch it back and improve our piece and suit it to our set audience. During our filming we left the room to ensure that the audience didn't feel pressured to give their own opening and in doing so would allow the group to be as open as possible.

Shot list

Today Emily and I are going to be filming additional shots to ensure that our OTS reaches our target duration of two minutes. We have analysed our footages and made a not of more shots we would like to add which will enable us to add in more titles and  add more of a plot to our sequence. These shots are included below:

However, we did not get all of our filming done in one session therefore we had to film additional scenes in the dark room. As my main role was to sort out character's costume, location and props, I had to ensure that the actors where available to film and that we had all the necessary equipment for that scene.

Here are photographic examples of me aiding our actor, Adam Burton, prepare for filming. In the first one, my main objection was to ensure the costume was satisfactory for filming the scene. In the following two pictures I am ensuring that our actor is comfortable within his role, was equipt for the current scene and that the lighting and position was correct.

Post production log

 In the past couple of weeks after filming I have helped edited whilst Emily has assisted our footage and filtered the good clips from the bad; eliminating the clips that were out of focus, contrast difficulties or wasn't fit for our overall noir style.

We have decided to use Final Cut Pro to edit our sequence as we are more familiar with the programme meaning we are more confident with our ability to create original effects and will flow better aesthetically; this is because the programme includes more effects and settings than any other featured editing software and overall is more advanced.

In the first picture I am using the colour correction tool, which removes all colour in the clips except red hues. This tool in Final Cut Pro is a dropper selection tool that you can use to edit the saturation, exposure, and colour of a shot. This will give our OTS a noir type look by extracting all colours apart from red. This was included in our featured ideas in the beginning of our planning; this was inspired from our Sin City style. 

In the second photo I have been using Final Cut Pro to experiment with effects and settings in order to create our idents. We are creating two in total, Red Products (As pictures) and another undecided company. I have created a blood splatter in photoshop and  will apply the company name to This somewhere within the design. This picture also splatters onto the screen as I have found a transition on Final Cut Pro which allowed me to move the picture in order to create this.

 I will in the future be listening to any feed back that my audience will have when viewing this to other peers and fixing any criticism within my field of work. I will also be working on another ident and filming other footage that has had problems featured above. 

Ident further analysis

As a group, we have decent to change our idents into something related for the film industry. We have gather some feedback from other peers and the comment that our first ident 'Ink inc.' is more suited to a writing or graphic based company and does not represent a noir type film company which would be associated with our Film Noir Opening title sequence.

We have decided to not use this as it has been developed off of preset titles on Final Cut Pro and may be seen as unoriginal and not a product of our property.

Possible alternatives to this include:

- Street Light Productions.
- Including the light through blinds shot.







Emily and myself decided that Street Light Productions was clear in indicating that our media would establish the Noir genre. As she is the designated editor of our group we discussed some ideas that would help display the title on screen. She later started to develop some possible idents and came up with a few possibilities but decided upon this.



street light studios from Emily Apps on Vimeo.
Vimeo.

During the reconsideration of the idents we realised that the Red productions ident was low quality and i was not able to animate it in a way that we liked. Emily also changed this idea from the first red logo to the other below

RED ident from Emily Apps on Vimeo.

Sound within films

We watched a clip of 'Priest'; a 2011 American post-apocalyptic dystopia, science fiction, action horror film starring Paul Bettany, in class and explored the use of sound and how it effects the film dynamically.

We looked at the 5 main types of sound and how they were used/how effective they were within during the clip we watched. These 5 types of sound are as followed;

- Dialogue- Words/Vocals's

- Sound effect/Foleying- is it diegetic and is if added after?

- Soundtrack- Score/Music usually added in during editing.

- Ambiance- Background sound e.g Birds, rain, wind. Sets the                         mood.

  - Silence- No sound.





 Here is the clip we watched with addition to further analysis I have made.

Production Plan

To be more organised within out group, we made a production plan consisting of what job each member of our group aims to do and when they need to achieve it. We plan to add to this list later throughout production.

Who?	Timescale/deadline	What/where?	When?	How?
Lilly SS	Before filming on the Friday 2nd.	Make sure camera is charged, enough storage on cards, organise actors and producers so that everyone is present at the right time.	Before and on the day of filming.	Communication between whom it may concern. Any unneeded material on cameras or storage. Be efficient.
Lily P	“                       “	Find props and suitable location E.g. Fake cigarettes, make fake blood, ect	Before filming.	Looking up online and seeing what props we have already between groups.
Emily	“                           “	Bring second camera and tri-pod. Assist in the setting up and shooting of the shots.	Day of filming.	Communication between whom it may concern. Any unneeded material on cameras or storage. Be efficient.
Together	“                       “	Film and work together; ensuring that communication and errors in each other’s work is improve and evaluated	Day of filming and beforehand.	Refer back to the storyboard. Use good communication between group members and share ideas.