Macs

We have been unable to continue on our group work as the Macs from our school were stolen. We have backed up all of our footage so we don't have to re-film but we have to edit everything again.

Progress

In todays lesson we did the final re-shoots which we decided upon due to the feedback we got from our class. We then split the group in order to use our time more effectively, Natalie and Iveta worked on getting the final bits of footage edited into place, Nicola started work on the credits/titles and I worked on the sound. This went well we completed the majority of our tasks, finishing the editing of the sequence, getting an idea for what we want the credits to look like and beginning to develop the sound for the inter cutting between the boy and girl.

Showcase Feedback

 Yesterday we had our first showcase of the rough version, it has not got any titles or sound at the moment but they are our next issue to tackle. This is the feedback we recieved from our peers within the media group. The feedbck was generally good but we need to improve a couple of things for example a issue that was raised was lighting in the beginning scenes.

Distribution Logo

Here is the Distribution logo which we made. We tried to make it fit to the style of the sort of distribution companies we think would distribute our style of film e.g Paramount, Universal. We did this by making it more mobile and interactive with the moving plants (for Example Universals logo moves around to reveal the Earth) rather than just static words. We also thought it would be quite a distinctive and recognisable logo in that as soon as you saw the plants and the colours especially (since not many other companies use these colours) you would instantly know it was NNIK Productions.

Progress

Today in lesson we had to review each others opening sequences and look at rough cuts of what it might look like as a finished sequence. I found this lesson effective because some of the people gave us some really constrictive criticism which me and my group will take on board in order to improve our opening sequence. 

Overall, we got some very positive feedback from others. They particularly liked the match on action from the girls dress into the boys hair product and they said it was very creative. They also said that it was easy to understand and none of the parts were ambiguous or difficult to understand. This was particularly important for us because we want to create an sequence which our viewers and others can understand, because if they don't then they will easily get bored or distracted.

However, we did get some criticisms such as the beginning the of the party was slightly darker and so they couldn't see the characters as well. Although being the party this was the effect we were going for, we will try to improve this by adding some light from final cut and making the whole scene easier to see. Also, some of the people said that when Ruby was talking on the phone, the extreme close-up of her face was slightly off frame so we will try to re-film that part in order to improve it.

Distribution logo

We have been looking into sorting out the distribution logo this is what we have so far come up with. We want to make it interactive like the universal and paramount pictures as we are trying to make it fit the target audience.

Progress

Today we finished putting all the clips together for the opening sequence as tomorrow we show it to the class and receive feedback. We still need to change the sound on the sequence and include our own music.

We have been working on music on Garage Band.

Re-Filming

After school today we went back and re-filmed the establishing shot, Ruby arriving at the party, the reveal of Ruby, the close up phone call (Ruby), the zoom in on the dress and Ruby putting the shoes on.

We made sure we took loads of takes in different ways for example with the establishing shot we did just a still shot of the house, a zoom, a slow walk and a pan just so that we have a variety to chose from when we start to edit them.

This went well as we got all the shots we needed in a short period of time, and they all looked good and effective.

4/2/2013

Progress-

In today's lesson we had completed the opening sequence as a rough cut in order to see the overall flow of it and what else we still need to re-film. As we are re-filming some of the main girls part's today, we shall replace the old footage from our opening sequence and edit in the new ones.
A problem is that our opening sequence is quite long at the moment (3 minutes), exceeding our maximum of it being around 2 minutes long. In order to reduce these we have found that some of the shots we had which weren't as vital were too lengthy so during this week of editing we shall need to cut these down so it fastens the editing pace. In a way this can be effective because during the inter-cutting between the characters we do want to maintain a fast pace in order to keep the viewers entertained and create a sense of excitement.
We still haven't found the right music and we have found that quite challenging because the music we have created on garageband so far is like club music and not house party and so we would need to try and find some vocals in order to fit in with our edited music.

Music

The music we have first created on Garageband was good but we all agree that it all sounded too much like club music so currently we are trying to make new music which would be suited more for a house party.
We have found some really cool loops which we have combined together so I think that overall the music we are creating  now would be more suited for our opening sequence and create the right atmosphere for being in a house party.

Re-filming shedule

Monday 4th February, 2013  

We have looked at some of our footage and so we decided that to improve we would need to re-film some of the main girl, Ruby's parts of where she is getting reedy in order to not reveal to much of her face.
Also, we need to re-do the bit where the host is opening the door for Ruby because we had trouble with sorting out the lightning as it was too dark. To improve this on Monday, we shall film this part first at around 4.30 pm because we want it to be moderately dark to not mess up our continuity editing.

Wednesday 6th February, 2013

On Wednesday we are going to do some more of the boys shots. The footage we already have is really good but we found out that we have too much of Ruby's parts but not much of the boy so we need to film some more of him getting ready. For example, a close-up shot of him getting his hair product.