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.