Thursday 19 March 2015

Monday 16 March 2015

Evaluation / Question 1

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Evaluation / Question 2

Evaluation / Question 3

Evaluation / Question 4


























This was a Twitter profile I created for our film. I thought Twitter would be a good source to connect with our target audience as Twitter is extremely popular with teens, so this would give our film more recognition. Also, we can also use Twitter to connect to an older audience as Twitter is used by them as well. 

Evaluation / Question 5



Mise en scene

Setting/location - We think this would appeal to our target audience. Since it is set in Peckham, it is very urban, and so many teens would be familiar with the type of film it is. 

Costumes - The costumes worn were tracksuits for the gang of girls, and casual clothing for Kim. We think this would appeal to our audience as the costumes are realistic and are seen worn in real life. This would intrigue our audience. 

Lighting - The lighting was natural, which gave our film a more realistic effect so I think this would appeal to our target audience.

Actors and storyline

I think the actors and storyline would appeal to our audience as the type of thing that happens in the film also happens in real life, so I think they would find it interesting to see how it would be acted out and what story would be told. 


Evaluation / Question 7







PRELIM:








FINAL: 



Monday 9 March 2015

Final Film Analysis

Overall I think that our film has been made really well because we have used lots of effects during our time  editing the film. I really like the sound we have chosen to use. We us an eerie music so we could create tension between the gang and the main character. Every time the music went up we could tell that something bad was going to happen and when the music went down something less bad was happening. We used a white on black titles as our film was heavy inspired by attack the block so we wanted to portray this film by using a white on black title sequence. To improve I think we could have add in some foley sounds to create more effect. However we discussed that we didn't really need this as using a foley sound would make our film less serious because a youth drama is a serious type of a teen drama.
             I am really proud of our creation we all put our effort into making the film. Also I think that our film is really unique because we tried out everyone's ideas to see which one suited the best, which is why our film is present how it is and you need to watch it to see why we like it.

Sunday 8 March 2015

Titles on a black screen

Rough cut


This is our first rough cut for Frontline. In this video, it is our rough outline of what our final film opening will look like. No music or titles were added as this was only rough.

Creating a website


Below are screenshots  of the website I created using the WIX website creator.







LINK: http://asset62014.wix.com/frontline

Finalizing the film frontline

All the clips needed for the film has been edited and added effects to, in order for a smooth transition. We have come to a decision of using the night version, as our group believes it is the most effect and brings out the best of the scenario around our film. Initially it create suspense and builds up drama for the audience making it visually interesting to watch. We alsobasked opinions from couple of others outside the media, to gain an insight to what they thought, overall they preffered the night version as it was upbeat.

After inputting all the scenes needed for the transition to day and night, we had to think about choice of music to reflect our film, we searched on soundcloud for an eerie suspense music. From alot of searches we found our perfect match. 

Lady Pearl then created the titles on photoshop after deciding on the font road crew. This was particularly as important as the font had to reflect the mood of the film.

The music was downloaded from sound cloud and had to be converted in order for us to be able to use this in our film. Fergus, one of the media technicians, helped us do this, we then saved it on the hard drive ready for inputting into our final piece.

As the music went on and title too, the film was slowly coming together, I thought our group has done esspecially well, from the tough days of filming to working days in editing suite. I am proud of our final piece and hope it can show through the film of our hard work.

Final Editing Session

Friday 6 March 2015

Frontline Editing

I think that our editing is going really well so far as each of us has had a go at editing some scenes. We also discussed which scenes would go really well by making sure we watched over the film before making a final decision on each scene. I really like the way we have used different effects to make each scene flow through because if we did not have this our film would not flow smoothly. However there was a slight disagreement between the scenes. Because we filmed some of our scenes at in the dark some of us wanted to add these scenes in as we wanted to show different locations instead of using the same one. Some of us did not want to use the scenes that were in the dark as it kept on going out of focus every time we tried to film. Also it didn't make sense on what was happening. For example it went from light to dark were it did not flow. This did not make sense to other people as they were confused on how the characters went from a light scene to a dark scene.
                In the end we decided to use the film were it shows the transition between day and night as we had an effective scene to show the transition. We looked over the dark scenes to see which ones were in focus. Also we thought that it was a good idea to show that we have different locations because the day scene portrays the main character and the build up of the night scene. The night scene portrays the gang and it as it makes the gang more intimidating to the main character and the audience can feel the sense of fear the main character has. All we need to do now is to add the titles in and we have finished our film.
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Night VS Day Scene

We are currently debating on which scene to use, the night scene or the day scene. The night scene includes the transition between the day and night as we have an effective scene which makes this transition happen. However the day scene includes no dark scenes but towards the end we can see that the scene is getting dark but not completely dark. We have made two different films including these features using final cut pro and we will watch over them to see which one is the most effective to us as our final film. If we can not decide which film we like then we will have to ask other people on which film they like the night of day scene and we will chose from their decision. In the meantime we will continue to edit both night and day scenes.

Thursday 5 March 2015

Final Days of Filming


These are the crucial days of editing as the count down has begun.

After Chanise did a rough copy of the layout of the film, we had a rough guide of where the film was going.  From this we followed the story board to create our film. Although we shooted extra experimental shots we included these shots as match cuts and made it visually more interesting.

 From feedback from both Dan and Donna, we recieved constructive critisicms as well as what shots went well.  From this we had to play around with the shots we had, as some shots were out of focus or had glitches, somwtimes even the tripod was on set.

I helped with editing, putting the clips onto the timeline and it slowly coming together, the editing process was quite hard as certain clips had to be cut and shortened, and effects like transitions were considered to help a smooth follow through.

I also created a presentation on emaze, talking about location, filming problems and showing pictures of the filimg days.

We added music which enhanced the film, aswell as the transitions and effects.

Today whilst we was editing the final piece, Donna wanted to include previous clips from our first filming days, we coorporated the clips and edited it in a way so that they create suspense and drama adding tension to the film. When I watched over the film it seems to be as the girl who was smoking was watching from the start of the poor girls journey to the end of her getting mugged. This should reinforce the whole gang and intimadation that they bring along with them on to set.

For me, my favorite part was when the music beat was edited to drop when the first reaction happens creating a build up to the main act. Also I liked how we cut the scene of the gang member girl smoking , from this we created two individual clips, one was when she took the cigarette , opening into the scene of the gang, it was a smooth transition to the night, to the end where she lets out the smoke, symbolizing it has come to an end of the commotion as well as the film itself.
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Wednesday 4 March 2015

Editing day 2


I thought it would be a good idea to start some of the editing at home as I have Final Cut Pro. However, we were unable to export it to the computers in the classroom, thus we were unable to use the already edited footage. Although this was unfortunate, the good thing about this was that it gave us a guide as to how to start editing our film on the iMacs at college.

After we edited some of it on the iMacs, we started to think about transitions and the title sequence. 

We did not finish editing, but we got the basic gist of how we wanted the film to be edited so that we were ready for the next editing session.

Editing day 1



Editing Day 1

On the first day we edited, we uploaded all the clips from the SD cards and put them onto our video drive and onto Final Cut Pro. We sorted out the scenes we wanted to use and the ones we didn't. For the most part, we just wanted to get our clips in the right order on final cut pro, and think about how to start editing our film. 

Tuesday 3 March 2015

Reflection of location

Reflection of costume choice

Kims costume consisted of casual attire. A scarf, coat, boots and hat; something that would be worn to a college or uni. This was supposed to reflect her characters personality, believing that she was an innocent student, coming home from college. I think her costume was successful in doing so. 


The girls in the gangs costume consisted of hoods, jackets, bandanas, trainers and tracksuit bottoms. This was was to portray the gangs anonymity and mysteriousness. I think the costumes reflected what the gang was about. However, I feel that if the gang was all dressed the same and in black, their costumes would have been much more effective and would have been more anonymous.


Production - Half term 2

On Tuesday 18th of February, we arrived at Chanises house at 9.30am. Luckily there was no rain on this day so it was perfect to film. We prepared our equipment and took the p12 to Peckham once everyone arrived. 

Once we got to Peckham, we re-filmed the shots that we had to redo from the previous filming session. Ensuring that there was no space left above the head, and that the camera was in focus the entire time. When we were ready to leave to get back to Chanises area, we realised that a quiet area in Peckham with graffiti would be a better place to film.



This is a picture from one of the pieces that were in the area. We thought this was a great area to film in as the graffiti on the walls reflected the characters and what they were about. So this now became our new location to film where the mugging incident took place.

We went to Chanises house to quickly plan how we were going to film in this new location and then went back to Peckham. Unfortunately this meant that we were unable to bring a key prop which was the bike, this required some deep thought about how filming was going to go. 

For this day, filming went great and we made sure most of the shots were good and redid the ones we thought didn't look as good. 

Tuesday 17 February 2015

Production- Half term

On Monday 17th February we all made our way to Chanise's house at 9:30am. We filmed some of the first part of our film but after 2 hours of filming it started to rain heavy (11:30am). We waited for it to stop but it got even more heavy so we couldn't film at all on Monday. Instead of filming we done our interviews ready to upload on Mondays lesson after half term. On Tuesday 17th we will film the film as the whether will be better.

Production Plan- Half Term

AS Media Set 6
Group 22

Kim Chau - 07930541212
Chanise Francis - 07951927020
Shazna Begum - 07947703609
Lady Pearl Tawia - 07713918122

Friday 11th February:
All meet at the technicians office to collect all equipment. These will include:
- Camera (with batteries)
- Tripod
- Dedo light (with batteries and stand)
- Fig rig
- Flip camera
- Still camera
We are all talking the equipment to our houses ready to bring them to Chanise's house on the beginning week of half term.

Monday 16th February:
- All meet up Chanise's house (Brenchley Gardens) 9:30am to begin to film the first part of our film.
- 9:45am make our way to Peckham (take a P12 or 343 about 10 minutes if theres no traffic)
- 10am set up the equipment
- 10:10am - 1:30pm fim the first part of the film with the main character (Kim)
- 1:30pm pack equipment up and travel back to Chanise's house for a 15 minute break
- 1:45pm - 5:30pm film the second part of the film with the gang and the main character
- 5:30pm filming finished - pack equipment up and leave it at Chanise's house overnight ready for the next day (Tuesday 17th February)

Tuesday 17th February
- All meet at Chanise's house (Brenchley Gardens) 9:30am
- watched over the film
- to redo the shots that were bad and out of focus
- give back equipment on Wednesday 18th February

Thursday 12 February 2015

Branding our blog visually


For our title we used Photoshop. We decided to go with the font 'RoadCrew" in bold as it stood out to us the best. We liked the urban edge that it had, we feel as though it blends well with our urban-based youth drama. The idea of using he contrasting colours black and white reflects the simplicity of our designs and also the colours of each of our costumes. Hence keeping a sense of continuity.



We also changed the complete layout of the blog to match our title. This gave our blog a more professional look and made it look somewhat cleaner. The new layout also reflects our film and its ideas as the group of girls who commit the crime are mostly dressed in black. 




Kim and Lady Pearl's second feedback

14 borderline 15 out of 20

  1. Very good sense research
  2. Working hard and improved our ideas
  3. blog layout was better now that it had been changed
  4. Captured the identity of our characters now that we sorted out our main characters personal item.

General Blogging Feedback



Film Summary - Day 2



Monday 9 February 2015

Blogging Feedback


You have a solid, well kept blog though what I'd like to see emerge now is some more personal contributions. I'd like to see a post-shoot diary record of how things have gone with photos and comments, and an account of how this affects future planning. You can blog any ideas and insights that you have about the filming process and you should do the same thing for your editing.
15/B on strength of organisation.'
                                                                                                                                        Dan Lowe


 I will take on board this advice from Dan, and start adding personal posts from filming and editing days. The group and I have already started with a shoot diary, which is in the process of editing, hopefully soon up within the next day.  We have also started blogging posts on problems which ocurred whilst filming and how to over come this when we film again during the holiday.

Film Summary- Day 1

Sunday 1st Feburary 2015

We all made our way to Brenchley Gardens (Chanise's House). We gathered all our equipment, got into our costumes and got the P12 to Peckham Rye Station. We set up the tripod and camera ready to film the first scene. For the first scene the first shot we filmed was a medium shot were the main character is coming out of the station. we also combined a close up while she was walking past the market. Then after we filmed a few extra shots like walking up and down, close up of walking etc. We got the bus back the Chanise's house which was convenient because we need a bus to perform a bus scene. with this scene we had that main character write in her diary to protray that she is a responsible college student hoping to go to universtiy. We did start to film the last scene but it was too dark to film. to improve we are going to film again on Wednesday to redo the last scene and some other shots that were not good enough. Also we would need to bring a dedo light instead of a top light as we tried to film with the top light and it was not bright enough.

Thursday 29 January 2015

Lady Pearl and Kim's Blog Feedback

The first check:

13= Grade C
  1. Very good sense research
  2. Working hard
  3. blog layout had to be changed so we changed it to a a street
  4. Give our characters more of an Identity
  5. Move the powerpoints and images arod so that they all fit neatly on the blog
  6. Interviews
  7. More technologies:

  • Emaze
  • Thinglink
  • Prezzi
  • Canva
  • Timetoast 

Garage band - foley sounds


Garage Band - Foley sounds





For our film, we were thinking of having foley sounds such as police sirens, footsteps and a heartbeat. The police siren is going to be used for the end of our film opening, where police is called to the scene by someone watching. Since we're unable to have actual police sirens, the foley sound of the police siren would be essential to our film. Also, we wanted to have the heartbeat to add a dramatic effect, and to add tension. The footsteps are going to be used to imitate the sound of Kims walking.

Hybrid Movies - Our Research

A cross-genre (or hybrid genre) is a genre in fiction that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres.

In our case, we looked at films that were mixed with Sci-fi as our main influence:
Attack the block was a hybrid of Action, Comedy and Sci-Fi.
We found other films such as:
  • Paul
  • Hot Fuzz
  • U.F.O
  • Shaun of the dead
  • Super 8
Here are there trailers.

Production Plan

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Pitch Feedback


Pitch Feedback: 
- Change the name of the film- Mugged is too literal
- Need a key prop for the main character to give more information about them
- the gang needs to be  anonymous- wear all black
- Film in the daytime to show the transition of light to dark
   - make it realistic/believable add emotion to the character

Blog feedback - Shazna & Chanise

For our blogging tasks, Dan thought our work on audience groups could have some summaries instead of just being screenshots but beyond this, he thought it was really very good and gave us 15/20, which is B grade. He also said that we've all worked as a group, and it'd be good to get some individual posts up, and there are a couple of them in the checklist. So ensure that we don't leave these out. 





Wednesday 21 January 2015


Our Animatic Storyboard
Here is the storyboard hat we drew up focus on each individual shot we will be taking. We based our sequence shots on the opening of Attack The Block.






Thursday 15 January 2015

How to use Motion

Planning: Garageband



Garageband



Garageband helps us to create different types of sounds where we can adjust the volume, pitch and the type of sound. This helps film makers to create effect in their films making them look more appealing. Here are some things we learnt about Garageband:

- Garageband is like final cut pro
- Save onto video drive
- Click and drag sounds onto the timeline
- Can turn the metronome off at the bottom of the screen
- Loop icon can make the sound on timeline longer
- Sounds are found in the music note icon top right
- Can turn the volumes down
- Faded sounds in and out
- Green line represents volume and can make sounds less
- Can make sounds less sharp
- Adjust speed (slow down or speed up)
- Can add foley sounds
- Click and backspace to delete original sound
- Export: share at the top, export songs to disk, place to save

Thursday 8 January 2015

24. Font Style& Type Face

22. Initial ideas for film

Evaluation

Evaluation

How easy or difficult was it to create a the title credits?

Overall, creating the title credits were relatively simple. All we had to do while editing our footage on Final CuT Pro was select the text tool. select the frame we wanted to add the text to, and write the text. 

What decisions did you make when deciding on the font, typeface and size of titles?

We decided that we wanted to make the font of the text quite simple, and we wanted to make them big enough to be readable, but not take the attention away from the scene.  We also decided to keep all the titles the same size. 

How successful is your choice of font? Does it suit the tone of the film?

I don't think the choice of font is very successful. My reason for this is because the style of the font is very hard and non-friendly, which is the opposite to the type of scene that was filmed. I also think the colours of the font do not match the tone of the film as it is like green. 

How successful were you in the placement of title credits so they fit the action that we see? Are the titles 'integrated' or contrasting?

In the placement of the credits, we put the first title in the middle, and decided to stick with the theme of all the titles being in the centre. This is because it would stand out to the viewer, but also it wouldn't take too much attention away from the film. 

If you were to complete this tasks again, what would you do differently?

In doing this task again, I would change the style and colour of the font to make it suit the tone of the film better. I would also think about resizing some of the text where there were parts with a lot of titles as it sometime took up a fair bit of the screen.  

Sunday 4 January 2015

Lady Pearl - Freedom Writers High School Teen Drama







Name: Freedom Writers


Sub-genre: Biography | Crime | High School Drama

Title sequences:
Paramount Pictures Presents
In association with MTV Movies
A JERSEY FILMS/ DOUBLE FEATURE FILMS Production
Movie Title: Freedom Writers

Category of title sequence
Words on a black screen

Type of production:
Mainstream

Producers:
Danny DeVito
Stacey Sher
Michael Shamberg

What storylines are introduced in the films opening?
We see multiple events of rioting and controversy that is being reported live, all including teenagers. There are many different gangs and cliques against each other but also rising up against the adults –in particular, the police in their communities.

Main characters
Hilary Swank          ...       Erin Gruwell
Patrick Dempsey     ...       Scott Casey
Scott Glenn             ...       Steve Gruwell
Imelda Staunton      ...       Margaret Campbell
April L. Hernandez ...       Eva Benitez (as April Lee Hernandez)
Mario                       ...      Andre Bryant

How do teens interact with adults?
In this particular high school the children tend to not be very fond of the adults that are their teachers. The students do not treat them with respect and act as though they are another victim they could pick on or just see them as another adult brainwashed by the system, who is out to get them.

Camera:
Very fast paced and chaotic. Multiple jump-shots used to show you every aspect of the riots. Pace begins to slow down as we go into the narrative of Eva but speeds up again as she gets into the action-part of her story.

Editing: 
Each character in the class’ story is being sown through motion picture. This is done by editing from perspective, helping us see each individual child’s life through their eyes.

Sound:
Starts off with news reporters reporting live from the riots, We hear chanting “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE”, Screaming and crying. During  Eva’s narrative we hear synchronous gloomy music with her story.

Mise-en-scene:
Costume: Stereotypical outfits, Black males in baseball jackets, sagging trousers
Props: Guns, Books, Class desks and chairs
Classroom setting
High school setting

What did you like about the film? Is it a good example of a teen film?


I really liked how every student in this film was different but all the same in a way, it just took the right teacher to get it out of them. The character of Mrs Erin Gruwell I think was really effective because she was the complete opposite to the stereotypical teacher. She was very understanding and caring and because of that the hard-headed high-school kids felt no choice but to give her back the respect that she had earned. In addition to this, I think that ‘Freedom Writers’ is a very good example of a teen film because it also focuses on a lot of the struggles that teenagers go through today such as riots, gang wars, etc. but also giving history on similar things that happened in the past such as the holocaust. The film is an intriguing educational high school drama.