Thursday 18 March 2010

Feedback

Steady shot while giving the news.
Framed well at hotel location - included the name.
Appropriate shot distance. Some variety.
Footage fit well with intended purpose.
Mise- en - scene - costumes fit well with piece. Location is very good.
Editing - news - meaning was apparent. BBC titles worked very well.
Images popping up was appropriate.
Not many transitions.
Sound - at beginning with telephone call the diegetic sound behind the call created atmosphere.
Titles fit well.

feedback

we liked the news report section. we thought it was very clever making it look like it was actually on television.

there was not many shots to be held steady as most of it was blank screen with credits, the shots that were visual were held steady

weren't many shots to vary your distances as the only shots were continued at the same distance and you didn't explore any different shot angles or anything of that sort

We felt that this was not really a thriller. we felt it was more a crime/political/action film as no thriller conventions were used clearly.

there was not much mis en scene to be selected as there was not much footage. the lighting for the news report was a bit dark but worked well along with the light in the other bit of footage. there was not much location to be incldued except for the clear use of the university arms which we felt was a good choice to film the news scene

there were no transitions between scenes as there was only two scenes where the shot type and angle did not change at all
\sound was used well at the beginning with all the talking but it definitely went on for too long and created the atmosphere of an fbi agent prepping a client of some sort, it did not seem to fit the thriller genre as it is more crime. hence it being called "framed" which is a crime within the law.
however the sound with the pictures suited the pictures. the sound with the news report was not clear at all because of the background sound.

the titles were good and mysterious at the beginning.

Thursday 11 March 2010

rough cut evaluation

This is what people thought about our rough cut of the sequence.

pro's and con's

Effective beginning as there is no visuals, so you can concentrate on the phone conversation. New scene is realistic.
Shots are very long and close viewers attention
voice overs last to long
credits are very effective
black screen draws attention to conversation
logo is very good
production logo slightly unprofessional
but a good length
mystery with political theme
interesting narrative
costumes are good
location fantastic
characters dont have enough characteristics



we learnt that our opening sequence needs improving.
We also learnt that we have the upperhand on other groups, ours is quite blatently better.

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Rough Cut

Hello! While i am writing this up luke and oli and putting the final touches into our roughcut due in... half an hour. Our rough cut is our title sequence in order on final cut, it will be good to view online. Once the rough cut has been uploaded we have a number of things left to do. So far our project contains the completely edited phone call, completely edited news report and completely edited 'shifty man' scene. this makes a good foundation for our project and a quality rough cut as this is our filming complete. We do however have things left to do. We have to place our collage in between the phone conversation and filming, we have left this out of our rough cut because we have not as yet gathered all the relevant media ie news reports and pictures of crime scene. Once we have put these in place we will do a final edit of everything to make sure everything is perfect and then make the music. The gaps in the rough cut is where the other media will be placed. Thanks for your time.

Production Logo




Finally... we have created our logo! It has been a long time coming and we have gone classic: 'Long Road Pictures.' It took around a lesson to produce led by Oli with assistance from Andrea. Our label consists of text flying in from the distance, titled long road, the picture of a deserted road is very apt. Here, take a look at some screen prints.

Thursday 4 March 2010

Editing the news report.

From our footage of the news report, we decided to make it looks official and as realistic as possible. For example adding text: the reporters name, and logos of the news company in this case, BBC news.
I researched into existing news reports, and identified what key features they all have. Focusing on BBC reports, they all have the traditional logo and have the reporters name and position. Also they normally have a "live" sign at the top, followed by the name of where the reporter is. And also how the name of the reporter fades out too.

Monday 1 March 2010

Filming Weekend







The weekend commencing 29th February 2010 was our filming weekend. We designated the Sunday to film as we had only little filming to do. We could fit this filming into one day because we had made detailed plans beforehand (see past blog posts). We knew what we were filming, the script, who played each role, costume, sound and how long each scene would take.
We had planned to film outside the 'Mitre Pub' in Cambridge because it is a bustling landmark in the center in the city, however when we arrived we realised that the people eating inside would make void the claim that this was a crime scene. Therefore we decided to go film at the 'University Arms Hotel' just by the Grand Arcade in town. This location fitted perfectly with the idea that there had been an assassination and it was a crime scene as we filmed in a desolate car park... implying that the public had been cleared from the area.
The first scene we filmed was the news report. Oliver Theunissen took up the role of the news reporter as he had apt clothes on. Instead of wearing a suit he wore a dark smart coat and a jumper with a collared shirt. He also wore black jeans so that it appeared he was wearing dark trousers. We had prepared a script before hand lasting around 60 seconds, which worked perfectly as it lasted indeed around 60 seconds. The actual filming on the other hand took around 22 mintues. This consisted of Oli replaying his script in about 20 different takes. Nevertheless, we got the scene down before the battery went dead and the prolonged filming actually meant we ended up with a perfect cut. There were mistakes, but the reporter had just arrived at the scene and had little time to prepare the actual report. We placed the camera mid shot so that we could see above waist. The frame of the shot was also perfect, we had the window of the lobby on Oli's left hand side and the name 'University Arms' on the right hand side.
The second scene was of me, Callum leaving the hotel door. In this clip we wanted to imply that this character had maybe played a part in the crime. We wanted the character to wear casual clothes, something that someone would wear everyday, but also something concealing. Therefore I chose to wear an outfit I normally would wear for college but include a big coat with a hood, something that would almost hide my identity while at the same time giving away key characteristics of myself. Luke made a close up to mid shot possible by walking with me as I walk out the hotel door and put my hood up. He films me walking away. We bring in a match on action shot by Luke moving to facing me walking from the door of the hotel and then away down the street.