Font used in the final sequence

Font used for the titles

in our finished Title sequence the font that will be used for the titles is going to be ''Mistral'' which is the same font used in our second screening. Although we said before that we might need to change it, we were unable to find another font that we thought would work/suit our title sequence better then the one we originally used. Hopefully this will turn out to be a good choice to have made. 

During my editing sessions i did search through loads of fonts and there were a few i liked but i didn't feel they worked or would suit the genre of our film.

Pictures of us setting up the re-shoot for our investigation scene.

These are images of the group setting up the scene, there were a few papers and folders that needed to be moved. We decided to just turn some of the papers over because they give the extra effect of the detective being in a working environment. When shooting a few shots we noticed that there were coats and a drink bottle on the desk that we decided to move out of the way as we didn't want the audience to focus on anything but the detective.

Mise en Scene for Detective

Mise en Scene for the detective.

 When filming for the detectives scene-the detective played by Leonardo DiCaprio (George), it was important we showed the binary opposition of good vs evil. As i knew that we were going to play the killers scene first when editing it, we wanted to make sure that it was clear which of the characters were good and which characters were bad. For the detectives costume we combed over Georges hair to make it look smart and clean which makes him look smart and appropriate for this role. For his clothing he wore a suit which gave him a look of authority and upper class. We feel that this worked well and will clearly tell our audience what kind of character he will be. Some of the props we used in our shoot included a work folder and pictures for the investigation board and to go on the table.

Issues with 2nd Screening

Issues after second screening

There were a couple of issues that we found out after our second screening that we will need to change during our next editing session. The first being the font we used, it was agreed that we could find a better font that suits our genre. The second issue was one of the scenes we used where Harry (The killer) was tapping the table which looked good but it was too quick compared to the soundtrack. The last issue we had was the lighting in the investigation scene. Our peers and teacher agreed that the lighting was too bright so in our re shoot we will need to choose a better time to shoot when its darker or find somewhere where we could control the lighting our self.

Our created soundtrack

The created soundtrack 

The soundtrack was created by Harry and George on Logic Pro.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack

For our soundtrack we decided that harry and gorge would create the sound track instead of finding one of of the internet. The reason we chose to do this is so that we could make sure it sounded exactly how we wanted it to be and not risk finding one on the internet that might not sound right or match our genre thriller/crime.

To create the sound track they will both be using Logic Pro on the macs provided in the department. Once the soundtrack is finished being created they will then give it to me so that i can start editing the clips over the top of the soundtrack. I will be making sure that at least the majority of cuts will sync with the beats in the soundtrack.

Children photos used in investigation

These are the photos of children we used for our 3rd shoot in the conference room.

Pictures from 3rd Shoot

Our 3rd Shoot

These are some pictures i took whilst we were setting up and shooting our investigation scene for our title sequence.

Next shoot

Next Shoot

For our next shoot we have decided to book out one of the conference rooms so that we can film our investigation scene in and hopefully get some good shots. I originally had shot this scene in my house but didn't feel that it looked professional enough so we decided to reshoot in a new location. This is where the idea of booking out a conference room came in so tommy emailed one of the schools staff to ask if we could use it.

Anamatic

Anemetic

This is an anamatic of our story board for our title sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MERf-G5kfhk

Change in our narrative

Changing our Narrative

During the process of making our title sequence we realised that we would need to change our narrative bit because originally we wanted the protagonist to be a father who would be filmed in his home solving the crime however due to us not have time to go and film in someones house we decided that we would just have a detective working in his office. We still-think that it could work having him be the father of the child that has been kid napped however in our new narrative he is already a detective.

Questionnaire

 I will ask my peers and teachers to fill out a questionnaire that asks them Crime/Thriller related questions. The questions will help myself decide what we need to add and after showing my group the results I will be able to take in their input of what we should add in order to make the genre clearer.

The results -

     

There was one more result paper however it never got given back to me.
From these results I know that music should be a mixture of Intense and Eerie, there should be Quite a lot of blood, we should take ideas from seven, and it should have an element of horror within it.

Production Log 1

Production log 1

Today myself harry George and Tommy filmed our first shoot in the drama room, we used our prop book that harry made, fake blood, a strobe light, netted yarn, fake knives and the filming equipment. Tommy being the cinematographer came up with the different camera shot ideas and the rest of the group gave a few ideas here and there. As i am the editor i gave some hints on what things would look good in our final piece and how some of the shots would be effective.

These are photographs of our prop book -

Issues from 1st Screening

Issues with the 1st screening

After our first screening there were a few issues we would need to fix during our next shoot and editing sessions. The first issue was that we had not established our narrative well enough and it wasn't clear enough on what the film is about.

The second issue was that we had still not added any titles meaning our peers had no idea on who is in the film, who directed it or any of the company's that helped produce it.

Another issue was that our investigation scene didn't have anyone in it and the setting takes place in doesn't look much like an office so we are going to need to re shoot that.

Title sequence Narrative

Title sequence Narrative

We have come up with a narrative for our title sequences film, using todorovs narrative structure.
this is our narrative:

Equilibrium:New family move into new house. (father/ex cop and two sons/one young one late teens)
they notice that their are no kids on the street.

Disruption:children been going missing since the neighbour has lived there, only this streets children go missing
family don't believe it carry on packing
few days later one night youngest son wakes to the sound of pebbles being thrown at his window he goes to check and finds a figure of a very tall man over the road just staring at him, as a car goes by the man disappeared. weird things keep happening to the boy: he wakes up in the morning to find things have moved around in his room to finding his window wide open and footprints around his room. This becomes more serious with each happening.

Disequilibrium:the father is told about the children being murdered in depth. (only evidence are polaroid's of the dead children with them scribbled out).
fathers youngest son goes missing from his room one night. only thing left behind is a picture of both sons but the eldest eyes are scribbled out. the father believes his son has been taken by whatever has killed the other children, the father goes to the police station to look through evidence this shows him that all the murders happened exactly four days after they went missing, on the fourth day using the evidence he finds out where his son is rapidly heads there in hope of finding him alive.

Attempt to repair:father finds the place races in to find his son bound and gaged but alive, goes to leave until the killer terns up. father fights the killer he thinks he's dead. they leave to go home.

New equilibrium:they get home to find the front door wide open. they walk inside wearily and in the hallway they find the same polaroid that was on his young sons bed but with the eldest son scribbled out. the father sees the back door open and finds that his eldest son is dead in a tree in the back garden.

Created by Tommy D, Max R, George K and Harry LJ

Mise en Scene for killer

Mise en scene- killer shoot

For our killer scene, we wanted our actor to have a rough kind of look. The outfit that we decided that he should wear was back ripped jeans, black boots and a black shirt with some blood smeared on it. We decided it also might be a good idea to smudge charcoal over his hands to give him that rough and dirty kind of look. I feel this effect worked well when it came to shooting the killers scene which will be played by J.K. Simmons (Harry). It clearly shows and tells the audience that this is the killer and will be the main antagonist for the film. Some of the other props in the shoot included a two fake knives that we covered in fake blood to give the effect that they had been used already, giving the audience an idea on what kind of character this is. Another useful prop that turned out to be a success was the strobe light that we found in one of the storage rooms. We placed the strobe light on a table then told harry to stand in front of it. In the scene, harry was acting stressed and agitated and with this mixed with the flashing of the light i thought that when the light was flashing the light then it represented the good and when it would go dark for that fraction of a second, it represents evil and darkness. This gives the audience the idea of good fighting evil.

Title Sequence- Genre

Title Sequence - Genre

Typography

Typography

When planing our title sequence we need to consider the typography to use when displaying the credits and the title of the film. These are some of the different examples of fonts we are considering to use.

My favourite font out of the 5 above is either the 4th or the 5th one. The reason i like the 4th one is because i like the way parts of the lettering is either out of place or missing which is mysterious, this is good as our title sequence/ film idea is supposed to be mysterious. The reason i like the 5th one is because although its so simple it just feels like it creates a spooky effect. 

The 1st font and 3rd font are pretty similar in the way that they are twisted and almost messed up which is perfect as the character we are looking to shoot in our title sequence is supposed to be a twisted and messed up character.  

Drafting our Continuity

Continuity Sequence 

In today's lesson we began to draft and story board our continuity sequence. We came up with the idea of an action sequence with a gangster theme to it. We agreed that it would be about someone who has stolen money from a friend who is well respected gangster with a lot of money. George who is the gangster is in disgust with this and decides he wants to kill john who has stolen the money from him. However when it came to filming our continuity sequence one of our members of the group was not in and we were limited on the amount of time we had to film, because of this we decided to change our story. We found a batman costume in a props section so we decided to make a comedy version of batman. We didn't have any additional lighting to help set the scene but because its batman it is expected to be low key lighting. In some parts during the convocation between the two characters (Batman and Gotti) we used a couple of iPhone torches to help light the faces of the characters but not too much to make it obvious. When shooting each of the characters speaking to each other, instead of switching the camera position every time someone else talks we just shot all of their lines at once and then in the editing process we separated it all out. This was helpful as it meant we could work quicker and in the final piece it didn't look like the camera had moved at all from its previous shot.

I feel that if we had a bit more time for filming and had the whole group then the final piece could have been better but i am still happy with the way it came out. I used final cut pro to edit our piece which i have used maybe once or twice before but not enough to no my way around it. However a little while i worked out where everything i needed was and it became a lot easier to create our final piece.

 Link to the final piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxM5-JHE-6Q

Video
Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group. 


This is the outline of the task ill be completing for coursework.