http://ocr.org.uk/images/81037-specification.pdf
'Appendix B: Marking Criteria for Unit G321:
Foundation Portfolio in Media' starts at page 58.
Sunday 28 February 2016
Saturday 27 February 2016
Sound for final OTS
Sounds used, and where they're used, in 'Blank':
Sounds Used In 'Blank':
We decided against Sardonicus as we felt it was too scary and too breaking of the Film Noir conventions. We also thought it didn't fit with the images shown and had a too disturbing feel when played. We were keen on Insidious for a long period of time but once we'd found Intimidation we felt that worked better and was easier to manipulate around the footage to make it feel scary.
The main parts of the backing music are Better Days and Intimidation mixed with House on the Hill. Better Days is from a website called BenSound. This is a copyright free website where you can search for ambient backing music by genre. Better Days is a calm piece of music with an occasional jazzy twang. This is the most Film Noir conventional piece of music we have in our project. Most of our scary music, that plays after the ident, is promotionally Intimidation, Thunder Rolls, Drones and House on the Hill. These create an up tempo, low pitched beat for it to be easier for the viewer to watch. We foley-ed a clank from when the pencil sharper blade moves, the light switch click, the door closing, and a finger click. We did also record these noises at the time of shooting the footage but they seemed muffled and unclear to we re-filmed them using a Marantz audio recorder whilst also recording Harry doing a voice over and letting the story unfold of what Harry will do in this film. a Marantz audio recorder is a good thing to use as the sound comes out clearly and they are also easy to use.
Chloe wrote the script for the voice over, it says:
I never thought I would have the bottle to commit murder, and take a vindictive, sly, suductive, women from this Earth but she betrayed me and I needed justice. So now I am left with all traces of her, that drill holes through my mind, traces I have to get rid of before I kill another. This time with no consequences. My future is nothing but a blank page.
Sounds Used In 'Blank':
- Better Days - BenSound.com (copyright free)
- Intimidation - Purple-Planet.com (copyright free)
- House on the Hill - Purple Planet.com
- Sweep Motion - Downloaded Online (copyright free)
- Thunder Roll - iMovie Sound Effects
- Drone Dark Suspense 2 - iMovie Sound Effects
- Ambient Effect 2 - iMovie Sound Effects
- Voiceover - Original (recorded on a marantz audio recorder)
- Door Close - Original (FOLEY)
- Light Switch - Original (FOLEY)
- Clank - Original (FOLEY)
We decided against Sardonicus as we felt it was too scary and too breaking of the Film Noir conventions. We also thought it didn't fit with the images shown and had a too disturbing feel when played. We were keen on Insidious for a long period of time but once we'd found Intimidation we felt that worked better and was easier to manipulate around the footage to make it feel scary.
The main parts of the backing music are Better Days and Intimidation mixed with House on the Hill. Better Days is from a website called BenSound. This is a copyright free website where you can search for ambient backing music by genre. Better Days is a calm piece of music with an occasional jazzy twang. This is the most Film Noir conventional piece of music we have in our project. Most of our scary music, that plays after the ident, is promotionally Intimidation, Thunder Rolls, Drones and House on the Hill. These create an up tempo, low pitched beat for it to be easier for the viewer to watch. We foley-ed a clank from when the pencil sharper blade moves, the light switch click, the door closing, and a finger click. We did also record these noises at the time of shooting the footage but they seemed muffled and unclear to we re-filmed them using a Marantz audio recorder whilst also recording Harry doing a voice over and letting the story unfold of what Harry will do in this film. a Marantz audio recorder is a good thing to use as the sound comes out clearly and they are also easy to use.
Chloe wrote the script for the voice over, it says:
I never thought I would have the bottle to commit murder, and take a vindictive, sly, suductive, women from this Earth but she betrayed me and I needed justice. So now I am left with all traces of her, that drill holes through my mind, traces I have to get rid of before I kill another. This time with no consequences. My future is nothing but a blank page.
Wednesday 17 February 2016
The Ending ....or the Beginning?
As we have stated before, to fit with Film Noir conventions me and Chloe have chosen to have our opening title sequence (OTS) as the end of our film. However after the OTS has finished, the titles have been and the main credits have shown the actual story will begin. Me and Chloe have decided to add the first nine seconds of our story so that it feels more like an opening title sequence. To fit with Film Noir conventions we're starting with a traditional feature of this genre, smoke. It will fade in from the titles of Blank to the smoke rising. However although it will look like smoke and give that traditional Film Noir film straight away, it will actually be steam and this will become evident by the next scene being of a kettle. Kettles are often used to make hot drinks such as tea or coffee that people normally have with their breakfast so this will symbolise the beginning of the day fitting with the beginning of the film.
Previously on this blog, I've analysed Gone Girl (2014) opening title sequence. Gone Girl's OTS end with it stating the day and time, in this case it ends saying
'JULY 5TH
THE MORNING OF'
but does not state what it is the morning of, this adds suspense and confusion to the audience.
However me and Chloe did like the how it says the date and lets you know this is the beginning of the story for you to then follow chronologically. As we liked this and also where it was positioned we used this in our OTS.
Previously on this blog, I've analysed Gone Girl (2014) opening title sequence. Gone Girl's OTS end with it stating the day and time, in this case it ends saying
'JULY 5TH
THE MORNING OF'
but does not state what it is the morning of, this adds suspense and confusion to the audience.
However me and Chloe did like the how it says the date and lets you know this is the beginning of the story for you to then follow chronologically. As we liked this and also where it was positioned we used this in our OTS.
Monday 8 February 2016
Film Comany Idents Analysis
Film idents from Emily Ventress
Many film company and studio idents are based around the sky, predominately night time. However some, such as 5., 6. and 7. in the slideshare above, just base themselves around their logo with a plain background, this obviously makes the logo and name stand out more but I think makes them less memorable.
When showing people in order to get feedback recently, many of them have been mentioning how they dislike the ident (which was the first one). They didn't like how it's spelt out and we even recorded a member of our target audience saying this in .........
Therefore me and Chloe realised we needed to make something more professional using some more professional. I then downloaded the Adobe Creative Cloud trial and installed After Effects CC (2015) and Media Encoder CC (2015). Both me and Chloe have never used After Effects before and therefore we followed a YouTube tutorial into making the second ident in the video above. Although I liked it I thought now we'd leant the skills that I'd try make another and therefore made the third one. I really like this one and think it looks really professional. It took me about 2 full hours to make even thought it's only 4 seconds long.
Reflective Comment: I like the final ident a lot and am proud of our progression from the very iMovie generically made first ident of the stars. I also am happy we have used After Effects as that's provided experience and professionalism.
Many film company and studio idents are based around the sky, predominately night time. However some, such as 5., 6. and 7. in the slideshare above, just base themselves around their logo with a plain background, this obviously makes the logo and name stand out more but I think makes them less memorable.
When showing people in order to get feedback recently, many of them have been mentioning how they dislike the ident (which was the first one). They didn't like how it's spelt out and we even recorded a member of our target audience saying this in .........
Therefore me and Chloe realised we needed to make something more professional using some more professional. I then downloaded the Adobe Creative Cloud trial and installed After Effects CC (2015) and Media Encoder CC (2015). Both me and Chloe have never used After Effects before and therefore we followed a YouTube tutorial into making the second ident in the video above. Although I liked it I thought now we'd leant the skills that I'd try make another and therefore made the third one. I really like this one and think it looks really professional. It took me about 2 full hours to make even thought it's only 4 seconds long.
Reflective Comment: I like the final ident a lot and am proud of our progression from the very iMovie generically made first ident of the stars. I also am happy we have used After Effects as that's provided experience and professionalism.
Friday 5 February 2016
What Does This Say?
Reflective Comment: I think this was a really effective video. It was a quickly filmed vox pop of what my class thought the titles Chloe had made said. We found that only half got it right and that simply isn't enough for if it was mass shown half of the audience wouldn't even know what the film is called. We know from this quick survey that we need to re-think our titles and try again to create them.
Reflective Comment: This was another quickly filmed vox pop of what our friends and family thought the titles Chloe had written said. All got it write so we know they've improved since the last ones.
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