Stephen Scott Track 01
This song is what we used in our opening sequence which was written by Stephen Scott. We used this song as it was slow, creepy and mysterious just like our film so it fitted well within our genre and the type of film we were aiming for.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Danielle Feaver - DVD Cover (Back & Spine)
This is the back and the spine of the DVD cover. I created this on power point and edited the pictures to make them look more creepy and mysterious on picnik (www.picnik.com - this website closes on the 19th april 2012 and moves to google +).
The image had to be re-sized to put on blogger and it had to be edited with a lower quality therefore it hasn't come out as good as it could of done.
The image had to be re-sized to put on blogger and it had to be edited with a lower quality therefore it hasn't come out as good as it could of done.
Voice Over for Opening Sequence
Voice over
This link to a recording of our voice over is the last part of the film which creates more meaning and suspense to the horror and as it ends it puts everyone on edge.
This link to a recording of our voice over is the last part of the film which creates more meaning and suspense to the horror and as it ends it puts everyone on edge.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Danielle's Contribution To Editing
I did some of the transitions myself some being fade to white and some being fade to black. Alongside working with Emma Brice we shortened the film overall because it was timed at over 3 minutes and it was too long. After a couple of hours working we shortened the film and put more transitions in being fade to black, fade to whites and just general cuts.
We also switched one of the scenes around because it collided with another scene and you could see that it was filmed at a different point, we found this worked because it made the production look more realistic.
When we finally completed our opening sequence we realized that we didn’t have any general conversation or anyone talking throughout, this made us decide that it was more appropriate if we did and it would make things clearer on what was happening. As a group we decided to do a voice over and it was shortly written by Emma Brice and Liam Jeffery and actually spoken by (acted by) Alex Oakley. We decided to do the short script as:
“Sometimes you’ve just got to change your plans…Guess it’s my lucky day”.
We found that this was appropriate because as a viewer you could see what was going through the antagonists head.
After the voice over was created we did our final piece of music. We found that it didn’t quite suit what we was looking for. We decided as a group that we would get someone else to make the music for our film. Stephen Scott who has a band made us our music for our film. He has a number of tracks located on a disk that we could chose from we went for a track that seemed more appropriate for our film. In a way it comes across and mysterious and creepy and that was exactly what we was looking for.
We also switched one of the scenes around because it collided with another scene and you could see that it was filmed at a different point, we found this worked because it made the production look more realistic.
When we finally completed our opening sequence we realized that we didn’t have any general conversation or anyone talking throughout, this made us decide that it was more appropriate if we did and it would make things clearer on what was happening. As a group we decided to do a voice over and it was shortly written by Emma Brice and Liam Jeffery and actually spoken by (acted by) Alex Oakley. We decided to do the short script as:
“Sometimes you’ve just got to change your plans…Guess it’s my lucky day”.
We found that this was appropriate because as a viewer you could see what was going through the antagonists head.
After the voice over was created we did our final piece of music. We found that it didn’t quite suit what we was looking for. We decided as a group that we would get someone else to make the music for our film. Stephen Scott who has a band made us our music for our film. He has a number of tracks located on a disk that we could chose from we went for a track that seemed more appropriate for our film. In a way it comes across and mysterious and creepy and that was exactly what we was looking for.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Voice Over Analysis
For our Opening sequence we have added in a voice over for one of our main characters in the film. We have added this to create meaning and purpose for the character as to what he is going to do in the film and also to make the film more clear and understandable to the viewer. When we watched our film we realised how it was missing this important piece to finish the film and have now noticed how it makes a great difference to the ending and creates more tension and purpose to the film.
The Voice over was acted by myself and written by Emma Brice and Liam Jeffery.
The Voice over was acted by myself and written by Emma Brice and Liam Jeffery.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Distribution and Audience - Facebook and Twitter
Twitter page for LEAD Productions - https://twitter.com/#!/LEADProductions
Facebook page for LEAD Productions - http://www.facebook.com/LeadProductions
Facebook page for the film 'The Platform' - http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Platform/380160728669256?skip_nax_wizard=true
As a group we decided to create a Twitter and Facebook page for our production company, LEAD Productions. We agreed this was a great way to use cross media convergence and attract our audience. Our film is aimed at any gender and any age above 15 meaning there is a wide audience, so we needed a variety of different ways to advertise and distribute our film and production company. Using the internet is modern use with many people joining and regularly using websites such as Twitter and Facebook, so making pages for these sites allows our audience and fans to keep up with any film news. Furthermore by using a variety of different ways to attract an audience means the larger the audience will be and lead to small production companies making a larger profit if we are advertising and distributing through the internet. We created a Facebook page for both our production company and film so that our audience and fans can see recent news on both the film and the production company.
Facebook page for LEAD Productions - http://www.facebook.com/LeadProductions
Facebook page for the film 'The Platform' - http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Platform/380160728669256?skip_nax_wizard=true
As a group we decided to create a Twitter and Facebook page for our production company, LEAD Productions. We agreed this was a great way to use cross media convergence and attract our audience. Our film is aimed at any gender and any age above 15 meaning there is a wide audience, so we needed a variety of different ways to advertise and distribute our film and production company. Using the internet is modern use with many people joining and regularly using websites such as Twitter and Facebook, so making pages for these sites allows our audience and fans to keep up with any film news. Furthermore by using a variety of different ways to attract an audience means the larger the audience will be and lead to small production companies making a larger profit if we are advertising and distributing through the internet. We created a Facebook page for both our production company and film so that our audience and fans can see recent news on both the film and the production company.
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Emma - Editing
When we completed filming our opening sequence we used editing to make our film more interesting and appropriate to our genre of horror/thriller.
Our film doesn't include any conversation and we realised it wouldn’t be clear what was happening, therefore we added a narration. We thought this would be effective as it subtly tells the audience what is going on that the antagonist has chosen a random victim and is following her. We interestingly made the narration from the villain’s perspective as this contrasts other horror/thriller films as generally the narration is of the protagonist. Our narration made the opening sequence much more gripping and interesting as the audience could follow what was happening and it makes them want to know what will happen but also see from the antagonists’ point of view and see what’s going through his head.
Our film doesn't include any conversation and we realised it wouldn’t be clear what was happening, therefore we added a narration. We thought this would be effective as it subtly tells the audience what is going on that the antagonist has chosen a random victim and is following her. We interestingly made the narration from the villain’s perspective as this contrasts other horror/thriller films as generally the narration is of the protagonist. Our narration made the opening sequence much more gripping and interesting as the audience could follow what was happening and it makes them want to know what will happen but also see from the antagonists’ point of view and see what’s going through his head.
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