Absents

In the lesson today again Katie is off due to illness however we have been communicating with her and she knowes the issues that we have had with ragards of the film the only proplem was we needed to have 2 more titles. This is fine and it was clear and understandable.

Titiles Again

When the teacher went home last night he was looking at the comparison of the 2 films side by side, over all the film was spot on, however there were a few problems with the titles, one of these were that the Name of the Film was spelt slightly wrong and in stead of having Co- Written we need to have written by this is the only issue that we have and the film is spot on.

More Titles

In the lesson we have been looking to make sure that everything is in order, during this time we have been on looking to make sure that the titles are in the correct order, we have noticed that we still bneeeded to inculde roughley another 3 titles however this would not affect the film too much as we can but these after the Warener Bros logo but before our logo. What we need to have is, we need Warener Bros presents, a Dynamite Kitty productions, Filmed by Katie Boal, Barry Stubbs and Reece Wilkins... When Reece got his ipod out and played a film that he has on there we have seen that yes this is needed and would be implemented in the front of our film as soon as possible to make sure that its compleate and this will be all the titles that are needed.

Absents

In todays lesson we are going to be discussing the representation for the film that we have created the reason for this being that we are one person down which is Katie who is the only person that has the access to the laptop.

Katie should be in for the next lesson which is tomorrow if she fells better. Hopefully everything will be fine.

Final- Rough Comparison

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The link above will show you the difference in the editing that we have been working on in the last few lessons, when you play this back you would be able to see what the difference in color is, the way that the titles are set out as in the older version you could see that we were happy with how we produced these, however when the teacher was looking back you could see that some of the titles were in the wrong order this has now been changed as you would be able to see. 


When you look at the new one you would also be able to see that we now have the Warner Bros logo we also have our logo which we have also implemented, When we were showing the original version to the teacher he did not like the way in which we had the name of the film at the end as we had it starting very slow and small and it then shot up in front of you. this has now been changed and it matches the rest of the titles where it sweeps in from one side and then goes when it comes to the other side.  

In the Lessons

In the last 2 lessons we have been working on the editing of the final opening of the film that we have created, during this time we have managed to get most of the corrections done as we don not have too many to worry about because of this it means that have not has to get them done as quickly as possible meaning that we have managed to make sure that its a good quality and that the group is happy with what it looks like and sounds like.

We have added the titles onto the opening now as well we are very happy with what they look like and they work and fit into the film amazingly well, as we have put then during the flashback it means that it also slows the flashbacks down a bit before the interview again this is a good and positive thing that its created.

The music that we got from secession studios is also implemented onto the opening, original the clip was not long enough for the opening as its now over 3 Min's as we have also got the titles on this. However we have managed to stretch and add more onto the music which again means that its perfect and still fits with the film.

The last thing that we needed to do was to ensure that we but the distributor and our logo onto the beginning of the clip, this again has now been done as we have the Warner Bros logo, however this does not have the sound on the minuet but we are going to be working on this in the next lesson and hopefully it will be completed with sound throughout.

By making sure that we have implemented all of the corrections that we were given we now hope that we are firmley into the L4 area and very close to having 60 marks for this area of the making and editing. Overall the group is very pleased with what we have created and we are happy with the progress that we have made over the last few weeks and the progress we are making to be finished the final piece which is due in for submission fully finished with the titles included etc for the 12th March.

Rough Cut

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Here is a link to Katie's blog which has the video of the rough cut we are very pleased with what we have created during this in terms of the video and the edit of it, as this is not the final piece this would not be perfect and some things may still need to be changed this will be done once we know what the teacher thinks and when we come as a group to review it again.

Titles

From the point of today we had been thinking about possible titles that we could have when playing the opening of the film, as this has only been thought about we have actually made some and we are very happy with what has been created.

The titles are very simple however they work really well with what we have created. The original idea is to have white writing on a black background as this would link in with the flashbacks that we have created. the titles come in from the left hand side and are dim and they brighten and this sticks and they they fade back out which look very good. I will but a demonstration on of the titles soon so you can see what i mean.

Todays the Final Day

In the lesson today we have been making sure that everything is in order for the rough cut of the film that we have to have in for the deadline today, as a group we have looked at this and found some very positive and negative parts which have not been changed, the teacher Mr Earl has been and had a quick look and from what he can see without the titles is very positive and he is happy with this and he says its a level 3 piece at the moment this is without the titles and final edit in place.

The final rough cut is still let to be put onto the bog but this will be done so before 12am tonight. The rough cut that has been created there is only one part missing which is a voice over which we are going to leave and implement into the final clip that you will also see on the bog.

We have also managed to get some music that we are very pleased with from the business that said we can use the music which is secession studios, we are very thankful for this music and we also fee that it works really well with what we have produced as the music builds up and creates a tense atmosphere which makes it very effective with the genre that we have for the film.

More footage

Here we have some more footage which shows that Barry and Flossi are walking in the tunnel, we have decided that we do quite like this shot, however there is some shaking on this as Me and Flossi are walking and so is Katie meaning the camera is moving. we like the part when Katie walks past us and moves around to the back of Me and Flossi, some of the background look a little bit Gray and dull but this should not be as issue as we are going to be making this black and white. we would have a cut out of this at the end as when it comes to 16 seconds in the bags and other equipment that we have started to show, if this was cut out this is a good piece of footage.

Reviewing some Flashback

Here I am going to review this part of the flashback, this clip is taken from Reece's house where Me and Flossi are getting ready to go on the night out. When we have been looking at this we have noticed that sometimes the auto focus happens this is a slight problem as it means that it moves the camera back and forth to try and set itself on the image its looking at. The auto focus happens during the 9,13 and 17th second(s) in the clip. This is a slight issue as this may be a piece of footage that we need, however luckily we have shot this more that one time meaning that we should hopefully have a better image on the camera.

absent

today we are in the the Media lesson, Reece is back from his absent from yesterday, however Katie is not this has left a little problem with the editing as Katie has the laptop that we are working on. However thankfully she if going to work on this at home even though she is not well so me and Reece are very thankful for this.

As this has happened it means that Me and Reece can't do allot but gladly we have some footage that we are going to look through and take notes of to fill the time, this also would means that this part of the editing would accrue faster as we know where the footage is that we need.

LOGO

Here you can see that we have finally got our logo, as you can see it has the name which is Dynamite Kitty Studios. the reason that we have this name is because we come up with this when we first had made a film in the Media lesson this name has stuck and shows that we are being consistent with this.

Todays lesson

In today's lesson we have a Little problem as I am the only person in the lesson the reason for this is because Reece and Katie are both off ill. As a result of this I am making sure that I am up to date with the blog entries that is required and I have got some footage on the Memory Stick that I will look through to make sure that I am doing something productive and that I am not waisting time.

The issue of Reece and Katie off should hopefully be back to normal for tomorrow, so that again we can sit down and make sure that we are making progress with the editing of out complete rough cut that needs to be entered for submission for Friday 10th February, 2012

Editing

In the last couple of lessons we have been siting as a group and going through the raw footage and writing down the shots and what number the clip is and then the things that happen in each clip such as the dialogue, the reason for this being that it makes it much easier to look through the clips and get the correct dialogue when coming to putting it in the correct software for editing, this will save us time.

In out lesson on Friday we were looking and we were editing some of the clips that we have of the interrogation scene, we will be adding in the flash backs during this.

raw footage

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Here is a link to Katie's blog on this you will see some raw footage that we have got, this is to show how effective we have made it look as we have looked into seeing what the lighting will be like and how the camera will react to the lighting and to see what the actores would look like with this light, we are happy with the outcome of how this looks and are happy to edit now, we have started editing and we are making some progress into having the compleated rough copy finished for the up comming Friday.

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This is a link to a you tube video that Reece has but on, this video is when Reece went out looking for a location and we found the tunnel that we are recently talking about, when looking at the video you can see that the lighting was not be best however it has been improved as there were some new lights put in, this means that the camera will pick up the lighting much easier and should look more effective, we have not shot this piece and it looks much better and we are Happy with the progress and what the footage looks like.

Editing

In the last few lessons we have been going out and using Katie's laptop to do some voice overs, now we think we have what is needed to do the rough cut of the editing.

In the lesson yesterday we were starting to edit and some of the clips that we had produced we skipping and were not playing through correctly so Katie is going to take them back home and re render them as it has not done this correctly in the mean time we all sat around the laptop and looked through the shots on windows media player. We have decided which shots we all like so  that they are ready for the editing again.

As the first edit that we are doing is only for a rough cut so that out teacher knows our progress and what we have made we are going to start this as soon as possible, we then will give the edited footage to Mr Earl to have a look and then we will get it back to do the final edit that we have 3 weeks to ensure that its correct and looks like and opening to a film.