Second evaluation task -Homestudy

Evaluation activity two-

How does our Media product represent particular social Groups ?

Pick a key character of our opening , take a screen grab of a reasonable size image of them ... think of 1 or more characters from other films, and the simularities and differences that they share.

Find an image on the web , of that or those characters from the web , put them in photoshop together  as a split screen.

Export the split screen image as a jpeg, and drop onto our blog, where we then have to write about the simularities and differences in terms of characters , appearence ,costume , role in the film ect.

By Evie Mullahy & Louise Jarvis

Evaluation of Editing

First session: (Old sequence) For our first session, we all split up to do the editing, Jamie Hutton was in charge of sound. Yharnna Joseph was in charge of font, and Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis was in charge of editing the clips. For Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis, we found the editing worked alright, we first placed all the clips together, and for the flashbacks we made it clear that they were a flashback by changing the colour of the clips to sepia, the only problem we had with editing was that we wanted to have a 'flash' of light, and that was extremely hard to find as we had to try and create it. Our inspiration came from the opening sequence of Seven when the flashes of still images appear on screen. However, it was impossible to create the effect on iMovie HD. 


Second Session: (New sequence) Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis were editing the new clips and Jamie Hutton was doing sound, however we found it extremely different as some of our extremely good shots were not long enough, so we found that we had to re-film some of the shots. However, we put all the shots in order for the sequence to make sense. However, there was not much we could do as alot of the shots were too shot to be used. Jamie Hutton was creating the diegetic and non-diegetic sound for our new opening sequence we created. the use of garage band was useful as it helped to put different sounds together. some of the diegetic sound had to be edited out which i  erased as it made it sound un professional, overall the sound is excellent.


Third Session: (New sequence) Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis, after we have finished re-filming the new clips, we have come in to put the clips on to the computer, however the camera has not been working properly, as it is taking along time to import. So we are presently waiting for the camera to get working, so we can start putting the new clips in to the sequence and in to order and we can start doing the transitions.


Fourth session: (New sequence) Louise and Evie completed the sound for the film and moved on to creating titles for our opening sequence. As the film is psychological thriller we had to look for disturbing writing which will identify the genre of the film, we found many different ones to choose from after choosing them we chose a front called 'all over again' however we decided to put the titles at the end of the sequence and one where the first character is shown. We had some difficulty with this as the font would load but we over came this problem and the title sequence worded well with the film creating a spooky but clever effect. For our last bit of editing we had to incorporate a production company logo at the start of our opening film for it to seem professional. We done this by getting a clip off of youtube and cutting and editing it in to our clip. This became a problem however, as we didn't do this when we uploaded it before to youtube, so we had to upload the clip with the production logo in and then upload it to our blog. 


(We all changed roles in the end and Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis were in charge of cutting the continuity editing, inputting the sound in to our sequence and the titles, Yharnna found the sound, and Yharnna and Jamie also carried on with the evaluation tasks on the blog)


By Evie Mullahy,Louise Jarvis

Evaluation of Filming

First session: (Old sequence) For our first session of filming, Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis went to Physicals gym to film the self video of Louise (the victim) walking out of the gym, and the villian following where she went, this worked well and we done two shots of this so we can choose the best one, however our first shot we saw we left the umbrella on the floor, so we chose to use the second shot. For the next part of the sequence we wanted to get a shot of Louise walking in to an alley way so this would create an isolated setting which fits the conventions of a thriller. We tried this shot several times from different angles, and we had some complications for example there was people coming through the alleyway at one particular time. However, the weather was good for our genre as it was raining which showed a negative setting. We then thought that we recorded over the first lot of footage coming out of the gym so we had to go back and re film that, however, the lighting was correct, luckily we realised that we didn't film over it. 


Second Session: (Old sequence) For our second session, Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis, filmed the part of the film where the villian is looking in the mirror and getting ready to capture the girl and also when he has captured the girl, and he is in the shed and toturing her. We filmed this at Evies house, Phil was our villian and we prepared by doing all the makeup for both of the characters. We found it hard to film as we had no tripod, as we used a different camera which wouldn't fit on to the tripod. Overall, the session worked quite well, and we were very pleased with all parts of mise-en-scene and the footage that we collected. 


Third Session: (Old sequence) For our third session, we all worked together here, and our objective was to show that the villian had been stalking the victim for some time, we printed out about 30 pictures of Louise who was the victim and cut them out, drew on them and stuck them to a piece of wood in Evies shed. This footage was very time consuming as it took a long time to gather all of the pictures, however when we eventually filmed it, we felt it looked really effective and we achieved our objective.


Fourth Session: (New sequence) As previously explained in another post in the blog, we felt that we should re film our sequence and change the story line as there was not enough content. So for 2 hours, Evie Mullahy, Louise Jarvis and Jamie Hutton, re filmed a different sequence. Our villian was Marie Browning, it took half an hour for us to eventually start filming as we had to create the correct lighting, so we stuck black sandpaper on the walls so that we could create a midnight effect, we also had to organise the office, we made it look like the teacher was very messy and also in a very stressful position by putting papers everywhere on the desk. This filming session was pinochle as we needed to complete all filming by the end. We felt we worked really well as a group and all contributed to all decisions that we made and made sure everyone was happy so that we didn't make the same mistake again. 


Fifth Session: (New sequence) This session of filming was not planned, as we thought we captured all footage, however, when we put it on to the computers to start editing we found that the shots were all just a little bit too short, so we had to re-film bits. Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis were the ones filming this session, and we filmed a total of 8 shots. This was hard to do as we had to make sure that every aspect of mise-en-scene was correct from when we previously filmed. However with the lighting this time it was much more beneficial as it was dark outfit which is what we wanted to achieve. It took about half an hour to film the final few scenes, and we were extremely pleased that we re-filmed again. 


By Evie Mullahy and Louise Jarvis

Photography-Preperation for filming by Yharnna Joseph

Louise Jarvis - camera woman
Altering The camera settings, for filming.

Louise Jarvis - To the left hand


Evie Mullahy - To the right hand


This photo displays The set up of the filming in the corridor , since we needed the corridor to be dark to create the idea that it's late , the lights had to be turned off. However with the lights turned off , we were unable to film to a high quality , so we improvised , and used a lamp shade to release an effective yet suttle shade of light .The light enabled , the character to be visible in the dark , when being filmed.

Louise Jarvis - setting up the Tri-pod

                                                                                                                                      

Treatment

Synopsis/Plot:  Our opening sequence will revolve around , a teacher who is working overtime , by herself in her secluded office in which she is writing a witness statement relating to a murder incident which she had previously witnessed. The main character appears to be becoming increasingly aggitated whilst writing her statement , this can be seen through her eratic and irrational movements and fustration exerted throughout her facial expressions.
The main character becomes alarmed as she hears suspicious noises outside of her office,she then walks outside to the corridor to investigate the noises she heard , as she does this the lights turn off instantly , where we see a slow shot of her face. The main character slowly turns around , where we then see a long point of view shot of the villan.


Setting :  An enclosed school office , in the upper floor of Trinity House. The setting appears to be rather isolated with nobody but the main character who plays the role of a victim. An empty corridor will also  feature in our opening sequence. The idea of lonliness is particularly emphasised through the use of our quiet and isolated setting.


Genre: thriller 


Characters : Marie Browning (main character ) - Mrs Edwards


Atmosphere : The atmosphere is both lonesome and isolated, which helps evoke a gloomy feeling amoungst the audience , This correlates to the theme and genre of our opening sequence so therefore works very well.


Tone : There is a rather negative , and glum tone.


Sound: Slow, classical sad music to emphasise on the plot of ur opening sequence 


Lighting : Medium , with dark moments to create the idea of the time being late.


Target Audience : Mature audience 15 onwards 


Location : The top floor in Trinity house, a private office and a lonely corridor 

By Yharnna Joseph

Change of plan

After filming our opening sequence , unfortunately... once we uploaded and viewed our footage  , we were far from satisfied with what we had filmed .Which therefore meant that we either had to re-consider our story line plot , as it simply didn't make logical sense to the viewer , whether or not it was edited or re-arranged. Another Issue that was brought to light was the 'lack of shot variety ' throughout the course of our opening sequence, our footage appeared to be dominated by one shot type, which was by all means  nowhere near effective, and wouldnt have gained us sufficient marks.
As a group , we decided that our best option , was to completely re-construct our opening sequence which in effect , meant refilming our whole project and altering the story line.


By Yharnna Joseph