Evaluation

Two Minute Film Openning- Obscure

Editing part 3

Split clip- Highlight clip press E which will send the clip to the project, run cursor over where you would like to split the clip and the press Shift-Apple-S all at the same time. Our now split clip has been flipped around as it gives the character a weird distorted look, her limbs also look out of proportion. Replaying our edited clip always gives us new things to change, such as the hospital scene with my character when we played the scene with the volume we noticed some background noise that need to be taken out. To do this we simply just dub the sound( Mute the clip).


As we moved on to putting our opening titles into the clip we found it very difficult to use the previous fonts we had chosen for our production companies. When we print screened the font and inserted it into fireworks there was a lot of white background we could not get rid of. So we had to change our font ideas as we wanted them to be on the playing scene and this would not be possible with the fonts white background.
 

We choose red for our font colour as it holds connotations of both blood and horror, which represents our film. To the scene where we see Sarah acting crazy in the hospital we wanted to create a security camera look.

Previously we added a raster effect to the scene but we didn't think it was obvious enough for the audience, so we added changing times at the bottom of the clip we did this by adding titles in and changing the period they were on the screen for. It also helped achieve the idea that the character Sarah is insane as when she stares at the camera the time at the bottom of the screen changes rapidly.


At the end of the victims torture scene the camera cuts dead we later thought about adding a scream to leave the scene at a cliffhanger. At the time of recording we did not record any male screams so we went on to the imovie sounds too listen to the sound effects they had to offer. Unfortunately they did not have a male scream so we went on a free non copyright website www.soundfxnow.com the screams on this website were very comical and did not suit our genre of film. We were finally led to www.youtube.com where we typed in the search engine Free male screams. When we finally found a suitable scream we used a youtube converter to get the sound effect on to imovie. In one of the clips we had no other choice but to use subtitles as the characters voices were not clear enough. As we are trying to create the image that our film is all homemade we would not be able to go back on ours selves and re-shoot. It also mimics Paranormal Activity which was one of our chosen film based genre.

Change of cast

Our victim (Max) was unable to make our second day of filming, so we had to find a new available actor to take his place. The new victim will be Drew Russon.

Problems

When editing we noticed that the camera appeared to be shaking this was down too automatic stabilisation on the camera.

Day 2 of recording

Today we recorded our opening scene at Frans house. Firstly we decorated the house by using plastic sheets and taped them on the living room door way with blue industrial tape, we did the same but on the ceiling of the stairs so it hung down on the stairway. We made the fake blood recipe and recored using the camera, whilst doing this we did a little lighting experiment which made the certain colours turn green this happened because we had put it into nightmode.

Before we started filming we sat down and discussed what we would like to film first and if anyone had any ideas to incorporate into our 2 minute opening. We came up with shots of a dead body on the stairs which kind of shows that the two girls do not keep their strange hobby a secret. Also we wanted to do a scene in the bath where there would be blood all over the walls and a dead body in the bath. 

We began filming about 3 o'clock and finished at 6.

Tapping the plastic sheets to the door ways and on the cieling of the stairs. 

This is the end product of what our doorways looked like when they had the bloody hand prints and the slits in them. Although you can see the blue tape here in the shots we did not use the camera high enough so these tapes could be seen.


After we had re-planned and organised shots we began shooting the previous scripted opening, we had trouble shooting this scene as we began filming in the day and while we got perfect lighting inside the house opening the front door and allowing natural light into the scene it create automatic exposure, we would try to fix this during editing. 

As we wanted this 'hidden camera' affect running throughout our film we had to stand up on high surfaces with the camera on the tripod holding the tripod up in the air to give the impression the camera's were hidden around the house, however we struggled to do these shots as shaking accured and we had to re-take the shots until the shaking was minimised and we got the best possible shots we could. 

Editing part 2

As we now have the static on imovie we can start editing properly. So we put the static at the beginning of the time line and then inserted all the clips we had cut in the previous editing lesson. Also adding to the static effect we added  walkie talkie sound effect as that created a static sound.  We added a raster effect to our hospital scenes to make it look like a security camera. Still photos were later added, which were from a non copyright website, in between the clips with a fade to white transition and a Camera shutter sound effect. This created a photo being taken effect. Some of the photos were on the screen for two long so we had to shorten the duration of the clip as we only have two minutes and we still have some filming left to do. The walkie talkie sound clip was loud compared to the hospital clips either side of it so we turned up the audio volume. Hard light effect was added to the still photo of the leg as it defined the photo and made the leg stand out more, also we change the saturation and brightness of the as it was overly exposed. Me and Fran came across a big problem when we accidentally deleted a clip and when we brought it back out the trash and into imovie it seemed to gain a crackly background noise, so we turned the clips volume down completely but this meant that we would have to do a voice recording of my scene as there is no longer any sound. Moving further into the editing process we added the raster effect to the scene where my character freaks out, we also sped up the clip to make it more effective. Finally we edited all that we could with the clips that we had so far and decided to make a start on the opening titles. Putting the title onto fireworks and then prints crening the scene where we would like the titles to go and the copying that also into fireworks. We merged the two pictures together.