Thursday, May 13, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Continuity Task
This is our continuity task, that we filmed and edited so we gained practice for when it came to doing our proper opening title sequence. It is no where near perfect because it was a first draft, however our continuity skills were good. For example, everything about Dani was the same in every scene, like she wasn't wearing different clothes. This is an example of bad continuity, from Spiderman 3 where the windows are smashed in one scene but then fixed in the next scene. The idea of this continuity task was to inspire us when it comes to filming our real piece, to give us help with editing footage and take use of any feedback that needs to be improved.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Progress from the weekend
On Sunday, we filmed the final pieces of our film, these included; a refilm of some walking shots using a tripod and the new piece where the femme fatale shoots her first victim. It took us a while to film a correct meeting hug, because the we couldn't make the man and woman hug as if they have never met before, and the woman to give off a mysterious effect.
Today, we uploaded all of our footage and edited it, our film i sjust about finished, and we are now just getting final feedback of classmates. We don't need to film again, we just need to concentrate on editing it to perfecccctionnn.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Feedback
One of our teachers and a few of our classmates, gave us some feedback about our film so far. We are going to take this advice into account, and refilm in a few days and then edit it.
The pros of our film were:
- They liked the close-ups; they built tension and looked sexy.
.. this is what we wanted the close-ups to do, because the tension has to build throughout the piece and our femme fatale is meant to be sexy.
- Liked jazz music with foreboding sound over the top.
.. the foreboding sound was supposed to have an effect on the jazz music so that our femme fatale comes across as threatening.
- The opening title sequence draws you in, you want to know whether the femme fatale is a protagonist or antagonist, and this creates enigma.
.. we want our opening title sequence to have an effect on whether the audience think the femme fatale is good or bad, and they have to watch the film to find out.
- Liked the colours
.. we don't want our opening title sequence to be black and white, because we want the reds to come out nicely.
- They liked the light at the top of the stairs shining down on the femme fatale because it looked angelic.
.. we wanted the lighting effects in our opening title sequence to be interesting so they had a good effect on the audience.
- The lampposts and the house front lights, all created good effects.
.. again we wanted our lighting to be interesting.
The cons of our film were:
- The titles were too repetitive.
.. to prevent this, we have changed the titles, so they don't look too repetitive,
- Titles need to be made more professional looking.
.. to do this we have made our titles, produced by.. edited by.. directed by.. insteaeed of filmed and edited by..
- Font looked to masculine, needed to look more feminine.
.. we changed the font to a more girly looking font, than a simple one.
- See torches in background.
.. Me and Danielle were in the background of one of the shots holding up a torch, we didn't realise we were in the shot until we uploaded it, so that is something we are going to film again.
- Didn't use a tripod, some bits were wobbly.
.. we are going to refilm bits that came out to wobbly using a tripod.
- The text needs a reaction, who was it to/from?
.. when we add in our vioceover the text is going to be explained.
- It would be good if we saw the man and there was some sort of violence, like a knife in a pocket or a gun.
.. we are going film another bit to our opening title sequence, with viloence, and you will have to wait and see this after we have filmed it to hear about how successful it was.
The pros of our film were:
- They liked the close-ups; they built tension and looked sexy.
.. this is what we wanted the close-ups to do, because the tension has to build throughout the piece and our femme fatale is meant to be sexy.
- Liked jazz music with foreboding sound over the top.
.. the foreboding sound was supposed to have an effect on the jazz music so that our femme fatale comes across as threatening.
- The opening title sequence draws you in, you want to know whether the femme fatale is a protagonist or antagonist, and this creates enigma.
.. we want our opening title sequence to have an effect on whether the audience think the femme fatale is good or bad, and they have to watch the film to find out.
- Liked the colours
.. we don't want our opening title sequence to be black and white, because we want the reds to come out nicely.
- They liked the light at the top of the stairs shining down on the femme fatale because it looked angelic.
.. we wanted the lighting effects in our opening title sequence to be interesting so they had a good effect on the audience.
- The lampposts and the house front lights, all created good effects.
.. again we wanted our lighting to be interesting.
The cons of our film were:
- The titles were too repetitive.
.. to prevent this, we have changed the titles, so they don't look too repetitive,
- Titles need to be made more professional looking.
.. to do this we have made our titles, produced by.. edited by.. directed by.. insteaeed of filmed and edited by..
- Font looked to masculine, needed to look more feminine.
.. we changed the font to a more girly looking font, than a simple one.
- See torches in background.
.. Me and Danielle were in the background of one of the shots holding up a torch, we didn't realise we were in the shot until we uploaded it, so that is something we are going to film again.
- Didn't use a tripod, some bits were wobbly.
.. we are going to refilm bits that came out to wobbly using a tripod.
- The text needs a reaction, who was it to/from?
.. when we add in our vioceover the text is going to be explained.
- It would be good if we saw the man and there was some sort of violence, like a knife in a pocket or a gun.
.. we are going film another bit to our opening title sequence, with viloence, and you will have to wait and see this after we have filmed it to hear about how successful it was.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Double Indemnity Analysis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI73zPyYq1o
I have annotated this clip of the film and compared it to any techniques we have decided to use for aspiration.
The titles are white, bold and simple. Our titles are red, bold but not simple, this is because we want our title font to look more feminine rather than a masculine font, so the audience see that the film is mainly based along the lines of a femme fatale, rather than gangster men, for example. The lighting at the beginning is used by the lamp posts and headlights of cars, for example, it is dark but you can see the lights glowing. These create alot of shadows and shadows are used alot throughout the whole clip, across the face and on the ground. These are created differently depending on where you put the camera. We have used lamp posts in our opening title sequence to help with lighting effects. Music is used to create tension and changes to suit the mood and what is happening, it tends to usually be slow jazz. Our opening title sequence has a piece of slow jazz and has a foreboding sound over it, to make it sound threatening. The men are in suits and top hats, they all look upper class, but one man who is obviously lower class, is treated alot differently by the upper class men, so this shows that class mattered when this film was set. Camera angles involve a lot of tracking, this is used in our opening title sequence, because we follow the femme fatale walking down the street. We soon learn that the film is about murder and violence, violence is a typical convention of film noir and we have decided to use a bit of violence in our opening title sequence. There is a voiceover used in this film, and we are putting a voiceover in ours because it narrates and helps the audience concentrate on what is going on, and allows the audience to hear about someone's point of view. The femme fatale has curly hair, dark lipstick, sexy voice, high heels, smart clothing, puts on lipstick whilst on camera, plays with nails. We have tried to use all these conventions in our opening title sequence, because after research these are the typical conventions of femme fatales. Men look important and powerful, however the women still play them and try to control them.
I have annotated this clip of the film and compared it to any techniques we have decided to use for aspiration.
The titles are white, bold and simple. Our titles are red, bold but not simple, this is because we want our title font to look more feminine rather than a masculine font, so the audience see that the film is mainly based along the lines of a femme fatale, rather than gangster men, for example. The lighting at the beginning is used by the lamp posts and headlights of cars, for example, it is dark but you can see the lights glowing. These create alot of shadows and shadows are used alot throughout the whole clip, across the face and on the ground. These are created differently depending on where you put the camera. We have used lamp posts in our opening title sequence to help with lighting effects. Music is used to create tension and changes to suit the mood and what is happening, it tends to usually be slow jazz. Our opening title sequence has a piece of slow jazz and has a foreboding sound over it, to make it sound threatening. The men are in suits and top hats, they all look upper class, but one man who is obviously lower class, is treated alot differently by the upper class men, so this shows that class mattered when this film was set. Camera angles involve a lot of tracking, this is used in our opening title sequence, because we follow the femme fatale walking down the street. We soon learn that the film is about murder and violence, violence is a typical convention of film noir and we have decided to use a bit of violence in our opening title sequence. There is a voiceover used in this film, and we are putting a voiceover in ours because it narrates and helps the audience concentrate on what is going on, and allows the audience to hear about someone's point of view. The femme fatale has curly hair, dark lipstick, sexy voice, high heels, smart clothing, puts on lipstick whilst on camera, plays with nails. We have tried to use all these conventions in our opening title sequence, because after research these are the typical conventions of femme fatales. Men look important and powerful, however the women still play them and try to control them.
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