21.01.11

In today's lesson we were re-starting the editing process to our title sequence as all the editing and cutting of clips that I did the other day. So we started doing it again so we began experimenting with the transitions, cutting clips and moving clips around to find the best order of the clips to go in as we haven't really stuck by our storyboard where we think that the clips look better in a different order. For this lesson we were just trying to get used to 'Final Cut Pro' it didn't really matter where we were putting our clips as it was more of a practice. We also focused on updating our blogs. As Sophie wasn't in, myself and Emily focused on the editing of the title sequence whereas Daisy decided to look at things to use in the making of our production logo.

Production Logo.

This is the very first production logo we created, the feather itself has slightly been softened, and the typography we used follows a movement which mirrors the feathers movement. The typography colour has been faded in a way which adds a softness to it again relating make to the feather image. This is not my favourite production logo because it is very basic and there is no dimension to it or fading of colours or graining of the image. 

This was the second production logo we designed; from the first design we realised the different elements we had to consider to create a production logo which was the opposite to the first one we designed. Firstly we began by strengthening the dimensions of the feather making it more darker adding further depth to it- which we did not achieve in the original design. Also we added graining over the entire logo this give's an essence of the silent movie era. I thought it would be a good idea to use a typography which resembled an earlier period therefore I chose a font which looked like it had been hand written with ink; the typography also has a motion to it which follows the feathers shapes. A criticism of this design was that the heavy graining could have a harsh effect on the eyes. 

By coming to the conclusion that the heavy graining on the image is harsh on the eyes we used a different effect where there is a focal soft point in the middle of the images and the brightness gets darker towards the corners of the production logo.Firstly we began by strengthening the dimensions of the feather making it more darker adding further depth to it- which we did not achieve in the original design- as we did in the previous design.

With each of the previous production logo's we used a white background with black imagery and typography; in this design we used a negative effect to vary our possible options. The typography resembles the different strokes of the feather. In this design we were able to incorporate all the different elements we realised from our first few designs. The contrast of the white on the black creates a softness to the image without losing the sharpness on points of the feather. So far this is the design which we are most likely to use in our opening title sequence as it fits in with the whole look of the sequence.    

This was our next attempt at a production logo, we had the idea to relate the logo to the genre of our film, so we used a dark ash grey to create a dark mysterious mood to begin the title sequence. As in previous designs we chose to use a typography which mirrors the movement of the feather, as for the colour of the font we chose a slightly lighter version of the grey we had used for the feather- first we used the same colour but found that the writing could sometimes be lost in the background; but by using the lighter colour we were able to make the production name stand out against the black background. 

This was our final design for a possible production logo; in previous designs we had used a dark background with lighter imagery. So, in this design we went back to our original design with the lighter background and then chose a varying grey for the feather and writing. We used a soft effect on the image  of the feather as we thought it created a pleasant effect as it had done on the first and third designs. As for the typography, we juxtaposed the previous idea of having the font mirror the movement of the feather and chose a sharper type of typography; although bearing this in mind throughout the different letters there are breakages which could show some of the strokes in the feather. 

19.01.11

And.... Action!

Today was quite exciting as we filmed the rest of our title sequence. We filmed the main scene - the stalk/chase. It took a lot of thinking through as we had to think about all the continuity if we stopped recording and it took a lot of concentration and planning. We had a couple of run throughs following out the path we were going to film and it went quite smoothly so we had time to get back to the mac room and upload it and we even had enough time to film the last bit of our title sequence in the cupboard where the girl has a bag ripped off her head which went really well, it only took about ten minutes as we had to turn the light on and rip the bag off at the same time. We also had heavy breathing in the pitch black before the light came on which we thought made a great effect to the tension after the street scene. I think all of our filming went really well and considering we've only done it in the space of about three media lessons. I'm really proud of what we've managed to create so far.... Now for the editing.

Preparing to film.

17.01.11

Today we decided to do some more filming of the book. We were planning to put these different shots in various places in our title sequence. We thought it would be a good idea to do different angles and shots of the book and slowly panning across it slowly so we can insert the credits onto it when we're in the editing process. As we only had an hour to do this we only had time to upload it to the macs and update our blogs. But I think we are going to leave all the editing once we have finished filming so we know what it looks like all together.

Recently, the weather hasn't been too great so we are hoping the weather is decent on Wednesday because we going trying to stick to our film schedule and don't want it to be raining as we want to film outside the school within our double lesson on wednesday.

14.01.11

In today's lesson we all went to the library and made sure our blogs were up to date and looked at the tick list and made sure all of our blog posts were satisfactory. For the second lesson we started to film our desk scene - we needed a male character to fulfill the opening scene for our title sequence so we asked if our teacher would like to do it for us. We tried to make our filming as sucessful as possible and tried to keep to our storyboard. The identity of the character remained unknown so we had the lighting from in front of him focusing on the desk and on the book he was looking at. We filmed from behind him and higher than him and slowly zoomed in so the viewers can see what he is actually looking at. By the end of the lesson we had managed to finish all of our filming and just got it uploaded it before the bell.


Next lesson we plan to film more and if we have time do some more editing.

The Book.

 The Book full of CCTV images.

 Pages of CCTV images.

 Pages of CCTV images.

 Pages of CCTV images.

 Pages of CCTV images.

Pages of CCTV images.

12.01.11

Unfortunately I missed today's lesson due to a Media and Film trip that I went on, learning about the american and British film industry. It was a very useful experience as i learnt a lot from it and it was a brilliant day.


However, without my the girls in my group printed off our CCTV images and decided to make them look like they had been roughly cut out and stuck in the book for the opening scene of our title sequence, they also added the photos to their blogs which I have caught up with.