Evaluations
All the evaluations are located here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2Qs6YJKvqg3dkRlU3B6cU1UMWM&usp=sharing
Group Work
(Mixture of photos from the group)
Over the time that we gave been doing this assigned roles of who was doing what became an issue as occasionally jobs did in fact cross over making some areas overcrowded with people. I personally was in charge of editing the footage into a piece, this also meant that in post production I had to go out and get extra sounds to add in. Furthermore I had other side jobs like music searching, filming and prop hunting. Gaby had the main task of Directing the piece, occasionally filming like myself, storyboarding. Sasha and Joe were mainly acting, they also both helped in the search for music, and Joe decided the location and helped include props. Overall though there have been times where there was difficulty in who was doing what as jobs were assigned all over the place, but it came to ur point where we came together and planned what each of our primary tasks were so that the piece would be more efficiently produced.
Gaby and Sasha went to film in laverstock on the hills then at the graveyards by the college, while myself and Joe remained at college working with what we had and researching more so Gaby and Sasha had more information to aid our group work flow. Despite the group separation it was still easy to communicate with the entire group and share resources and ideas through social networks and educational collaborative platforms.
Automated Dialogue Replacement – ADR
For the ADR, we borrowed a microphone from a fellow class mate and used it to re record the audio of what Joe’s dad says in the original footage, which is: ‘I really wouldn’t be out after dark’. As it was more difficult to get a hold of Joe’s dad to record in the original voice, we used Mr Eno’s voice instead. We used software called audacity which is free open source audio recording and editing software. The reason we did this is so the vocal audio is clearer as before in the raw footage it was muffled by the car noise.
Group meeting notes /to do list/
Colour correction
Swap field shots around
Fade in to the graveyard scenes
Keep the moon shot
Use ADR to re record the voice of the car driver and what he says, and other sounds like the car running so it can be added in post.
Bad typography for the current edit, change it to something more suiting to the genre.
Cross dissolves instead of other cuts that we still have, change the ones specified
Don’t use cuts over a still frame but do on moving image
Cuts in the graveyard are fine though due to use of zooming effects, it provides the idea of approaching closer to something to the audience.
Map in the background is fine and looks great
Slow down the clip speed of the shoe with the blood dripping on it
Remove the shed shot
Most recent edit
In this edit we didn’t use cuts that much, fades were used more as it suited better to the frames than it did with straight cuts, the piece flowed better with fades as continuity seemed better. Color correction changes were made as sky colours were random shades of blue before but now they are similar from frame to frame. Admittedly after rendering it seemed to dark so that is something to note for the next edit. Most importantly the music was in this edit so the piece flowed better, and even some fades unintentionally matched sound changes in the music, meaning that at some points in the edit, changes in sound will reflect the mood and seriousness in that shot. Finally the other additions are the title at the end and the Rorschach tests we did were scanned and included in the edit as additional overlays, as they added an artistic essence to the piece.
Search for music
Despite already nearly completing the edit, we were yet to find a song for the piece, after great struggle, we found a song from the site above which suited the genre and feel of the piece. The soundtrack in general builds suspense leaving the viewer waiting for the drop of the action, hence interesting the viewer in the piece.
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html/index.html?genre=Horror
The links below are not going to be used in the final piece but we did look through multiple tracks such as these before making our final decision
Most recent written storyboards
The storyboards have been made colourful, Mr Eno advised us using colour would distinguish what sort of terrain may be around. The new details show lighting, the weather, shot type, length of shot, what needs to be filmed. We used these as the base template for what we needed to do and applied it to the rest of the piece, with a few minor changes depending on the scene.
Main AS Task referral comments for edit
The meeting images above were regarding the actions below that are to be carried out.
Fading to black instead of cutting between the still images
Fade images back in no cutting.
- Make Shots longer
- Slow zoom into grave yard shots
- Fade graveyard shots with possible cut if needed
- Re record jobs dad’s voice
- Pick audio as main soundtrack
Rorschach Tests for scanning
Mr Eno introduced us to this style called Rorschach. It uses paint/ink on a page which is either heavily flicked or splashed on to paper, its then folded perpendicularly to the whitest side of the paper exactly in half. We added these as overlays to existing scenes to make them more interesting.
Individual shots of each individual test were taken to add to the edit and overlay by removing the black from the frame and lowering the overall opacity.
AS Media 