Evaluation

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4/5/11

We have uploaded our horror film opening to youtube, to see what other people thought of what we have done and what we could do better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RmzD3SekA0

3/5/11

Today, I burnt our prelimary task and our horror film opening onto a DVD. We have just about finished our evaluations with only one more evaluation to do which we will do when we have our media lesson tomorrow.

27/4/11

We have now finished editing our horror opening, we have spent time making sure the opening runs smoothly and that the music and sounds and the effects give the kind of reaction we want to give to the audience. Although, the requirement of the horror film opening needs to be 2 minutes, our horror opening is 2 seconds out at 1 minute and 58 seconds. Next week we shall start to prepare our evaluations on a PowerPoint and burn our preliminary task and our main task - the horror film opening onto a dvd.

15/4/11

Now that we have the downloaded footage of Scarlett's filming on the mac's, we started editing together the end of our opening and with the many different shots filmed by Scarlett we are able to finish our horror opening. We edited the scenes of Jamie walking into the kitchen and getting the knife out of the draw. Scarlett thought it would be a good idea to add scenes of Jamie walking down the street with the knife and having a fade out at the end of the footage. When we had finished the editing, we added the title of the film in the middle of the opening to create more tension. We used the font 'Cracked' for the title to make it look more like a horror film because it looks scary. We also brought each word of 'Revenge Is Near' up one by one, over a crashing sound to make it sound scary. We made the titles come up as we placed another piece of music on after the song 'Loveletters' to help build more tension. I think this makes the opening much more effective. We found a copyright free sound of a mobile phone to go over the scene of Jamie recieving Scarlett's text. We added many effects to the cross dissolve effect we used to create a blurry image which shows Scarlett, this shows that Jamie is thinking of Scarlett while reaching for the knife. This is one of my favourite parts of the opening, as it really captures your attention to what is going to happen next.

4/4/11

As we have to use copyright free music in our opening, we had to find a website with music that is not copyrighted. The website that we used for the music is: http://www.danosongs.com/ We found a piece a music on the site called 'Love Letters' which would be perfect to play over the sequence of the photos of Jamie and Scarlett. We added the Production & Distribution company names at the start of our opening. We added different effects to go change each picture and make it look more realistic. Also by adding the effects and some music over the top, it made it look very professional.

1/4/11

There were still some more filming to do to help create our finish opening, so Scarlett volunteered to finish the filming. The footage that Scarlett had filmed were, Jamie walking down the stairs into the kitchen, opening the draw and taking out a knife. We thought that using this in our opening would be very effective as we can create tension, we started to discuss to maybe, adding an effect where we can show scarlett's face while he is pulling out the knife, this will help the audience understand the danger of what is going to happen. Scarlett also filmed the footage of Jamie leaving his house to go to meet her at the park. To make our work better and easier to work with, she got lots of different shots and angles of him leaving.
As i briefly spoke about in my last post, we had a mistake by Jamie having Scarlett not saved as Ellie - We got Scarlett to also film this while she was there so we had all the footage we needed.