Final Film Feedback

Post showcase, we got some audience feedback for our film opening. 

Film Outtakes

Half-Term Filming

Last Monday our group went to the car park location where we scheduled to wrap up filming! After a freezing cold morning all made up of a trolley tracking shot, various outfit changes and an overload of filming we managed to finish getting all of the footage we needed to complete our film. Now for the laborious task of picking and choosing the right parts of the footage to put into our final film. 
I think this is one of the best times we've had filming as we felt very productive and were all on the same page in terms of what we wanted to film and what frames would be best. We also had a chance to experiment with a few shots including a 360 tracking shot which didn't go as well as we had hoped it would. 

Checkmate FINAL

Finally uploaded onto youtube!

Deadline

It was the deadline for our two minute film openings on Friday and we're all so glad to have it finally exported onto the mac ready to be watched! We started editing our outtakes already and look forward to getting those up! It's been a great learning experience for all of us and seeing everyones films on friday really helped to see just how far everyone has come.

Production company name

The unedited version of our production company name, filmed on my phone!

Music

Sinead managed to find the music we wanted on youtube and luckily it wasn't copyrighted. We're all very happy with the music and it fits our film opening perfectly in terms of length and genre.

Final Editing Time

It's coming up to the deadline for our film openings and we're doing well! Hopefully everything will be finished in time and we'll be happy with the result. Glad we didn't have to worry about the copyright for our music.

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Production

We've finally come up with our production company name! We first thought of rocky, inspired by our prelim, then rock and roll and then onto rolling-thinking of camera rolling as well.
Lucy and Sinead created this little CD and I just filmed the intro where the CD rolls back and forth. The editing is coming along rather nicely and hopefully we will have perfected everything by next Friday!

Final filming vlog

Before we started filming in the car park!

Music

Some inspiration we could get from Taken 2. We all liked this type of music as it creates suspense which we wanted to achieve in the last scene of our film opening. Hopefully we can find something similar as we cant use this exact one.

LOCATION

Rachel and sinead managed to snap a few pictures of the location for our last scene today. This car park is perfect as it is a large open space which provides us with great lighting and the ability to focus on the characters car (which will probably be the only one parked there).
The black car will definitely stand out in this car park which is just what we wanted to achieve. To make an impact with the last scene.

SNIPPET

Here's our little snippet of the final film so far. The different shots of the bracelets are all of the same thing happening as we didn't want to reveal much but from this you can see the various amount of shots we have included in our final film. We're all happy with the product so far and we have just one or two scenes to go so hopefully we're ahead of schedule and everything will go to plan (probably won't).




Also, I've added a snapshot of our final film at the moment. We have 57 seconds so far with a couple scenes to go so which should be perfect. We're thinking of cutting some more off this part of the film just so it will all add up to 2 minutes.

Filming

We still had to redo a shot from the toilets which we managed to do ever so efficiently on Friday, and we decided to experiment with some more new scenes.

Here is Sinead putting the mini tripod her mum got for Christmas to good use!
Added scene: walking into and inside lift. I personally love this new addition as we made it seem as if it was from the perspective of the lift camera CCTV type thing. The character also glances into the camera at one point to make it seem all the more suspicious.

Update: Locations

On our first day back to media from the christmas holiday we decided to do an update vlog on the goings on so far as we've made some changes to the ending of our two minute opening. 
By changing the London locations to closer to home we can focus more on the cinematography side of things instead of worrying about whether the character will be seen amongst the crowds of Londoners.

Editing

I decided to research how to add the stopwatch we wanted on our film, expecting it to be a complicated process but i found this easy tutorial. The countdown will be at the bottom corner of our opening and will end when the character is in full spy costume. I'm sure a few tweaks will be made during editing but here's the video that will help us make the countdown. 




Link to the countdown website

Update

My first individual vlog and first vlog at home!
Vlogging on the process of our film opening, updates on what we have edited for our opening, what we still need to do and some more ideas. 
Overall it's going well!


-ok, so this video was actually uploaded earlier on in the day when I made it but i couldn't seem to find it on youtube. after 8 hours of wracking my brains out i realised i had put it on private...so here it is!

Music Options

The group are still undecided on music we might be using in the film opening but hopefully it shouldn't be too much of our worries as we have yet to get filming in London done (16th Dec). I wanted to have a look at what could be available to us and found a few interesting 'spy-like' ones. Although, i did find that some which fit the genre of the film could be quite cheesy. This could take away from the quality of the film and the seriousness of it, clearly we don't want it to be a comedy spy film. 

Editing, editing and more editing!

Forever editing! Rachel, Sinead and I got more toilet shots today, we're making progress with the final film but I think we've all just realised how much editing needs to be done. The toilet scene has nearly wrapped up, just two more shots to redo! Hopefully we'll get the panning up shots up and edited by next week.

Clips-Update

Our little compilation of shots from the toilet scene. We took loads of different angles so we could have a choice when we got down to editing. the different angles include a dutch tilt, birds eye and high angle. We thought getting loads of different shots could make it seem more spy-like as if the character is being watched. Although we might only be using one of the types of angles, getting different ones helps us to see what we like and what we do not like.