editing workshop 2

 As we approach the final few days of our editing week (days 3 and 4), my group and I have edited over half of the rushes and put them into a log bin titled 'The Collector'. We spent most of today assembling the clips together, re-watching the footage and finalising the fluidity and smoothness of the clip transitions. As I have done a majority of the editing so far, Emily had worked on finding music for our opening sequence and contacted a YouTube channel asking permission to use their soundtrack as a feature for the film. Furthermore, in addition to editing, Zoe and I have been adding titles to the opening sequence such as the Production company, actors and director. We are now 3/4 of the way through the opening sequence. I believe we will send days 5 and 6 editing the sound of the sequence and possibly changing the colour grading of the shots.

editing after filming 1

 After filming our footage for our opening sequence, we have started the 'editing week'. The first 2 days of editing have gone very well. At first, we watched all of our footage and eliminated all of the rushes that were un-usable/ bloopers or similar shots. We then started to order the un-edited clips into a rough version of the opening sequence. My group and I then began to make a start on editing the sequence to fit the clips together. Overall, I am very happy with the editing I did.

shooting day blogger and my role

 The day before we filmed our media video we transported all of our props and set to the media room to save time. We collected about 80-100 props/ objects to film and designed the media studio with a large oak wooden table, dark wood cabinet and antique Persian rug. On the day we filmed I woke up and didn't feel nervous or worried about filming because I had planned a long list all of the shots we wanted before hand and knew that I would be in charge of most of the filming. Before we started filming, Matt showed us some example shots of very few props in order to prepare us to use the 'Macro-lens'. We filmed in the media studio, which workers well as the black curtains could be pulled 360* around our set to block any unwanted lighting or background images. The Macro-lens also worked well in the media studio as it proved very shallow focuses, blurring anything in the background such as shelves or equipment. This also helped us create the basement styled location as the blurred equipment added detail and looked like more items the character had collected. Using the media studio was an ideal location for us as it gave us plenty of room to use all of our large props as well as space to manoeuvre the camera and florescent light. On the shoot day we divided our group into 3 roles. Florence and Emily helped set up and unpack the props between filming and record sound. Zoe documented our day by taking photos and also helped me with the lighting by changing the angle of the light and moving it during shots. Zoe also helped Florence and Emily when recording sound. I was in charge of the camera and filming shots.  I also helped our actor (Doug) by giving him instructions on what to do and marks on set such as where to walk/ stand. Although these were our main individual roles, we all participated in different areas of production. On my shoot day I feel like I made a great effort to direct my group and the actor as well as setting up the camera for good angles and shots. The main problem we faced on our shoot day was over complicating shots with too many props or being too indecisive when creating a shot. We solved this by using a maximum of about 4 props in each shot and using the shot list I created earlier to film the important shots e.g. ones featuring Doug. The most successful part of the shoot was capturing the light when gliding it move props to create a light to dark theme and add a creepy tension during the shoot. However, I believe the parts where we filmed Doug blow out the candle could have gone better as the candles kept going out and we settled for footage that we will have to edit out bloopers. The part of the shoot I enjoyed most was directing Doug using props on the desk and in the drawers. I enjoyed this most because I felt best appointed to be directing the scene and could visualise the shot. I am looking forward to seeing the props emerge from darkness and fade into black during the edit as the movement of the lighting is one of the best aspects of our opening sequence. As a production team I feel that my group achieved all of our goals and most desired shots. However, I do believe that Me and Emily did a majority of the work leading up to and on the day we filmed. During the media shoot I learned how to direct crew and use different camera lenses during specific shots. These skills will help me when recording our next media video as I will have a better perspective of shots and how to schedule the day.

Targeted audience for opening sequence

Characteristic of target audience	How my film opening sequence will engage those people
Adults between 18-40 years old	Use of explicit content/suggestions and images is engaging for adult audiences The main protagonist would be in his late 30’s, attacking women in their 20’s, which is recognisable to older audiences.
Mostly male with some female audiences	The film is about women being targeted and kidnapped which would attract the female audience as it is relatable. The film would also attract men as they see themselves in a position of power and find it more entertaining to see a male protagonist
Working class D/E	The setting is late at night in alleyways of cities, which is more relatable to the working class. The narrative revolves around kidnaps which typically happens to working class women.

describing your target audience

Describing your target audience 3^rd may

 

-       Must be specific and narrow down our target audience

-       Narrow it down to: gender, age, nationality, sexuality, ethnicity, relationships, parental status etc…

 

Socio-economic status:

A status- upper middle class- higher managerial, administrative or professional

B status- middle class- intermediate managerial, administrative or professional

C1 status- lower middle class- supervisory or clerical, junior managerial, administrative or professional

C2 status- skilled working class- manual/ labour worker

D status- working class- semi and unskilled manual worker

E status- lowest level of class e.g. students- state pensioners or widows

 

Psychographic:

Mainstreamer- seek security- tend to be domestic, conventional, sentimental. Normally largest group

Aspirers- seek status- materialistic, acquisitive. Typically younger people

Succeeders- strong goals, confident, work ethic. Typical professional occupation

Resigned- authoritarian values. Typically older people

Explorers- energetic, invidualism. Younger people, normally students.

Strugglers- alienated, gamers, disorganised. Eats junk food, lottery tickets and gambling.

Reformers- social awareness and independent judgement, antimaterialistic. Attended higher education and uses products of higher quality.

shot list for media opening

Shots:

Hanging coat on coat rack

Shots of jugs and jars as he walks behind in the background out of focus

Cut to another shot of different probs

Quick cut to a footstep with muddy boots

Shot of light through jars

Pull focus of moving in background to book or prop

Pan of the things on his desk

Shot of the insects in jars

Shot of him picking up a tankard and book out focus

Shot of the radio coming on and a close up of the diel turning from his hand

Fast paced close ups of radio and dougs hands

Long lasting shot of the radio and quiet static

Pull focus of the desk props to a deep focus of him walking towards the desk

Shot of the pen lid coming off

Shot of him writing on the label

Shot of the jewellery, try to capture it shimmering

Shot of hair bands 

Shot of ribbon 

Shot of hair in a shoe box hanging out the draw 

Shot of teeth 

Shot of Doug reaching into the draw to get a magnifying glass hair and in another draw the hair 

Shot of Doug looking through the magnifying glass close up shot looking at the hair 

Shot of Doug smelling the hair (just nose and fingers)

Close up of dougs eye frantically moving through the magnifying glass

Mid Shot from the floor of the shoe box as Doug walks away out of focus

More shots of probs, camera panning over or around the items

Deep focus of doug moving again, pulls to the baby limbs in the box/ shelf/ jar

Camera under the jar as doug drops jewellery and coins into the jar (one quick one slow-motion)

Mid shot of doug walking to the box from behind, close up of the thumbtacked polaroid on the box of shoes and hair

Shots of scalpels and biology equipment

More shots of props

Doug rolling up sleeves in the mirror, cut of his face

Try to get a shot of the light flaring the lens when panning around more props

Over the shoulder shot of doug taking the shoe box from a drawer in his desk, with his sketch book in

Several slow and quick shots of doug drawing, ripping, rubbing and looking at/in the book

Match cut shot of props to the sketchbook and radio wheel

 

42 shots roughly

editing workshop 29th April

 In todays workshop we used the 'interview' footage we recorded in the previous workshop and edited it into a professional styled video. We repeated the skills we had learnt before such as creating 'log bins' and saving 'rushes' to a new file to start editing. When making this interview video, we had to address the audio to the rushes and change the volume to make it level throughout the video. This makes the video smoother as there is no sudden jerk to a louder or quieter volume and makes the video look more professional. To edit the sound, we first had to unlink the video and sound clips by right clicking them and selecting 'unlink'. After unlinking the video and sound, we deleted one of the audio recordings as it would overlay with the one we changed. Then we go into the audio setting, un-animate the audio recording and select a volume we want to blend with the video. When we did all of these steps, we put the videos together, watched the edit over and finalised any jerks in the video or sound and saved our work.