Evaluation

Part Seven

Part Seven What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product

During pre-production we decided that we would use a tripod and dolly for many of the scenes so that it would flow correctly. We made sure we knew what shots that we wanted to do when filming and which ones would benefit the most.We decided that we would all take a part in the filming.

During production we did not use the tripod and the dolly as much as we said we would as we found that we could get a better shot without it for example I used it by hand to do a shot of the desk. In some cases we used the tripod as we needed to make sure that the camera was still and in a certain position. We changed a few of the shots to suite the place we were filming and the space we were filming in. I did the first part of the filming and improvised on some of the shots to suite the place we were filming in. I did the titles as we all agreed that I knew how to work photo shop the best and that I would be able to get it done quicker.

During post production I found a new piece of music to go with it as the old was not going well for us.

These decisions were made because with the first part of filming only two of us were available. When doing photo shop I felt that it was my stronger point .

In the beginning we used a camera to film all of our scenes and then we went onto final cut pro to edit all of our work and put it all in the right order and cut certain bits up and Photo shop for our credits. We also used blogger to update to what stage were at.

Final cut pro was a successful new use for me as I had never used it before and I was able to learn how to do the basics and taught myself a few things by experimenting.

The credits were less successful as we were not able to download the font onto final cut pro so we had to do it the long way by doing it in photo shop then importing it.

I have learnt how to use the basics of final cut pro and what looks good when using it and what doesn't make it look good.

Evaluation

Part Eight

Part Eight Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the dull product?

We were successful with our preliminary task as we filled our objective and added a comical twist to it. We used basic editing for it as we did well when filming; we felt that it could be related to many comical films where there is a character with an alter ego. We used a tripod for the whole of the task as we needed to make sure that it was in the same position, we also used to 180 degree rule which worked really well for us and many people said how they thought that we did it really well.
The less successful thing was mainly the fact that Si Hin had to do a bit of dialogue and he couldn't get the high pitch girl like voice right but we did it quite a few times and in the end we felt that we had a good bit to use. There wasn't much planning and research we just went straight into it so I think that there could have been more planning involved.
When doing our title sequence we were able to learn from our mistakes for example when it came to dialogue we made sure that we got it right and not just settle for the best one there, I would say that we made Sean repeat the same line about ten to twenty times to get the right one. There wasn't a comical feel to our sequence as it was totally the opposite and we were able to take it more seriously which meant getting it right every time. With research and planning I researched institutions other sequences that related to our own, the genre in which we were basing it on and so forth and when it came to planning we did a story board with about thirty shots in it so this time we were more prepared and didn't go diving into filming until we new what we were doing.

Final Typography

We have finally found a way to get the typography that we wanted, we decided to go with this one:

We went with this one as we felt that it fit with our sequence the most and that it gave it a more triad sort of feel. To get this we had to go into photoshop as this was were it was downloaded to and then make all of the titles in there, we wrote in what we wanted and then threw the white background in the bin so that there wasn't one. We then had to save it as a PSD document then go into Final Cut Pro, and import the credits and just put it where ever we wanted it to go. We also created a 'Bin' in Final Cut Pro to put all of the text in so that it did not get confusing.

Evidence of Work

This is a shot of us editing on Final Cut Pro, it is showing the final edits of the credits. We had to create them in photoshop as they were not downloading in Final Cut Pro. This process included typing the credits in one at a time for example 'Closure' for the title, then going to the layer bar and dragging the background layer and deleting it so that there was no background. Then simply save it in your user then import into Final Cut Pro and there you have your credits. We created a 'Bin' to put the titles in as suggested by Jack so that it does not become too clustered.

This is simply a close up of the file in which i put all the credits in. It is simply so that you can see clearly that we have created the credits in a different way then in Final Cut Pro. We have used the type called Oska- Sans. we used this as we felt that it had a Chinese feel to it but it wasn't too cheesy and same-ie.

This shot is showing that we are using Final Cut Pro and you can see that in the corner the music is being sorted out, and you can also see everything that we have imported for our sequence and that it is all named. For the music we decided to not use the whole song as we did not want to have the lyrics in it so Si Hin worked his magic and cut up the song and repeated certain bits of it so that it flowed.

This is a shot of our storyboard up on blogger and us referring to it to organize out credits. It also shows you how we did the the credits on photoshop, and that we were constantly referring to our blogs and Final Cut Pro, this shot of photoshop is of when we had already deleted the layer and just as we are about the save it and then import it into Final Cut Pro and put it into our sequence.

This is a shot just as we are near the end of finishing off our sequence. This shot shows you all the stuff on the side which we have imported and also you can see in the editing bar everything that is in our sequence where and when we have out it. I think that this one is a good insight into how we are doing.

07/02/11

Today we had an hour to do some work and we wanted to find some font but we were having trouble finding the right font to use..we are all really fussy!!

When we did find the right font it would not download into final cut pro properly so we then had to choose another and another and it all got really annoying so decided to go into it again with fresh eyes.

These are some of the fonts that we wanted to use but wouldn't download:

This one is called Blood Shack

 This one is called Osaka

This one is called Taibaijan

This one is called Konfuciuz

However these are all the fonts that we liked the most and thought would work best they do not download into final cut pro so we are going to have to find another font to use which is going to be really annoying because there aren't many good fonts out there!

Images for the sequence

these are the criminals in question...these are the images that we will be using in the sequence.

They are all for when we film the P.I putting the images that he has taken onto his laptop.

Filming Stills

these are all the images that i took on Tuesday whilst filming, i have also got stills for the scene to which we put the images on the laptop, but they do not have people in it filming.