Project Log - Week 9

In this post I will be highlighting the problems I have faced in each lesson and how I have overcome these issues, since I felt the problems were to specific to answer generally. Moreover, I will also be talking about the feedback I received from my audience and teacher in lesson 3 and how we acknowledged the comments and made sure me and my partner made improvements.

Lesson 1: Today me and my partners aim was to look through our rough final edit of the opening sequence and see if we could make any more further changes. There were many alterations we made in our sequence. Our aim was to have a smash mouth opening and me and my partner realised that the establishing shot which is the first shot you see) was too long and killed the atmosphere of tension and fast action we wanted to create, therefore we moved the shot just before the shot of Leah walking out the flats, so the audience get a quick view of the area she lives in, in order to emphasise the theme of poverty and escape. Moreover, we shortened the second shot of her opening the door and rushing in, for the same reason ( it dragged on, therefore loosing the quality of a smash mouth opening), so we cut out the part where she is attempting to open the door, instead it jumps straight into the action of her partly already through the door coming into the flat and then bangs the door loudly. We made this change as we wanted it to be quick and raise enigma codes within the audience like ' why is she in such a rush?' 'who is she?'.

Lesson 2: This lesson mostly focused on sound. So continuing on from yesterday, the next change we made was making the point of shot shorter (11 seconds to 8 seconds), yet again, just keeping what is relevant to the narrative and has meaning. The biggest change revolved around the scene where the neighbour and Leah are talking. We wanted a certain sound to play over a different shot and also makes it sound distant ( as its from Leah's perspective). In order to achieve this we detached the sound from the shot, deleted the shot and then moved the audio of ' Oi Leah' to the shot we wanted, which is of the neighbour rushing out the flat but then the sound continues over the next shot of Leah taking off her headphones and turning round to see who is calling for her. Moreover, to make the sound seem more distance, we faded the sound to around 30% in order to achieve sound perspective. Lastly, we cut the shot of the neighbour saying 'Leah ...  Well fuck you then' to ' Well fuck you then'.

Lesson 3: Today is the deadline for the draft of our opening sequence! Me and my partner quickly uploaded the Film 4 logo into the beginning of our sequence since the brief states we are making a film for them. We then watched Film 4 films for inspiration and noticed two things; the logo moves around and 2. there is a distinctive sound played over the audio. So, once the image was imported in we added a movement so that the image is still then slowly zooms in. The audio was quite a challenge as we had to go onto youtube find the audio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1OAcAl-DMo) then we used this website to convert it to an mp3 format, which then was imported to iMovie and dragged underneath the shot of the film 4 logo. Me and my partner were satisfied, so we uploaded the draft onto youtube, where it was then watched by our peers and teacher for critical feedback. Below are the comments we received:


Lesson 4: Me and my partner could not edit due to only getting feedback, therefore, knowing this, my partner and I, made a list of the shots we need to re-shot and what we were changing it to - doing this meant that it kept us on track and was like a check list, which helped keep us organised. Lastly, we booked out the required equipment, so that we could film over the Easter break.