The effects we used

We used these effects:

• Wind blur
  
• Zoom blur
• Colour correction
• Brightness and contrast (bezier)
• Sepia
• Tint
• Mask feather
• Image mask
• Colour tint
  
• Blink
• Noise
• Day for night
• Speeding up/down
• Solarize
• Invert

Screen grabs

These are screen grabs, they are stills we have taken from our video.

Finished Project

This is our final project.

Extras

Me and terry went out of lesson and filmed some footage outside. We were trying to capture some running and distaughted images. Also trying to get some non-diagetic sounds for the thriller sequence. After we got this footage me and chris worked on making it into a section where the music takes a dramatic turn. We added a day to night effect to create a dark and misterious atmosphere. We also added the noise effect to go with the other sections where the music speeds up. The section that me and chris made also was put under the last couple of shots to make a distaughted image.

Final opening sequence feedback

What is your favorite shot and why?

- The shot of the tap was very good because it leaves lots of questions.
- The egg shot was effective at engaging the audience.
- The tap shot, good close up, good effect

What is our thriller about?

We asked this question to see whether an audience would be able to guess what had happened and what it was about, overall people generally commented that they did not know but thought this was effective as it gets them asking a lot of questions.

What would describe the atmosphere as?

- Very tense, it was created very well from the music and random clips.
- The heart beat sound was very effective
- Very creepy and tense
- Achieves a sense of isolation and desertion

What shot would you remove and why?

Overall people suggested that we should remove the egg shot as it seems to random a shot compared to the deserted places. Another suggestion was to remove the flower shot as it was less effective and seemed out of place.

The first rule of producing.....

...... is GET IT DONE!
So, therefore, I have spent the past few lunches (one with Lousie) working on the timeline, and... YAY it's all in the right place. So that saves one job for friday.
What still needs to be done:

• The soundtrack needs to be re-timed to fit with the footage, and then transfered onto the movie
• We need to add credits to the movie.
• We may need to cut down a few clips, but probably not.

Thats it.

Update on our current work

We are currently working on editing the footage to make it all the more eerie and empty looking, we are achieving this by making some shots darker and also adding a pinkish tint to some of the outside shots to make it seem as if the sun is just rising. In addition to this we are also adding a sepia tint to some of the inside footage to make it seem older. This has made our footage look more like a thriller movie and less like home-made footage.

We have got our slow footage in order and we are currently working on putting our fast images into the 2 or 3 second gaps. After this we will add titles and work on the transitions, and also add our finalised music.

Diagetic sound

For our music soundtrack we needed to include more diagetic sound, so me and Louise went out with the camera to record sounds. We managed to get some banging sounds, movement sounds ie, running through leaves and also some crunching of plastic and metal. We plan to cut out the footage and just use the sounds to input into our music soundtrack.

In addition to this we will cut down our fast scary music clips into 2 or 3 seconds to fit in with our footage. Once we have done this we will add the sound track to the footage and make sure the timings go together.

Rough cut feedback

Our rough cut of our thriller project was not as good as we had hoped, as we encountered problems with editing the footage, although we managed to get enough cut and edited to fit in with our rough music, although it is not in order you can get a sense of what the final project will be like. You can see the sort of empty eerie shots, although we have not yet edited our flashing scary images so could not include them, hence why our footage does not yet match with the music.

We need to cut our shots down to a usable size and get them into an order, also we will need to adjust the lighting and add some effects to make the shots more effective to engage the audience. Our music is currently being adapted to fit the footage and also changed to make it more eerie and jumpy, we are attempting to add more of a climax to our fast music clips. In addition to this our short flashing images need to be worked on and adapted to fit in with our footage and music.

Rough Cut Evaluation and What there is to be done

What worked well:
Although the rought cut was not an accurate replication of our final idea, it was still fairly recieved by other members of the class. I regret not coming to class on monday because if I had, I could have explained how the footage was arranged and an hour and a half worth of work could have been salvaged. However, we got some good feedback and useful things to improve on.

What still needs to be done:
Effects still need to be added to the clips to make them look more obscure and interesting. Also, a clip order needs to be finialised, and we need to arrange the clips in reference to the music. Some aditional filming may also be done.