Group Discussion - 14/3/13

Today our school had an academic mentoring day which we spent in media finishing off editing our opening sequence. We spent most of the day finishing the opening sequence but towards the end of the day we started on our music for the opening.

Editing - 15/3/13

Today we spent the day doing our opening credits, we did these on Adobe After Effects, we managed to find a template to work from on the interent which gave us a basic start, which we then worked with and added things to make it our own and suitable for our opening sequence.

Re-Editing

Our group has finally finished editing our opening sequence for the second time. We managed to do it a bit quicker as we knew which bits we needed to edited or change. A set back to our editing was that we had to learn to use a different program 'Adobe Premier' but we managed to learn how to use it fairly quickly.

 

Here are some photos:

Feedback

In this lesson we all showed our opening sequences to everybody else and got their feedback on it. Personally i found this very helpful as it helped our group to see if people would enjoy it, and anything we needed to change about it, here is the feedback from other groups:

Finished Behind the Scenes Video!

Here is our finished behind the scenes video, we luckily managed to upload it to YouTube just before the robbery so we didn't lose it. Personally I believe that our video is good as it seems fun and energetic and hopefully everyone else will feel the same!

Here it is: 

Planning - Risk Assessment

Before we filmed our opening sequences we had to look out for anything that could go wrong, and therefore if we knew what could go wrong, we could stop it.

This is a list of the risks that we may have faced:

1. Burning our hands whilst using the lights as they may get hot quickly.

2. Making sure that we didn't drop the camera as it is worth a lot of money.

3. Being careful not to trip over any of the wires.

4. Not to eat or drink near any of the equipment.

Second Week of Editing

We have progressed a lot in the second week. We managed to explore some of the effects on Final Cut and we used a YouTube tutorial to help us do so. We have changed two of the clips into black and white and put a CCTV effect on to help viewers understand our sequence and give it a bit of difference to most film openings. Everything is going good and we have also started to look at music that we could use for our Behind the Scenes Video.

First Week of Editing

In the first week we had to spend a lot of time uploading all the clips and renaming them so we could work with them easier. We then separated our behind the scenes clips, our outtakes, and our actual movie clips. We then started to put the clips together where we increased our skills using final cut as we had to cut some clips and lower or higher the sound in some clips. So far our sequence is going good and there hasn't been any big problems.

Spooks Sequence Questions

1. There are two men in an office, on a computer encrypting some files. One man is doing the typing and another man is watching overhead. There is also a finger scan which we don't know what it is used for, or what it is doing.

2. You are given what they are doing, they are obviously on a computer in an office. You see the two men concentrating on what they are doing on the computer.

3. You are not given that there is more then one computer, you are not shown the other man walking behind. You are also not given the finish of the encrypting so you do not know if they finish it or not. Lastly you are not shown then putting the laptop into the briefcase then locking it by using the finger scan. So in the sequences you do not realise that what they are doing is obviously very confidential and no one else should have access to it. 

4. The sequence is important so that we can understand the sequence and see what order it goes in. It is also important because it helps us see it clearer when we cut all the shots up. 

5. We need the other scenes in between because if we just saw the office in the clip the audience would get bored and not be as interested. They may not understand what they are doing or why they are using so much security.

6. We cut to see this action because we need to know that both the scenes will link up and by cutting between each scene shows that maybe the two sets of characters will meet later on. 

7. You think the people are just packing stuff in to a box, ready to go somewhere different. It was obviously dodgy as they are in a abandoned warehouse.

8. In screenshot H you are able to see they are in some sort of empty warehouse which shows its quite dodgy. Then in screenshot I you see chains in a box so it makes you wonder what they are up to and interests you more.

9. We see less of the thieves because this makes it more like the unknown. So we don't know what they are up to but we want to know so we will keep watching.

10. We don't see what is happening until the end because it makes us keep watching and wondering what will happen to the thieves and the people in the office, we wonder if they will meet and what the thieves want. Also if they are linked to each other and will meet up in a later part of the episode. 

Feed The Fish Preliminary Task