Feedback

Today i finished editing the feedback video i have done for the rough cut... here it is!


 

In addition to this i asked more of my friends+brother, Parents and some Teachers the same sort of questions, after showing them the film.
The results are as follows:
Friends + Brother...
Pros!

• They liked the enigma at the end, I even got asked a couple of times why he actually did it.
• They liked our costumes and props, especially the bike.
• They said that the music (Vera Lynn) was 'really cool', and one person said 'It almost adds to the horror aspect'. This is some thing that I had not thought about but after considering it I Sort of agree now.
• They thought that the time period was a good place to be set as the society of the time was much more unstable. This is exactly  the reason we chose it so it is great that they picked up on that.
• When I asked my brother if he payed attention the whole way through he said yes because there is always something going on, and that something, seems to always be mysterious.

Cons!

• These we all similar to the ones that Oscar points out in the video above. All of the issues pointed out have been dealt with for the Final Cut.

Parents
Pros!

• They said most of the things said by my friends and Brother.
• They liked that fact that it was set around a church. They rightly pointed out that the church itself has creepy connotations.
• They liked how the lack of speech in the film made it much better and more mysterious. My mum said that it 'makes it seem as though there is a tension in the village and i don't know what it is, what is it?'.

Cons!

• These we all similar to the ones that Oscar points out in the video above. All of the issues pointed out have been dealt with for the Final Cut.

Teacher

When I showed our Film to Mr. Malins, one of the schools media teachers, he, to our delight, pointed out the Foreshadowing that we had implemented into our film. 

Conclusion:

After completing our research we sat down and discussed the issues that had been pointed out to us, we then jumped back onto Sony Vegas to edit. We ironed out all the issues that had been pointed out to us. Now that this is done I can Honestly say that I'm extremely pleased with the Final Cut.

Rough Cut

A couple of days ago we finished the rough cut of our film opening! Here it is...

There are some issues regarding the fact it was uploaded to you tube  as this meant that the video was lower in quality and the resolution changed....

I have completed an interview with on of my peers, in order to gain feedback! I shall upload this soon, please feel free to comment as this could help us in making some changes to improve the film!

I think that the final cut should be completed in the next couple of days, i shall upload it when it is available...

Editing - Video FX

Today during editing we decided to add some Video FX. The video FX we have added is a slight colour saturation, this drains the colour from the images, although not entirely...

Here is what it looks like on some of the test shots I took before shooting!

Before...                                                                    After....

                                                                                                                          

The difference is noticeable, and works just as well as putting something like a sepia effect on...  It gives the film and older more aged feel to it which is helps adds to the idea of the film being set in the 1940's and the colour drain adds to the effect that the village is depressing and dull and sleepy, this will help shock the audience when they see the murder at the end of the sequence.

When the action goes inside of the church the video effect will not be in place, this is because we feel that the videos lighting is perfect as it is!

Editing - Fonts

Today a member of my group, Jonny, put forward the idea of having the font type for the credits in the opening sequence to our film... The font type Jonny put forward was the classic typewriter, he also thought of putting the sound of the typewriter in over the top of the text...
Here is a pic of some typewriter text...

I like the idea i think that it promotes good continuity with the 1940's period, however i do not feel that the addition of the text sound over the top, as i feel that it will make the audio feel clustered. We shall implement the addition of typewriter font into our opening credits....

When we show the title of the film 'Great Haseley' we will want a big more bold text, this will make the name stand out and (dependent on the font's style) give the audience an opimous or creepy feeling...
I personally shall undergo some research into this feild, and will the following websites to aid me

• Dafont
• 1001 free fonts
• Oldfonts
• Fontspace

More on Editing

Today we got our media studies teacher, Mr. Milburn, to read out what is going to be a news report followed by a song. We chose Mr. Milburn because he was able to act out a voice that sounded like a voice one might have in th 1940's, and we felt that this would be beneficial to the movie!
Here is a picture of Mr. Milburn sitting looking at the script.... Enjoy!

....and also the video of him speaking...

Behind The Scenes

On Monday 4th, Ed and I were away from school on a Philosophy school trip to the houses of Parliament, and so Ollie and Jonny decided to go behind the scenes of where we had been filming to show you the real location, and to show what things we had to look for in order to maintain the continuity of a 1940's time setting.

The video of this event can be found below!

The Editing Begins

So today we started our editing of the film, we are in the process of creating a rough cut! This will be used to give you, the reader, the opportunity to see the film for the first time, and it will give us the opportunity to get some feedback from people, and change the edit to make it better...
Here is a picture of us all editing!

Final Day of Filming

I mentioned that i would be going on a holiday in a previous post, and now that i am back from said holiday we were able to complete the filming process. We have now finished all of our filming, obviously we may need to re-record some things (not necessarily) and this will take place in due cause. 

Here are some location shots of the church, which is where we concluded the filming...

And we can see some in action shot with Ollie and I acting, while Ed takes the camera....