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| T-14 FILM EXTRACT: Caitlin's Evaluation |
| Monday 2 March 2009 |
| Caitlin's Evaluation |
The edits I have put in have been different transitions such as fading. I have also used effects such as the old film style and black and white balance, which transition into colour. These makes the audience think why this had been done. The reason all the
se things have been done is because it makes people think about the story and I believe it is effective to a point, which these effects that we have used make that story happen. Another reason why this has happened is because we wanted to show that the end of the film is at the beginning which is the black and white footage which then comes back into the real beginning which is the colour. We thought this was a good idea because it shows that we have looked at some films and we liked the effect. I think that this is good because it shows intuition and allows people to think.
The sound used was from one of the groups friends who he knew that was good with music and we asked him if we could record him playing. This created a good atmospheric noise that went with the pace of the film extract. The sounds were drums and a piano. We then edited it with some more sounds in Garage Band where we finished composing the sound track. We think this works well with the footage as the beat goes with the cuts within the extract. We play the music till the end of the black and white section, till the title comes up. We have done this because the rhythm of the beat works well with the pace of the film.
My role within the group was editor, where I had to edit all the footage and add the sound into the extract. It was sometimes difficult to edit some of the footage because there wasn’t enough of it and not enough different angles. Well we did have some more footage with different angles but that got taped over by accident. I think that editing is the most difficult job because you need to be able to have a clear mind of what the director wants and what he wants in it. This was sometimes hard because the director wasn’t always there so I had to work around it, of where things needed to go. Editing the sound to fit the extract was easy enough as it went all with the pace of it all.
The genre we have looked at was crime/action; also we took our ideas from other films such as Death Proof (Quinton Tarantino 2007) and Severance (Christopher Smith 2006) because we like how they set out there storyline and they way they are shown to the target audience. The reason why we chose this genre is because we everyone in the group liked this sort of film group and we thought we could try something similar to them and try our luck at the films we have seen and liked.
For our idea we started off with something basic such as what films we like and we chose crime. We then started to think about where we could take it in a direction that would work for us and affordable. So we then started to think about narrative, characters, places and other things that we could do. So we drew up some plans and collected the idea which is where we came out and filmed our idea. During the time of filming we changed a few things to fit into our schedule, this worked well and we managed to film it. Also during our time filming we had some problems such as someone taping over some footage we had filmed, luckily we managed to record another day some more footage. Some of effects we wanted weren’t available at first so we had to try something else that was similar, but we eventually managed to get the filter that made little speckles and flickers in films to make the footage more real. I think that it wasn’t the best filter but it’s the best we found that was similar to the film flickers that are on the film strips in the cinema.
As for the feedback I found that there was quite a bit about the sound and that it didnt suit the extract that well and that it shoud be more consistant. But they thought that it went with the pace of the film also original. As for my editing I had a mixed opinion about the fuzziness, where were running to the car, which is fair because some people don't like that sort of thing, also they liked the flicker and black and white scenes which makes it look old, which wasn't the main intension. As for the cinematography there wasn't anything bad to say, just they liked the camera angles which I think were good and which made my job a little easier as there was more to work with.
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