Technologies

Here is a few images of come of technologies we used:

Technology:

Here are some pictures of our edit suite:

• We used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our film sequence...

We then exported our finished film to youtube...

 There are also two other films which we created to go with this project:

• A 'Behind the Scenes' video
• An 'Errors' video

        Both of these bonus videos are also on youtube.

Here is Hugh (on St. Patricks Day) on the Latymermedia youtube channel...

Poster for BLACKOUT:

I, Tom A, decided that after collecting many screenshots for my evaluation, that I could attempt to create a poster for our film using them. So I did. Realising however that not all the information that goes on a film poster was in our opening sequence...

Still, here is my attempt...

I chose a screenshot which really showed off the fast paced action side of our film, and used black and white and an increased contrast to place the titles in the top left of the poster. 

Shooting schedule

Here is a copy of our shooting shedule used to plan all shooting dates and times.

Shot Lists/Logs:

Before each shoot we devised a shot list of all the shots that we planned to film. We then used these lists as logs on the shoot, recording the timecodes for each shot and adding extra shos which we hadn't planned. This is just one of our 4 sheets.

Behind the Scenes: EDITED BY TOM A

Storyboard of our opening sequence:

Here are pictures of the storyboards we created for our opening sequence before our first shoot. (This is a very late post as I lost my USB wire which linked my phone to my computer, so was unable to upload pictures.)

Final Cut

Titles - Names and order

We have drawn up a rough draft of all the names we will be using in our sequence as the opening credits and the order they will appear.
They will go as follows:

Focus Entertainment,
AX Productions,
Infinite Pictures
Matteo Bragoli,
Hugh Donnelly,
Directed by Tomas Poffley,
Produced by Thomas Aston,
Director of Photography Frank Imura,
Music by Thomas Aston,
Executive producer Hugh Donnelly

Main shoot: 28/02/2010

This shoot was not as successful as hoped. As feared the weather stopped us from filming most the shots we would have hoped for. For this reason we were only able to re-shoot the fight scene and a couple of others. Overall however everything neccessary was shot and we should be able to enter the final stages of editing with this new footage.

Titles - Order

We weren't really sure about the order that the titles come in. 

In the Watchmen opening sequence, this the order. We plan to loosely copy the order, but we will not include some of them. The video could not be embedded, but here is the URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=573XmVOdD2Q

• Distributors
• Local distributors
• Producer
• Director
• Watchmen
• All the actors
• Casting
• Visual effects
• Costume
• Music
• Co-producer
• Editor
• Production designer
• Director of photography
• Executive producers
• The novel, marvel comics etc
• Screenplay
• The director again

Rough Cut

Rough Cut - Group Feedback

Here is what we as a group believe we need to change for saturday:

• Different costume - Tom P will order a balaclava tonight, and Hugh will be wearing black cargo pants and black boots
• We will experiment with focus pulls over the banister shots in order to have variety in what shots to use
• In one of the final shots (the slow pan over to Matt's eyes), we will use a range of different focuses in order to achieve a more thrilling effect with the mirror
• We will try to achieve better match on action in the fight scene at the end by making the fight more similar each time it is shot
• In order to make the bad guy look more convincing we will have him looking around less when he is on the street
• We will make sure Matt closes the door as he enters the house to try and give the effect of trying to keep people out of the house

Teacher Feedback: DYM

I must point out that the lack of posts for the past week and a bit is almost completely down to Hugh being on holiday. But we have completed our rough cut, and here is the feedback:

• The beginning of the sequence needs to be slowed down
• The kidnapper looks around too much - needs to be more subtle
• All the stairwell shots work well
• Matt shouldnt leave the door open when he enters the house
• Pull focus on the bannisters?
• Try different focuses for the wolfman shot

Editing

We have just about finished editing our rough cut sequence.

We are really pleased with how its turned out. We will probably upload the video as soon as we're back from half term.

Have a good holiday people!

Test Shoot Photos

Prop Prep:

The gun we are using is a toy gun owned by our lead actor Matteo Bragoli. The gun orginally was red at the top, so Tom P, Matteo and I took a trip to the art department to have a go at painting the gun a nice black.

 

We used black acrylic paint.

We used a hair-dryer to speed up the paint drying, and the whole process took us 40 minutes. The end result looks rather good!

I would like to thank the art department on behalf of our group for their co-operation.

Welcome!