29 February 2012

Final Group Edit - my contribution

I have edited our title sequence and opening sequence. I've colour corrected it (all shots), added titles in, put effects over titles (such as gaussian blur) and tidied up the whole blog. I've removed and cut down some shots to get rid of the over-time of 1 minute 20 seconds. I have decided on the font of titles, where the titles should be, what the titles should be and the effects to put over them to make them look professional. The colour correction was needed to make our film seem more professional and more thriller like.










24 February 2012

Individual Edit...




I have completed my individual rough cut and have taken some screen shots of making it. I still need to add more shots in the final one which we will be re-shooting soon and also do my title sequence and edit it into my individual edit.





29 January 2012

New Storyboard & Shot list.





















A high angle shot from the side, mid-close up on the face of a detective who gets a call in the evening, whilst he's relaxing/asleep. Mid-close up of him opening his eyes and answering the call.
"Hello? Another one? I'll be right there" he says.

Black-out with text: "Two hours earlier".

+ A shot of a man staring at the house, extreme close up on his lips taking a drag on a cigarette,extreme close up when cigarette on the floor, trodden on with a black shoe.
+ Cuts to a shot of the dad walking out of his workplace into the car (match-on action).
+ Then cuts right to a close up of shoes walking up the stairs to the house.
+ Next shot of the dad driving the car.
+ Next it cuts to the murderer unlocking the door.
+ Then cuts to a shot of phone calling dad's wife.
+ Quick cut to the murderer unlocking and opening the door from outside (shot inside).
+ Then cuts to the phone ringing.
+ A close up shot of black shoes waking across the foor, slowly.
+ Close up shot of the man pulling out a gun and pointing it at the camera.
+ Cuts to the dad pulling in to the garage - tracking shot + match on action- and walking into the house (midshot/longshot).
+ Extreme close up of the murderer slowly sliding the back door open (match-on action), and close up of him hiding the gun inside his jacket.
+ Cuts to the shot of dad walking into the room only to find dead family on the floor -flashing shots, extreme close ups of faces before seeing dad's shocked and crying face as he walks up to his son, holds him in his arms and we cut to a close up on both.

26 January 2012

Re-shoot.

After first film-shooting, and first editing we have established that we have to re-shoot some scenes regarding our use of lighting and we need to make some changes in terms of our idea and shots we are going to use. We need to do another weather check and shot schedule and we need to add some shots in to improve our film idea. We need to re-shoot following scenes:
- first dialogue scene (when mother talks to the son, change lighting and shot types)
- scene outdoors with the murder staring at the house, smoking a cigarette (lighting/shot types)
- establishing shot - night/day (sunset, sunrise)
- re-shoot the scene where the murderer is escaping (change props (gun), closeups/match on action)
- re shoot "finding the dead family scene" with different lighting (low key lighting) and close ups on faces of the dead family (flashing close ups on faces)
- shot of dad's shocked face (close up)
- high angle shot when he falls to his knees and another close up of him holding his son (extreme closeup)
- snap shot:  add a scene when there is a wake up phone to the detective, detective is called in to come back on duties. (dialogue scene, on the phone)

We need to re-think our choice of lighting - make it low-key lighting and use of shadows etc.
We need to set a new shooting date and plan our shots.