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.

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.

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.

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.

My contribution to the project so far...

I have decided to post a small self-evaluation of what I have done for the group production blog.
I have contributed to the group research and planning work quite well. I have done over 16 posts on Research and Planning - including research on conventions of a thriller, technical issues and the aspects of thriller genre. I have also contributed into planning of the production of the film with taking care of the moodboard, storyboard animatics and other that are clearly labelled on the group blog. I have done a lot of work and tried to present it in the most creative way I could access in a short periods of time in order to meet deadlines. I am proud of my work and I think I have contributed individually a lot into the group. To improve my work in the near future, I could find out about more creative ways in which I could present my work and also I could go into more detail in order to get more marks for indepth research with the right terminology. However, I think that the terminology I used is fairly professional and correct at the current stage of progress in Media Studies.

Parity Remake - Film + Evaluation.

We filmed a remake of an example of student work that was also a thriller movie.
The film to be found on our group blog at Parity Shot For Shot Remake.

As a group, we got a very positive feedback from fellow students and our teacher on our remake. I set up and operated the camera, whereas Adam took care of props and Kieran of location and actors. I have also done the storyboard for the remake so that it was easier for us to shoot and not get confused between the shots as there is quite a lot of them, such as close ups, match on action, and high angle and low angle shots. There was a lot of things we had to think about when filming and they were the 180 degree rule and smoothness of continuity technique, which I think we kept clean and very simply done.

Parity - Shot for Shot Remake - StoryBoard

Shot for shot remake sheet 1

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Shot for shot remake sheet 2

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These are the two sheets of photos that I took of the clip Parity, for our story board in order to help us with the shot-for-shot remake of the clip.
The sheets include the description of the shots and editing in a simple way
to help us shooting as well as the descriptions of the action that is meant to be performed by the actors in the clip.
Storyboard entirely done by Magdalena Lepkowska (Magg Lepkowska)

Opening Titles Sequence - TimeLine

I went on the website called www.artofthetitle.com  and I watched the opening titles of a film called Panic Room and I have created a timeline ^ of the time in which the titles have come up in the opening title sequence for the film.