Showing posts with label Abdul Ahmed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abdul Ahmed. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Evaluation-Question 5
My Video Interview for Question 5.
From this interview, I have learned that the movie was very fun to watch and was full of suspense. The interviewee said that the people who would watch this are young adults because they would enjoy the film more than younger teenagers because the film has a dark theme. He also said that the film was filmed very nicely and an example he gave was when the bottle drops.
The rough cut feedback we received was very helpful because we gained both positive and negative feedback. For example, I was told that the match cuts were on point and that meant that the editing was good. Also, we gained some criticisms of our title sequence, for example, the lack of sound made the title sequence a bit bare bones but we did plan to put a song, foley sound and a voice over but we didn't put it in the rough cut because we wanted to put all the clips together. The role of feedback was vital for our title sequence.
So far we have reached our audience through Vimeo and a twitter page we had created. We also had a preview screening of our movie recently so we can see their thoughts on it.
So through this interview, I have found out that my movie had attracted my audience because it was suspenseful, the theme was interesting and the movie was filmed very nicely.
So through this interview, I have found out that my movie had attracted my audience because it was suspenseful, the theme was interesting and the movie was filmed very nicely.
Monday, 9 March 2015
Sunday, 8 March 2015
Research-Extension Activity-Watching Documentary
1. What Thomas Sutcliffe means when he says that films need to "seduce their audience into long term commitment" is that films need to make sure that the title sequence needs to be entertaining enough so that watchers will be bothered to stick around. If the title sequence doesn't seduce you to watch the movie, the filmmaker has failed in trying to "seduce" you.
2. Beinex says that "instant arousal" has risks. This is because if a movie has an incredible introduction that grabs the attention of the audience straight away, if the movie isn't as good as those first initial scenes, audiences may not like the film as much as the producers had hoped they would.
3. A good beginning must have the audience know just enough knowledge on what the basics of the movie are. This is because if you give too much detail in the title sequence, you may be able to predict the story line of the movie. If you give barely any details in the title sequence, then the audience will not have a clue on what the movie is about and may leave them with a bitter taste on the movie.
4. What Kauffman says about the classic shot is true. This is because it almost acts like an establishing shot where we learn of the new location. But in a title sequence, you have to put a little more work in and the classic shot does this because it enables the viewer to learn where the movie is taking place and who is in the movie.
5. Kyle Cooper's movie title sequence for David Fincher's "Se7en" is effective because it shows us a very discrete showing of what our main character is like. Also because it is discrete in telling us the narrative, it makes us ponder and want to investigate.
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6. For Welles' movie, "A Touch of Evil" he wanted to bring his audience straight into the movie with no soundtrack or titles at all. Universal Studios did not like this idea and what he was doing so they added a soundtrack and titles for the cast.
7. The idea that is the "favorite trick of film noir" is the idea where producers put the end of their movie at the beginning. This is done for suspense because the audience now know the ending of the movie but they don't have any prior knowledge before that scene so to find out what leads to this big finale, they have to watch the movie.
8. The reason why the Shining has a great title sequence is because of the way it is filmed. It is filmed with a birds eye view and is mixed with a tracking shot of a car. This is good because it builds suspense in a way because it is like something is watching or following this car to a place and when it gets its chance, it will strike.
2. Beinex says that "instant arousal" has risks. This is because if a movie has an incredible introduction that grabs the attention of the audience straight away, if the movie isn't as good as those first initial scenes, audiences may not like the film as much as the producers had hoped they would.
3. A good beginning must have the audience know just enough knowledge on what the basics of the movie are. This is because if you give too much detail in the title sequence, you may be able to predict the story line of the movie. If you give barely any details in the title sequence, then the audience will not have a clue on what the movie is about and may leave them with a bitter taste on the movie.
4. What Kauffman says about the classic shot is true. This is because it almost acts like an establishing shot where we learn of the new location. But in a title sequence, you have to put a little more work in and the classic shot does this because it enables the viewer to learn where the movie is taking place and who is in the movie.
5. Kyle Cooper's movie title sequence for David Fincher's "Se7en" is effective because it shows us a very discrete showing of what our main character is like. Also because it is discrete in telling us the narrative, it makes us ponder and want to investigate.
6. For Welles' movie, "A Touch of Evil" he wanted to bring his audience straight into the movie with no soundtrack or titles at all. Universal Studios did not like this idea and what he was doing so they added a soundtrack and titles for the cast.
7. The idea that is the "favorite trick of film noir" is the idea where producers put the end of their movie at the beginning. This is done for suspense because the audience now know the ending of the movie but they don't have any prior knowledge before that scene so to find out what leads to this big finale, they have to watch the movie.
8. The reason why the Shining has a great title sequence is because of the way it is filmed. It is filmed with a birds eye view and is mixed with a tracking shot of a car. This is good because it builds suspense in a way because it is like something is watching or following this car to a place and when it gets its chance, it will strike.
Research-Extension Activity- Who Makes Title Seqeunces
Kyle Cooper
Kyle Cooper is a veteran film title producer. He has produced many great title sequences in both film and television. Some of his work includes films like the great crime-drama Se7en and the explosive comic book movie The Avengers. His television work includes shows like The Walking Dead and American Horror Story.
Relationship
The relationship between the movie title producer and the director of the movie is very important. The director of the movie usually gets to choose the producer of the title. This is evident with David Fincher's movie, Se7en. In this, originally for the title, the producer was going to be Mark Romanek, but Fincher chose Cooper over Romanek for the title. This was important because Cooper's intro is considered one of the best and it would've been different if it wasn't by him. This shows that the relationship is important.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Production-Our Final Editing Session
In our final editing session, we aimed to complete a variety of tasks. Firstly, we wanted to put all the titles into the editing software (Final Cut Pro), create a song/jingle for the production and distribution idents, to create a score for the title sequence and to complete our title sequence. We first made the jingles which was very easy to create. We then created a score. This was a bit difficult because it took us some time to create a suspenseful song that would flow with our title sequence. We then put everything into Final Cut and it was done. We then realized some things were on and that some titles weren't in frame properly so we made some quick changes.
Production-Our Third Editing Session
In our third editing session, we aimed to complete the remaining titles left which include basics like actors names, directors and etc. We managed to complete this. Also, seeing our production and distribution ident's again, we thought to redo them as they didn't look professional, so we did them again.
Production-Our Second Editing Session
In this editing session, we planned to create the titles for our movie sequence, we aimed to create the movie title and the production and distribution ident's. We managed to get these done.
Production-Our First Editing Session
After we had got all of our essential shots done, we planned on producing a rough cut of the title sequence. This went well as we managed to complete the rough cut by the end of the lesson. Editing wasn't that difficult but it was a long process but as I had mentioned before, we managed to complete the rough cut. In this lesson we also managed to record the voice over for our title sequence too.
Production-Our Final Filming Session
In our final filming session, we planned to improve some shots which we thought looked a bit off and to re-shoot some that we got from teacher feedback. We did these shots very easily as we knew how it should have been done properly.
Production-Our Third Filming Session
In our third filming session, we aimed to complete the last scene we had left which was a classroom scene which had just included some basic shots of a classroom. This was very easy to complete as it only took a couple minutes to get roughly 6 shots done.
Production- Our Second filming session
In our second filming session, we had much more success. Firstly, the park scene which we tried to do in our first session, came out great and we managed to get some great shots. There were some shots we struggled to get right but in the end we managed to get a perfect shot that fulfilled our desires. Also managed to film the beginning and end scene which also came out great. Overall, this was a better filming session than our last because this one was great.
Production-Our First Filming Session
Our first filming session did not go quite as planned. We aimed to get the whole park scene of our title sequence done so we can get filming done quicker. Unfortunately, it was almost impossible to film due to heavy rain which only allowed us to get some shots done. The shots we managed to get were good but there was room for improvement.
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