DEPLETION Edit 4

DEPLETION Edit 3

DEPLETION Edit 2

DEPLETION Edit 1

G321 AS: Main Task - FILMING AND EDITING LOG

Friday 20th January 

• Filmed flashback scenes.

Director: Amy Green

Cinematographer: Rhiannon Millard

Actors: Emily Bullock & Chloe Hughes

Took roughly 1 hour to film abut 20 minutes of footage. This will be edited down to about 10 seconds in between shots from another location. 

Sunday 22nd January 

• Filmed first half of the opening sequence.

Director: Rhiannon Millard

Cinematographer: Amy Green

Actors: Emily Bullock & Rebecca Bradley

Due to the location used there was a lot of background noise so this audio is unable to be used. There is no speech but some foley sounds that we will record at a later date. 

EDIT 1 

3 hours work for the first 1:39 of the opening sequence.

Potential music added - “Suspense Music - Seeking the Truth”

Monday 23rd January 

• Played EDIT 1 to our focus group

Feedback:

‘Music is too dramatic for an opening scene. You can see the crew’s shadows in one shot.’ - Mrs Mallet

‘I can tell it is a flashback because of the colour and close ups used but I don’t completely understand what is happening. Thought it was the protagonist’s arm - not clear enough’ - Rebecca 

Responses:

We have removed this music and will find another more suitable track. We are unable to re-shoot the scene with the shadows so we will attempt to hide them with colour correction but it is unlikely to be completely hidden.

We have decided to remove the flashbacks from the opening sequence as they are confusing and aren’t crucial to the storyline. This will also help fitting our film opening within the time restraints.

• Filmed second half of the opening sequence. 

Director: Rhiannon Millard

Cinematographer: Amy Green

Lighting: Zoe Whyte

Actors: Emily Bullock & Rebecca Bradley

Filmed in school so there is background talking and other noises - again no speech but we will still need to record foley.

EDIT 2 

2 hours work for the last 1:06 of the opening sequence.

EDIT 3

2 hours work for the last 0:16 of the opening sequence.

Wednesday 25th January

• Played EDIT 2 to focus group

Feedback: 

‘I want to know what happens next. So many unanswered questions, need a full length film’ - Chloe

‘I like the colour palette and the camera angles’ - Abbie

‘Liked the editing style’ - Mr Kerrigan

‘Light switch is at the wrong timing. Close ups show tension and make it more clear that she is in danger.’ - Rebecca

• Played EDIT 3 to our focus group.

Feedback:

‘Voice announcements should come in quicker to keep up fast pace of scene. - Rebecca

‘Builds tension better than the last edit.’ - Sarah

Responses:

We will change the timing of the light switch so the click happens in time with the light coming on, despite the delay being on the actual light rather than an editing mistake. We will change the timings of the voice announcements so they happen more often and with less of a gap in between. 

EDIT 4

The flashbacks has been removed from EDIT 1 as per our focus group’s opinions.

We are then going to use the first 33 seconds of EDIT 2 and the remaining 16 seconds from  EDIT 3.

Wednesday 1st Feb

• Played EDIT 4 to focus group. 

Feedback: 

‘Story is clearer now with end section. Love the ending and I am intrigued to find out what happens in the rest of the film. - Chloe

‘Sounds needs tidying up. Opening credits?’ - Mrs Mallet

Responses:

There are a lot of gaps in the sound as we still need to record voiceovers and foley. The opening credits and title animation will be made in Final Cut Pro and then chromakeyed into the Adobe Premiere file.

EDIT 5

Recorded voiceovers and other foley.

Added credit overlays and title animation.

Friday 3rd February

• Played EDIT 5 to focus group.

Feedback:

‘It’s really good. I like the tension and the cliffhanger at the end.’ - Chloe

‘Like the style of editing and the titles at the end - they fit in well with the genre.’ - Abby

‘Amazing. I like the end but where it cuts to black and then the title appears.’ - Rebecca

Monday 6th February

• Final edit (EDIT 5) due.

Friday 10th February

• EDIT 5 uploaded onto the school youtube channel.

G321 AS: Main Task - MUSIC AND SFX

Music:

When choosing music, we wanted a track that provided a highly tense atmosphere. However through researching royalty free music with the keywords 'tension' and 'action' we deciphered that a large majority of the music we found, had an incredibly heightened dramatic atmosphere reminiscent of the horror genre, rather than the action genre. Therefore we ended up deciding not to use music, as it didn't fit effectively to the visuals of the opening scene, and instead replaced it with a loud hum or buzzing noise which underscored the entirety of the piece, in coherence with the sound effects. 

Sound:

Post-production we used a microphone to record the layer of sound and edit it separately. This ensured we would avoid hearing muffled or static sounds through background noise; (particularly when we were filming outside in the sounding arch, with a high wind velocity) which makes our piece sound more professional and this post production technique is heavily utilised in the industry. We recorded sounds such as Emily struggling to escape from the ropes, the guard's footsteps as he walks away, a phone conversation between the guard and finally the radio transmission narration at the beginning.

We had to use some sound effects found online as we were unable to record them ourselves, such as a rock scraping on the ground. We then edited this effect to make it fit with the stone onscreen.

Certain sounds, such as the radio transmission, we then edited to sound 'muffled' and 'static', the narration mirroring the sound of dialogue from an old radio. This was particularly effective, as it formulated a tense atmosphere to the opening of the film and provided narrative background to the story, allowing the audience to easily interpret the action that occurs throughout the opening. 

G321 AS: Main Task - TITLE AND TYPEFACE

Initial Ideas

Our initial idea for a typeface, for our Action film opening, is a typeface that is capitalised and striking but is evidently representative of the action genre from its appearance. The reoccurring motif of 'coding' that will feature in multiple shots, emphasises the secretive nature of the hidden governmental plans; metaphorically speaking Hayden (the protagonist) is the fault in the government's hidden code. This, therefore in-sighted the idea that the typeface should mirror this 'fault' which would have an appearance that is 'jagged' and with a significant 'glitch' effect. Upon research on typeface's using the keyword 'glitch', we decided on the typeface "Hacked Title". This is particularly effective as it's capitalised and relatively large kerning distance between the letters creates a dramatic appearance as it elongates the time taken to read the title. It also takes up more space on the screen when superimposed. The jagged serifed edges with horizontal lines aligned to one side of the letter sticking out, or areas within the letter itself missing segments of the side. 

How we will achieve this:

We hope to achieve this text style by using a 'prism' preset and adapting the extent of the movement of the text using a 'ripple' preset, by modifying the key frames; we will add new keyframes in quick succession in order to create a coherent piece of animation. This will appear after the blackout (with fade to black transition) and gunshot sound, in order to build tension and entice the audience to want to continue watching.

Throughout the opening scene, credits will appear superimposed on top of the visuals, however the text will appear using a fade transition, aligned at varying places within the frame. We will use the same typeface as used before ('Hacked" Title).