We had to change this due to copyright reasons on the last piece soundtrack we used.
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Friday, 2 May 2014
'The Ugly Business' Final Cut
Here is the final cut for our film opening to 'The Ugly Business'. Here, we have added an effect to the institutional logo in order to give it a more professional look compared to a simple jpeg image. Secondly, we added a title towards the end which read '5 years earlier'. This title made it clearer to the audience as to where the film was going, as well as educating them as to where the film opening currently was.
Rought Cut 2
Here is the second rough cut for out film opening. In this rough cut, we have included the institutional logo at the beginning of our piece. This added a professional look to our film, as well as giving it an identity to relate to in terms of mainstream institutions and the overall status of the film.
Rought Cut 1
Here is our first cut for our film opening to 'The Ugly Business'. In this cut, we included all of our clips, as well as adding a distinct colour correction. However, we have not included our institutional logo. This is because of issues faced with the editing software we used in editing our opening.
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
What we need to consider (with regards to audience) when developing our film opening
When developing our film opening we need to ensure various different things such as:
Strong Opening- Ensuring we have something that grabs the audience and holds the audiences attention. This will ensure that we interest our audience, so that they don't get bored and lose focus on our film opening. Also once you have the audiences attention, which is the hardest part, it makes it easier to ensure they are then engaged throughout the rest of the film. This is because if something happens during the film opening, they will want to know what happens in the end, ensuring you keep their attention throughout the whole film.
Build the character/Setting- When doing research and timelines from various different genres of film, in all of them, the opening scene is very action packed, almost setting the scene and characters without making it blindingly obvious to the audience. By this I mean they don't say 'this is our main character' etc, instead they focus on that character more than any other, and focus in on the setting maybe using establishing shots to enable audience members to know where the film is set. All these little things go un noticed to the audience, even though it does allow them to understand all the main characters and setting. Also setting the pace, tone and confirming the genre of the film by often including obvious iconography from that particular genre of film helps set the scene.
Make it obvious- Although the aim is to build tension and make the audience want to watch more, its important that we don't get too carried away with what we are filming, making it unclear to the audience what is happening. To help make it clear to the audience it could be wise to use continuous editing, this usually means actions flow in chronological order, rather than dis-continuous editing where there could be lots of cuts from one scene to another, which could complicate audiences. It must be clear and obvious what is happening in an opening scene especially, otherwise, later on in the film the audience will have no clue what's happening as they would have already been confused prior meaning they will lose interest and therefore not watch anymore.
Use audience figures to our advantage- After carrying out lots of questionnaires and research why not use it! It's important we use this information that we gathered so that we know exactly what it is the audience wants. This way it means that we are directly giving the audience what they want, meaning they are more likely to engage with it. In turn, we must include what they want in our film, therefore it's very important that before filming we use the analysis we made of the results and incorporate this into our storyboard, whether it means adding parts in or removing parts.
Similar Films- Is there any new films out from the same genre as ours? How are they doing? Did they have a good audience response? These are some of the questions we have asked. This helps us find out how films of the same genre that have been released recently are doing, if they are doing good, we then researched into how they have managed to build a reputation and get people in to watch the film. We researched into marketing campaigns, distribution techniques all to try and help aid us when it comes to doing the same with our film opening.
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Strong Opening- Ensuring we have something that grabs the audience and holds the audiences attention. This will ensure that we interest our audience, so that they don't get bored and lose focus on our film opening. Also once you have the audiences attention, which is the hardest part, it makes it easier to ensure they are then engaged throughout the rest of the film. This is because if something happens during the film opening, they will want to know what happens in the end, ensuring you keep their attention throughout the whole film.
Build the character/Setting- When doing research and timelines from various different genres of film, in all of them, the opening scene is very action packed, almost setting the scene and characters without making it blindingly obvious to the audience. By this I mean they don't say 'this is our main character' etc, instead they focus on that character more than any other, and focus in on the setting maybe using establishing shots to enable audience members to know where the film is set. All these little things go un noticed to the audience, even though it does allow them to understand all the main characters and setting. Also setting the pace, tone and confirming the genre of the film by often including obvious iconography from that particular genre of film helps set the scene.
Make it obvious- Although the aim is to build tension and make the audience want to watch more, its important that we don't get too carried away with what we are filming, making it unclear to the audience what is happening. To help make it clear to the audience it could be wise to use continuous editing, this usually means actions flow in chronological order, rather than dis-continuous editing where there could be lots of cuts from one scene to another, which could complicate audiences. It must be clear and obvious what is happening in an opening scene especially, otherwise, later on in the film the audience will have no clue what's happening as they would have already been confused prior meaning they will lose interest and therefore not watch anymore.
Use audience figures to our advantage- After carrying out lots of questionnaires and research why not use it! It's important we use this information that we gathered so that we know exactly what it is the audience wants. This way it means that we are directly giving the audience what they want, meaning they are more likely to engage with it. In turn, we must include what they want in our film, therefore it's very important that before filming we use the analysis we made of the results and incorporate this into our storyboard, whether it means adding parts in or removing parts.
Similar Films- Is there any new films out from the same genre as ours? How are they doing? Did they have a good audience response? These are some of the questions we have asked. This helps us find out how films of the same genre that have been released recently are doing, if they are doing good, we then researched into how they have managed to build a reputation and get people in to watch the film. We researched into marketing campaigns, distribution techniques all to try and help aid us when it comes to doing the same with our film opening.
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Changes made to our peice
Changes made to our pieceWe have changed the shooting significantly in able to make the final cut a more enjoyable and understandable product, (the new location chosen has already been included in a previous blog).
We have changed the entire start to our piece to begin shooting outside Xavier's house, we changed this as we felt it would create a more realistic vibe for the audience in viewing where Xavier lives.
We felt this would also connote the theme/genre of "crime" as it would instantly make the audience question how at such as young age Xavier afforded such a huge distinguished house.
Overall I feel the added time helped build more of a unsettling base building for the climax of the movie itself.
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Brett North-Cornell
We have changed the entire start to our piece to begin shooting outside Xavier's house, we changed this as we felt it would create a more realistic vibe for the audience in viewing where Xavier lives.
We felt this would also connote the theme/genre of "crime" as it would instantly make the audience question how at such as young age Xavier afforded such a huge distinguished house.
Overall I feel the added time helped build more of a unsettling base building for the climax of the movie itself.
______________________________________________________________________________________
Brett North-Cornell
Final Cast
Lewis Hale
We have chosen Lewis Hale to perform the role of Xavier for the following reasons.
Relation with the group:
He has had experience on a set before as we used him in our proto-type shooting whilst testing out the equipment, this means he knows how to respond in terms of improvisation and knows what we need him to do, He will not be offended if we make him "re-do" scenes multiple times as he understands how important the filming is.
He has past relations with the group which therefore reduces icebreakers and such which saves time, also as he knows the group he will not have any stage fright which will make for a more effective professional looking final cut.
Experiences with acting:As a child Lewis had done many plays inside and outside of schools which would increase the realistic nature of the character.
Appearance :
Lewis has the correct précised look to act out Xavier,
-looking in his early twenty's,
-being reasonably big built
-and having the ability to grow facial hair
Lewis will therefore be Xavier from here on including in the final cut
______________________________________________________________________________________
Brett North-Cornell
We have chosen Lewis Hale to perform the role of Xavier for the following reasons.
Relation with the group:
He has had experience on a set before as we used him in our proto-type shooting whilst testing out the equipment, this means he knows how to respond in terms of improvisation and knows what we need him to do, He will not be offended if we make him "re-do" scenes multiple times as he understands how important the filming is.
He has past relations with the group which therefore reduces icebreakers and such which saves time, also as he knows the group he will not have any stage fright which will make for a more effective professional looking final cut.
Experiences with acting:As a child Lewis had done many plays inside and outside of schools which would increase the realistic nature of the character.
Appearance :
Lewis has the correct précised look to act out Xavier,
-looking in his early twenty's,
-being reasonably big built
-and having the ability to grow facial hair
Lewis will therefore be Xavier from here on including in the final cut
______________________________________________________________________________________
Brett North-Cornell
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