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AN EXTRA UPDATE...

EVALUATION 1

FINAL FILM...

Here it is, not much to say, i'll let the film do the talking.. but after endless work we finally finished and we are all really happy with it, enjoy!

DONE AND DUSTED...

After the endless hard work, we finaly handed in our final film introductions! Here is a quick vlog on some of the last minute changes made and how we feel it went...

SOLO UPDATE...

LIFT VLOG...

'THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES'...

  Recently I watched 'The Assassination of Jesse James' and absolutely loved it! Most of of all i loved the introduction to the film, I thought the cinematography, editing and souns was outstanding and created an incredible opening to a film.

  The use of time lapses of landscapes and setting shots throughout the opening alongside the chiming music created a dream like scene, which also accompanied the dream like vision in many of the shots as there was a blurred edged frame. It seemed as though it was shot out of a pinhole like or fisheye view camera. Also, the constant contrast between the light and dark palette throughout the opening, especially in the last shot emphasises the mystery of Jesse James (Brad Pitt). I'm usually not fond of dialogue over the top of shots in movies and felt it was something that was not needed in our 2 minute openings. However, I felt the mixture of the mans voice and the actual words spoken in this film really finished off the opening to 'The Assassination of Jesse James'. Overall, this is definitely one of the most brilliant openings to a film i have seen.

COMPLICIT...

  Last night I watched Channel 4's new drama 'Complicit.' Aside falling asleep due to the boredom of the entire programme, i did manage to catch the opening title sequence and thought it was really eye catching. I didn't manage to find a clip or image of them, but thought i would blog about them anyway.

  I am a big fan of the simplicity of them as they were just bold white text, slowly appearing on screen. This is something we have aimed for on our 2 minute openings as we felt in order for it to look effective, simplicity was key! So as explained before, we have stuck to balck background and white text, gradually appearing in the lower right hand corner. Even though in 'Complicit' it looks as though the opening titles have not been thought out, when analysing further a lot of work has gone into the timing and placement of the text and typography, a factor that wehave focused on within the production of our projects.

VLOG UPDATE...

FINAL VLOG...

Here is our final on-set blog. Finally got all our shots, now for editing!

 

ORGANISED MESS...

An image of our plan that we drew out whilst editing. It is just an update of how far we are in our 2 minute film introductions as we have now got all our shots, putting them in the order we want and overall cinematography organisation. We have also finalised our music, from that huge list of music we had we have picked Foals - Blue Blood and then it will continue into Kings of Leon - Closer as the atmosphere changes. So far it is all going to plan and we are all feeling pretty confident for the deadline. Now it is just continuous editing and perfecting!

GANGSTER SQUAD...

  On Friday night i went and watched 'Gangster Squad' and i really enjoyed it! Aside from the cast being exceptional, i thought the storyline was really good and not your stereotypical 1940's gangster movie. The fact that it was based on a true story made it even more enticing as the events within the film are quite surreal. The mise-en-scene in the film was amazing, making me wish that everyone dressed like they did in the 1940-50's. The cinematography and editing throughout the movie was unbelievable, especially this one shot of a shooting scene that was cut into slow motion on some parts then sped up and repeated over again, several times. I would have loved to have found a clip of it, but seen as the movie is still in the cinemas, it's not possible.

  However, i managed to find this clip on Youtube of part of 'Gangster Squad' being shot and especially towards the end fight scene, it is really interesting how much work goes into filming, something we are all trying to do for our 2 minute introductions...

'BEHIND THE SCENES'...

Just a quick update of photos to show where we are with our 2 minute introduction. Here are some shots that we took whilst filming. In the bottom image, the time lapse shot is being filmed and the bottom photograph is just showing the position and camera angle. 

SOUND UPDATE

Here is just a quick update on the music that will be featured in our 2 minute introductions. It is an array of lively, melodic and eerie music. Yes, it may appear quite lengthy, but in the scenes i am listening to my music through headphones and due to the timelapse it will be changing quite often. We wanted to make it quite choppy and realistic as possible. Also we are not quite sure where each track will be placed during our film, so that is yet to be figured out.

1. Charlie Simpson - Sundown
2. Klaxons - Golden Skans
3. Grimes - Oblivion
4. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
5. Joy Division - Disorder
6. Temper Trap - Love Lost
7. Alt-J - Interlude 3 & Dissolve Me
8. Passion - Little Secrets
9. Kings Of Leon - Closer

Here are also a list of some tracks that i thought may be quite good..

1. (Music towards the end)
Florence + The Machine - Seven Devils/ Instrumental?

2. (Overhead shot - beginning and then getting onto the train)
Foals - Blue Blood/ Instrumental?

3. (Slow motion shot)
Foals - Spanish Sahara

4. (Lift closing at the end, fade into black)
Foals - Fuge

5. (Getting on the train)
New Order - Ceremony / Beginning of track

LIFT LOCATION...

Alice kindly went and checked out this lift for filming location as we have had some previous difficulty when attempting to film in lifts as we are often told to leave! Alas, we finally found the lift! It is perfect for what we want.. the red inside creates a dangerous and eerie atmosphere, as well as the mirror adding to the creepiness of the shot. The doors were our beiggest concern when lift hunting as we were quite picky and needed two doors that opened in the middle. The plan is to go and get the scene with myself and Josh on Monday, which will be our final shot. Can't wait!   

SHOT IDEAS...

I was thinking about the ending to our film and the music to go alongside it and as a group we have discussed having our final shot being of lift doors closing which i still think is great. I did have an idea about one of the final shots before that.. once it is exposed that the lift is in fact empty i thought a good shot to include would be a close up of my headphones on the floor, just laying there. This shot would create an intense atmosphere and leave it on a cliffhanger which is what we want as it is a 2 minute introduction to a movie. Also this allows us to continue the music as it shows where it is being played from. We have discussed ending on some quite eerie and solemn music overall to set the tone and finalise that something bad has happened.

HARD EIGHT CREDITS CONTINUED...

Finally managed to get my Youtube to work, so here are the credits from the film 'Hard Eight' that i explained about in my previous post. They are quite long but just bear with it and you will see what i was talking about in the previous post.

 

HARD EIGHT CREDITS...

Seen as i cannot get any videos to play on Youtube for some reason, i shall just explain and post the actual video later when my internet decides to work! I just saw the opening credits for the movie Hard Eight and they managed to reallt catch my eye. I loved the simplicity of them, yet they were so effective. The use of a black blackground and then white typed text was really intriguing and slightlye eerie. I have to say though, the one element of the Hard Eight opening credits that i thought was brilliant and would definitely mention to the group was the pure silence whilst the titles rolled. This built the beginning of the film up exceptionally, but not giving away anything! I think this technique could work really well in our 2 minute introduction as we are hoping to get some dynamic shots, therefore i feel the titles should be quite simple. The use of silence would work really well as it could begin with no audio and then as the first shot appears, you hear the train gradually and as i step on, then the music comes in - building great tension and drawing awareness to the film overall!