Ultimatum - Final Cut of Our Final Opening Sequence
Finally, here is the Final Cut to our Opening Title Sequence, Ultimatum. I have embedded the video through YouTube off of my channel, and I have made it public so that my group were able to embed it into their blogs, and so other people can see it. Our target audience are able to post comments which is yet another way in which we can receive feedback, as well as the like and dislike system which allows us to know whether our target audience like the Opening Title Sequence for Ultimatum or not.
Below is the Opening Title Sequence we would of more liked to have, but due to not having the budget to purchase the music from the artist, we couldn't use it. Due to not having the funding required, as a the majority of movies nowadays have, we had to use copy right free music.
Continuity task involving filming + editing a "character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom he/she exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task must demonstrate..
- Match on Action
- Shot/Reverse Shot
- 180 Degree Rule
Preliminary Task
Evaluation
To evaluate on this piece of work me and my group have produced I'm going to talk about parts I feel went well and also parts I think could have been improved on in pre-production, production and also post production.
Starting with pre-production, I think the storyboard was one of aspects in which we done well in, because of the Storyboard we were able to film the exact shots we wanted to, one after the after consecutively without complication as well had all the shots and scenes listed so all we had to do was film them, so in that aspect I feel our group excelled in. In terms of things that we did bad in pre-production, I think we probably took too much time trying to over complicate our task rather than sticking with the original instructions we were told to do, because of the over complication we spent more time on this task compared to everyone else.
Moving on to the actual production I think that as group we managed to film the task in just under two hours which allowed us to catch up with other groups, which was an achievement for us considering we spent a lot of time in the pre-production stage. Again, talking about the what we could have improved on, Continuity Editing was probably the main thing during production we could have focused on a little better. An example of this being is at the scene where I am shown with James entering the "Interrogation Room" with my coat and bag on, but when the camera angle changes and we go to sit down, it is obvious that I am no longer wearing my coat and bag and they have appeared to have vanished. This could have easily been solved with filming a 3 second clip of me taking my coat and bag off before sitting down but we didn't notice until post production and by this time we had finished filming.
Lastly with post production, so the editing stage, our group excelled. I think this is the case because we were all determined to get it done and also to a good standard so we had the necessary dedication to fulfill this. Also, because I have past experience with editing due to using the same software, Adobe Premiere Pro, in GCSE this also gave us an advantage. Following on to what we could have improved on, I don't think there was a lot we could have improved on - this is because we did exactly what the task asked us to, we cut to the necessary clips when they were needed and we also didn't add in any effects which weren't needed. If I had to choose something we could improve on, it would perhaps be the timing of the cuts, for example in the beginning scene in the car James smirks right at the end when he put on his glasses, and at that point during editing I could have easily cut that out but I didn't notice, so the timing of cuts within the Preliminary Task was something I could have perhaps improved on.
Embedded below is the video we filmed following the finalisation of our Final Opening Title Sequence, we used the questionnaire which Daniel created, rather than my one, and the target audience we asked gave us valuable and useful feedback. I uploaded it onto YouTube and then obviously embedded it onto this blog post.
Ultimatum - Pre-Cut of Our Final Opening Sequence After several weeks of filming and editing our group finally produced a Pre-Cut of our Final Opening Sequence called Ultimatum. In a couple of days I will create another blog post which contains the full final cut of our Opening Sequence. We decided that we should create a Pre-Cut as we are then able to get feedback from our audience and take that feedback and channel it into making our Final Cut, basically improving it via the feedback we get from our audience.
Below is a picture of questionnaire we created after our Pre-Cut so that we could get some valuable feedback off of our target audience. We printed out a lot of copies and then handed them out to some family, some peers in our class and also people around the school, after they had obviously watched our Pre-Cut. The feedback was then able to give us an insight into what we could get rid of and what was done well.
Below is a picture which gives you an idea of the complexities involved in our editing. We had to create multiple layers in Adobe Premier Pro because the default sequence wasn't big enough to fit all our clips on because some sound had to overlap others, this is due to Foley and music we we wanted to play over one another and as you can see, the clips and how they're layered is very complex. Titles were also a factor which had to be included and we also added effects such as Fades and Cross Dissolves to our clips. The software I used to edit the whole of our Opening Sequence, Adobe Premiere Pro, really helped myself, who did the majority of the editing, enhance the Opening Sequence, and I hope this is shown in the Final Cut to our Opening Sequence, Ultimatum.
Ultimatum - Location Recce Below is the Location Recce which was completed by Jack Stockman, a member/actor within our group. It was his job to Recce the areas in which we would be filming to make sure they would be ok to film at, and he took pictures so that we could document our locations.
For our film we needed to use many different locations.
This picture is from Daniel's house where I would walk in after leaving the office.
This is taken from the edge of the woods where a part of our chase scene is set, this makes our opening title sequence look more professional as there are many different locations.
This shot was taken within our school, as we needed a desk we thought that it would be prefect to use an already set up location, the fact that there are folders and cups shows its more authentic.
This is again within our school, we used this to show the reaction of my face when I get told about the person who I have to kill and about my son. The fact that it was raining helped to give our film more of a thriller feel about it.
This shot is to show the transaction when I enter the house to when i get the information about the person who i have to kill.
This picture is taken in a near by field which was easy to get to, we used this to show the distance between the protagonist and the antagonist before the final scene.
We chose to use this barn as it gives our opening title sequence more of a thriller film as it looks dark and mysterious as these our conventions of thriller films.
We used the woods to create a chase scene as we thought that it would be the best way to create a fast pace scene.
