Friday, 4 February 2011
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
1st Feb 2011: Editing: Opening credits
In this lesson i have researched fonts for the opening credits on the website (www.urbanfonts.com) we chose this website as it has a wide variety of fonts to choose from and you can alter colours in the previews etc.
On the website we found a typewriter style font, we thought that this would be a good choice to use as some of the gangster films we researched used similar shaped fonts, so this will go with the conventions of gangster movies. To challenge the convention of white text on a black background we will both include it and change the font into red, we believe this would create good effect as the audience are used to seeing the white text but then by changing the colour it will give the sequence a twist and therefore connote that our film will stand out compared to other gangster movies.
Monday, 31 January 2011
Blog update 31st January2011: Editing, Transitions
Today in the lesson we added transitions to our footage, we added some transitions to our piece as this goes against the conventions of the gangster genre and therefore follows the idea of challenging the conventions of the genre as the research on opening sequences we completed, we found that the majority of them only had cut to's and no transitions.
Starting of sound
We also started to overlay sound to our piece, it starts off with choir type orchestral music and then fades into a R'n'B style bass tune, still with the violins on top. We chose this piece as it follows the conventions of orchestral music but then as we are trying to challenge the conventions it also does this by having a modern beat underneath the violins. we are editing the piece so as the music fades the transitions will fit in and fade to black at the same time.
Starting of sound
We also started to overlay sound to our piece, it starts off with choir type orchestral music and then fades into a R'n'B style bass tune, still with the violins on top. We chose this piece as it follows the conventions of orchestral music but then as we are trying to challenge the conventions it also does this by having a modern beat underneath the violins. we are editing the piece so as the music fades the transitions will fit in and fade to black at the same time.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
trim footage: 25 January 2011
This lesson I have trimmed the footage down to just over the required limit (4 seconds over) and tinted all of the shots into black and white. So now next lesson when my group are in we are ready to decide what bits to trim even more to make it under the limit so we are ready to add in transitions and title/credits.
Monday, 24 January 2011
blog update (24th January 2011)
what has been your role this lesson?
in this lesson i have been uploading footage, ordering the footage, cutting and trimming the footage, and editing the tint and sound (so they are black and white with no sound). For example i ordered the pieces of footage into order ready to cut and trim it, and i had to cut the footage down to stick within the time limit.
what skills have you developed?
In this lesson i have developed the skills needed to quickly analyse a piece of footage to see if it a good piece or not, how to organise shots into a rough order ready for editing, and how to edit the clips in iMovie (tints and audio).
what have you changed about your opening sequence?
I have changed it by taking out a shot as Solomon (one of our actors) looked at the camera when he shouldn't have done so. Also we added a shot at the end to create a full circle effect before the film starts
what do you still need to do in the editing process?
in this lesson i have been uploading footage, ordering the footage, cutting and trimming the footage, and editing the tint and sound (so they are black and white with no sound). For example i ordered the pieces of footage into order ready to cut and trim it, and i had to cut the footage down to stick within the time limit.
what skills have you developed?
In this lesson i have developed the skills needed to quickly analyse a piece of footage to see if it a good piece or not, how to organise shots into a rough order ready for editing, and how to edit the clips in iMovie (tints and audio).
what have you changed about your opening sequence?
I have changed it by taking out a shot as Solomon (one of our actors) looked at the camera when he shouldn't have done so. Also we added a shot at the end to create a full circle effect before the film starts
what do you still need to do in the editing process?
- Add sound (music track)
- add/create credits and title
- trim and cut more footage out
- finish touching up colour tints
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