Sound

What I have learnt
Looking for the music for our final product is a little tricky as we came across some good music that would fit the opening sequence. I have learnt that music does makes any media product to be more interesting to watch. Also, looking for one is not easy, as our final product have certain elements that by putting the right music on, it would make it more engaging to watch.

Green Screen Practice

This is our first try on using a green screen and we decided to do a lip sync to a song.

What went well

          The camera positioning was good, wasn’t too far and not too close. When we do the filming, we only used the room lighting and I think it looks good because it goes well with the background. The green screen covers all the screen which is good, so there’s no gaps for the parts that didn’t get covered.

The editing was quite tricky, but we manage to sync the music with the clips. The music was easy to put in the clips. Also, we picked an animated background to make it look realistic.

Problems

          Most of the clips are out of focus, so some parts of the video are blurry. Also, trying to sync the clips and the music was tricky and on the last part of the video, the lip sync didn't match with the music - so we need to work on that.

Typography

What I have learnt

I have spent some time to do research on types of fonts for our final product, and it's not as easy as it looks because I would need to make sure it's easy to read and more importantly, matched with the genre/theme and looks engaging to the audience. As I gathered the fonts that suits for our final product, I need to make a research paper to give out to our target audience to see if they liked the fonts and for them to tell us which one they would prefer for it to be used on our final product. I also have learnt that by asking to our target audience, it would make them to be more interested on watching our opening sequence.

Draft & Final Script

-  New Script  -

-  Old Script  -

What I have learnt

During this task, it's is quite tricky to do as we need to really think that it's clear for the actors to read, and also making sure that the story goes like how we wanted. I've learnt on how to construct a script; what to write on it, how to write it and how to put them in order. I also noticed on how important clear descriptions are so it's easier to read,.

Audience Profile

What I have Learnt
For this task, we have to do some research for our final product audience profile. I need to see from different audience perspective on what would interest them, and how they might get interested on watching our opening sequence. I also need to look from our film ideas; which audience would be interested on the genre we chose. From doing that, I now know what primary and secondary audience is, and gender and social class of the characters influences the type of audiences.

Thinking of a Concept/Final Idea

 Mindmaps:

Final idea for our opening sequence; we picked Sci-Fi for the genre of our opening sequence because that genre is popular in the 80's. Our opening would be 80's themed, and we are going to merge the film idea 1 and 3, which will be about a group of boy teenagers who discovered one of their clone.  

Creative Task 5 - 20 Cuts Continuity Sequence

The storyboard:

What went well
          As the cuts were on point, after we edited it, the clips looked really fluid and we also tried to take a couple shots from different angles, which I think worked so well.
         We put some non-diegetic music in a couple of scenes to make it more intense and interesting. There's also a diegetic sound of the jingling keys which adds the snatched affect.
          The editing is great; as you can see it looks like this scene continuously happen. This wasn't hard to edit as well, because we had experience and practiced a lot.

Problems
          We found some slight problems that's almost not noticeable. Like the part where the boy actor looks like he stands still after he puts on his bag for half a second, and the part when gets into the car, after he opened the car door and just before he gets in, you can see on the left side, there's someone shoes caught in the frame.

What I have learnt
This task shown that our cut scene skill has improved by a lot. It also has improved our editing skills to make this sequence looks fluid. Our first plan for this sequence was actually quite simple, but as we are filming, we came with a new idea that we thought would make it more interesting, and it did.

Analyse Previous Students Work

Group discussion


These are the previous students work that we analysed: