Filming of Yesterday

We began filming at Elm Hill but first met up in the castle mall which was arranged by mobile and facebook. Once we reached Elm Hill we encountered a few problems. For example vehicles coming through our filming and disturbing the sound quality. Plus we had many problems with scafolding and what seemed like road works. I got some behind the scenes and the fake blood looked like tomato sauce. Seemed like a beneficial night to our media studies course work.

Keyhole idea developed

In our story board we came up with an idea to have a keyhole shot so it would be at Alexis' room and then look through the keyhole and see Hyde on the otherside. We could create it as there was no keyhole for us to work with but James has developed the idea even with our problem.

Here's the post.

Music

Here's a link to James' post about him creating the music for our OTS.

Link here.

Editing behind the scenes.

Today I've uploaded the behind the scenes of our first recording day and its my first time editing on IMovie HD. I'm just getting to grips with editing so i can edit our final piece.

While trying to edit I've learnt some key presses to split the video clip. I've also had to censor a few points because some people may find it offensive if not, but I'm including it for humour at this point but its definitely up for change once the other members have seen it. One problem I've ran into is that trying to input video clips takes it's time and you have to be very patient. As you can see i have to wait a while but it doesn't seem like i have to wait all of the time indicated in this photo.

Results from survey

I created a survey to see how the students from my sixth form purchase they media whether it be online or in store and how they feel about the current state of HMV.

Here are the main things i've discovered with this survey:

• The media most purchased is 'music' compared to films and games.
• Most of the media is purchased online compared to instore.
• Device most used to purchase the media is 'PC/Laptop' compared to the second place mobile which i would count on most probably being an apple device. Third is Tablet and one person didn't purchase media online.
• About 2/3 of the people who completed the survey didn't care too much about HMV closing down.
• People didn't visit HMV about once a month and the rest didn't visit very often. Someone has never visited their before 
• Most people (more then 2/3) received 1-5 cd's or dvd's during 2012 christmas. Most expected they only got 1 or 2. We have the exception of two people received none.

The total surveys completed were 15.

Today on Photoshop.

I've been able to get my hide title screen accepted by the other member and been asked just to slightly change it so the backgrounds a little darker. I'll show you the original edit and then the new edit.

I still think i'll need to print off a survey about the title screen and see if our title is accepted compared to the standard noir title screens.
Possibly film the general public in the city of Norwich and get their ideas of our film in its unfinished state and ask them about their ideas and if it was a full film shown on the TV if they'd plan to see it and ask if they believe it's a opening title sequence or a trailer as thats a extremely important part of this project.

The BBFC?

It stands for the British Board of Film Classification.

Basically its a rating for what films are suitable for which age range.

For example the film E.T. is rated a 'U'.

And James Bond- Skyfall is a 12A.

You may wonder what does 'U' and '12A' mean?

Here's a list to tell you all the ratings and what they mean.

You can easily find this on the official BBFC website.

The age rating from the BBFC changes depending on the amount and type of graphical content. For example American Pie is rated a 15 because of the slight nudity involved during the film. But Sincity is rated 18 because of the nudity, gore, violence and drug references.   

HIDE Title screen creation

Today I've created two different title screen.

This is the first one where i was asked to write the name hide in a scratchy way and take a photo then inverse the colours.

Here's the original photo.

Afterwards I placed it in photoshop and now I've inversed the colours properly to the best of my ability.

We felt as a group that we didn't like the standard Noir style titles and since we are doing a homage of a gothic horror in a Noir style.

Here's a standard Noir styled titles.

 

I've also created this title completely off photoshop.

which i dont believe has as much of an effect as the previous one.

Art of Foleying

This is a video of a professional Foley artist called Gary Hecker.

Foleying is a simple process in which you recreate the sound effects of films. For example you can see Gary Hecker tapping objects repeatedly against sand to produce a similar sound you expect to see along with horse riding.

Filming Day

On the 2nd of January. Me, James, Sam and our actor (Joe) arrived at James' home.

Our main jobs of the evening:

James - Filming,
Sam - Lighting,

Matthew - Director and Behind the scenes.

start with was too bright so we had to move it further away, and with filming the Jekyll's letter scenes and Hyde's murder scenes we did not plan on making them different locations but if our shot does not show similarity we will include them in our opening title sequence.     We encountered many problems while filming and before. For example the lighting we used to
    I feel if we planned just a little longer we would not have encountered as many problems as we did.
    With the mugshot we used we found out that most of them printed abit too dark except Jackson's and Emily's as those shot we taken in a brightly lit room.
     Towards the end of shooting Sam's camera had ran out of charge and we had to use mine so there's a chance the resolution changes dramatically but we definitely do not have any behind the scenes at the end.

     On that day we completed all of Jekyll's shots so far as far as we are aware and Hyde's indoor scenes. We just need to film Hyde's last shots as he walks towards the home of Alexis before the murder.

Photo-shopping a mugshot

Photoshop from Matthew Evans on Vimeo.

Here's a video of me editing one of the mugshots shown in our opening title sequence.
Enjoy.