Finished Editing

We have finished our short film and our very proud of the final result, we are going to, as a class, show our work to our peers and friends and gain some essential feedback. We are currently working hard on our evaluations, which will also help us to produce a commentary to go alongside our short film. This would be like a additional feature on a dvd, an audio commentary. We felt this would be an interesting way to evaluate our project as sometimes reading a evaluation could be a little tedious, whereas listening to the directors ideas and plans for the film would engage the audience effectively.

Day 5 Filming

We finally completed our final shots today and we were able to shot the scenes we still needed. This included some interesting shots of our running man going over a scenic bridge and actually getting on the bus. We tried to ensure that the scenes which would be used for the split screen process were simular so that it would allow the editing process to be a lot easier. The opening sequence is now beginning to look faster and more appropriate of someone who is late.

All in all, the filming section of creating our own short film was an interesting experience as we were able to see that planning was a key factor in everything running smoothly. We stuck to our original storyboards throughout, and we are looking forward to editing.

Split Screen Ideas:

We are currently toying with the idea of how the split screen will appear on screen and whether it should be vertical or horizontal. We decided to do both in order to see the advantages and disadvantages. We also asked our peers to see which one they preferred to watch.

Here is a the vertical split: (SKIP TO AROUND 1 MINUTE 47SECONDS)




Here is the horizontal split:



UPDATE
We have decided that it would be best if we went with the vertical split screen as it provided more of the shot and we are having problems with the scale of the shots.
We also need to assure that the transition to split screen is easy simple and effective, we have trying out effects. We particularly like the rewind/slow motion effect (as seen in 'Sliding Doors') as it isn't jumpy and confusing, instead it runs fairly smoothly.

Final Film Poster

Here are three posters that we created using Adobe Photoshop. As we found it really hard to use the Photoshop programme, because we haven't previously been dependent on it, we had trouble producing this poster and we were unsure of which one to use. We used audience feedback and asked a number of people which they preferred. The final one (at the bottom of the page) proved to be the most successful poster we had created.

This is the final poster, however we were thinking of using some of the other posters in a series.

Copyright-Songs

Record companies continuously face threats from advances in digital technology on a day to day basis. The biggest threat that film companies have to overcome is that of piracy, and it is rumored that companies lose approximatley $6 billion. We have applied for copyright as generally films containing music need to be approved by the company.

Here is the email we to XL recordings for the instrumental version of Vampire Weekends 'A-Punk'.

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am currently in my last year of 6th form, and studying media. My group and I are currently producing our own original short film and would be very grateful if we were granted copyright for one of your songs. The song in question is 'A-Punk' (instrumental version) by Vampire Weekend.
Yours Sincerely,
Mike Fews, Fuse Films

Below is the email we sent to Island Records requesting copyright for the song 'Boys and Girls in Love' by the Rumble Strips:

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am currently in my last year of 6th form, and studying media. My group and I are currently producing our own original short film and would be very grateful if we were granted copyright for one of your songs. The song in question is 'Boys and Girls in Love' by The Rumble Strips.

Yours Sincerely

Michael Fews Fuse Films

What song to use?

For the running man part of our film we decided it would look better to have a song playing in the background. We were unsure on what song to use but were able to narrow it down to a few songs that would suit the sort of film we want to produce.

We liked these songs as we felt they suited our target audience and overall feel of the film.

This is A-Punk by Vampire Weekend:


This is She's So Lovely by Scouting for Girls:


This is Skeleton Boy by Friendly Fires:


This is Embers by Just Jack:


This is Girls and Boys in Love, by the Rumble Strips:

Radio News Report

We decided for the end of our short film we wanted to create suspense and show the ending to the bus journey, we intend to do this by having a news bulletin over a shot of a radio. We felt this would be effect as it would give us a conclusion. The man who misses the bus will hear the news report and think that maybe 'it could have been him'.


UPDATE:
Today we finished off the radio report that we plan to put at the end of our short film. We will have a shot of a radio and the clip will play. We used Garageband, which is a software application that allows users to create music and podcasts, it is developed by Apple Inc. It was a great program, that was easy and simple to use. It was also good as it enabled us to create a news report with jingles, sound effects including police sirens, traffic and people talking. This was great as it increased the authenticity of our overall report and film.

Here is the finished news report:





We weren't particularly happy with the finished product as the sound quality wasn't great, so we have decided to re-record it, so that the audio is of a higher quality. This was due to the recording equipment we were able to use. When we watched the clip we felt that maybe some shots could be incorporated so the audience was not just watching a shot of a radio, but we are unsure of whether to do this or not, just yet?

Ancilliary Tasks

This is our film review page, which we created using Adobe Photoshop reviewing London to Brighton.

Editing Update

We are currently nearing the end of the editing process which has taken around 3 weeks in total. We really like how our film has turned out, however from some audience feedback we have got some things we are going to change:

• The music is quite repetitive, maybe a music change
• The ending, credits on top of radio shot
• Where the credits should appear
• The split screen and the timings

We are currently in the process of altering these.

Analysing Reviews for Films

Here I have analysed a review page for Empire online. I annotated to show what I liked and what influenced me when creating my own review page. I particulary liked the layout of the review, however, our review page will be a print one featured in a magazine, so the interactive features will not be appropriate.

Analysis of Review Page


I did this on Scribd, which was a really good as it allows you to zoom in and view in more detail. This is the type of magazine I would expect our review page to feature in.