Evaluation 3:

Directors Commentary:

What does a production company do?


Helps the project become from project into completiton. They are the ones who are ultinately responsiable for it. They gain the fame and financial awards for the film. They draft out the business proposal and pitch this to the studios. They maike up the budgets. Responsible for hiring the key characters in the film. Chcking everything stays on budget, on target and on task to all be completed well for the deadline. Postproduction take the responsibility when taking the final cut into the studio. They mainly have to fund the production or get funding through a parent company, partner or private investigator.

e.g. 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures,DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures.

Why the various people are named in the titles- which jobs appear in titles and in what order and how have you reflected this?


The title sequence of a film is the artistic showcase and creative design and illustration as well as helping you to identify the film and get an idea of what is going happen. Various people are named in the titles because this creates a professional look to the title sequence. Although there were only three of us in the group creating the film, adding more names and titles that would be involved when making the filming are included for this reason. Connie played the main actress in the opening sequence, when her picture came up I put her name beside it. As we used props in the title sequence, my name and Chloe's name were added in without a specific picture relating to our roles in the film making. The names came up in order of importance and in order of appearance.

Evaluation 2

 

One Hour Photo Trailer:

Evaluation 1:

Question 1: The title of the film, font, style, effects

How the characters are introduced:

Camera Work and Editing:

The title of the film is Undercover because the main actress and focal point of the story she is acting undercover from killing her best-friends boyfriend.

I looked upon the website Da.Font to see which font fits the style and theme of my film.

As we decided to write the title of the film in lipstick onto a mirror, I then had to try and match up this same handwriting font from an existing font; to make the title sequence flow correctly.

The style and effects were thought of by using props that are used throughout the main story of the film, such as rolled out bandages in the title sequence which was reused in the main part of the opening story to show that she was trying to change her identity so none suspected she was a woman. Also, in the beginning part of the title sequence, you are able to get an idea that Connie the main actress may have mental problems by the way in which she is positioned, her appearance and her straight jacket costume.

I decided to add an effect over the title sequence to make it more interesting and intriguing for the audience. I applied this by adding final cut, by dragging and dropping the effect over the top of section I wanted.

I was then able change the settings of the effect to make it my own and I added a different or close up image in the middle of a bigger title to make it jump to create the jump of a thriller. I decided to keep the rest of the opening sequence without being jumpy for it to be able to flow and for the audience being able to follow the story. I added the same effect I used on the jumping title sequence over the mirror to make it look as if it had just been smashed.

The characters are introduced starting off with Connie as she is the focal point of the story and moves the story on.

Camera work and editing. The camera work was filmed by using stills for the title sequence. For the title when writing the lipstick on the mirror, I recorded this as Connie was writing slowly. In the editing I then sped this up by using the editing on final cut to make it snappy and powerful to start off the section of the opening sequence.

Creating the mirror smash

I created the mirror smash in the opening scene. I did this by taking one shit of a cracked mirror and one shot of pieces of a mirror which had fallen in a sink. I then made the cracked mirror sequence longer than the pieces in the sink which was done in Final Cut Pro. I then put the pieces of glass in the sink above the cracked shot in the middle for the shot to then flash in the middle of a different shot. Over both shots I added 'Bad Film' and on the pieces in the sink shot I put two layers of 'Bad Film' over the top to create a jumping effect. I made the clip small to add emphasis. I did this as the shot creates a dramatic effect rather than placing one shot after the other.

Learning To Edit and Add Titles To The Sequence

Changing the speed of a clip by dragging up the green line.

To change the speed of the title coming on the screen. By clicking on the drop down arrow of the opacity box, click on the diamond shape to get a green diamond, you are able to drag these up and down, if they are down then the title will not how on the screen, if they are in the middle the title will be half seen and if they are at the top the title will be fully seen. 

To add titles, you go to the bottom right hand side button in the middle screen. Click it, click on text then move the video (middle frame) to the right and the text edits will appear in the middle screen. Drag the sample text on the left screen onto the top of the shots. You are then able to change the size of the length of the text by using the curser at the side to make it shorter or longer. 

Changing the effects of the effect bad film. Here you are able to use the left and right arrows to increase and decrease certain effects you want. For example I added a lot more scratches to my film than the default scratches.

Choosing different effects to put over the titles. In the end I decided to put effects over the title sequence and leave the titles plain, as with effects over the title sequence making the still shots look more interesting to watch. When adding both effects to the titles and the sequence it was too jumpy and hard to read. 

Adding a title and choosing where to put the title, It was a decision between whether to put the titles onto the gun or in the space underneath the gun. We decided to put the titles underneath the gun.

My Rough Cut Version

This is my rough cut version. We each had to individually edit our shots together. We used the group storyboard to do so. Once each of us had done this, we chose the best edit out of the group and decided to continue to edit as a group on Chloe's edit.

Title Sequence

This is the title sequence in which I created. I added 'Bad Film' effects to the sequence, the 'jump in' shots have bad film over them twice. I also went to controls and changed the bad film effects to how I want them  to look. Also I changed the opacity of the film to make the titles fade on and fade off. I downloaded the font from the internet and imported this into final cut. When Connie writes on the mirror with the lipstick, I changed the speed as it makes the shot snappier.