Friday, 30 April 2010

Feedback: Questions asked to the audience!

THE PROWLER

1) Did you like our film? If so then why?

2) Once the title sequence had ended were you gripped enough to see more?

3) Do you think the music suited our film?

4) Do you think our film would be successful on a larger scale?


We got mostly positive feedback and people said the fort our music was good however our editing could of been more tight and more cuts when within the house.

Skill Audit: Sound And Also Livetype!!

In our lesson we were introduced to two programs called - Soundtrack Pro and Livetype. These programs were vital for the editing of our thrillers, as we need to add music to create the moods and we also need to use livetype for our titles which we been looking at with our teacher to make our title sequences realistic.

Soundtrack Pro was the program that we used to compose and edit our music for our thrillers. The program featured in many music clips that varied from suspenseful to orchestra music, we eventually found tracks that suited our thriller which we later associated with our film. The music we choose was urban and hip hop because we was looking to create a young urban thriller similiar to adulthood. Soundtrack enabled us to create our own unique piece of music from scratch. The tutorial taught us how to:

stretch sound of the timeline
mix sounds
listen to a variety of sounds
explore sound genres
make a sound loud/quiet as moods change

Livetype was very useful as we need to add or title on to make our film look realistic we looked at many title sequences to see the order at which they put the cast, director and producer and so on. On of the title sequences i looked at from a real media productions was :



At first we see columbia pictures presents which is what we did however we used candimedia. After you got the producers and so. We wanted to make our movie as realistic as possible therefore we tried to mirror real media productions in our media productions. With sofware livetype we was able to put title in at any point in our movie we didnt use the most colourful or abtract font because we felt most media production keep the title simple which again we tried to mirror.

Feedback: 4 main questions to ask about our film

'Prowler'

1) Did you like our film? If so then why?

2) Once the title sequence had ended were you gripped enough to see more?

3) Do you think the music suited our film?

4) Do you think our film would be successful on a larger scale?

Location Shots



The location of our film was around the upper street area. Our thriller title sequence was recorded just outside the house on two roads where the target was getting followed and also the main scenes were recorded in the house: kitchen, living room and stairs. The area was quiet, on of the side roads which was ideal for a stalker to follow their target, this is what our thriller was based on.

Final edit of livetype and sound filming practice

In our lesson we were able to edit our practice footage which was based on someone reading a newspaper. This exercise allowed us to experiment with the two programs to add titles and sound to our practive video and see what may go wrong. It also gave us an insight on how the editing of our thriller will look like one we have started.

Skills Audit: Soundtrack and Livetype

In our lesson we were introduced to two programs called - Soundtrack Pro and Livetype. These programs were vital for the editing of our thrillers.



Soundtrack Pro was the program that we used to compose and edit our music for our thrillers as shown above. The program featured in many music clips that varied from suspenseful to orchestra music, we eventually found tracks that suited our thriller which we later associated with our film. Soundtrack enabled us to create our own unique piece of music from scratch. The tutorial taught us how to:

- stretch sound of the timeline
- mix sounds
- listen to a variety of sounds
- explore sound genres
- make a sound loud/quiet as moods change



Livetype was a program allowing us to produce titles for our thrillers as you can see above. This program has many features which allow you to add various effects to your titles such a making them shine, blur etc. Livetype also allows us to change fonts, sizes, colour. The program also has a preview feature which enables to see what the title will look like. In the tutorial we learnt how to:

- change font
- change size/colour
- effects such as blurring or fading etc.
- mix effects
- making each title a certain length