Any use of music in this film complies with 'Fair Dealing' under the 1988 Copyright Designs and Patents Act (UK), Sections 6(i) and 6(ii);
Fair dealing is a term used to describe some limited activities that are allowed without infringing copyright. Briefly these are as follows:
Section 6
i. Research and private study
Copying parts of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or of a typographical arrangement of a published edition for the purpose of research or private study is allowed under the following conditions:
· The copy is made for the purposes of research or private study.
· The copy is made for non-commercial purposes.
· The source of the material is acknowledged.
· The person making the copy does not make copies of the material available for a number of people.
ii Instruction or examination
Copying parts of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a sound recording, film or broadcast for the purpose of instruction or examination is allowed under the following conditions:
· The copying is done by the student or the person giving instruction.
· The copying is not done via a reprographic process.
· The source of the material is acknowledged.
· The instruction is for a non-commercial purpose.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Evaluation for Main Exercise
The brief for our main exercise was to create an opening sequence to a film. I was excited to start this production as we found the preliminary exercise enjoyable and got a successful result in the product. When we started planning the product we had an idea of a thriller. Where a woman would have a dream of being kidnapped. After some thought we decided to change our idea because we found it difficult to find research material on thriller and dream sequences together. So we changed our idea to a romantic and emotional opening sequence but like the first idea we kept the idea of a dream sequence. A young girl has a dream or a flashback of happy memories with her partner walking a long a beach. She would then wake up and find her partner gone. Our research helped with seeing how to use the technical codes in our production we looked at the beach scene from 'My Sister's Keeper'. This really helped because it gave an emotional feel with the music being a key feature for the product and this is the affect we wanted with our product.
We also looked at the opening sequence of 'Grease' and the beach scene from 'The Notebook'.
The idea of the product was that the partner had died and she was remembering the happy memories they had together. In the preliminary exercise I was the camera operator but in the main exercise had had the role of editor. This was decided mainly because I could not access the filming destination and couldn't involve myself as much in filming the production as I could have if i could access the destination. So having the role as editor I could still play a part in the production process, and have a significant involvement of the final product.
After filming we realised that the clips of the opening sequence were too short making is very difficult to edit and create a narrative through the product. Also because we had many filming attempts which took up a lot of time and this made is limited to the amount of time we had to get the final product finished. I had to come into college on Wednesday 31st March, to start editing. I had help being introduced to the editing program and then started editing using that program. I had to re-arrange the clips for the narrative to be clear and understandable. I also had to add titles on top of the clips.
Our media product aims to represent young adult women and individuals that seek romance and enjoy watching emotional films that they can relate to. As our product is about a young girl loosing her partner, this could relate to an individuals experiences with different and emotional relationships or even break ups. As the actors were young this would relate to the same age group as the aimed audience as they are more likely to watch a film with similar age groups making it easier for the audience to relate to the narrative of the product. I have learnt about the technologies of editing and adding titles on to clips when editing. I have not had any experience editing a piece of film before and i learnt how to join clips together and look at the simple things to make the continuity work for the product to look correct and flow though easily. Looking back at the preliminary exercise, I believe that the main exercise was more difficult and as a group we should have planned more to get a better final product. With the preliminary exercise we found it easier because we were filming inside rather than outside. This made it more risky and more difficult as we had to rely on the weather to whether we could film or not. The major fall back of the main task was the organisation of getting actors to be involved in the production as we left it to last minute to find some actors. With our idea we had to create a more emotional direction to the product unlike with our preliminary exercise when we went for a drama genre. This was difficult to create however looking through the research we had a basic idea of how to use the key concepts; camera, editing, sound and mis-en-scene. I believe that more detailed research would have improved the quality of our product.
Here is our final product that myself, Charlie Edwards and Sadie Lynham produced.
The idea of the product was that the partner had died and she was remembering the happy memories they had together. In the preliminary exercise I was the camera operator but in the main exercise had had the role of editor. This was decided mainly because I could not access the filming destination and couldn't involve myself as much in filming the production as I could have if i could access the destination. So having the role as editor I could still play a part in the production process, and have a significant involvement of the final product.
After filming we realised that the clips of the opening sequence were too short making is very difficult to edit and create a narrative through the product. Also because we had many filming attempts which took up a lot of time and this made is limited to the amount of time we had to get the final product finished. I had to come into college on Wednesday 31st March, to start editing. I had help being introduced to the editing program and then started editing using that program. I had to re-arrange the clips for the narrative to be clear and understandable. I also had to add titles on top of the clips.
Our media product aims to represent young adult women and individuals that seek romance and enjoy watching emotional films that they can relate to. As our product is about a young girl loosing her partner, this could relate to an individuals experiences with different and emotional relationships or even break ups. As the actors were young this would relate to the same age group as the aimed audience as they are more likely to watch a film with similar age groups making it easier for the audience to relate to the narrative of the product. I have learnt about the technologies of editing and adding titles on to clips when editing. I have not had any experience editing a piece of film before and i learnt how to join clips together and look at the simple things to make the continuity work for the product to look correct and flow though easily. Looking back at the preliminary exercise, I believe that the main exercise was more difficult and as a group we should have planned more to get a better final product. With the preliminary exercise we found it easier because we were filming inside rather than outside. This made it more risky and more difficult as we had to rely on the weather to whether we could film or not. The major fall back of the main task was the organisation of getting actors to be involved in the production as we left it to last minute to find some actors. With our idea we had to create a more emotional direction to the product unlike with our preliminary exercise when we went for a drama genre. This was difficult to create however looking through the research we had a basic idea of how to use the key concepts; camera, editing, sound and mis-en-scene. I believe that more detailed research would have improved the quality of our product.
Here is our final product that myself, Charlie Edwards and Sadie Lynham produced.
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Post-Production Blog Entry
As the editor for the production I had to cut and add titles to our opening sequence. I was worried because when looking back at the film we had very little footage that would be useful and easy to edit. Most of the recordings were cut too short making it difficult to make each shot flow through and create good continuity throughout the opening sequence. When we finished filming we were confident with the result, but when we looked at it technically and thought how each scene would flow together and create narrative easily through the filming, it became apparent that there was a lot of editing work to do to make the opening sequence satisfactory.
I had to re-arrange the scenes in order for the sequence to look correct and make sure the narrative could follow through well. This meant changing the storyboard for the narrative to work through out the opening sequence. I found this difficult because I was using my own judgment to see what worked or not. This was a new experience for me as I had not done editing before or worked with many editing programs. I started editing on Wednesday 31st April and this is when I got most of the general editing done. I added some fade transitions in between some scenes so that it would help continuity through the film as some of the angles were incorrect this help each scene blend into each other. There are some issues with the rule of thirds aspect. When looking at different scene’s the rule of thirds differ from each scene to scene, this made it difficult for the continuity to flow through easily. For adding the titles, I layered the title over the film clip and faded these at each end so as one title faded out, another title faded in. This made it look simple and professional, the titles were also placed so that they didn't interfere with the action in the scenes.
This is how I added titles over a film clip. When adding a new title, I opened the add new title window, then I had to draw a box over the clip to where I want the text to be positioned in the frame and then simply typed in the title (shown in the picture above). I could also adjust the size and type of font with this program. Once I had completed that I could go back the the general editing page and adjust the opacity of the text (the yellow line). With this tool I made the text fade in and out by dragging the hinges shown in the picture below, so the text would fade in and out over the recorded scene.
I selected a simple font that wouldn’t be too disruptive for the scene and using no capitals made the titles look more simple and subtle. I simply added a new title under the first like it is shown in the picture, I selected a font size of 25 for the general titles but for the main title of the film I used font size 45 so it would make the most impact. Also with the title of the film I made the title go over two scenes making it on screen for a longer time and also having the main title over the panning shot of the beach made the title have more impact to the audience.
We used;
0-00-0.54 seconds of Track 7 (Crimson Joy by Jim Dooley) from 'Directors Cuts - Romance 2'
DCD014
to layer of the atmospheric sound and with the music it made the opening sequence look more complete and better as the music brought everything together and gave the emotion of the product. When layering the music on top I had to adjust the volume of the atmospheric sound because when I re-arranged the clips the sound became broken and didn't fit to the over all sequence. Like changing opacity on the titles it was a similar process to adjust the volume to fade in and out at certain places in the opening sequence.
I had to re-arrange the scenes in order for the sequence to look correct and make sure the narrative could follow through well. This meant changing the storyboard for the narrative to work through out the opening sequence. I found this difficult because I was using my own judgment to see what worked or not. This was a new experience for me as I had not done editing before or worked with many editing programs. I started editing on Wednesday 31st April and this is when I got most of the general editing done. I added some fade transitions in between some scenes so that it would help continuity through the film as some of the angles were incorrect this help each scene blend into each other. There are some issues with the rule of thirds aspect. When looking at different scene’s the rule of thirds differ from each scene to scene, this made it difficult for the continuity to flow through easily. For adding the titles, I layered the title over the film clip and faded these at each end so as one title faded out, another title faded in. This made it look simple and professional, the titles were also placed so that they didn't interfere with the action in the scenes.
This is how I added titles over a film clip. When adding a new title, I opened the add new title window, then I had to draw a box over the clip to where I want the text to be positioned in the frame and then simply typed in the title (shown in the picture above). I could also adjust the size and type of font with this program. Once I had completed that I could go back the the general editing page and adjust the opacity of the text (the yellow line). With this tool I made the text fade in and out by dragging the hinges shown in the picture below, so the text would fade in and out over the recorded scene.
I selected a simple font that wouldn’t be too disruptive for the scene and using no capitals made the titles look more simple and subtle. I simply added a new title under the first like it is shown in the picture, I selected a font size of 25 for the general titles but for the main title of the film I used font size 45 so it would make the most impact. Also with the title of the film I made the title go over two scenes making it on screen for a longer time and also having the main title over the panning shot of the beach made the title have more impact to the audience.
We used;0-00-0.54 seconds of Track 7 (Crimson Joy by Jim Dooley) from 'Directors Cuts - Romance 2'
DCD014
to layer of the atmospheric sound and with the music it made the opening sequence look more complete and better as the music brought everything together and gave the emotion of the product. When layering the music on top I had to adjust the volume of the atmospheric sound because when I re-arranged the clips the sound became broken and didn't fit to the over all sequence. Like changing opacity on the titles it was a similar process to adjust the volume to fade in and out at certain places in the opening sequence.
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