Editing 6!

Today I got a lot of the editing done, and in terms of transitions, music and titling the film is nearly finished - just got the effects left to finish. For my titling I chose to keep it simple yet striking, so I have a white text on a black background. I choose this because the white really stands out against the black and catches the audiences attention, also it works very well with the video transitions because when the titles are in the film, the black dissolve transition makes the entrance and exit look really smooth.

I chose to put the first set of titles at the very beginning of the film because it introduces the film, and with the background music adds to the building tension. My cinema name 'Revolution Cinemas' was a creation after a lot of thinking about the background context of the film, and how the opening of our film is very unique and could start a new trend in film openings.

'Fradgers & Kay Productions' was a blend of my nickname and Lauren's surname, by having this in the film it adds a personal spin on the film however still looking some what professional. The names of the actors who feature in the film, are positioned before the walk through the woodland and just after, I put them there because firstly blended in well with the transitions and secondly that walk is an important part of the clip because it features many different camera angles.

Rachel Fradgley :)

Name & Titles!

For our thriller we wanted to keep the name simple, so due to the plot we decided on 'Mistaken Identity'. Even the title has an eerie feel about it and it gives a certain amount of the film away, although it could be interpreted in many ways.

As for the name, we wanted to keep the titling simple but understated, so the clip speaks for its self, we didn't want anything too loud or busy because it would take attention away from the film. Whilst looking on http://www.dafont.com/ earlier, I came up with these ideas. From the titles below I chose image number 3, because I think the simple font goes well with the simplicity of the film, and also because it hasn't got a certain style (for example = looks like its written in blood) it implies that the film has a mysterious ending.


















Rachel Fradgley :)

Editing 5!

After the girl has received the phone call and is walking off, we unfortunately only filmed it from one shot which is very long, but I didn't just want to cut bits out because it would have been too short for the 2 minutes and also it would not have been as 'dragged' out as I wanted it to be. I wanted the audience to almost feel like the walk was going on for ages and that the girl had the phone call playing on her mind.

So to conquer this, I again spilt the scene into 4 parts, but instead of having it like before where the different screens show the girl from different angles, instead each box is a different part of the walk, showing the length of it. I think having the two parts of the screen being spilt, shows the similarty of the two girls and also breaks up the clip, so its not just a block clip.

Rachel Fradgley :)

Editing 4!

Today whilst editing I noticed that the beginning of film breaks the rules of continuity, which means all the little details are the same. In the very first scene when she recieves the text message, the girls hoddy is undone and the hood hanging down and she then walks out the door. In the next scene which is when the audience see her leave the house, her hoody is done up and the hood over her head.

We would re-film the scene but unfortnately now we don't have the time so we will just have to make sure the film looks as good as it can. I will also be writing about this in my evalution and the things I would have changed to make sure this hadn't of happened.

Rachel Fradgley :)

Editing 3!

Whilst filming, we filmed lots of walking shots all from different angles - climbing up ladders and tree stumps to get high angle shots, us and the camera laying on the floor to get low angle shots, hiding in trees to create tracking shots. But when we started editing, we realised that we had to much footage of the girl walking to the phone box, but we didn't really want to delete some on the scenes because they looked good and we worked hard to achieve them.

We played around editing certain bits out, and cutting all the scenes down to see if we could fit it all into the 2 minutes, but we couldn't. So we stuck to just a few shots, but this did not create the right feel of the girl being troubled and the idea that people are stalking her to make sure that she goes to the phone box to receive the phone call.

So to re-create the feeling of the girl being followed, we spilt the scene into 4 sections, and in section is a different clip of her walking through the woods. All the different angles imply to the audience that the girl is being followed. This section also 'breaks' the film up, because a lot of our film is of the walk to the phone box and how the anticipation builds, hence we did not want to cut all the walking scenes out.

Rachel Fradgley :)

Editing 2!

We have now fully finished filming so today we started editing, and found out that part one of our film is longer than the two minutes and that is without part two. So we are going to do more deleting of film at lunch, however we are going to have delete a lot of film to make sure it fits within the two minute boundry.

Rachel Fradgley! :)

Filming Attempt 3!

After trying to edit last week we discovered that in fact we needed to film again due to some of the filim being too dark, so last night we again re-filmed the outside scenes but instead of the end scenes we did the first. The lighting was very similar so when the film and the colour is edited, the film should look like it was all filmed in one take. We can now fully concentrate on editing. :D

Rachel Fradgley! :)