Innocent Until Proven Guilty Final Cut

Rough cut 3 with feedback

Mrs Wilcox
The font does not fit the genre of the film and it is a little bit too big

Tom

Rough cut 2 with feedback

Sam skinner 

·         There’s a bit of shaky camera at the end 

·         Maybe use a couple of different sound effects for the punches so they don’t all sound exactly the same

·         Phone disappears as it’s dropped

·         1:33 it looks like it buffers slightly where the cut is completely smooth  

·         The music fits really well

·         The colour (weather stays consistent all the way through which looks good)

The teacher's improvements

·         Add in titles

·         Add back in the lovely low angle long shot of Ben

·         Change the shot at the end – it’s too wobbly

·         Look at the steadiness of the shot in the phone call. 

·         Good non diegetic sound

·         Engaging to watch

·         It looks like an action opening!

Tom and Nathan

Rough cut 1 with feed back

Teachers feed back

• Emu Productions logo is nice - can you add some form of sound to it?

• Tower Productions logo could be a little more clear - or is this your actual one? Again, could sound be added?

• Nice fade into the film opening

• Can you make the transitions between cuts of Ben walking toward the camera a little smoother?

• When Ben is on the phone/the phone scene the camera can be wobbly and sometimes the focus is lost (after the phone is dropped) - can this be rectified?

• Good camera movement when Ben walk toward the camera with gun in hand.

• Camera a little wobbly on antagonist and phone call

• Lovely shots and camera movement as Ben nears the antagonist

• Excellent focus pull when Ben has gun to antagonists head

• Brilliant fight sequence - well done with the foley sound effects - it feels very realistic!

• Wobbly camera coming from the head up to Ben again after he has been hit

• How will it end? Needs to be a little more professional.

Olivia's Feed back

• In the phone call scene, the camera movement is wobbly

• Pull focus = beautiful!

• Fight sequence is extremely realistic and the foley effects are literally the best thing I've ever experienced.

• As Ben stands up following the fight scene, the camera is very wobbly

• Lovely tracking shot

• Love the scene of Ben walking through the field, lovely way of showing passing in time

• Very professional logos at the beginning

Sophie Hughes-Narborough's Feedback

• Needs some sort of soundtrack to go with Ben walking to engage audience

• When Ben is holding the gun to the other guys head, the camera is wobbly

• Add sound for Emu Productions logo

• As Ben is walking away from the fight scene the camera is wobbly

• Focus issue after Ben drops the phone and walks away

Luke's Feed Back

• Tower Production logo stay's on screen too long.

• Phone call scene has a lot of extra movement from camera man.

• Silencer scene again has got a lot of extra movement from camera man, also ben isn't centred within the shot.

• Dom phone call scene I think could be made more fluent, as there is a lot of delay between caller and recipient.

• With Ben's second approach scene, Ben mainly is at the right of the shot with a lot of distance between him and the left of the shot.

 Tom and Michael

The Crane Shot

The final shot in our film opening is a crane shot. We originally recorded this shot by holding the camera upside down on the steadicam and lifted it up. This was to allow the camera to get as close to the floor as possible for the shot. However, this shot was very unsteady. In the end we decided that the shot was unusable and that we'd need to reshoot it.

To solve this issue, we decided to make a DIY crane, shown above. It is made from pine, MDF and a ball head. In order to be able to get a smooth rotation we used a lazy susan bearing.

We decided to use these materials because they are lightweight but also durable. In order to keep the weight of the crane as low as possible, we routed five holes into the top beam. Doing this helped to cut down on weight, without compromising the strength.

In order to get smooth shots with the crane, we had to counter-balance the front. This was done by attaching a sandbag of the same weight, to the crane.

The crane was assembled at the location. The crane arm attaches to the legs with a central bolt. We decided to make the crane into two main parts to make it easier to transport it to and from locations.

Here you can see that the camera can be attached to the top or bottom of the crane arm. This allows us to get shots from very close to the floor as we can then flip the footage in post.

In this picture you can see our DP, Tom, ensuring that he is happy with the framing of the shot. We decided to get a variety of movements for this final shot and then we could decide which shot to use later, in post.

Nathan and Tom

Action Moodboard (Click to view)

This is our mood board for the action genre. We made it to gain an idea of what typical action films look like and to gain an idea of the generic conventions in the genre.

Nathan

Independent Research – Film Openings

Independent Research – Film Openings

Film openings help set the scene to a movie and try to give the audience a clear idea of the genre of film. These tend to be around 5 minutes and during this time give the names of main actors and crew who played a key role in the making of the film. The names of the cast of the movie are normally in order of importance in the movie therefore the main characters will come first, on top of this famous actors will also have priority over lesser known actors. These names are normally are shown or an opening scene or a short animations.

An example of a film that has titles over the opening scene is “Children of Men”

 

An example of a film that is over an animation is Tintin

 

The names can sometimes be “integrated” into the scene which means they are part of the environment. This is evident in some openings like “Catch Me If You Can”, but these tend to be higher budget films since these have more money for opening credits and normally have a dedicated team to work on them.

 

Film openings also display institutional logos or names at the very beginning. This displays who it is made by and from these logos people can normally see whether it is made by an independent film company or a mainstream film company. An example of this is evident in the Children of Men clip above since the initial logo shown is the Universal logo which has a impressive animation and bright colours which stand out whereas after the Strike logo appears which is less impressive and therefore a clear contrast can be seen between the mainstream and independent institutions.

 

Michael