Nearly Finished!

After completing our evaluation, we are now, as a group, uploading both our evaluation and final film opening onto You Tube so we are able to link it to our blogs. We are doing this so our teacher can look at our evaluation and final opening sequence on both our group blogs and individual blogs.

Sleeper Evaluation:

After completing our opening sequence as a group, we were told by our teacher to complete an evaluation on our film opening sequence now that it is finished. We were given the option of either: making a powerpoint on our opening sequence individually and adding voice overs on top of these presentations or answering questions on our film opening as a group whilst being filmed. As a group we all chose to film us all answering the questions together on our film opening, Sleeper. We chose this as we thought it would be better and more productive to work as group on our evaluation so we can all add in our own opinions and feedback when asked the questions.
So, we simply got a tri-pod and camera and filmed all three of us together at a table answering the questions for the evaluation. It went really well as all of us put an effort into the excerise and answered all the questions together.

Sleeper Film Opening:

My group has completed editing our film opening and added music for the show case in class, we showed our film to both the media teachers and our class mates and received overall good feedback. We added a music track called 'abducted' which includes tense sounds and the sound of a heartbeat to make our film opening a lot more dramatic. We completed editing our sequence, adding dissolve cuts and dip to colour cuts to improve the overall smoothness of our film. We also made sure whilst editing that we did not have any spaces in between our edits, so that there is no black gaps in between shots. 

The only piece of negative feedback we received was that whilst we played it on the big screen in class the technology was not fast enough and jumped in between cuts which made our film look unorganised and not edited properly. My group was very happy with our film opening and so was I, I feel we have worked really hard to achieve our film and am happy with the constructive criticism we received. 

Our Film Opening:

As a group we are all working gradually to produce our film opening, Sleeper. We have been filming over the past couple of weeks and are now onto editing our film opening. We are using Final Cut to edit our film, there are a variety of tools available on Final Cut such as tools which let us add sound and change the lighting of our opening. As a group, we are working really well together and can see our film opening ending successfully.

Filming One:

Last weekend, my group began to film for our film opening. Due to the fact that we need a male in our opening, we asked our friend James to come and help us film, however he pulled out last minute so we were unable to complete the majority of the film which we wanted to complete. We did eventually get the little sections of our opening sequence done that we could do without our male character.
The scene we were able to complete was the scene when Lucy (our main character) wakes up scared from her dream. My role was the lighting, we set this in Lucy's bedroom and had dark lighting to make it look as if she had just woke up in the middle of the night, it did look realistic.

Overall, our first filming was not very successful, however, next time hopefully we will have a reliable person to play a part in our filming. To solve our problems, as a group we have discussed that we need to have a more reliable actor and be a little more organised.