Editing Update

Our teacher Sam Norton-Taylor graciously permitted us to have two more editing sessions, but we believe we could finish it in one

Music Chosen

In Our previous editing session, the group and I unanimously voted to use the music hiding in th dark, as we saw it beat suitable for our opening and title sequence.

Storyboard

Storyboard Draft 

This is a rough draft of the storyboard before the production began . this helped to guide the shots needed to be taken.  

Preliminary Exercise

For our preliminary exercise we were given a task to construct a short film. The exercise helped to ensure we gain an understanding of camera work as well as learning the editing process. We learnt different camera shots such as close-ups which are used to show significance and purpose of what is in the frame. This helps to capture the audience’s attention. We learnt other camera work such as 180® rule when positioning the camera of two characters in the frame. Also, others including match on action, mid shots and long shots etc.

In terms of editing we learnt how to apply music and sound to our production, learn to use different types of transition (fades) etc. We learnt the props we will use such as the tri –pod, camera and the track.

If i had to repeat the task, I would think of using cross cutting camera technique to control the production and for it to flow realistically. Also, using locations when its not busy, specially the college as there were disruptions from the background people walking past whilst we are filming.Also, the setting should suit our narrative if its a classroom environment then you would expect books, whiteboard layout etc. 

History of the horror genre

 THE HISTORY OF HORROR 


‘[Our]… interest in fearsome fantasies cannot be completely explained as the result of desire to understand the unknown. Still, the legends of the past provided many of the monsters that haunt literature of the present, and part of the modern enthusiasm for the macabre may be attributed to ancestral memories of the days when demons were almost expected to put in an occasional appearance.’  

(L.DANIELS,FEAR: A HISTORY OF HORROR IN THE MASS MEDIA,PALADIN,1977,P.8) 

HOW HORROR GENRE HAS DEVELOPED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS 

The horror genre has this unique element about itself, it has the recognisable pattern again and again (zombies ). A film will come along and terrify an audience capturing their imaginations the success which eventually leads to sequels and imitators – sometimes better than the original. But eventually the sequels run out of steam and the subgenre created by the original smash hit fades into memory prowling in the corners of history waiting to be rediscovered and reborn. The unique appeal of horror from its low budget requirements to broad multinational appeal.

So who did the first horror films borrow from? Monsters, murderers, demons and beasts have been around since antiquity, ghost stories told round camp fires since we learned how to talk. But the roots of filmed horror were an extension of a genre of literature that got it’s start in the late 1700s: Gothic Horror. Developed by writers in both Great Britain and the United States the Gothic part of the name refers to pseudo medieval buildings that these stories took place such as old castle on a dark and stormy night – gloomy forests, dungeons and secret passage ways.

The Fog (Directed by John Carpenter,1979). The film demonstrates well worn cliché of a group of people sitting around camp- fire and telling ghost stories and is which  possibly rooted in ancient practices. This is probably the cause of many opening scenes of many films or television series which looks at someone starting tell a story often at night or whilst sitting around the camp fire.  

   FAMOUS GOTHIC WRITERS

Proffessional Job Roles

Important roles needed for our production.

• Producer- The movie producer is the backbone of the film production process, carrying out many of the most important duties and making crucial decisions to see that the director has the conditions she needs to complete the film.

• Director- a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualises the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

• CameraPerson- this s a professional operator of a film or video camera. In filmmaking, the leading camera operator is usually called a cinematographer

• Editor- A film editor is a mechanic who removes the unneeded and fits pieces of film together to make a finished movie.

• Production designer- This is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as a film, TV program

• Casts- A film cast, movie cast, or just cast is the general term used for the collective talent appearing in a film, television or theatre project

Film Distribution Research

A film distributor is a company or individual responsible for the marketing of a film.
What they do:

• set the release date if the movie
• the method how a film is to be exhibited or made available for viewing e.g for example, directly to the public either theatrically or for home viewing

A limited distributor can deal with  particular products such as DVDs or Blu-ray or may act in a specific country or market.

Examples Of Film Distribution Company

• Hammer Film Industries
• 20th century Fox Film Co. Fox. Ltd
• Colombia Pictures
• Colombia Tristar film distribution company
• Paramount Pictures

Presenting The Titles

We recently found a way of presenting the titles within our opening sequence in the mise en scene because we learnt that presenting each title within its own frame took irrelevant time from our precious two minute limit which we were given , so we used shots which we took earlier with flickering lights which was better that the ones which we intended to use therefore and it didn't affect our continuity editing to a large extent

Sinners Never Sleep Timeline

A rough idea of how our opening sequence would look like.

Sound Technbical Difficulties

Today 12/02/14 was supposed to be our last day of editing, the but the last 3 shots needed to be rendered because the sound was a little messed up which meant we couldn't check out the music in  the background. We spent most of the lesson trying to render them but couldn't. The most worrying part of this problem is that we desperately need the sound to work for those footages, because they had dialogues that we really need to be heard

attempts to render footages

TASK 5 (draft)

WHY I CHOSE A FEMALE VICTIM?















WHY WE CHOSE A YOUNG FEMALE TO PLAY AS OUR

TASK 7 (Not finished)

IMAGES

Assembling Difficulties

Initially we thought that we had completed assembling our footages together on 09/02/15  as mentioned previously but we didn't save it correctly, so I had to do it today on 11/02/15. By the end of  today's session, I had already completed adding all the titles to our title sequence. we just need to insert music and sound effects to our work and we would have completed our title sequence,  

Sinners Never Sleep Font Ideas

Some Fonts We Looked At For Our Movie's Title

 

 (OCR A STD)

 (OPTIMA)

Sinners Never Sleep Font

After a careful selection process, so we selected the font 'OCR A STD' size 30. The font size 30 is large enough to fit the entire title into one frame in the same line and was placed in the centre because since its the title of our film, it must stand out more, and the OCR A STD font is also a simple font, but bold enough to stand out to make it easy to read too.

OCR A STD

 

Movie Title Fonts

Fonts For Our Titles

 (Geneva)

 

(Sathu)

 

Selecting Fonts For Our Quote

Selecting Fonts For Our Quotes

 

                  (Didot)

 

              (ST Kaiti)

(Prestige Elite STD)

               (Papyrus)

Quote Font

The quote as intended was supposed to appear that on its own black frame as shown below. We wanted it to be bold. When deciding what font to be, we took into consideration, the simplicity of the fonts and also the size so it would fit into the fame completely . Some positions within the frame might be cut out on certain screens, and since we really wanted it to be in the title opening, we placed it in the centre to allow the audience to read it with ease so we looked at the font size 24 which is reasonably large for our fonts and eventually selected the font 'Papyrus'.

 

 



Movie Titles Font

When deciding what fonts styles and sizes to use, we had to consider how it would look in the frame and how long it would take to read. We have approximately 2 minutes for our title sequence and we couldn't afford to waste time with fancy fonts so that the audience would be able to read it, so we tried to look for simple font styles. We went for a reasonably small font size (20).
we looked at the fonts Geneva Sathu and decided to use Sathu.

(Sathu)

Editing

 

Photos Taken When Editing