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

Fonts

Some Fonts That We Looked At

 

(chalkboard)

 (Portagol ICT TT)

(chalkduster)

Selecting a Font

We had planned to use the font 'mostly mono' from the  website www.1001fonts.com but we couldn't get it so we were advised to use the fonts available on the computer system.

(selecting fonts in the editing suit)

Footages Assembled

We completed assembling all our footages done on 09/02/15. this took us approximately two hours to do so and were faced with little difficulties which included figuring out exactly where on our timeline that the titles were going to go. Our initial plan of where the titles were going to go in was changed due to previous filming errors which mentioned in a previous blog.

 (assembling footages)

Task 3, job roles

Where do the different job roles appear in title sequence

·        Sort of films

·        Production Company

·        Sort of film

·        Name of film

·        Name of actors

·        Casting director

·        Costume director

·        Production designer

·        Music director

·        Editors

·        Photography

·        Director

·        Associate producer

·        Executive producer

·        Producers

·        Write

·        Screenwriter

·        Director

 

Task 3, • Professional job roles

Within a horror films certain job roles come in at certain times.

Women In black

opening Title sequence

 

1. Distributor
2. Production company
3. Producer/Producers
4. Writer
5. Film Title

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

 

Opening Title Sequence

 

1) Production Company

2) Producer

3) Film Title

4)Cast

I feel that the people whom invest ,money into the film are those that go first. Normally the most famous actor is put at the start of all the cast this occurs due to a negotiation within agents.

 

Task 3- Film Institutions

Editor


One of the roles in which I will be doing is the role of the editor. As an Editor you have a huge role because , poor editing can really harm the quality of your film production. I believe that the role of editing should be taken with great care and control as you could say that editing is the icing on the cake.

Famous Editors Quotes


“Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page”.

Willa Cather



"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls." Ingmar Bergman

 

Research into BBFC classification guidelines – how will this influence your production?

The influence the BBFC classification guidelines has on our productions, is that it will make sure we are targeting the right audience as well as considering other audiences whom it is not suitable for. More importantly, In order to protect children from unsuitable and even harmful content as they are significant groups who need to be taken firstly into consideration.In in our productions, we have a child who plays as a ghost, it does not then mean its suitable for children under 12 as there blood  and and threat involved and some children may suffer from this sort of event.

However, it will help us to consider the age rating for our productions as it will helps us to make sure our taget audoence will enjoy it.Also,this independent scrutiny prior to release ensures the highest possible level of protection and empowerment.it helps us to think about issues such as discrimination, drugs, horror, dangerous and easily imitable behaviour, language, nudity, sex, and violence when making decisions. The theme of the work is also an important consideration. They also helps us to consider context, the tone and likely impact of a work on the potential audience.


                                           



                          

Suitable for all

Parental guidance

Cinema release suitable for 12 years and over

Video release suitable for 12 years and over

Suitable only for 15 years and over

Suitable only for adults

Adults works for licensed premises only

Conclusion of Our Filming Process

We completed the entire filming process on 05/02/15 and we intended to focus our remaining time on editing the footages that we filmed. We had already booked an editing suit and when editing today, we realised there was a shot that we needed to perfect, which wasn't done quite right, so we had to re-shoot it again today. Apart from that one shot, we have already completed assembling our title sequence and need to add the titles, quote and company ident.

Title Change

Initially we wanted to write the titles in the mise en scene, but we decided to add them on their own individual frame instead because we had a couple of filming errors which made it difficult to establish a sense of continuity editing, so we decided slug over our mistakes where we could hide our mistakes with the titles just like what we intend to do with the quote.

 

Music Ideas

When selecting a music to use for our title sequence, we decided to use a very slow music to build tension and suspense. After looking online for suitable music, we narrowed the list down to 3 which are: 1. Hiding in the Dark 2. Lullaby of Sorrow 3.Facing the Fear

Cast Problems

On our third filming day which was 02/02/15, Linsey (LOLA) was ill, so we had to finish shooting all of Farah's (RACHEL) shots without her since we were running out of time, we couldn't afford to waste anymore time. We arranged to had 3 more Shots left to do, therefore we decided to do another filming day on the 05/02/15 where we could finally complete our filming process.

The Track

On the 29/01/15, we filmed a fair amount of footages with both our actors, and took out the track to film with. it was very easy to do a tracking shot with them, but due to the length provided, we could only track a limited distance with it.

"No..No.. It Can't be"

The lighting quality was poor

Lighting Difficulties

We encountered some filming problems on 26/01/15 such as poor lighting used on the first day of filming, where most our footages were very dark which led to some aspects of our shots being neutralised as we couldn't see them well enough to fulfil its purpose, therefore we needed to extend our filming days.

Characters

Linsey (LOLA)

 Farah (RACHEL)

Make up

 Rosana putting make up on Linsey (LOLA)





  Linsey (LOLA) character



  Linsey (LOLA)


 Linsey (LOLA)

Initial Planning Ideas

Rachel's Desk

The desk would be neatly packed with books and papers to reflect Rachel's personality

BBFC Classifications Guidelines

According to the British Board of Film Classifications,  "It is important that the BBFC’s classification standards are in line with what the public expects and that its decisions take account of what the public finds acceptable at each age category."
Most horror movies are rated '15' and 18, because they contain sexual scenes and violence (and gore).

the BBFC's classification guidelines would highly influence our production, and since we intend to make our movie accessible to as many people as possible legally, we will produce a '15' rated movie. This is because the themes of our movie wouldn't be entirely focus on violence and sex. There would only be a strong sense of threat and horror. Drugs and discrimination are not themes that we intend to use, that's why we believe that our movie should be classified as a '15' rated movie.