What areas will you need to improve when working on your main project?
I think one area I may need to improve is my analysis. I can edit quite well, I find filming pretty easy, and I work well within the group. So apart from these areas, the only thing that I can think of is my analysis and evaluation, and probably my research skills. These will be easy to improve on as I do both in the exam part of the course as well as within my blog. I will have to use the right terminology, be specific in my research, and evaluate well.
Friday 22 February 2013
Evaluation Questions - Preliminary Task...
How did your target audience react to your finished piece?
They were very happy with our finished piece. They liked our choice of shots for each scene, they thought that our sound effects, such as the bell chime were quite effective, they also liked our choice of transitions, the fades, and the cutting. Finally they all thought that our 180 degree rule was very effective, and done well within the final piece.
What ideas/skills will you take from this to your main project?
There are a few ideas and skills that we have decided to use in our final piece. We thought that making certain parts of our preliminary task black & white was very effective, and have decided to use that in our main film. We may stick to the same transitions used, such as the fades and the cutting, we don't want complicated transitions. We are also going to take the idea of showing the main character getting ready and incorporate it into our main project as we thought it went well with our chosen genre and idea for our opening.
They were very happy with our finished piece. They liked our choice of shots for each scene, they thought that our sound effects, such as the bell chime were quite effective, they also liked our choice of transitions, the fades, and the cutting. Finally they all thought that our 180 degree rule was very effective, and done well within the final piece.
What ideas/skills will you take from this to your main project?
There are a few ideas and skills that we have decided to use in our final piece. We thought that making certain parts of our preliminary task black & white was very effective, and have decided to use that in our main film. We may stick to the same transitions used, such as the fades and the cutting, we don't want complicated transitions. We are also going to take the idea of showing the main character getting ready and incorporate it into our main project as we thought it went well with our chosen genre and idea for our opening.
Opening Titles Research...
For our final piece of research we had to look at opening titles, we looked at the font, colours used and whether or not they start before, after or during the opening. We each looked at films within our genre, these films are; 'The Batman Rises', 'Skyfall', 'Goodfellas' and 'The Expendables'.
The Dark Knight Rises:
Black & White
Dark
Metallic
Digital animation
Image manipulation
Red font
Sans Serif
Appear before action starts
Skyfall:
White font
Colourful background
Fades in, fades out
Medium size
Capital Letters
Appears after action has happened
Goodfellas:
Quick animation
Black & White
Sans Serif
Normal/medium size
Capital letters and lower case letters
Red title
Black background
Credits start after action
The Expendables:
War type font
White
Fades in, fades out
Small
In corner of screen
credits are shown during action
Diegetic & Non-Diegetic Sound...
Diegetic sound is sound which is sound which comes from a source within the scene and can be heard by both audience and characters, for example T.V playing, dialogue between characters, phone ringing, footsteps etc. Non-Diegetic sound is sound which has no source within the scene, the audience can hear it, but the characters cannot. Diegetic & Non-Diegetic sound can be used in many ways, some of which are shown in these two clips;
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/283936/L-A-Confidential-Movie-Clip-Open-Hush-Hush.html#
This is the opening of LA Confidential. Diegetic sound is used in the end of the clip, as it starts off with non-diegetic sound, the voice over and the music. The effect of this is to introduce the film, the plot, the era etc. It then turns into Diegetic sound as we hear the type writer sounds, and we see who is talking. This is an effective technique as it allows the audience to be introduced to a key character straight off, and are introduced to other key characters within the film opening.
The second film opening is similar to that of LA Confidential in that it starts off as non - diegetic sound, for example the creepy music playing while the key character moves up the stairs towards the victim, and keeps playing until the victim wakes up. We then hear waves splashing just after the opening credits finish, we are then shown where the characters are, in this case the beach, we then see where the wave sounds came from and the sound becomes diegetic. The effect of this is to create not only tension, but suspense. We don't know where the characters are in the beginning, but the audience can tell, from the music that something bad is going to happen. We are also introduced to key characters, through not only dialogue but who we also saw on the screen.
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/283936/L-A-Confidential-Movie-Clip-Open-Hush-Hush.html#
This is the opening of LA Confidential. Diegetic sound is used in the end of the clip, as it starts off with non-diegetic sound, the voice over and the music. The effect of this is to introduce the film, the plot, the era etc. It then turns into Diegetic sound as we hear the type writer sounds, and we see who is talking. This is an effective technique as it allows the audience to be introduced to a key character straight off, and are introduced to other key characters within the film opening.
The second film opening is similar to that of LA Confidential in that it starts off as non - diegetic sound, for example the creepy music playing while the key character moves up the stairs towards the victim, and keeps playing until the victim wakes up. We then hear waves splashing just after the opening credits finish, we are then shown where the characters are, in this case the beach, we then see where the wave sounds came from and the sound becomes diegetic. The effect of this is to create not only tension, but suspense. We don't know where the characters are in the beginning, but the audience can tell, from the music that something bad is going to happen. We are also introduced to key characters, through not only dialogue but who we also saw on the screen.
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