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Some good points Louis, but not all the tasks were done- screengrabs?

I chose football factory as it gives you a feel to what the film is about. the fast music sets a feeling of action and violence. the credits start with the production companies (vertigo films, rock star games) the directory nick love, then it tells you the main characters ( Danny dyer, frank Harper, tamer Hassan, Roland manookian, Neil maskell, Dudley Sutton and Jamie foreman. it then includes the casting director (Sam chandley. it then lists make-up hair stylists, costume designer, composer, music supervisor. then the editor, product designer, director of photography, executive producer, then it tells you the film is based on the book "football factory" by john king, then the writer and director (nick love). I also chose this film as it has very affective narration. Danny dyer the main character tells his story through out the film. I also love the camera angles and changes in the opening scene, Cutting from the credits to Tommy Johnson (Danny dyer) lying helplessly on the floor . After the narration it then cuts back in time 3 weeks in the past. The film then loops back to the beginning of the film. There are many sound which help the scenes seem more real. There are also a lot of affects been added to some scenes in editing for example the CCTV camera and the black and white cartoon style police man.

juno exercise

first we went into the classroom and was split into groups of four. we started off by watching the Juno opening on the laptops. then we had to storyboard the opening as we watched it through. my storyboard was very rough and caused a few laughs in my group. we then where told we were going to be filming our storyboard. unfortunately I was ill the day that we where filming so I do not know what happened. I was back to do the editing on Tuesday. we where split into pairs to edit the film. I was with angelica. we both contributed to the editing evenly and I think we worked well together. we tried as best as we could to keep the film in time with the music as it did in the original Juno. the main tool we used on final cut was the in out tool. this allows you to cut points of the film easily and drag it into place on the timeline. It was quite difficult to keep our film in time with the Juno film as our scenes were shorter than each scene from the Juno original. Our edited film looked different from the original as we couldn’t get the same camera angles and also we didn’t have the same camera effects. I am pleased with the end product even though we could have added credits and an affect to make it look a bit more like the Juno opening. The group worded well together , Each person contributing to the hole project playing there role within the group. If I was to change anything it would be how long each scene was as it was a push to make the opening the correct length . To make the video the right length we had to slow down some scenes this made the video look very strange in places as yasmine (our Juno) was walking in slow motion.

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Much better- good level of detail. For the student example, you really need to look at some film openings made by students for their AS projects, so it is worth having a look through longroadmedia blogs to see the techniques they use.

Pete

student film.

after trying a range of searches i found this video...



the video is called Media Project : Lily Allen - Littlest Things. i found the short film very interesting and some parts quite funny.

strengths.

immediately at the start of the film it opens with an interesting camera view, its staring into a mirror where you can see passers by in it and also in written on the mirror its quotes "its whats on the outside that counts". most of the film seems to have been speed up but in some scenarios the camera has a really good affect where it goes into a slow motion affect. i really like how the man at the start of the film leads you toward the wall as you follows his journey then you ( the camera) stay there and you learn about the wall. the post office wall has great significance throughout the film. this is where things happen good and bad. e.g. the electrician fixing the electric box, the women vomiting, the men urinating (this adds humour to the sketch) and the couple canoodling. i like the camera affect when the two drunks stumble past as it gives a hazy, drunken, distorted view as if you were drunk. another thing that brings humour to the clip is that the wall seems to have feelings and it is being abused and no-one cares for it :(

some weaknesses are that some camera movements are a bit shaky. another small weakness is that the camera jolts slightly o the corner when it has cut back from a different shot.

film opening review.

I watch three film openings which were Sorority Row, Touch of Evil and lord of the rings. the film i chose was lord of the rings. i chose the lord of the rings film opening as i found that there were lots of interesting camera angles and it tells you the story behind the film. the film opening has many moods. the start of the opening begins with a dark screen with narration then the name of the film (lord of the rings)fades in through the darkness. it also plays music which sets a mood, the mood is relaxed but then moves into a more military style of music suggesting war. the camera then cuts to a battle field. there are some very interesting camera angles in the film opening, many of which are action shots. one particular shot i like is when the camera sweeps down from the cliff down into the battle action. the battling between the two sides is captured extremely well with many different angles. allot of the opening is computer graphically generated like the soldiers and the landscape.

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This blog will be the evidence of your research and planning for the AS coursework, so there needs to be lots on it and lots of detail to it.

All the tasks set will help build up this evidence, so if you don't complete them you will not be able to access the higher marks/grades.

You have not done the homework.

You also need for the post on Shifty, to say more about how the moodboard task worked and how it was based on a particular scene and trying to give a sense of atmosphere from that. Later you will be creating moodboards for your own project ideas.

You could do with a bit more detail in your post on how you used the technology (especially final Cut) Which tools did you learn to use?



Please complete the tasks set. I shall expect to be able to give you feedback on them tomorrow.

Pete

Postcard

i used photoshop to create this image. i used a few tools to create these effects. one of the tools i used was the curve tool. this enabled you to manipulate the colours of each picture. i also used simple tools like the the rubber tool and the magic wand tool to delete unwanted parts of the images. i used the text tool to insert some text. i rasterized the text to turn it into a graphic. then re-coloured the text.

my first video using final cut

tuesday was the first time i have used final cut express. i have used other editing programs before so i had a vague idea of some of the tools i learnt allot of new things as well. such as the credit tool (being able to move the text around the screen). i learnt how to fade using in this program and how to overlap two different clips.

mood board

this mood board was made for the film shifty.

the mood board has many connotations to represent different aspects of the film.

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