Question 7

Question 6

Question 5

Question 4

Question 3

Question 2

Question 1: Conventions from film openings

Question 1: Conventions from film openings (Nathan)

Question 2: Representation of social groups (Nathan)

Question 3: Distribution (Nathan)

Question 4: Who is your target audience? (Nathan)

Question 5 (Nathan)

This is the link to my Wix page

What kind of audience have i reached:
One USP of my film is the fact that we have represented the diverse culture of the world by including multicultural characters. This helps to create a more realistic atmosphere possible in opening sequences.

Ideal core target audience:

The sort of person to be interested in media such as the news. Likes the read news papers and what news on the TV. Stays engaged throughout, learning about whats going on in the world. She likes her films to represent the kind of problems she likes to hear about on TV.

The kind of person who likes to travel and do outdoorsy activities which include hiking, canoeing and much more.

Film preferences include:
Thrillers/ political
Romantic
and comedies

Profession:
Home and garden
Property
and sales

Final piece

32. Fred, Hamod, Nathan, Shakeel from 283goswellg on Vimeo.

Audience feedback:
Seeig as my title sequence will eventually be published in local cinema houses and after on an international level, i thought it would be a good idea to get the opinion of a wider target audience rather than just my core target audience. Below is a video of this...

Question 6

Question 7

Question 6

Question 7

Task 55: Blogging Health Check 3

Editing: Overall evaluation

Title Comparison: Black Swan & The Bongolo Department

Motif: Mystery
I decided to compare my film to another thriller film by the name of "Black Swan" and found very similar features within the two. In The Bongolo Department we decided to have the motif as mystery as it makes the audience want to watch on, I found that the motif for black swan also appeared to be mystery as the audience are unsure what the character is writing through out the opening, nearer the end the character writing seems to get angry and starts scribbling out what they have been writing throughout, the audience will want to know why. This concept is very strong in attracting an audience because it puts many questions on the audiences mind such as "Who is writing?", why are they writing?" and "what meaning does what they are writing have?". The only natural way of someone finding out the answer to these questions would be by watching the film, that is why thrillers commonly have mysterious openings as it sucks the audience into wanting to watch on.

Titles: Plain & Simple
The titles are a plain and simple font in the black swan as well as The Bongolo Department. I believe that this is so the titles do not distract the audience or take them away from the main concept as complicated titles will attract the audience to the titles rather than the concept. On the other hand Plain and simple titles are easy to read and do not take the audience away from the concept.

Editing-20th Jan: Title consistency

Evidence of Editing (20th Jan)

SWOT Evaluation

Editing Session 20th January

In this editing session we aimed to have a complete opening sequence as today is the final deadline. We had few tasks that we had to finish for the opening sequence to be finished. One of our problems was that we didn't have ident without this it would make our film professional look and feel. We've tried to resolve the problem before but had issues with adding our own ident, on top of that the ident we had, in our opinion did not look appealing and felt like it doesn't go with our film. Today we have fixed that and have added a new ident to our film. We have decided to go with the name 'Balance Studios' this is a unique name and also adding the colours we used in this ident gives it a vibrant, professional and unique look and feel.

Editing Session (20th January) - Adding the ident

We previously had some problems adding an ident as the ones we already had did not have such a professional look with each of them having there own respective problems, especially considering the way we want our film to come across to the audience this was a dilemma. We have now made a new ident with the name of "Balance Studios" which in my opinion goes well with our film and gives of a very realistic look.

Editing 20th Jan: Ident

what needs to be done- 20th

The film is almost completed how ever there are few things that need to be done in order for it to be completed and meet todays deadline:

- A ident needs to be added at the start
- The placement of the opening credits need to be changed
- The film title needs to be changed
- We need to change the music a bit so it's synced a bit more with the film
- There are a few clips we need to shorten so the film will flow seamlessly and will not go over the time limit.

What needs to be done (20th Jan)

There are a few things that need to be done in order to finish the film today. This is a list of them:
-We need to include an ident at the start
-The main title needs to be changed
-We need to change the music a bit so it's synced a bit more with the film

Editing 18 Jan: Adding diegetic sound

20th Jan (Title Consistency)

Editing Session Reflection (18th January)

Evidence of editing (13th Jan)

For the titles we realised that the ones we had previously chosen couldn't be downloaded and put into our film so we had to change them to a font which would also be suitable for the genre of our film.

Rough cut 2

Editing evidence-Colour grading (6th jan)

Preparation for editing

Titles:
We have chosen to do our film title in the font called megneto as we think this will fit in with the general feel of our film after looking at other films in our genre. This will work well as the letters are not all as they should be which shows a bit of mystery.

Type of sequence:
Our sequence will feature the titles on moving image. Warner bros are the most common company to use this type of sequence so they will feature in the ident for our film. Our titles will be off centre as to not distract the audience too much from the action. Our titles will also be very stylised to make sure we have the audiences high amount of attention. They will be merged into the action as we feel this is more interesting and will work well with the shots we have got.

Editing session (18th Jan)

Rough Cut 3- Feedback Evaluation

Rough Cut 3 - Feedback & Evaluation

The Bongolo Department: Rough Cut 3

SWOT Evaluation (Nathan)

Analysis of music: alternative music option (Nathan)

Editing-11th-13th January: Titles and Music (Nathan)

Alternate Title option

Bongolo Department & Collateral Shot Comparison

These two shots in each are similar in their respective aspects as they both try and represent the same thing. The top 2 try and show emphasis on the dropped item, this being a suitcase in Collateral and a Bag in the Bongolo Department. In the second pair of shots it is a basic 'Over the shoulder' shot type putting emphasis on the main characters heading towards the other character they are about to have a confrontation with.

Editing Evidence (13th jan)

Update on finalised Soundtrack (Shakeel)

Whist we was editing on the side we was looking into non-diegetic music because as a group we thought that the ones we have researched aren't good enough and doesn't fit in as much as we like and thought that we could find a better soundtrack which will go along with the genre and type of opening sequence we are doing. We have found an 'spy instrumental soundtrack' on youtube. In my opinion it sounds unique and goes along with our film nicely. I think that this soundtrack can create a mysterious atmosphere and build tension.

Update on Non-diegetic Soundtrack

Here above is a soundtrack i will be using in our film. i have been doing extra research on different soundtracks we could be using. The reason why this is so important is because we want a soundtrack that will fit our genre and set the mood and atmosphere. Also to grab the audiences attention. The soundtrack above is maybe something we could use in the beginning of my film when we have the establishing shoots because this music is ear catchy and has that mysterious aspect to it.

Editing Session Reflection (11th-13th January)

In todays editing session we mainly focused on adding titles and a soundtrack. We have changed the font we will be using. However we were able to download a soundtrack and add it to our film which is shown in the video below.

Rough Cut 2- Feedback Evaluation

Updated Shot To Storyboard Comparison

Not all shots stayed true to their original form in the storyboard but majority of them did, therefore I believe we were mostly successful in following our original plan. The reason for some not staying true to their original form was because when we were filming we found some shot types didn't work and we thought some new ideas were visually better.

Audit

SWOT Analysis

Editing evaluation (6th jan)

Rough cut 2 evaluation

Rough Cut 2 - Feedback & Evaluation

Editing Sessions (4th & 6th January)

I found for these two days to be mildly successful this is because although we were able to progress through editing by continuing to trim scenes and add music, my ideas for colour grading were put down even though my group thought it was a good idea.



Above you can see the idea I thought worked, I planned to add a black and white colour scheme to the scene where the killer is seen walking with the murder weapon, I did this to add effect. This idea was put down because we were told that black & white scenes are only used in flash backs therefore it looks out of place.



We then went on to add red to the actual murder scene to connote anger and murder, as of now we have kept these colour schemes in despite some negative feedback because we have also received positive feedback.

NEXT STEPS: 
We now need to add our titles in to our film and continue to work on our music as it is currently not at a high standard and many have said it does not go well with our film.

Editing Session Day 3 and 4 Reflection (4th & 6th January)

In todays editing session we learnt how to colour grade and desaturate our work. Which is very useful for us for our film is a political thriller and in these films it is usually dark, cold and has low lighting. So learning how to use the colour grading tool was very crucial. In the video below it shows us editing our film and us using the colour grading tool. When playing around with this tool we thought go making the killing scene red as it will indicate a murder, something important is happening and to drag to audience in. How ever we got some feed back from my teacher and few peers and they said that it looked kind of strange but when we explained why we used it then they understood why we used it. But with their feedback we thought that its best to leave the scene as it is because if few of the audience members don't understand it maybe non of my group members will be there to explain to them the reason of it so why thought its best not to add it. As our film is a political thriller with a sub-genre of action my teacher recommended we use the colour grading tool to make it look more colder because it would give a more professional and realistic look.

Targets for next editing session:
Add titles and transitions
Find appropriate music
integrate the titles with the music

Rough Cut 2: Feedback (Nathan)

The Bongolo Department: Rough Cut 2

Editing evidence-6th January: Evaluation (Nathan)

On the 6th of January i was given the opportunity to edit footage from my title sequence. In the this lesson i aimed to improve the diegetic and non-diegetic sound/music and add colour grading and tints to the images on screen. As i have mentioned in a recent post, i was going to add tints and i gave an example of the Matrix that already uses this technique. We aim to make this film as tense and as thrilling as possible. one way we did this was by colour grading the images slightly blue. This blueish tint conjures a cold and isolated effect, therefore it will help to build tension in every scene. Not only does colour grading improve the quality of the film, it is also a common feature that most Political thriller movies use. We have tried to stay as close to the common conventions of a political thriller as possible from the start, and this is another example of that.

Music:
Just to be clear, the background music is no where near completed. this lesson was sort of a time to allow me to play around with different sounds and find new and inventive ways to build tension in the scenes. I first started off finding a soundtrack on Youtube with a suitable beat. i was also looking for a section in the music where the beat would get louder and faster. this section would be added to the scene where the man is being strangled in the car. In the end i chose "Liberation". i had heard this in a recent movie and thought it may actually work with our title sequence. The theme tune Liberation has a fast and sharp beat which is really good if you are trying to build tension. Towards the middle the beat becomes faster and louder and new instruments are introduced.

Next lesson i will...
Add titles and transitions
Find appropriate music
integrate the titles with the music

Editing Evidence-6th Jan: Desaturation and colour grading (Nathan)

Feedback evaluation

The feedback from the class was mostly positive and people seemed to enjoy how our first edit came out. I think it showed well how we were trying to show the genre very clearly of a political thriller/gangster kind of film. The mise en scene was also mentioned to be a good point of our work which was a good idea from nathan to include the bin man outfit. As miss has mentioned the shaky shots will be sorted out by just cutting them a bit so the audience doesn't have time to realize they're shaky.

Rough cut 1 evaluation

Brand your blog update

Here is the new look of our blog. We have changed the font used from the bold test we had before to this more subtle font. Also the background has stayed the same as it is unique and fits with our film plot. The blog banner is black with the name group 32 in a bold font and in white.

Recap: Layouts, Drafting, and storyboarding (Nathan)