Saturday 3 March 2012
Monday 27 February 2012
Final Products
And we're done! We can finally almost sort of relax! The final film has been rendered and the ancilary texts completed. Will post them all up today :)
PM
Six String Studios
PM
Six String Studios
Friday 10 February 2012
Audio Re-dub is Go!
In school pretty early for a Friday to record the overdub. Just set up all the gear (Tascam Audio Recorder, Tripod, Headphones, Vegas etc) and we're just going to get started!
Bring on the next 3 hours!
PM
Bring on the next 3 hours!
PM
Monday 6 February 2012
Final Push
Morning,
The final deadline is quickly aproaching and by this Friday all final coursework must be handed in. The main thing we need to do is to re-record the audio. We we're meant to be recording all of Violet's lines today, however she has had to go to the doctors so we're going to have to try find some other time this week, before Friday.
We also need to finish improving the review as this is where we scored weakest in our drafting process.
PM
Six String Studios
The final deadline is quickly aproaching and by this Friday all final coursework must be handed in. The main thing we need to do is to re-record the audio. We we're meant to be recording all of Violet's lines today, however she has had to go to the doctors so we're going to have to try find some other time this week, before Friday.
We also need to finish improving the review as this is where we scored weakest in our drafting process.
PM
Six String Studios
Wednesday 1 February 2012
Audience Feedback
Hey,
Well we got our Audience Feedback and generally we're pretty happy with the results. Each of the questions were scored out of 5, with 1 being low and 5 being high. Here are the average results!
The Film
1. Did you enjoy the film? (avg. 4)
2. What was your opinion on the pace of the film? (avg. 4)
3. Did you think the narrative was clear? (avg. 3)
4. Comment on the complexity of the film. (avg. 4)
The Poster
1. Did you like the poster? (avg. 5)
The Review
1. Did you like the review? (avg. 4)
So all in all the audience feedback was hugely possitive. The main issues flagged were the distorted audio, and the unclear naritive.
The audio issues will be fixed by this time next week, when we have re-recorded the vocal track, getting rid of all background noise.
We understand that some people found the narritive unclear, however I do think to an extent, once the audience can hear what the characters are actually saying this will improve. We also dont want to make the narritive too simple as to not be patronising to our target audience. We will report back after the vocal track has been recorded and will let you know whether in our opinion the narritive has become clearer.
Heres to good feedback!
PM, NC, SK
Six String Studios
Well we got our Audience Feedback and generally we're pretty happy with the results. Each of the questions were scored out of 5, with 1 being low and 5 being high. Here are the average results!
The Film
1. Did you enjoy the film? (avg. 4)
2. What was your opinion on the pace of the film? (avg. 4)
3. Did you think the narrative was clear? (avg. 3)
4. Comment on the complexity of the film. (avg. 4)
The Poster
1. Did you like the poster? (avg. 5)
The Review
1. Did you like the review? (avg. 4)
So all in all the audience feedback was hugely possitive. The main issues flagged were the distorted audio, and the unclear naritive.
The audio issues will be fixed by this time next week, when we have re-recorded the vocal track, getting rid of all background noise.
We understand that some people found the narritive unclear, however I do think to an extent, once the audience can hear what the characters are actually saying this will improve. We also dont want to make the narritive too simple as to not be patronising to our target audience. We will report back after the vocal track has been recorded and will let you know whether in our opinion the narritive has become clearer.
Heres to good feedback!
PM, NC, SK
Six String Studios
Monday 30 January 2012
Audience Feedback
How Do,
We've spent the last lesson creating an audience feedback powerpoint that will be shown to the AS Media Studies group tommorow. We have asked a combination of questions about The Film, The Review and The Poster. The questions are as follows;
FILM
1. Did you enjoy the film?
2. What was your opinion on the pace of the film?
3. Did you think the narritive was clear?
4. Comment on the complexity of the film.
5. What could be improved in this film?
6. Any more comments?
POSTER
1. What did you like about the poster?
2. What would you improve about the poster?
REVIEW
1. What did you like about the review?
2. Would you want to watch this film after reading this review?
We will keep you 'posted' (Hehe)
May the force be with you.
Six String Studios
We've spent the last lesson creating an audience feedback powerpoint that will be shown to the AS Media Studies group tommorow. We have asked a combination of questions about The Film, The Review and The Poster. The questions are as follows;
FILM
1. Did you enjoy the film?
2. What was your opinion on the pace of the film?
3. Did you think the narritive was clear?
4. Comment on the complexity of the film.
5. What could be improved in this film?
6. Any more comments?
POSTER
1. What did you like about the poster?
2. What would you improve about the poster?
REVIEW
1. What did you like about the review?
2. Would you want to watch this film after reading this review?
We will keep you 'posted' (Hehe)
May the force be with you.
Six String Studios
Friday 27 January 2012
First Draft Complete
Hoorah! Finally completed the first draft of the film, poster and review have been handed in.
Good times :D
PM
Six String Studios
Tuesday 24 January 2012
First Draft is Rendered!
Right, so the first draft has been rendered to the school computers, and is ready to be test screened to potential viewers.
Before we did export the final movie, we made a few changes to the clips before Violet appears. We upped the contrast and took the brightness down, aswell as adding a 50% black and white filter to the shots. We also increased the shadow blues, to create a bleak and dismal look, modelled on some of the shots from 'The Road'. If I remember, I will upload a before and after shot of the edited shots, but until then you can see a still from The Road and trust us that it looks a bit like it!
PM
Six String Studios
Before we did export the final movie, we made a few changes to the clips before Violet appears. We upped the contrast and took the brightness down, aswell as adding a 50% black and white filter to the shots. We also increased the shadow blues, to create a bleak and dismal look, modelled on some of the shots from 'The Road'. If I remember, I will upload a before and after shot of the edited shots, but until then you can see a still from The Road and trust us that it looks a bit like it!
PM
Six String Studios
Friday 20 January 2012
Overdubbing
Morning,
Just been looking at the footage, and one of the main problems that is consistant throughout the project is the sound quality. We filmed on a particularly windy day, and unfortunately that interfeered with the microphone, distorting some of the sound. For the most part, it's not too much of a problem, however in a lot of the film I feel the distortion of the vocals takes away from the poiniancy of the dialogue.
We hope we'll be able to rectify this by re-recording some of the dialogue, using an external microphone. I plan to isolate the parts that need recording, and export them as audio files. I then plan to loop the clips and play them through headphones to the actors, who will then record them again into the mic. Finally, I will delete the audio off the videos in the project, and replace them with the newly recorded clips, that combined with some background noise we recorded should sound substancially better.
Hopefully, this should sort it,
PM
Six String Studios
Just been looking at the footage, and one of the main problems that is consistant throughout the project is the sound quality. We filmed on a particularly windy day, and unfortunately that interfeered with the microphone, distorting some of the sound. For the most part, it's not too much of a problem, however in a lot of the film I feel the distortion of the vocals takes away from the poiniancy of the dialogue.
We hope we'll be able to rectify this by re-recording some of the dialogue, using an external microphone. I plan to isolate the parts that need recording, and export them as audio files. I then plan to loop the clips and play them through headphones to the actors, who will then record them again into the mic. Finally, I will delete the audio off the videos in the project, and replace them with the newly recorded clips, that combined with some background noise we recorded should sound substancially better.
Hopefully, this should sort it,
PM
Six String Studios
Getting there!
Hey,
Been a while since I've posted on the blog, due to (you've guessed it) technical difficulties. However, things are most certainly looking up. Using the structure of our initial Premiere Pro file, we've managed to reconstruct the bare bones of The Lost Ones in Sony Vegas. This means we now just have to do little tweaks (the stop motion, cut scenes, colouring, overdub etc) and we can export a first draft! Hooray! Be expecting it by the end of next week.
We plan on a test screening of the film, once the first draft is complete to gather audience feedback, so be expecting the results of that soon as well.
Onwards and upwards I guess,
PM
Six String Studios
Been a while since I've posted on the blog, due to (you've guessed it) technical difficulties. However, things are most certainly looking up. Using the structure of our initial Premiere Pro file, we've managed to reconstruct the bare bones of The Lost Ones in Sony Vegas. This means we now just have to do little tweaks (the stop motion, cut scenes, colouring, overdub etc) and we can export a first draft! Hooray! Be expecting it by the end of next week.
We plan on a test screening of the film, once the first draft is complete to gather audience feedback, so be expecting the results of that soon as well.
Onwards and upwards I guess,
PM
Six String Studios
Monday 9 January 2012
... ok.
5 months after we started, we now have to start FROM SCRATCH in Sony Vegas.
............ oh.
PM
Six String Studios
............ oh.
PM
Six String Studios
4 months in...
We're now entering the fourth month where we haven't been able to edit our footage due to technical complications at school, so I thought I would just let you know whats happening.
Over the Christmas holidays, all the computers had been upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, and the amount of RAM had been doubled. However, when we opened Adobe Premiere Pro, the software was still in the 30 day trial, and would not allow use to import MP4 files, which is pretty impractical, seen as though all our footage is in that particular format.
Just about to head up to the Media room for 2 hours of potential editing time, where we are hoping the computers will have been sorted. In 20 minutes, you will either hear from a very happy Patrick, or a manically depressed one.
PM
Six String Studios
Over the Christmas holidays, all the computers had been upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, and the amount of RAM had been doubled. However, when we opened Adobe Premiere Pro, the software was still in the 30 day trial, and would not allow use to import MP4 files, which is pretty impractical, seen as though all our footage is in that particular format.
Just about to head up to the Media room for 2 hours of potential editing time, where we are hoping the computers will have been sorted. In 20 minutes, you will either hear from a very happy Patrick, or a manically depressed one.
PM
Six String Studios
Tuesday 3 January 2012
Cashback (2004) - Review
So, over the Christmas holidays I took out a LOVEFiLM subscription on my Xbox 360, and came across a 20 minute short film called Cashback. It follows the story of a man working the night shift at Sainsbury's who is obsessed by the female form.
What I really liked about the film was how the director managed to capture the stillness and relaxed nature of an imaginary thought. When the main character was imagining drawing the various people in the shop, he was quite literaly taken to his own little world where everyone was perfectly still. It showed how people cope in various bleak situations, which I feel is very relatable to our own project.
I would like to take some of the sound features in this short film as inspiration for my own. When the man was in his own imaginary world, the sound almost sounded like he was submerged under water, creating a truly isolated mood.
There's a lot of inspiration we can take from this film.
If you want to watch the film, and have a LOVEFiLM streaming account, follow this link - http://www.lovefilm.com/film/Cashback/138364/?play_immediately=1
RATING: 18 - Adult Scenes
What I really liked about the film was how the director managed to capture the stillness and relaxed nature of an imaginary thought. When the main character was imagining drawing the various people in the shop, he was quite literaly taken to his own little world where everyone was perfectly still. It showed how people cope in various bleak situations, which I feel is very relatable to our own project.I would like to take some of the sound features in this short film as inspiration for my own. When the man was in his own imaginary world, the sound almost sounded like he was submerged under water, creating a truly isolated mood.
There's a lot of inspiration we can take from this film.
If you want to watch the film, and have a LOVEFiLM streaming account, follow this link - http://www.lovefilm.com/film/Cashback/138364/?play_immediately=1
RATING: 18 - Adult Scenes
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