Final Cut of Film

This is the final cut of our film which we uploaded onto youtube:
We hope to get some feedback through youtube in which we can look back on and see what could be improved upon. This feedback could help me develop through A2 so similar mistakes will not be made and our knowledge and understand will be greatly improved. Although on Youtube the video of our film is labeled speed 2 it is infact just called Speed.

Preliminary Task

Please find embeded a link to My preliminary task: The preliminary task builds a starting knowledge of shots and movements which we developed to help us create our finalised main task of the opening sequence for our thriller.
http://tomryderas.blogspot.com/

Evaluation

This is my final evaluation of my whole coursework task which was produced on prezi
My Final Evaluation Prezi

IMPORTANT NOTE: My prezi was created on Mark Northcotts prezi account as my accounts password does not work so Mark kindly let me use his account.

Thanks Mark

Final deadline edit

We have managed to edit fully and burn onto 2 discs our finished media product that has been given the name of 'Speed'. The name Speed refers to the idea that the 2 agents have little time to catch the gangs ring leader.

Changes made for final-cut

Transitions used

We use transitions in our opening sequence for continuity (to make our film flow better into each scene) these transitions give an overall better viewing experience for the audience.

With our footage that we filmed we have used a mix of straight cuts and dissolves into each shot, this makes each scene flow much more better and it looks better having a variety of cuts and fades/dissolves instead of basing most of the editing with cuts (which was our original idea)

There are some parts of our film, where in the filming process we decided to keep it a constant shot through each frame to improve the continuity so the film doesn’t look like it has been badly pieced together. Before filming we didn’t realise that it would be as difficult to get the camera in the same spot for each shot so we decided to carry on the filming. As we did this we found that our product seems to run much more smoothly than it would have done.

The only time we didn’t want it to look smooth was when we did the jump cuts, this was to emphasise the confusion that the captured man is facing, I also feel it creates a sense of nausea to the viewer, this is even more effective than we thought.

Changes made due to class feedback of rough-cut

We showed the class the rough cut of our film and made more feedback sheets so we could get the relevant information back and make changes where they were needed.

 From the feedback we received we as a group decided to change a lot of the editing in our opening sequence. To start with we deleted all the video transitions throughout the entire film so we were almost starting from a blank storyboard, this made it easier for us to edit everything properly as we weren’t rushed to edit it for a class rough cut. What we deleted was very rushed editing that consisted mainly of cross fades so we realise we defiantly needed to properly sort it out.

we decided to use more cuts to each shot to help the film run smoothly than having jumpy cuts that looked like a puzzle had been just thrown together to create a picture, these fades do create a sense of excitement in the audience as they don’t know what will be coming from the fade.

A key criticism was the loudness of the heartbeat, when played through the macs it seemed quitter than it actually was, then when it was played through the speakers in class it was much more louder (almost deafening to the members of the class) The volume of this effect also overpowered the rest of the sound in scene which in turn ruined the effect that we wanted to create. So in light of this we have changed the volume levels on the heartbeat soundtrack so it’s much quieter.

We have edited the entire film again and feel that we have made a much better improvement from our rough cut and feel we have hit the marks. The sequence when which we have an extreme close up on Arthur's eye has been edited by changing the colour slightly to a light red which brings out the centre of his eye and focuses the attention there. On top of this we edited a glow effect on to the eye. We also added an improved audio instead of the dial-up sound, the audio for this clip now links into the next shot which is a flashback and we feel is much more effective. We changed the audio in light of what we got from our audience feedback.

When we played it back we realised that audio on all the actors was not loud enough, this was also picked up by members of our class so we tried to correct this by changing the decibels, but in doing this we actually realised that we could hear the crackling sound from the camera so it spoilt the sound of the voices of the actors. We tried to re-film the audio but found this to be too complicated to do so instead we edited the audio with the generators to create effects on the voice which tackled the loudness of the actors and the crackling sound from the camera.

We also decided to cut down the length of some clips (especially the flashback sequence) due to feedback from our teacher that 10 seconds of a POV looking out of a car doesn’t tell us anything new in the last 8 seconds, which lost the audience’s attention. This is defiantly not what we want as we want the audience want to watch our film so these flashback scenes have been sorted and edited better.