Sunday 13 February 2011

Draft



Well, in order to meet the deadline we rushed the editing for this here draft. There are several things in it that should be noted will be changed for the final version:

  • The candle on the baking tray - that's meant to be a leg, but we couldn't get any materials in time to make it. It's a placeholder.
  • The lack of blood - there will be plenty of it in the end
  • The floor will have a layer of scattered newspapers
  • The television will actually have something on it - exactly what is yet to be determined
  • The iPod is going
  • Some other things I can't recall right now
The sound was also not sorted out in time for the editing, hence why many of the scenes have no sound whatsoever. Whilst unnoticeable whilst the music is playing, the three/four shots whilst it isn't are noticeably bad - the opening has no sound, the shot of the killer leaving and the empty room has no sound, and the microwave shot at the end is just messed up (that's a dishwasher you can hear). Also, some parts whilst the music is playing are meant to have sound - for example, when the man has the pillow case put over his head you're meant to be able to hear him struggling whilst the shot focuses on the speakers. The shot of the baking tray is also meant to have the sound of a pizza cutter over it, but noticing it now the shot lingers too long on it, so it'll probably be shortened down considerably. Other things to note are the final shot of the empty room - the doors are closed, and should be open. The sound in that shot should also have a car in the background, and a low drone or a decreasing volume in the music. It should also be lit better - it's fairly dark as is. The gunshot in the opening shot is very low quality and should be sorted out. Also, this was done in Windows Movie Maker, and I apologize for that. Adobe After Effects was acting up when it came to exporting the movie file, even when exporting to different file types (.mov, .avi, etcetera.), so we resorted to using other software. This actually lowers the quality of the video a lot, due to the fact that the effects we were going for in the editing done in AE are now notably absent, as effects done in Movie Maker apparently made the program crash when accessing. In order to fix this problem when doing the final version, we've decided to export the individual shots from AE (as, generally, the problems only occur when there's a large video being made), and then bunch them together via Movie Maker afterwards.

3 comments:

  1. Depending on the camera you are using you can do wonderful things with not much blood (the clip is blue ink but you'll get the idea).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEvLmRWQpYE

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  2. I think the font used for the title fits with the music, maybe instead of the iPod useshow an old vinyl record player or something? I have no idea what I'm saying. Maybe showing animals attacking eahchother or an old black and white film on the TV could fit in with the chilling baroque music. That would be cool.

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  3. I think you are off to a good start. Considering this is the draft, I feel you have done a good job. Obviously with the final piece, you will include the things bullet pointed above. I think maybe using more than one song as stated, or including some of the sound with the original recording. Overall, I feel the grade given was accurate.

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