Mine and Callums seperate roles are very clear:My Roles Are:
Camera Man
Co-Director (I came up with as many shots as Callum did)
Editor (of my own version)
Music Composer
Location Scouter
CGI Director (Title Sequence in my version)
Ambient Sound Capturing (Such as Bird sounds, footsteps ect.)
Extra Actor Recruitment (After some that we had recruited had dropped out)
Script Editor (Revising on the script where we feel it is needed)
Callum's Roles Are:
Main Actor
Writer
Editor
Director (However not Operating the camera)
Concept Artist (Creating Animatics to share his vision)
StoryBoards
Actor Recruitment
Stage Set-Up (Second Scene that was eventually cut)
Voice-Over Director (Dubbing and Experiment Version)
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
My final Piece and my edit
This is my final piece and final edit. I wrote the music and changed all the sounds of footsteps with sound effects to increase the audio quality. I also added a quiet bird track in the background. All sound effects were from http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html free and copyright free. My edit is very similar to Callum's edit but we wanted very slight differences.
Callums edit and Final piece
I did the music and all the filming. Callum wanted the voices in the background like a memory giving clues for the plot but I liked the footage without the voices so I did my own seperate final outcome and my own edit. This is Callums version.
Friday, 9 March 2012
Our attempt to drag out the first section of the sequence
This was before we re-shot the church scene
Our New Footage
I was the camera-man and I picked the shots. Callum Edited
The music needs to be re-done because the original track wasn't written for this length of footage time. Callum attempted to make it fit but this brought down the pitch and doesn't give off the effect I wanted as the musician.
The music needs to be re-done because the original track wasn't written for this length of footage time. Callum attempted to make it fit but this brought down the pitch and doesn't give off the effect I wanted as the musician.
Filming Day Review
On Tuesday 28th February, Callum and I decided to re-shoot the church, grave part of our opening sequence. We had tried various techniques to try and drag out the grave scene to take up the full two minutes. (which I will upload to the blog) . After much discussion with Miss Stone and Mr Cunningham, we realised that the only way we can keep the footage profesional while only using the grave scene, would be to re-shoot.
When we got to Ramsgate we immediatly went down to the Church at the back of Chatham House Grammar School and began filming. As at first we were replicating out previous draft of the scene, it was easy to re-shoot. In fact we loved how much better it looked. It was identical to the previous footage except that Callum had a black coat instead of a brown one and that the footage was filmed on a tripod not hand-held. This improved the profensionality. After we had completely re-shot the footage to a level we were happy with, we added scenes in.
We managed to get a passer by to fill in the role of the flashback character. I also suggested close ups. So I decided to film a close up pan across Callum's eyes and a close up pan across his face. I decided that instead of a straight cut to the flashback, we could build it up. I did this by tilting up from Callum's face, to a tree above him, then put in the flashback where it pans down from a different tree. I also got better shots of the grave. I did an HD shot where the focus goes from the grave to Callum's face as the camera pans around. On the way in we had noticed rememberence poppys which I suggested we film Callum walking past.
This was a much more productive and proffesional filming session.
When we got to Ramsgate we immediatly went down to the Church at the back of Chatham House Grammar School and began filming. As at first we were replicating out previous draft of the scene, it was easy to re-shoot. In fact we loved how much better it looked. It was identical to the previous footage except that Callum had a black coat instead of a brown one and that the footage was filmed on a tripod not hand-held. This improved the profensionality. After we had completely re-shot the footage to a level we were happy with, we added scenes in.
We managed to get a passer by to fill in the role of the flashback character. I also suggested close ups. So I decided to film a close up pan across Callum's eyes and a close up pan across his face. I decided that instead of a straight cut to the flashback, we could build it up. I did this by tilting up from Callum's face, to a tree above him, then put in the flashback where it pans down from a different tree. I also got better shots of the grave. I did an HD shot where the focus goes from the grave to Callum's face as the camera pans around. On the way in we had noticed rememberence poppys which I suggested we film Callum walking past.
This was a much more productive and proffesional filming session.
Friday, 24 February 2012
Font
The first font was too childish for the style of the film but I liked the handwritten effect like it was written in a hurry. It's also a bit too dificult to read.The second font was too elegant. Though I liked how it looked so professional, it wasn't suitable for a war film.
This was my original final font idea but I decided it was too bold/blocky for the effect I wanted. So I decided to look at army stencil style fonts.
This font I thought was perfect. I like how clear each letter is and with the colourings I added it looks like a war is going on and the best elite fighters are involved.
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