Wednesday, 10 January 2018
Saturday, 6 January 2018
Filters in the production of our horror film
I learned to use different transitions and filters in Final Cut Pro X during the production of my horror film.
In order to show that our main character, Mila, is suffering from DID and depression, we filmed scenes where she is running to take her anti-depressant pills.
When I was editing this, I added the 'prism' filter and 'earthquake' filter on top of the footage to make it look like the footage is shaking and distorted. This is to show how Mila feels before she takes her anti-depressants, as they calm her down after she takes them. In order to show how she calms down, I used the 'cross dissolve' transition and elongated it to the whole footage so it looks like the prism and earthquake effect calm down as she swallows the water with her pills.
I also used the titles 'Fade' and 'Glow' when Mila received texts from people. This was influenced from the television show 'Hollyoaks' as when the characters receive texts, a white text shows up on the screen when they check their phones. This was a good contingency plan as our original idea was to show the actual screen of the phone, but when we started recording, there were coloured lines and fuzzing on the phone screen. This is also a better way for our target audience to read the texts and understand the narrative.
When editing the news reporter's scenes, I added the news filters on top of the footage and entered scrolling text which went to the left to create verisimilitude as the news in real life has this, such as BBC and Sky News. I also added a logo of the news company on the top right of the screen and the pictures of the victims as they would be shown in the news in real life.
We used several cuts on during the film to show Mila's state of DID and how she is not a normal person. IF we wanted to portray her as a normal person then we would have used continuity editing.
In order to show that our main character, Mila, is suffering from DID and depression, we filmed scenes where she is running to take her anti-depressant pills.
I also used the titles 'Fade' and 'Glow' when Mila received texts from people. This was influenced from the television show 'Hollyoaks' as when the characters receive texts, a white text shows up on the screen when they check their phones. This was a good contingency plan as our original idea was to show the actual screen of the phone, but when we started recording, there were coloured lines and fuzzing on the phone screen. This is also a better way for our target audience to read the texts and understand the narrative.
When editing the news reporter's scenes, I added the news filters on top of the footage and entered scrolling text which went to the left to create verisimilitude as the news in real life has this, such as BBC and Sky News. I also added a logo of the news company on the top right of the screen and the pictures of the victims as they would be shown in the news in real life.
We used several cuts on during the film to show Mila's state of DID and how she is not a normal person. IF we wanted to portray her as a normal person then we would have used continuity editing.
Monday, 1 January 2018
Radio Trailer Script Feedback
My group and I received audience feedback since our first draft of the script. On our first update we were told that our script was not descriptive enough, for example, in our script we wanted the ambient sound rustling leaves and nature, we simply mentioned 'ambient sounds' we needed to be more detailed and show our audience what we want through detailed description.
Moreover in our first draft, we wanted the nursery rhyme 'Jack and Jill' to connote our protagonist's abusive life as a teenager in school which as led to her evil pseudo-identity looking to avenge her past. We later then changed the 'Jack and Jill' -with-a-twist rhyme to 'Ring-a-ring o' roses' because we researched that the song has a dark meaning behind it --it is a sordid children's based on the bubonic plague. We wanted the audience to understand that the antagonist has a sordid mind and her intention is to kill and destroy. From audience feedback from our target audience- they did not like the rhyme and at first they did not understand the reason behind the nursery rhyme which I had to explain.
We later listened to the soundtrack of the film Hanna, and watching the film we were inspired by the song The Devil is in The Details by the Chemical Brothers. As a group we decided that we wanted something similar to this song as the song emits an ominous/chilling vibe and atmosphere. We wanted to make our own version of this song with piano/orchestral music because orchestral music is the codes and conventions of a horror film.
Moreover, we included television static because the television is a big part of our film, when the news reporter comes and our protagonist watches the news, we wanted to include the sound of static when there is inference. Interference and static connotes confusion and disorientation.
We essentially conformed to many of the codes and conventions of horror films, including the screams, silence and music. Because we are dealing with a radio advert we want the audience to understand that our film belongs to the horror genre, specifically the psychological-crime sub genre. Also we wanted the narrator's voice to be deep and archetypal of a movie trailer narrator, the voice is loud and demanding is captures the audiences attention, it also anticipates the audience. The narrator also gives context of the film. We also use sound bytes from the film to give context, for example we include a sound byte of the news reporter Jake Simpson and included it in the beginning- this could trick the audience into thinking it is a real radio broadcast (this promotes verisimilitude and therefore terrifies the audience), however the "breaking news just in" is going to be a reverb, the second and third reverb the reporter is going to sound distorted to show the interference of static and also we did not want to mislead the audience to think it was a real report.
We include the audience by asking them "Everyone has a good and bad side. Which one are you?" Questioning the audience's morality we wanted the audience to think deeply about the question this will anticipate the audience to watch the film.
The Devil is in the Details:
Moreover in our first draft, we wanted the nursery rhyme 'Jack and Jill' to connote our protagonist's abusive life as a teenager in school which as led to her evil pseudo-identity looking to avenge her past. We later then changed the 'Jack and Jill' -with-a-twist rhyme to 'Ring-a-ring o' roses' because we researched that the song has a dark meaning behind it --it is a sordid children's based on the bubonic plague. We wanted the audience to understand that the antagonist has a sordid mind and her intention is to kill and destroy. From audience feedback from our target audience- they did not like the rhyme and at first they did not understand the reason behind the nursery rhyme which I had to explain.
We later listened to the soundtrack of the film Hanna, and watching the film we were inspired by the song The Devil is in The Details by the Chemical Brothers. As a group we decided that we wanted something similar to this song as the song emits an ominous/chilling vibe and atmosphere. We wanted to make our own version of this song with piano/orchestral music because orchestral music is the codes and conventions of a horror film.
Moreover, we included television static because the television is a big part of our film, when the news reporter comes and our protagonist watches the news, we wanted to include the sound of static when there is inference. Interference and static connotes confusion and disorientation.
We essentially conformed to many of the codes and conventions of horror films, including the screams, silence and music. Because we are dealing with a radio advert we want the audience to understand that our film belongs to the horror genre, specifically the psychological-crime sub genre. Also we wanted the narrator's voice to be deep and archetypal of a movie trailer narrator, the voice is loud and demanding is captures the audiences attention, it also anticipates the audience. The narrator also gives context of the film. We also use sound bytes from the film to give context, for example we include a sound byte of the news reporter Jake Simpson and included it in the beginning- this could trick the audience into thinking it is a real radio broadcast (this promotes verisimilitude and therefore terrifies the audience), however the "breaking news just in" is going to be a reverb, the second and third reverb the reporter is going to sound distorted to show the interference of static and also we did not want to mislead the audience to think it was a real report.
We include the audience by asking them "Everyone has a good and bad side. Which one are you?" Questioning the audience's morality we wanted the audience to think deeply about the question this will anticipate the audience to watch the film.
The Devil is in the Details:
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