Garage band

During todays lesson me and Charlotte couldn't add and edit more of the theme tune which will be running over our title sequence. This is because the iMacs were running slow & Garage band wouldn't let us open the project.

This has slowed us from making the background music, so we will have to bring it home and do it for homework or stay after school so its all ready for our deadline.....





NEEEEEEEEDDDDDDD TTTOOOOOOOOO FFIIIIIIINNNNIIISHHHHHH

Reflection - Screenshots

The 7 screenshots above show you how we went through shooting the title sequence. We did this so we get more of a visual idea of whats happening. We've made some changes throughout shooting, this it will help us when we are doing our new storyboards. We wanted to create a mysterious effect on the character Rosie on her way to her bedroom, this was done by not showing her face. This creates tension to the audience seeing as they would want to know what she looks like.

The different shots of the character making her way up the stairs and when she's on top of the stairs are very good, because one you cant see the characters face and also the lighting effect is a really good as the mise en scene could mean a lot of things such as, the light being fire.

The third screenshot is of Rosie sitting on top of the stairs. This shot will be flashing throughout the sequence which will make the titles more aery and scary for the audience. Also her sitting on the top step and the camera looking up at her, is showing she has the power and the focus is on her during the film. 

When uploading these shots we had to change the format to make it work on final cut pro. This slowed the process of editing as we didn't know how to work the programme. But now Jack from Media has shown us we are editing the shots. Using effects such as, slow motion, change of color, music of our own (on Garage Band) & how to get titles up and to disappear with different types of fonts.

Group Calender

Below there is a screen shot of a Google calender which is useful for my group seen as it will keep us organized throughout our process of making the title sequence. Dates of when and where we are going to be shooting and collecting information about our film Reflection.

Its a good way of communicating with other members in your group for instance, you cant get hold of a partner about a meeting time, you would be able to put it on the calender and they'll know by checking it.
The only thing that I didn't like about it is, it was hard to add everyone into the calender and to invite people to the Reflection bar which holds dates etc....

Reflection - The little girls book

This is the first page we see as the book opens, this represents the girly innocent side of her. You can see this with the use of girly colors and the pretty flower.

This picture on the right hand side, is a drawing of the character Rosie house. We wanted to get the kid to draw pictures like this to show she has a good an arty side to her, also this shows that she likes where she lives. Makes her seem more kind and sweet.

This is a very good picture in the book seen as it makes people see that she has a evil side to her. This is shown by the use of victims names in a list with names crossed out with arrows. We wanted to do something like this because its like she waiting on a opportunity (planning) also it brings out the mise-en-scene.

As you can see throughout the pages in the book, its getting more into the evil side of Rosies personality as there is a game of hangman. The use of colours was well presented as they are black and red which can be associated with red being death and black being bold as its self.
We used these pictures with pastels to create the kid drawing effect. Also you can see the letters are associated with her family and death. We chose the hangman word to be "Mummy" seen as from the picture above on the hit list, we have circled "Mummy" to show that she is the next victim to get.

The picture of the heading, "My Family" is to show that she has a happy family around her. The image has a ripped out spot in the middle. This shows that she's ripping the family apart one by one. We have a burnt ridged effect around the heart which also tells the audience that the person in her family that she's ripped out was the heart of the family. This brings out the creepy and mysterious side of Rosie.

lReflection - Production Company

The picture on the left is our production company of our film Reflection. We chose this production company because i searched that they  have a good budget in high class films which have a wide range of  genres, so i think that our film being a..... would be best for this film.
We will have this playing before our sequence to show who's our production company. We wont have it from the start of the clip, we will start it at midpoint around 12 seconds seeing as it would be too long if we played it all the way through.

Reflection - Making of the title sequence

On Wednesday the group and Megan's little sister all got together and went to Joely's house to make half of the footage we need for our title sequence. It went really well seen as we got most of the shots done in the space of 2/3 hours. We got some good and scary shots throughout the process, this lead on to improvising new shots and ideas while recording our original storyboard shots. These were, quick shots of the character on top of the stairs and a shot of the characters shadow moving (flash motion). The main part of this day/recording was to get most of the shots of 'Rosie' played by Megan's little sister, this was so we have a rough idea on how the lighting would be and how it would look from her moving to different sets throughout the sequence. I think it went really well seen as it was a fun process but scary which was good because, if we was scared recording it then we would know when we edit it with music and effects the audience should be like it too.

Our next recording time will be the same time next wednesday when we will be recording the main prop of the title sequence (the book) which be presenting the cast and crews names and drawings. Stick men of happy and bad images and crayon writing, which creates the mood and also shows that the kids drawing it, which gives the audience an aery feeling.

Reflection - Music

For the music sound for our title sequence as a group we decided to use garage band to create something which would suit our title sequence & theme.This is because we all have a musical mind and we are all good at using the programme so its a quick and fun way of making music. We went through and created a few sounds and we got some good and eary sounds which would fit in great for our titles.
First we looked for some songs on............................................................................................................... but we suggested that we would want our title sequence to be original and to have our own sound, this is  because most of the songs we listen to didn't fit with our film the way we wanted it to.

Reflection - Questionnaire

On the left are some examples of what we are going to be using for our title sequence. Also its for what we are doing for apart of our audience research, which is eight different types of typography, so this is our questionnaire which we will give out to different people to choose which typography fits best with the genre of our film. Before finalizing our questionnaire we will put a brief description of what our film will be about at the top.

 

Reflection - Experimenting with characters

Here are a couple of images from Megan's little sister, who will be featuring in our title sequence, playing the roll of the main possessed girl. The reason why we have taken photographs like this is, because
as a group we needed to see what it would look like filming with the props. The shots you see on the left & right are the main shots of the girl in our title sequence, running up the stairs holding her book in her arms.During the filming we will change the book cover and clothes of the character to make it more related to the title sequence.

Reflection - Story Boards

Here are our screen shots of our title sequence. The story board is to tell you how and what's going to happen in each shot, with information to let us know what's going on. The only error that we have made from our title sequence is that, we haven't made a timing slot for each shot and haven't written down what sounds are going to appear in our title sequences, but when shooting this week we will be sorting them out. It worked well doing the storyboards seen as we all put our ideas together, from production names, drawings and writing. Overall good lesson!