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Film Evaluation

Creative Industries Evaluation: Term 01 2011

This film isn’t really a story about anything. It is more like a heap of shot types edited together to make a warm type of film. The film is warm and expresses sunlight as being happy. The audio that I selected to use is a song called Sunlight by the bag raiders. It also helps the feel of the movie be sunny and happy.

Synopsis

A synopsis is a summary given in brief terms that covers the major points of your film. Synopses are usually more in-depth than a mere "summary", and aim to give a fair idea of the topic.

Evaluation of Film Progress

Introduction:

Has your film been edited to engage the audience initially and to establish the tone of the piece?

Yes, as the picture used incorporates dark and warm colours. This creates the feeling of scary which my movie is. The text which I have used is simple and had an outlining colour which also positions the viewers to think it’s a scary movie.

What are you going to do to engage the audience? Describe the sounds, lighting, shot types and effects that fit with the genre of your film and how you will incorporate these at the start of your film.

The sounds that I will put in the movie will be short and sharp to create the feel that something is coming from somewhere. The lighting will obviously be dark and there will be a lot of shadows used within the movie. I will use this type of lighting as in every scary movie there is a lot of dark lighting used to create the mood of scary. It also helps to set the movie, as in scary movies usually have dark lighting which sometimes hide the bad guys faces. This will also be used in my movie as it helps hide people’s appearance until later in the movie. The shadows will be used a lot at the start so the viewers can get the feeling of my scary movie. The shot types that will be used will be lots of close ups on faces, so the expression of the actors can be seen, if they are scared or if they are evil. There will also be wide shots used at some stages so the whole background can be seen and the audience can also get a feel for that and can see where it’s set. The effects that will be used will be cuts and immediately changing into the next scene rather then floating across the screen as it needs to be quick and sharp to get across to the audience it’s a scary movie. 

Have you carefully chosen audio to suit the pace of the project?

Describe the audio and the pace

Yes I have chosen the correct audio as the song was called sunlight and the movie that I made was filmed outside in the sunlight. Throughout the movie the sunlight comes up a number of times which suits the movie. The pace is also correct as the mood of the movie is happy with the sun so the music is fairly up tempo.

Describe the pace of your music and the type of shots (close-up, mid, high, etc) that you will be creating to fit with the music

The shot types were just a lot of wide shots to show all the scenery. There were also a few close ups on the sun to show the brightness. This is mainly because the song is called sunlight so I had to get the footage to suit the song.

Have you included credits at the start or end of your film?

What information should be included here?

The only thing I included was a title at the start and by holly king. I probably should have put some credits at the end, but because I was running so far behind I didn’t have time to put any in at the end. The information I should have included should have been, maybe where it was filmed, who it was filmed by, and if there were any people included in the filming, the names of the people who were filmed.

Pace

Is the film edited to appropriately suit the rhythm of the scene? Describe the use of techniques such as selective timing and length of shots (either action or sound)

I tried to make some of the shots in time with the music so it would look more effective. Some of the shots are longer then others to go with the music.

Emotional intention

Have you edited the footage to create heightened expression and audience responses? Describe how you are going to achieve this. i.e. cross dissolves, graphic matches, effects etc

I incorporated a few transitions to help make the movie look better and have a better feel. I used some cross dissolves and other effects to make the movie have a happy feel to it.  

Editing techniques

Have you created links between shots and throughout the film to emotionally engage the viewer with your story ( i.e. is your film tied together through theme, colour, story, objects etc?)

Not really. I have used bright shot types and happy music to create the feeling of sun, which is happy.  It is mainly the colour of my shots that have made the film feel happy like it is.

Starting my website and poster

1. what genre will you be creating a poster for?
- i will be creating the genre of a horror or scary movie

2. what colour scheme would suit this particular genre?
 - the colour scheme that would suit my genre would be dark colours. Colours like dark reds, blacks, dark oranges and even some dark purples like the veins on the face.

3. What textures and type of shapes would best suit this genre?
- the shapes that are used in my poster are sharp, organic shapes as they kind of flow with each other and are made naturally.

4. Who is the intended audience for your website?
 - The intended audience for my poster would be aimed at older teenagers and above. This is because you can tell by the dark colours and the colours in the eye.

5. a) Which font best suits your film genre?
 - the font that i have chosen that best suits my film is called rough typewriter

  b) what is an appropriate title for your film?
 - The title for my film is insomnia 

Term 2 - Blog Research

Career Opportunities:
There are many career options that people can branch off into using media. Some that I have found are:
 - Graphic Designer
 - Creative Digital Artist
 - Director of photography
 - Editor for film
 - Mac Operator
 - Illustrator / motion designer
- Picture editor

Copyright Issues:
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that works to
increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and
scientific content) available in “the commons” — the body of
work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use,
re-purposing, and remixing.

i-movie revision test

1. describe how you import footage to the timeline:
 - using a USB port or firwirse cable plug the camera into the computer
 - drag footage into clips (USB file) or file - import

2. When you open a new project what type of project should you choose and what settings are appropriate for this program:
- HDV 1080i - save the project on the hard drive

3.    How many frames per second do you need to set this project too in Imovie’s preferences?
- 25 frames per second

4.    How do you separate and remove the audio from the footage?
 - right click, extract audio ---- right click, show click volume levels

5.    Describe the process of uploading a sound effect from a website and bringing it into your timeline
- type in sound effect, click on sound effect, save as quick time movie, import to time line.

6.    Does IMOVIE have a help desk?.. discuss how you have used it for one particular question

7.    How do you cut a piece of footage from the timeline?
- click on footage, click command, 'T'

8.    Discuss what the functions are of these two buttons
 - these buttons show the 2 versions of projects
 - first button shows the shots separately and the second button shows the time line of the project.


9.    When you adjust this line what does it do to your project
  - allows to zoom in on selected shots or bring the projec together.


10.    What would you use these two buttons for?
  - if you have a firewire cable - plug in, camera will appear here.


11.    Describe what each of these menu items do
12.    In the editing menu you will find these sub menus. Describe what each of these menus allows you to do:
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13.    What is the function of this button
-  turns the volume up and down

14.    What do these viewing functions allow you to do
 - first button is rewind, second is play and third is put the movie in full screen

Definitions

Why learn how to read films:

•    Emotional experience
•    Entertainment
•    Learn story
•    Visually connect with characters
•    Historic events
•    Perspective –> human condition
•    Relate to characters

Is Cinema or film a text:

• story
• characters
• setting
• sound
• images

Cinema is a visual art form. cinema is not literature. A film is not a novel.
- However, a film is a text, just as a play, poem or novel is a text.
- Although the storyline is essential, when reading a film you must be able to examine, interpret and analyse the visual elements and style.


Elements of film - Alice in Wonderland:

Shot types:
Setting, lighting, characters, dialogue, sound

Props:
Colour scheme, objects,
























A shot is a continuous piece of filming without interuption from the time the camera is turned on and starts filming until it is turned off

EDIT:
- An edit is a break in the film where one shot ends and the next shot begins
- The four common types of edit are:

• Cuts
• Dissolves
• Fades
• Wipes (occasionally)

Edit types are selected carefully to suit the genre of the film and emotional intention of the shot!


A SCENE:
- A scene is a collection of shots, arranged through editing, into a specific order.

Starting our Film

Type of Film: Music Video to the song devil tears by Angus and Julia Stone


Crew Structure

Producer: ALL
A film producer creates the conditions for making movies. The producer initiates, coordinates, supervises and controls matters such as raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved throughout all phases of the filmmaking process from development to completion of a project.

Director: SOPHIE
The director is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film, including controlling the content and flow of the film's plot, directing the performances of actors, organizing and selecting the locations in which the film will be shot, and managing technical details such as the positioning of cameras, the use of lighting, and the timing and content of the film's soundtrack.

Costume/Props set designer: HOLLY

Sound designer:BINDI
The sound designer, or "supervising sound editor", is in charge of the post-production sound of a movie. Sometimes this may involve great creative license, and other times it may simply mean working with the director and editor to balance the sound to their liking.

Film editor:ALL
The film editor is the person who assembles the various shots into a coherent film, with the help of the director.

Camera operator/s: SOPHIE/BINDI

Story board designer: ALL

Script designer: ALL

Title of film: DEVIL TEARS
Synopsis: "A synopsis is a summary given in brief terms that covers the major points of your film. Synopses are usually more in-depth than a mere "summary", and aim to give a fair idea of the topic."

-  A girl is the main idea of the video. The guy singing the song is talking about her. Shes on the beach and she remembers the good times they used to have. It flashes back into the old times with him and her together having fun. She has the bracelet he gives her and she drops it into the ocean because she knows its over and shes never getting it back. Then the end scene is her walking down the beach because she knows shes not getting him back. The video clip on a whole is not meant to be a happy film clip, but reflect the way the guy and the girl are both feeling about each other.
Theme: a music clip of lost love between and guy and a girl


The Story Board of our Lost Love music clip.