Preliminary Task - Final Piece

Preliminary Task - Editing

We wanted to give the film a more cinematic feel so we altered the brightness and contrast. This made the film feel a lot more eerie and mysterious. The contrast between blacks and whites made Aydin's face even more shadowed and hidden.
The first 30 seconds of the film's audio was made completely in post-production, this is so that we could bridge the garage door opening/closing accurately and also not have unwanted background noise of cars etc. ruining the film's feel. We added in footsteps to emphasize Aydin's entrance.

We also decided to add a changing blur effect to the P.O.V. shot to show how nauseated Sam's character was. The drum beats were added to emphasize the mood changing and add tension to the escalating situation. The eerie soundtrack that plays almost throughout gives the scene a sense of unease and mystery.
We made sure that there was match-on-action with each transition to keep the film believable and fluent. When Sam is shot in the head we added in a gun shot, chair hitting the ground and body impact sound effects to sell the effect. We also added a puff of blood and a quick reflection of light off the walls of the garage to give the gun shot and murder even more realism. The clip then slowly fades to black at the end.

Preliminary Task - Recording sound effects

When we watched back the footage we noticed that some of the sounds weren't clear and that we should record some sound effects that we could add in to emphasize actions. So we took a microphone, went to the set (my garage) and recorded Aydin's lines among other things. We recorded the lines and sounds in the garage so that they were recorded under the same conditions as the rest of the clips and this would make them fit in with the scene well.

The other sounds we recorded included:

- Garage door opening
- Garage door closing
(We recorded the door opening and closing so that we could bridge this sound across the clips and make sure it was fluent and not jumpy)
- Breathing
- Umbrella being placed on a table
- Jacket being placed on a table
- Chair falling over and hitting the ground

All of these sounds contributed to making the final piece consistent, clear and clean.

Preliminary Task - First edit

This is the first attempt at editing our footage.

 

What can we improve?

 - The colours don't seem eerie enough. By adding some contrast and possibly dimming the brightness could give the footage a more cinematic feel.
- The audio seems to cut into each shot, this makes the film feel too jumpy and messy. This could be solved by bridging the audio or playing a constant sound in the background.
- It doesn't feel mysterious. By adding an eerie soundtrack and some other sounds that build tension the film would seem much more thorough and make the audience more emerged.
- The sounds of the gun shot, gun cocking and Sam falling off the chair seem very unrealistic and pathetic. We should add in real sound effects that make the scene feel much more realistic.
- Nothing visual happens when Sam's shot off the chair. If we added a flash of light, to represent the gun going off, and a puff of blood then it will sell that Sam's been killed to the audience and make the scene much more serious. At this point in time the film feels very empty and amateur.

Although the raw footage is good there are a lot of improvements to be made in the editing.

Preliminary Task - Practice shots

Before filming our main piece, Aydin and I took a camera and filmed some rough shots so that we could get a feel for how we were going to film the main piece. By doing this it let us see what worked well and what we could improve. It also gave us some more knowledge of the set, space and time we had to film within.

Preliminary Task - Storyboard

Preliminary storyboard from Peter Bamforth

Preliminary Task - Audience

We wrote a survey and gave it to our target audience to see if they were in fact the correct audience we should be targeting. Below is the survey, the results and analysis of these results:


Audience survey from Peter Bamforth

Questionnaire results from Peter Bamforth