evaluation..

My film..

Editing..

I have captured my film and it is on the apple macs editing software (Premiere Pro) I have also finished editing it.


The editing process for my trailer didn't take a long time because I had already learned the basics of the the software so was able to do it more efficiently.


One hold back to the editing of my trailer was adding the music. I added the soundtrack that I wanted to use but it didn't fit with the film. This meant that I had to find a new song to work with my trailer. The song that I chose for my trailer is called 'Just got to be' by The Black Keys. This is a link to Youtube, which is where i found my song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Je2wAUcH4o&playnext=1&list=PL1AB65D6534311850


The editing effects that i mostly used were the 'dip to white' effect and also the 'dip to black' effect. I feel that these were the best effects to use for the genre of my film (film noir). These effects were also simple to add onto my film but they also created a good effect.


One main effect that I added to my trailer was the black and white effect. This effect was vital in making my trailer fit in with the film noir genre, and it gave it the 1940's style that i wanted.


After editing and watching my film through i was pleased because i think that it had an authentic 1940's feel and it was also like the film 'The Third Man' which is the sort of effect that i was going for.

Changing the soundtrack..

When editing my trailer I realised that the soundtrack that I had chose didn't fit with the film. The reason that the music didn't fit was because it was too slow and didn't have the right effect.



I had to find a new soundtrack for my film, so I tried to think of powerful songs that I know. After going through various bands that still didn't work, I decided to try the band 'The Black Keys'. I knew this band had some powerful songs and after looking through a couple of their songs and testing them against my trailer, I found the ideal song, which is called 'Just Got To Be'. This song immediatley worked with my trailer and i knew that it would be the song that I would use.



Even though I had found a soundtrack that fitted with my film, I still tried to look for some more traditional 1940s soundtracks (just in case they worked better with my film). I looked through a couple but nothing jumped out. I tested them against my film, but The Black Keys song was still the best one, so i stuck with that one.

filming...

The location that I filmed was Linton. I wanted to get shots of street lights because i think that they would give off a good effect. When filming the street lights i used panning shots to pan up the streetlights, I think this gave the mosatmospheric effect.


The time that I filmed also was an ideal time because it was completley dark and the streetlights produced enough light for filming and also created shadows which link with the film noir genre. I already knew that the streetlights would give off enough light because of the practice shots that I took a week before filming my actual trailer.


Some of the shots that I used when filming didn't work well and weren't as effective as i thought they would be. One of these shots was a medium shot of the character leaning up against a streetlight. The reason why this shot didn't work is because the light wasn't bright enough and it was too dark and also the street light just looked like a concrete block. I decided to overcome this by trying the shot from a different angle. This worked effectively and I will use this shot in my film.


Overall i think that my filming went well and it went how i expected it to go. When shots didn't work out how i thought they would, I easily overcame the problem. Now all that I have to do is capture my filming onto the Apple Macs and then edit it using adobe premiere pro.

Editing the practice shots.

Yesterday i uploaded the practice shots onto the Apple Macs. I thought that i would edit some of the shots, just so that i could get an idea on what sort of editing effects and transitions i need.


In one of my shots, the camera pans up to the top of a streetlight. I thought that this would be a good shot to edit because it is exactly like one of the shots that I am going to include in my actual film trailer. I decided to make this shot black and white. On doing so i noticed that the shot was still too light for my liking, so i added the 'brightness & contrast effect' this enabled to me to make the shot darker by increasing the contrast and decreasing the lighting. Once i had set the brightness & contrast to my preffered setting i thought the shot looked alot better and that it turned out like i wanted it too.


I have not yet added a soundtrack to my practice shots, but i am planning on doing that tomorrow. I want to add a soundtrack onto the practice shots because i think it will give me a better idea on how the music is all going to fit into the trailer.

Practice shots.

Got one of the camera from school today so that I can start filming, but tonight I have just done a few practice shots which i hope to upload tomorrow.

I decided to do some practice shots because Iwant to include streetlights in my film and obviously it has to be dark for the streetlights to be on. I was unsure on whether the cameras would cope with how dark it was.

However, after doing a few practice shots tonight of some streetlights I have found that the camera does cope with the lighting and that the streetlights do create a good effect.

The effect that the streetlights created is good because the light really stands out from the dark background of the black sky and also the streetlight gives enough light to cover the necessary amount of area for each shot type.

The shot types that I practiced was a low angle tracking shot, a panning shot, a lowangle shot and also a point of view shot.