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Monday, 17 December 2012
Finished!
This is a post to sum up everything. I finished the film, poster and review last week.
Here are the finished products:
The review was hard to make as I decided to use InDesign, which is a piece of software I'm not too familiar with. However, with practice I finally got the hang of it and this is the final outcome. I tried to keep to the conventions of Empire Magazine's film reviews. I adjusted the review itself and very little bits such as the synopsis, to make the audience understand that it is a mockumentary.
InDesign is actually very useful to make reviews as you can adjust the settings so that you're working within guide lines so the placement of everything on the page is accurate. The text tools, picture tools and box tools were all very simple and are the same to other software such as photoshop.
Overall, I'm actually quite pleased with my review. I hope that my teachers see it in a good light too!
I've talked a little about my poster in my previous post, but again I am quite proud of this piece of work, particularly as it developed my skills on Photoshop.
There are some bits I'd still add into the poster such as a line saying 'Coming to Channel 4 soon' to make it clear is a documentary format, but there's nothing I can do about that now.
And Finally, this is my short film 'Unrecognised Musicians'
It was fun to make. Fun to create from my imagination. and I'm glad it's made a lot of people chuckle!
Here are the finished products:
The review was hard to make as I decided to use InDesign, which is a piece of software I'm not too familiar with. However, with practice I finally got the hang of it and this is the final outcome. I tried to keep to the conventions of Empire Magazine's film reviews. I adjusted the review itself and very little bits such as the synopsis, to make the audience understand that it is a mockumentary.
InDesign is actually very useful to make reviews as you can adjust the settings so that you're working within guide lines so the placement of everything on the page is accurate. The text tools, picture tools and box tools were all very simple and are the same to other software such as photoshop.
Overall, I'm actually quite pleased with my review. I hope that my teachers see it in a good light too!
I've talked a little about my poster in my previous post, but again I am quite proud of this piece of work, particularly as it developed my skills on Photoshop.
There are some bits I'd still add into the poster such as a line saying 'Coming to Channel 4 soon' to make it clear is a documentary format, but there's nothing I can do about that now.
And Finally, this is my short film 'Unrecognised Musicians'
It was fun to make. Fun to create from my imagination. and I'm glad it's made a lot of people chuckle!
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Poster
So editing for my film is done! I had to make very hard decisions in order to make the time limit of 5 minutes. I ended up taking out the scene where the character is playing the rarest note in the world and his ear bleeds and I replaced it with a scene of the character with his band.
Anyway, now that I have finished editing and making the tough decisions there, I have moved on to make my poster for my film.
A few weeks ago, I took photos of my actor and narrowed it down to two photos.
Because he is quite a broad shouldered person, I decided to choose the photo of his slightly turned to the side, which is different to what I wanted the composition to be in the first place. But this way, he looks slightly smaller and you get to take in the triangle he is holding in his hand. It is also a Medium Shot so we can see his facial expression a lot more clearly.
So when editing this photo, I made the background black, with a sort of white crown around the character's head and I made the outline of his body stand out a bit with a glow around his body.
I did this by clicking on the different areas I wanted to focus on and using the bar to adjust the lighting around the character.
Originally, it was only mean to be the character with the glow around his body and a black background, but the background just looked a bit too... black... so I decided that the light around his head would look effective and pull focus to his facial expression.
I'm also going to add the picture of the triangle into the title of the film, so using green screen I have got the image of the triangle and I shall add it to the title.
I'm also going to add the picture of the triangle into the title of the film, so using green screen I have got the image of the triangle and I shall add it to the title.
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Editing
So I have recorded most of the voice overs for my film and have added them in and I have a small amount to record left, with my actor. He is coming over to record it all this evening, which will get most of the work done!
Today I have focusing on the title for the film 'Unrecognised Musicians'
I took a photo of the triangle against the green screen and edited the background out so I could put the image of the triangle into the title to replace the 'o' in 'Unrecognised'
What Next?
Tonight I shall record the rest of the voice overs with Josh.
Then I will photograph him for my poster and review.
And I will film the final scene (FINALLY!!!) and go through everything and decide which bits need cutting out in order to keep everything within the time limit.
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