Woo-hoo. :D

I did my presentation yesterday so that is a huuuge weight off my shoulders. It seemed to go rather well, Simon and Andrew said it was a good presentation I just need to be more confident... I always get told this, aha. I will bear this in mind anyway.

I have now finished Module numbero uno of my multimedia course and have a month off for Christmas. So, I'm guessing I won't be posting anything here for quite a while! You never know though, I might get bored and do some random animation or something :P So see you in a months time probably!


:D

One Shot - Rule of Thirds

Here are a couple of pictures I whipped up to demonstrate how the "rule of thirds" could be referred to in my edit of the one shot film. When filming, I tried to keep the focal point of the bench in the middle section of the view finder. I think I kept to this quite well, although the characters were slightly towards the left at the end of the film. However, this was due to the placement of the actors themselves, as the centre of the bench was still in the middle section. :)

My Final One Shot Film Edit.

So here is my final personal edit of our one shot film.

"A Suspicous Birthday" One Shot Film - Personal Edit from Samantha Freeman on Vimeo.

We decided to name it "A Suspicious Birthday" as it represents the subject well.

For my edit, I decided to use one of my earlier ideas of using a CCTV style for the serious part of the film. To do this I made it black and white and added noise both on the video and on the sound (white noise). I then dissolved to a more colourful image without white noise (as I zoomed in in the original footage.)

Towards the end, I added my own recording of party blowers as well as a clip of the start of Cliff Richard's "Congratulations" song as I thought it was appropriate and fitted in well with the build up to the change of mood.

I also think my use of titles fitted well with the moods of the film

Final One Shot Film Seminar.

Today was out last seminar for DP1. Wooop? :) Anyway we learned basics of editing in Premiere Pro CS4, and started to experiment for our personal edits of our group's film.

I have decided to base mine on a idea I came up with when filming our first idea - CCTV. To achieve this I will edit the first, more serious part of the film in black and white with added "noise" effect. I will also use an appropriate font on my titles near the start to fit with this style

Later on in the film, when the mood changes to "PARTY!", I will fade from black and white and then into a more highly saturated style to fit in with this mood. I could also add appropriate styles of font with "Happy Birthday!" perhaps?


Anyhow, here is our totally unedited film. The snow does distract from the main focus, I must admit. But we tried our best under the circumstances and it is looking a lot better from my editing so far.

Final One Shot Film - Unedited from Samantha Freeman on Vimeo.

Update on all sorts of stuff. BUSY, BUSY.

So, ive been very busy over the past week or two!

- Essay. I have completed this, sent it to Jools and in the process of responding to the feedback before submission.
- One Shot Film. We have filmed our final shot, but had a lot of trouble due to the weather! Stupid snow! :(

- Presentation for DP1. I have decided to do a HTML format of presentation and have started producing a lot of the pages.

One Shot.

I havent currently got the file for our one shot film as I haven't been able to get into uni since we filmed due to the snow. I doubt I will get in tomorrow either so will need to get one of my group to email it to me before my assessment and presentation. Anyway, we persevered with filming in the very short intervals where the snow wasn't very heavy on Tuesday (obviously protecting the camera at all times with an umbrella. What a nice job I had :L) We wanted to keep with our original idea and thought this wouldn't work in a studio, which is why we stuck to the same setting despite the weather. I haven't seen the finished product on a PC screen yet due to my absence (sorry team!) but will hopefully soon have a go at editing it with sounds and effects on Premiere to improve the appearance and quality of our film.

Will keep you posted.


Presentation.

I won't post too much on here about the presentation as it isn't really necessary, but here is a preview of the first of my HTML pages produced on photoshop, linked with notepad using hotspots. Next I need to complete the pages of my presentation, complete cue cards and rehearse my speech to last approx. 10 minutes. Tough much?