USING SOUNDTRACK PRO? 

Above is the soundtrack pro which is what we used to get our music for our opening The Voice Behind. At first i found it hard to work with as I was more used to garage band but after working and trying to undertand and get what types of sounds would be effective in our thriller opening we found it much easier. In the beginning we were looking at different types of thriller music tracks for instance the one that stuck out was the grudges soundtrack which features piano and a little bass thats what we were trying to replicate for our opening. The sounds of children that we had heard in other thriller openings couldn't be mimicked as the sounds for children on sound track pro were too cheerful and just didn't match the other sounds we wanted in the opening.In the opening we created the music was hard to workout as the type of opening we had was discrete and we had loads of jump cuts and it was just hard to try and make the music flow easily.  

Evaluation 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.

Evaluation Question 1

Question 1

In what  ways does your your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.

Here is a presentation answering my response towards question one. 

Here are the screen shots of the presentation too included.

Evaluation: Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 


I feel that a British film company would be best suited to distribute our thriller, because a Hollywood film company is more for a film with an extremely high budget, so that it can go global. 


Our film would be viewed primarily a UK audience. The budget would be high, but smaller than of Hollywood production. It would also mainly feature actors who are also British. 


In our thriller opening the production company we used was Screen Gems Productions: 

EVALUATION 1 

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Normal film openings usually have :

*opening credits

*cast names

*establishing shots 

Below is a beeclip presentation describing our film conventions :

The normal conventions of a film opening are :

>production company logo

>production company name 

>then the production people

>then the directors name

>then pictures

>then came the cast 

>then the title came

>characters shots again 

>co starring 

>music composed by

>edited by

>production designs

>director of photography 

>screen play 

as you can see in our bee clip our film opening is different. 

in our film we challenged some of the conventions as we didn't use the main protagonists names until deeper in and also we followed the title sequence as we had our title 'the voice behind' at then end of the title sequence. 

Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?  

EDITING FINISHED!

On Friday the 9th of March we finally finished our editing

Evaluation: Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 


Like all film openings, our thriller contains a title sequence. Before making our thriller opening we analysed the title sequence of Marathon Man as practise:   

Film openings also establish genre and character. This may be done with the use of an establishing shot, which is effective for showing where the events of the rest of the film will take place. Film sof different genres start in different ways, for example a supernatural thriller may begin in a different way from a comedy. 

EDITING FINISHED!

On Friday the 9th of March we finally finished our editing

EDITING FINISHED!

EDITING FINISHED!

On Friday the 9th of March we finally finished our editing. once we had finished our editing we then took a still image of checklist to say that we finally finished.

Group 17 finished 

EDITING FINISHED

On Friday the 9th of March we finally finished our editing

180 degree rule which was remembered whilst filming

180 degree rule which was remembered whilst filming

The 180 degree rule was important when filming it is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

When filming our piece there were some crucial things we had to remember that would overall help us with our editing process including the 180 degree rule.

We as a group remembered:

- To keep in line with the 180 degree rule. The 180 degree rule is that whatever side you are filming a character on the camera should only film what comes into it 180 degree radius. As learnt if this is succeeded the filming we become distorted and would not look understandable to view.


- To remember that continuity always matters.  A mistake of this for example is when a character has a small water stain on their shirt in one shot and then has a bigger water stain in the next. If this is broken then the film will be unable to flow and would look wrong when viewed back.


-To be involved in your character. This meaning having expression in our voice, face and body language to portray the character we have. This will help us when editing as it will make it therefore easier to put the right shots in the film to make it look realistic and to prevent any re-filming.


Overall remembering this was good as it helped us when filming setting out a clear guideline when doing this.

Final stages of filming

 Final stages of filming

As the deadline was approaching we had to make sure the editing was finished. 

We had to do the following after the rough cut as shown below;

-Adding titles (including the directors name, producers etc)

-Adding different transitions (fade in fade out , cross dissolve etc)

-Adding sound (using garage band or soundtrack pro)

-Arranging the footage into order

-Adding new footage or footage we filmed before (importing the files fro, video to final cut)

-Adding filters and effects and any other (sharpen, increasing the contrast etc).

The following will need to be added when making the final clip of our opening. Final Cut is the software in which we used to edit the software. This aloud us to use different effects as well as edit the software in which needed improving. 

Overall the editing was successful as the opening linked together well, shots were clear and the transition from one scene to the next was clear and builded suspense to the viewers who were watching.


Here shown below is how we added effects to the transitions in our sequence

The new Storyboard

We made a new storyboard for our thriller. According to our rough cut feedback there were things which needed to be changed. We realised that the order of our scenes was not entirely correct, as some of it did not entirely make sense.  
Having a new storyboard makes our editing process easier, as we have a storyboards which makes sense to follow. 


Here is our new new storyboard: 

Using both Garage band and Soundtrack pro to create sound

Using both Garage band and Soundtrack pro to create sound

When creating sound as a group we decided to try both garage band and soundtrack pro. When using sound track pro we realised that there were many complicated aspects in which we were confused on and how to use it. We then as a group decided to use garage band as we thought there were a variety of choices (instruments) that we were able to choose from. Garage band was easy and clear to use when both exporting and creating the track

Presentation on prezi

Adding Sound

Adding Sound

Adding the sound was crucial and would be something that will need to be added after the rough cut was done. The sound was challenging and interesting to do as we needed to use a software which we did not use before, that had a variety of skills which were both simple and complex to use. 

When thinking of creating the sound for our opening we used the previous research of soundtracks that are used in most thrillers. The soundtrack from the thriller Insidious gave us the similar tension we wanted to see in our own thriller as it builded up tension we wanted. I have taken some screen shots below of the programme where i had edited sound on.

The soundtrack from Fatal Attraction was one idea that inspired us when thinking of sound. Although this film isn't a supernatural thriller the sound still inspired and created the suspense and tension which was needed. When creating our sound on Garage band we used high pitched sounds to link to the moment where Ethel commits murder.

Editing sound on Garage band screen shots (presentation) 

The sound from most thriller openings were very engaging. Arlington Road soundtrack was inspirational in many ways as it was high pitched creating a lot of suspense for the viewers. Arlington road uses a mixture of fast up temp to slow the pacing of the sounds which are played during the opening of the thriller.  Arlington road is a discrete opening and links with what we would like to use when we are creating our opening.  Arlington road links with our ideas as the style of the sequence will be discrete and we will also be able to get examples of sound from this.

We will use these examples which we have blogged about to inspire us when making and putting our sound into our edited film during the lesson. 

Overall to conclude, the sound making task was interesting as it challenged us to make a soundtrack from scratch which meet the standards of an original thriller soundtrack.