Editing

After we cut all of our shots into one movie we started to add text, sound effects, music and a film name. For the text we decided to use a red colour to go with the 'horror' and 'twisted' theme to the movie, we are still unsure with what font to use but for the moment we are using the 'a cold night for alligators.' We installed this font from 'dafont.com', however we believe that we will change this font for our movie in the final draft. For the sound effects, we added footsteps approaching the car. This was at the start on the black screen, to make the screen look like the boot of the car and foot steps approaching it so then the character opens it, that's when the main clip starts. We also added the sound of a ringing telephone to the clip when the character's phone rings. We timed the ringing so that when the character answers the phone, the ringing stops. For the music we decided to have the song 'What A Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong as a contrapunctual piece of music. We used it deliberately as songs like is usually used in happy and humour films but our movie is about a man burrying a body which should not usually have happy music. When the main character answers his phone he turns off the stereo because he cannot hear the person on the other side of the phone, at this point when he turns the stereo off the music turns off as well which then we can hear the dialogue. We did this because we wanted the audience to think the music is non digetic but when he turns the stereo off it makes it seem the music is digetic as it is played form the stereo. We decided to name the film 'Deviance' because it means an abnormal state of mind. This word basically defines our character, he just killed someone and listening to happy music when burrying the body.

Filming

We spent 3 days altogether filming the video, 2 of those days, we did not get much done mainly because of the loss of light but on the last day we decided to start filming earlier in the day to make sure we could film the whole video before it got dark and thankfully we did manage it.

Burial Scenes

We looked at the burial scenes in Goodfellas and London to Brighton because we are thinking of doing a scene like that in our video. we liked the use of the red lighting from the brake lights to give the 'hell' effect.

Lesson 7 Plan

We started to plan our movie title sequences. On the location aspect, we decided to film just outside Kyle's house where there is a dull looking field with trees surrounding it, we thought this would be an ideal location for our burial scene as dead bodies tend to be burried in these locations. The props we decided to use to film with Jake's iPhone because his camera produces high quality images and we thought that it is just as good as the school cameras. Other props we decided to use were, a car so we can film Kyle picking the body out of the boot and we need the car to film Kyle inside it as well when he recieves a phone call. Another prop we decided to use is a shovel for when Kyle will dig up a bit of ground and burry the body. We also decided that we will use a zippo lighter and a cigarette so we can film and extreme close up of Kyle lighting the cigarette up. For the main character's costume(Kyle) we decided we would dress him up smartly, with black trousers and smart shoes and a smart jacket so it gives him the typical gangster/killer look. We also decided we will use fake blood on kyle's arms and face so it looks like he just killed some one. Finally we wrote a brief script for when the main character talks to his wife and daughter via his phone inside the car. These are all based on the mise-en-scene micro element.

Lesson 6

We watched more movie opening sequences, we watched one that was done in a single shot.

Lesson 5

We brainstormed the ideas of what digetic sounds we would hear in our title scene. Some ideas included;

• Digging sound of the shovel
• Sound of the zippo before lighting up the cigarette
• Dragging the body

We also looked at the soundbible website looking for sounds we could use for our title sequence. Then we opened up the garage band software and made our sequence with the digetic sounds.

Lesson 4

We looked at what props we are going to use for the clip, not what the character needs to wear but the way it looks. For example, we are going to use a shovel, so it has to look very old and muddy not a brand spanking new one.

Lesson 3

We started to look at what camera angles we were going to use, we used a camera phone to get still image previews of how the shots looked like. The shot i particulary liked was the shot of kyle pulling the bag. x

Lesson 2 part 2

After looking at example opening sequences, we discussed our idea for the opening sequence in front of the class. We discussed that it would be some sort of burial scene, with kyle burying the body, using a wide vatriety of shots, maybe an arm flopping out of a bag. Also we said that we could put a bit of clear glass over the camera lense and chuck earth on it to end the scene.

Lesson 2

We looked at example movie title sequences such as se7en, Fight club, Payback and coroline. Also we are looking at more examples of opening sequences.

Lesson 1

We got given a choice on whether to do the video or the print task for our coursework. I chose the video task. We got into groups of 4 and got told what the brief was. we briefly planned out our idea

Magazine Contents Page

Started the magazine contents page today, looked at some magazines for some ideas, there area few ideas stuck in my head. I would probably end up finishing this at home.

Magazine cover 2

i managed to the get the memory card out thankfully so i cropped my picture using paint as i dont have photoshop installed but the final product stilll looks half decent. i hope to add some other features onto my front cover.

magazine cover

I decided to use publisher for my cover because i found it way too confusing using the macs. I have pretty much finished it but all i need is the picture on my cover. I have already taken the picture but disaster struck, my SD memory card got stuck in my laptop so i have to get it out somehow, it was a quality picture as well and i don't think i would be able to take it again. The cover is looking good, i hope i can get the picture on it by next tuesday.