Thursday 31 March 2016

Typography-Stop Motion




We decided

Sound and Audio

For our title sequence we were influenced by Gone Girl. This title sequence is mainly silent butcome across as quite eerrie and dark as it is matched with the darkeness. We wanted to create a similar effect with our title sequence. Because we had a missing boy we wanted to create something creepy to match this but be dark at the same time. We decided to record Charlotte saying a few lines from the Grimms tale of Hansel and Grettel. Whist editing we realised that it didnt sound as eerie as we would have liked so we decided to add an echo to make the recording sound distorted and we also added a nursery rhyme song in the background which sounds very diturbing and uncomfortable. This therefore gives the audience the feek that something bad has happened to the child because it is linking childlike things with negative ideas. For the rest of our title sequence we wanted to create an atmosphere that would still be eerie but also be quite sad so that the audience would understand what the main protagonist is feeling. We settled on light piano music which created a slow pace but also allows the audience to connect with the main protagonist and understand the tone for the whole film.


When we were finding our music we used website such as:
http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/cinematic
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
We looked for music that was fast paced and would go along with the theme of mystery.We found music in the end in the youtube royalty free music library and found the track of the creepy sounding nursery thyme that we use in the beginning of the piece.We found our other music that we used on http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/cinematic and downloaded them to iTunes before transferring them on to final cut pro.

Wednesday 30 March 2016

Editing Journal 3

Journal 3:

Today i continued to cut down the video, I mananged to finish this so that all the clips were to the correct length and any mistakes had been deleted. I then began to search through transitions to find the same transition that I used on the news video and used this throughout my video to ensure continuity and a good flow and pace of the title sequence. I also began to search on websites for royalty free music that would fit our title sequence.

Tuesday 29 March 2016

Editing journal 2

Journal 2:

I begun editing by uploading the video clips and putting them all in a final cut pro file. Once imported, I put the clips in the right order, I did this by dragging the clips into the correct rhetorical order. I then used the blade tool to cut out unessecary parts of the video or some filming mistakes that may have occured. 

Friday 25 March 2016

Editing Journal 1

Journal 1:

Today I edited the first part of our title sequence. I downloaded a few clips of news reportings of a missing child and cut them down to very small sections of the main headlines. I then put these all together and added a transition and buzz noise to make it appear as though the channel is changing but the story is on every channel as it is that important. This begins to build the narrative that her brother has gone missing.

Thursday 24 March 2016

Fonts and Typography

We started to look for fonts on Dafont  http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=603
we looked at fonts such as:


 

We wanted to choose a font that looked handwritten to make it appear as though it had left as a clue or almost childlike.

Tuesday 22 March 2016

Problems when filming

When filming we didnt come across many problems but, as expected, there were a few that limited our title sequence in some ways.
A main problem that we faced is that the weather on the day we could all meet up to film was very sunny so this showed in all of our scenes. This does not match our narrative of mystery and darkness so we have to figure out how to make it appear darker using filters and mising the colours on the video.
Another problem was trying to make the narrative clear. We attempted to do this through the majority mise en scene such as our props of the missing poster etc, but we did have some issues of not displaying this correctly when showing our title sequence to our peers and teachers.

Saturday 19 March 2016

Filming Journal 2

Journal 2-
 We all met at 12:00 in Bexleyheath and then travelled to our location for filming to start the filming of the main part of our title sequence. We managed to film the whole scene of finding the evidence box and opening it in around 3 hours. We used a range of different camera angles such as close ups, over the shoulder and medium long shot as well as match on action. We also filmed the main protagonist replacing an old missing poster with a new one oveer the top. This was to create the narrative that time had gone on but the brother had not been found but the case is reopened as their are new posters.

Friday 18 March 2016

Filming Journal

Journal 1- 
Today we went out of school with all of our equipment and wanted to begin to film our montage. We came across the first problem, because when we got to the location we wanted to film at, there were not suitable signs and it was too busy so we had to change location. Once we had settled on a location at Bexleyheath we began to film road signs, cars and arrows to show that the main protagonist is on her journey.

Wednesday 16 March 2016

Location

We found some difficulty when deciding where to film our title sequence. We wanted to film in an attic to show that she is rediscovering the evidence and clues from the previous investigation of her missing brother. However we could not find an attic to film in so we had to make do with a shed. This was quite a good location as it kind of looked like an attic on the video.

We also decided to make a montage to break up our title sequence and to continue the pace. We decided to film road signs and arrows to show the journey that the main protagonist goes on in attempt to find her brother. We went and found some around Bexleyheath and incoperated these into our title sequence.

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Story Board


This is the story board for out title sequence. This is our first idea and vision for what we want the title sequence to look like. This does not include where we put the names, what typography we will have or the colour and full scenes of the title sequence. However it does show  our general idea of what we want it to look like and how we are going to display the narratve through the different scenes. This will most likely be adapted and more scenes will be added and changed during the filming process.