This is the first edit of my short film. I still need to include the candidate number / college number etc... at the beginning. However, there are many improvements that can be made to this.
The length of the film is possibly too long for the content, aka it needs shortening. Several scenes need re-cutting and shortening which will help this. These scenes include the corridor scene (where the camera shows the point of view of Jonny and Shannon). The opening - instead of having Shannon throughout then Jonny playing the guitar, I could use paralell editing which will decrease the length and also make my film seem more fast-paced.
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Monday, 7 February 2011
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Test Shots (1)
Originally, I was going to have a sequence of shots in Shannon's bedroom. Influenced by Taylor Swift's You Belong With Me video, Jonny and Shannon would have a conversation between each other through the window using only sheets which they'd written on. I began to edit the shots together but soon realised that it would be too long and it would nearly be the length of my entire short film! Because of this, I decided to drop the scene completely, but here is a taster of the original shots which will give some idea as to what it may have looked like.
Even for these original shots (which if I was using I would have re-shot because of the poor quality), I struggled most with the correct lighting of the shot. At the beginning, as Shannon turns on her light from black, the camera blurs slightly before regaining focus. We also had some trouble making sure that Jonny could be seen from outside. The lighting from inside reflected in the window, so we had to dim that, but that also meant that Jonny was more in shadow too. Eventually, we figured that to see Jonny we'd need a light outside that was stronger than the one inside, so we had an up-angled light on Jonny (placed under the window so you couldn't see) and we placed a camera light on the camera which had an adjustable intensity. However, the lights from the road across the riverbank behind the house are also reflected in the window and the only way that that could've been avoided would be to use a sheet or cardboard behind Jonny. Because there was little sound, I was going to place some music in the background, probably non-diegetic sound of the piano version of Love Story but I liked the idea of that going at the end and didn't want it to be constant. So, overall, I'm happy that this scene was cut as it would've taken too long to re-shoot, taken too much time in my short film and we had a lot of difficulties with lighting.
Even for these original shots (which if I was using I would have re-shot because of the poor quality), I struggled most with the correct lighting of the shot. At the beginning, as Shannon turns on her light from black, the camera blurs slightly before regaining focus. We also had some trouble making sure that Jonny could be seen from outside. The lighting from inside reflected in the window, so we had to dim that, but that also meant that Jonny was more in shadow too. Eventually, we figured that to see Jonny we'd need a light outside that was stronger than the one inside, so we had an up-angled light on Jonny (placed under the window so you couldn't see) and we placed a camera light on the camera which had an adjustable intensity. However, the lights from the road across the riverbank behind the house are also reflected in the window and the only way that that could've been avoided would be to use a sheet or cardboard behind Jonny. Because there was little sound, I was going to place some music in the background, probably non-diegetic sound of the piano version of Love Story but I liked the idea of that going at the end and didn't want it to be constant. So, overall, I'm happy that this scene was cut as it would've taken too long to re-shoot, taken too much time in my short film and we had a lot of difficulties with lighting.
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
My Radio Ad - Love In Reality
This is the video for my radio ad. I had to use an image to upload it on to YouTube, so I decided to use my film poster. It shows the development of my radio ad in order.
MUSIC.
I decided to use the piano version of Love Story in the background of the radio ad as it was clear and consistent throughout and tied nicely with my film. The song is associated with the well-known Taylor Swift song Love Story so the audience will be aware that the film is a Romance. At the beginning and end of the advert, I increased then decreased the volume of the music so that it would fade in and fade out to the next advert on the radio. This introduced and summarised the advert so if another advert was played after they would be easily distinguishable as seperate adverts.
VOICE.
I decided to use a male voice for the main body of the advert. I recorded him saying little phrases and then put them together. At first, I placed each phrase straight after the other but then realised it didn't have as fast a pace as other adverts. It also made my advert longer, so I decided to overlap the phrases slightly which were clear to hear but aided the fast-paced speed that most adverts have. At the end, I added a female voice to combine with the males. This was to show to the target audience that it is appealing to both genders and also adds more depth and interest to the end of the radio because an extra sound has been added. The ending of the advert is the title and slogan of the film which helped to conclude the advert. I did try editing the male voice by making it deeper to create a more sophisticated sound, however it made little difference to the sound so I left it the same.
For the voice overs from the film, I originally had Jonny's line first before Shannon's. This worked but it didn't seem to make sense as the extracts didn't follow on from each other and made sense on their own. I then decided to swap Jonny's extract for a clearer one which I'd re-recorded which made it sound a lot better. However, I ended up swapping Shannon's voice extract with Jonny's as it made more sense going: "How did you find me?" then "I didn't think I would" compared to the other way round as it gave the audience a bit of the storyline of the film.
MUSIC.
I decided to use the piano version of Love Story in the background of the radio ad as it was clear and consistent throughout and tied nicely with my film. The song is associated with the well-known Taylor Swift song Love Story so the audience will be aware that the film is a Romance. At the beginning and end of the advert, I increased then decreased the volume of the music so that it would fade in and fade out to the next advert on the radio. This introduced and summarised the advert so if another advert was played after they would be easily distinguishable as seperate adverts.
VOICE.
I decided to use a male voice for the main body of the advert. I recorded him saying little phrases and then put them together. At first, I placed each phrase straight after the other but then realised it didn't have as fast a pace as other adverts. It also made my advert longer, so I decided to overlap the phrases slightly which were clear to hear but aided the fast-paced speed that most adverts have. At the end, I added a female voice to combine with the males. This was to show to the target audience that it is appealing to both genders and also adds more depth and interest to the end of the radio because an extra sound has been added. The ending of the advert is the title and slogan of the film which helped to conclude the advert. I did try editing the male voice by making it deeper to create a more sophisticated sound, however it made little difference to the sound so I left it the same.
For the voice overs from the film, I originally had Jonny's line first before Shannon's. This worked but it didn't seem to make sense as the extracts didn't follow on from each other and made sense on their own. I then decided to swap Jonny's extract for a clearer one which I'd re-recorded which made it sound a lot better. However, I ended up swapping Shannon's voice extract with Jonny's as it made more sense going: "How did you find me?" then "I didn't think I would" compared to the other way round as it gave the audience a bit of the storyline of the film.
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