Extension Activity: Wix Website

Here is the link to our very own website that I have created. It includes 4 different pages: Home (which introduces our film poster), Institutional Detail (which gives information about the companies producing/distributing our film), Information (includes the different equipment and software we used in the process) and lastly, the blog (which links to this blog).

Enjoy!

The Extra Mile: Website

Film Poster

I have personally decided to create a film poster for our title sequence, to promote our film and reflect what it will be about. I used Photoshop to create the poster as I am extremely familiar with the software and I have used it plenty of times before.

Editing Session / 2nd March

Luckily today we had a 3 hour media lesson in the morning so that we had plenty of time to do some editing. In today's editing session, we mainly focused on completing the titles and making sure that they reflected well against the film. We chose a template and exported them all onto Final Cut Pro, however the particular template we chose wouldn't show up against our sequence (even though the background was made transparent). After consulting the technician, and finding out that we couldn't resolve the problem, we made the decision to re-do the titles with a different template. Again, we had many difficulties in making sure the titles appeared visibly against the sequence and didn't blend in. In some cases, the titles couldn't be seen against the background of the shot and this turned out to be extremely frustrating as I had to keep re-doing them in Motion. Another aspect of the sequence we did in today's lesson was work on the soundtrack. The track we chose is a copyright track however contains a deal of 'bad' words. In order to bleep out the most evident ones, we decided to lower the volume of music at that particular time. This took a while to get right but eventually it worked.

Reflection: Overall, I think that today's editing session was half a success. The panic mode has now started as our film is due at the end of this week. I'm most worried about getting the titles completed and looking somewhat decent.

Research: Analysing Real Media

Editing Session / 26th February

Today's editing session consisted of looking through all of the shots we had on our video drive and making sure that we didn't leave out any important ones. We asked our teacher, Dan, for feedback in which he mentioned that we should think about the beginning of our sequence and think about how we can make it more visually interesting to the audience. After thinking about this, we wasn't sure on what to do as we didn't have any extra clips to make this happen. Therefore, we stuck with what we got. However, we did re-arrange some of the shots we put e.g. instead of starting with an over the shoulder shot (as the audience wouldn't be able to connect with the character), we started with a shot where you can see the face. We still kept the over the shoulder shot as we really liked it and thought it made our sequence more interesting.

Reflection: As a whole, I think today's lesson was a bit stressful as were trying to figure out the best way to go about organising our clips and making sure they were in the correct order.

Production: Filming Session / 5th

Reflection: Today's filming session involved re-shooting some of our shots from the studio scene as well as the outside scenes of the "studio" building. When taking out the equipment this time, we decided to try using the fig rig and experiment with what we could do with it.

We first started off down in the studio, re-filming some of the shots but in different angles to make our film more interesting. Additionally, we also decided to film some close-ups of the studio equipment to show the privileged rappers wealthy side and his access to top quality equipment. Then we decided to go outside to film next to the Jamie Oliver restaurant again and also the subject walking into the "studio." This time, we used the fig rig to follow the privileged rapper on his journey and this had a much better effect as it shows him close-up.

Fortunately, when looking back at our shots this time, we didn't have any issues with what we filmed and we were happy with the angles that we have captured.

Production: Reflection Session / 2nd

Instead of filming today, we decided as a group to look back on all of our shots and make a rough copy of what our title sequence would look like. We opened Final Cut Pro and arranged our shots in the correct order and this helped give us an idea of what the final outcome would be.

After some discussion on what soundtrack/music we should use, we decided to keep the song 'Ain't On Nuttin'', and just bleep out the inappropriate words. We decided to do this because we thought
that the beat of the song went best with our film and the beat attracts the attention of our audience.

Here is the song that we are using: 

During this reflection time, we didn't focus much on the titles as we wanted to organise the actual footage so that we were prepared for when our editing journey begins.