Editing Session / 5th March

Today's editing session was mainly focused on re-watching our footage, seeing what could be changed, and adding in the extra titles that were missing. Me and Joram looked through all of the shots to make sure we never left any important ones out and during this process, we did come across a few clips that should have been in the film already. We also asked Dan for feedback on our footage and his main points of improvement were to: make the rapping scene at the end longer (as that's what people are waiting for/expecting to see) and to change the beginning so that the audience can connect more with the character and get an idea of what he's like instead of just seeing the back of his face (which is what our initial opening was).

Blogging Health Check 3

My most recent blogging health scored an 8/20.

My improvements were to blog more about my filming. editing and also the obstacles I faced during these stages.

Skills Learnt in Production

Extension Blog Task 37: Further Changes to the Blog

After changing the layout of the blog the first time, I thought it looked a little bit too 'plain' as a whole and nothing stood out to me in particular. Therefore, to fix this problem, I decided to add a top header with our film's logo to give the blog a main focal point.

At first, this was the header that I had created. I downloaded the font ('Street Soul') online as I couldn't find a better font and the one's we had first initially selected didn't fit well. However after uploading this onto the blog, it still didn't hold much character and the blog was too monochrome.

So to resolve this issue, I decided to add in the companies logos that will be producing/distributing our film to the bottom of the title. Not only did this add more information about our film, it also made it more interesting to look at and gave it more character.

I created this header: 

Here is the design of our blog now:

Blog Post 41: Blogging Health Check 2

My blogging work is now currently at a B (on target) with 15/20.  

My improvements were to: 

> Not leave any empty posts i.e Holiday Homework (which I have now completed and uploaded)

> Add some of my own points to my blog post on Motion, add some of my own research and skills that I have learnt 

> Lastly, the post my re-make (however I was absent on the day so couldn't film one)

Blog Post 40: Revisions to Pitch

As a group, we have decided to not include the bedroom scene that we originally planned on filming as our opening. This is because we thought that it wouldn't fit in well with the rapping 'theme' and the soundtrack we chose wouldn't tie in well with a bedroom scene. Hopefully this turns out to be a good decision.

Creating Title Sequence

I used Motion to create the title sequence.  The challenges I faced were things such as making sure the template was transparent so that I could put it on top of my film footage. Unfortunately the first template I used was not working with my footage so I had to find an alternative option.

I tried different fonts to see which one suited the best with my film. I found one and used it in the title sequence.