Our Final Piece

Feedback

 To get a wide range of feedback from people that weren't just friends and family (who may have a biased opinion) we decided to make a group on Facebook which anyone could join and tell us what they thought. Also, most of the people who use Facebook would be in the target audience our movie was aimed at. Here are a few of the comments...

 After reading these it is quiet clear that our introduction went down well, but was let down right at the end by the failure to record what Grace was saying. Feedback like this is a vital part in movie development and would help a lot if we were to finished the movie off.

Pictures of Filming

Health and Safety

 While filming we are going to have to consider health and safety. To make sure there are no unnecessary injuries we took in to account a few things. Most of them were very simple, (not touching electrical equipment with wet hands, watching where you walk when there are wires on the floor) but other were a little more specific to what we were filming.
   At one point, Aaron is going to swing for me with a cricket bat. To make sure he doesn't accidentally hit me in the face, we stuck a line of tape across the floor where I needed to stop. This line will make sure I am too far back to be hit, even if he accidentally slips. We also are going to use candles to give low level lighting and so are at a slightly higher risk of having a fire. To avoid this we will make sure they aren't under anything that was going to catch light but were also far enough out the way so they wont be knocked and burn anyone.

Title Research

 The titles at the beginning of a movie usually come in a very similar order. First is what company has commissioned and produced the movies (20th Century Fox etc). After this comes the names of the starring actors and then finally the title of the actual movie itself.
   However this is not a strict rule and some movies have the actors names after the main title. The only one that is always first is who produced the movie. Usually, they have their own small clip, such as a horse riding towards the camera. This is used as a kind of logo that people become familiar with and recognise instantly. They then also have the name of their company during the movie before the title comes up. We will take this order of events into consideration when editing our final piece.

Location Pictures

Here is a few pictures of where we are planning to film.

  

Organisation of Actors, Props and Times

Storyboard and Shot List

Here is our final storyboard for our movie. We have added annotations about camera angles, shots, sound and other infomation that will be helpful when it comes to filming.

A gloved hand is shown opening a door in the dark

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The camera follows the man as he sneaks through a dark, empty house

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The camera zooms out on his silhouette to reveal a door way

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As he gets closer the lights are turned on by another first who was at first hidden. He swings a bat and as he does it cuts to black. The sound of the bat hitting something, then his body hitting the floor is played over the top.

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Fades back into 2 people standing over the camera looking down and discussing what a mess they are in

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Cut to movie title imposed over sped up travelling footage

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A car pulls up with a woman inside

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A close up is shown of the womans high heels as she gets out the car, followed by another close up of her walking to the door.

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A final close up of her finger pressing the doorbell

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Cut to inside where a boy is opening the door, revealing 'the boss'

The Effect of Sound

When picking a song to go in the background of our final piece, we didn't want to just use anything. The soundtrack to a movie is massively important as it can set the entire feel and give off certain emotions that are key to a film being successful. To try and get a feel of how music can change an movie I decided to experiment with some footage I put together of me and my friends skating. I then changed the background music to see what effect it had on the overall effect of the clips.      


  
For the first one I used the song 'Us' by Regina Spektor. It is quiet a mellow song and so makes to footage appear quiet relaxed and chilled out. It also gives it quiet a friendly feel (maybe because of the lyrics) and makes the three of us look like very close.











The next song I used ('Sleepyhead' remixed by Borgore) was much faster and so made the video seem much more frantic and high octane, even though the images being shown are exactly the same. After I did this it became very clear that I had to be careful with what music we used in our final piece. If we chose something wrong it could give off completely the wrong feel and possibly ruin what we are trying to achieve.

Now all I have to do is pick a song that will fit but also doesn't break any copyright laws. First, we thought about making a completely new song using a programme called 'Fruit Loops'. However, none of us have had much experience using this and we didn't believe we could make a song that sounded professional enough and that also fitted in with the genre of the movie. I then remembered I had recordings from a band I used to be in a few years ago. Because its my music that I have helped write and perform, I have the writes to use it as I wish.

   The recordings are very heavy music and could fit in well if I used them at the right place. They would give the movie a very energetic feel and hopefully really improve the quality of our final piece. If this song doesn't work, we found another song we liked on an online skate edit by an artist called Poppa Wheelie. After emailing him over myspace we found out he is non-profit based and makes songs purely for fun.

UPDATE

After showing the song we wished to use in our final piece to my teacher, he told us that it in fact sampled quiet alot from a Depeche Mode song called Waiting for the Night. We now need to look into a different area of copyright, the part concerning remixes.

   We found that a remix does not breach copyright laws if it is considerably different enough from the original i.e. it isn't just the same song with a different tempo or played on a different instrument. Luckily, Poppa Wheelie's remix also includes a different background beat and more vocals and so shouldn't break any laws.