Evaluation.

(You are able to click and drag around the prezi if you can't see some things clearly on your screen)

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Josh Barrett
Josh Shea
Metehan Hizli

Film Opening (Final)

This is the final version of our two minute film opening. With this version we have incorporated all the ideas and feedback that we received from the teaching staff to try and create a better end product.

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Josh Barrett
Josh Shea
Metehan Hizli

Film Opening (First Draft)

Here is our film opening first draft. This has been uploaded without any feedback from teachers so far. We plan to show this to our teachers and get some feed back to see where we could improve. We want to get full marks if possible so what ever improvements are required we are willing to make them in the final draft.

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Josh Barrett
Josh Shea
Metehan Hizli

Editing: Before & After Color Correction/Grading.

Here is a side by side comparison of our footage before and after color correction and grading. Color correction is all about matching each shots light temperature to make sure they all look the same but grading however is all about getting the artistic look or style you want. With the camera we shot with a flat image that has barely any saturation or contrast. Doing this preserves the detail in the shadows and the highlights giving us more freedom to manipulate our image how we want to in post production. For the majority of our opening we gave the lows and mids a blue tint and we gave the highs a tint of red to get some interesting color contrasts.

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Josh Barrett

House Shoot.

On Saturday 30th March we went to one of our group members aunties house to shoot the main interior section of our film opening. We choose to shoot at this family members house as we knew that as they are family they would be reliable and flexible with the date and time of shooting. We had planned to use a treadmill in our opening but for various reasons we weren't able to get hold of one but our back up plan was to use some dumbbells in case any thing went wrong with the treadmill idea so that is what we did. We were on set for about 4 hours and in that time we got everything done that we wanted to do and more. To make editing easier we filmed about 3 different shots per shot that was planned on the storyboards in case we needed any gap fillers.

In the pictures above we see our camera man (Josh Barrett) setting up and taking shots from various different angles on a tripod around our protagonist. For this scene our key light was a Dimmable LED panel placed just off to the right of the laptop. Our filler light simply came from the window behind our actor but the blinds are closed so only a little bit of the light gets through.

The pictures above were taken while shooting the morning work out scene of our opening. For this scene we used our microphone on a boom pole as we wanted to get a more rounded sound of the room and its ambiance, we also wanted to get the sound of the dumbbells banging against each other and if we would have mounted the microphone on the camera the sound may of got distorted as it would of been too close. We know this because while shooting our preliminary task we found out that if the mic is too close to the source of the sound it gets rather distorted.

The image above was taken while shooting the coffee making scene. This scene was shot handheld with another simple lighting set up consisting of a practical lamp as our key light and the LED panel as our back light to light the rest of the scene.

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Josh Barrett

Metehan Hizli

Music Samples.

Above you can listen to samples of the two different copyright free songs that we plan to use for our opening sequence. We want to use song 1 because of its orchestral sound. The combination of string instruments such as violins and the soft piano really make it an emotional piece and this is perfect for our dream/flashback sequence as it is a very emotional topic and we want to make the audience feel this emotion and the music helps. We want to use song 2 as it also fits its role perfectly. We wanted this song to have significantly more electronic sounds to give it a mysterious feel that we were looking for as this is a spy film. The string instruments still keep it organic and they make it match song 1's string instruments also so that they blend in to each other better.

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Josh Barrett

House Shoot: Risk Assessment.

This is our risk assessment for the interior house shoot. There are many potential risks involved with filming and we have narrowed them down in to 7 key risks.

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Josh Barrett

Josh Shea

Metehan Hizli