Finished OTS with Evaluation

Untitled from Kieron Marchese on Vimeo.


Here is my groups completed and perfected opening title sequence! 
And here is my evaluation to accompany it;

Update on sound

Sound foley experiment
Sound video  
Here is a link to one of kierons post who recently done a sound experiment followed by the link to his video where the experiment can be heard. 

Interesting find

I was just on youtube when I saw an advertisement for this new game coming out...

L.A. Noire Official Trailer 

From: RockstarGamesGB 

The all-new Official Trailer #2 for L.A. Noire, a dark crime thriller set amidst the corrupt and violent undercurrents of Hollywood's post-war Golden Age. L.A. Noire tells the story of WWII hero and aspiring young detective, Cole Phelps as he solves cases and climbs the ranks of the LAPD

I was intregued by this as it shows how the traditional genre of film noir

I was intrigued by this as it shows how the traditional genre of film noir - a crime drama is being modernised and filtered into today's society by a number of different ways, video games being one of them. 
This is quite encouraging as it suggests the younger people of today are actually fascinated and entertained by this particular genre, and although this game is most likely to be far more violent than what 1940-50 noir films would have been, we believe the type of audience attracted to this game will also engage with our neo-noir film. We've tried to consider the modern day circumstances by breaking conventions through styling, shots and editing.
Neo-noir includes most elements of film noir but with updated themes, content, style, visual elements or media that were absent in films noir of the 1940s and 1950s. 

In this specific scene of the trailer we can see the man holding a gun - this was a strong signifier used in most film noir, representing the man's power, he becomes threatening. 

This one also shows the conventional characters in a film noir, the anti hero and femme fatale being intimate. The details are so exact even down to the lighting, the dark shadowing. 

FINAL CUT VS IMOVIE

This is a printsceen of us attempting to edit our dummy role on final cut.
From experience at GCSE, we were all only used to iMovie, and final cut was far more complex and we found it highly difficult. We tried to follow a tutorial on the apple website, however because none of us are particularly familiar with macs and this program, we did in fact find it too difficult. We had troubles with even the simpilest of things such as; uploading our footage. We even discovered that our teacher was also experiencing issues with using the program.
Due to time contraints, and being realistic we thought it would be wise to stick with iMovie - something we were more than capable of using. We still believe our final piece will look of high quality, and will allow us to use a variety of effects. The only downfall we face is that there is a particular clip we need to crop due to a cluttered background ruining the mise-en-scene, we're hoping we'll be able to figure out how to do this on final cut for the purpose of just this clip.
Although final cut is more diverse we're happy to use iMovie, and will hopefully have more time in the future to try and discover how it works.

EDITING, slight problem.

Today was the first day we tried to get stuck into editing, Melissa taking charge as editor.
Of course we experienced a few problems, it's inevitable...

a bunch of our clips got deleted! apparently there wasn't enough disk space on the computer? 

just when you thought macs could never let you down. 

Sure enough we sorted out the issue by deleting some un-needed documents. 

Because of this Melissa got delayed in the editing, and only really managed to do the majority of our dummy run -rehearsal. 

Hopefully we can get a load of printscreens up as evidence to show the techniques used ect. 

I'll post again when we actually get to editing our final piece. 

MID-TERM SELF ASSESSMENT

The purpose of this assessment is to look back and refelct upon all the work we've completed as a group so far, how well we've worked together and what things have been sucessful and what have not...
I think something we're quite efficient at is management and organisation and we regularly got together to allocate tasks and brief each other on our progress, however looking at our blogs they all seem very indivdual and singular to that person. As a group we need to focus on linking all our blogs together to remain unite. If we fail to post these links, certain tasks we have actually done as a group will not be shown. 


Sections highlighted green are what I believe we have complete during the filming, ad what I think is already located on my blog. 
Yellow is in the progress of,
Red is yet to do. 


VIDEO This is the specification for -
Level 4 48–60 marks A*/A High B
I am aiming high as I want to achieve and do well, so I will try and meet all the criteria.
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:


-holding a shot steady, where appropriate;


-framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;


-using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;


-shooting material appropriate to the task set;


-selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;


-editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;


-using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set;


-using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;


-using titles appropriately.




Marking Criteria for the presentation of the RESEARCH AND PLANNING, specification for - Level 4 16–20 marks A*/A High B
There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience.


There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.


There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.


There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning


Time management is excellent.

LIGHTING

I did a small experiment on lighting, as a cinematographer this is a key part of my role along with melissa who's also in charge of lighting, I want to ensure as a group we achieve the most effective results.

Ignoring the poor quality photograph and focusing on the effect of the lighting it is clear that lighting shining in from above makes the character seem in a chilling, frightening scenario. 

This image of the light gleaming in from the right is rather strong, one side of his face being completely disguises one side of his face. When I look at this photograph I get the impression that he has two personalities to him, one good, one bad. I think this effect is useful if you want to reveal some of the character to the audience, show half of their expression, yet it's as thought the character will always have something to hide until his face is uncovered.

This straight on beam of light, hitting his face directly reveals everything, the characters emotions, it's impossible to hide. I think this technique should be used when showing a characters vulnerability, as they are completely exposed. 

This experiment has aided me in realising the correct lighting techniques for differing situations, and which one is the correct one to use to express a particular feeling or mood.