An Eye for an Eye - Final Edit

G321 Assessment Mark Sheet - Self Evaluated

G321 assessment mark sheet - Self Evaluated from fsantosallan

Rough Edit of 'An Eye for an Eye'

Animatic Story Board

Script for animatic storyboard

First shot: So from this shot we see an over the shoulder shot showing the kid holding the picture of his mother and himself, this begins to show his emotions flow and the audience is supposed to see this. The focus will go in and out of focus as the camera moves around him. In terms of editing the fades into the opening will be slow and the music will begin before the visuals. This helps us create the desired dark shot we want. On this picture the name of both the characters will be seen, as this is easier for the audience to understand. The lighting in this shot will be moderate however in post productions we will make it look darker; this goes for all scenes within the hut. Cut to second shot.

Second Shot: This shot is a close up of the sons face, showing little background. The audience will feel a close connection to the character (hopefully), feeling sympathy toward him. The shot will be taken from around about where the photo was being held by the son. No transition just a cut.

Third Shot: This will be a long shot from the upper of the building if possible showing the characters on the floor. As the son gets up it will show his weakness. We will probably place the title text here, ‘Eye for an Eye’. The character, the son, will walk over to his mother.

Fourth Shot:  This shot will be a high angle shot of the mother and this will portray the pain that she has been through and it will hopefully be effective at creating a lot of emotion and begin to reveal a little bit of the plot. Cut to fifth shot.

Fifth shot: This will be where the son moves towards to his mother and this is close up again of him, but it turns into a flashback and the son moves slightly.

Sixth shot: This flashback will be a millisecond view of a farm, possibility in change of the colour correction for this scene. Light flashes in and out of the scene.

Seventh shot: This is essentially the same shot as the fifth shot however the expression on the sons face will be very confused. However he will continue to move into his Mum.

Eighth shot: This is a low mid shot from the side, which will show both characters. The son character will walk onto the shot and he will then fall to his knees in weakness and lack of motivation. He then crawls towards the Mother character who is cramped in the corner. Cut to 9^th shot. Speech in this shot between Mother and Son, this is going to be the Mothers last words to her Son as she dies of Polio from paralysed respiratory system and failure to breathe and she did not receive the vaccine due to being locked away.

Tenth shot: This is a long shot of the character, Son, having a panic attack and he is attempting to punch walls to escape as his Mother has just passed away from Polio. Potentially to use a blur as a transition however likely to just use no transition and just cut to eleventh shot.

Eleventh Shot: This shot is going to be a close up of the lock, it’s going to be a pull focus from the lock to the Son in background as he notices the lock and recognises an escape route.

Twelfth shot: This is going to be a Point of View shot where the character is searching for an item on the floor to break out with and pick the lock. The characters hands will be in the shot to back up the POV feeling. As he finds the paper clip, he clams his actions as he has found a hope to escape. Cut to 13^th shot.

Thirteenth shot: This shot pans up from the floor, following the key as it lifts up in his hand. The camera will be facing him however the focus will be on the paper clip and the audience will just see a blurred background. Cut to next shot.

Fourteenth shot: Close up of lock picking, there will very little in view or focus other than the lock. Should be a short clip. Can incorporate a POV shot into this. Cuts to next shot

Fifteenth shot: This shot will be a long shot of the door opening and the characters silhouette in the arch way. Cuts to next scene.

Sixteenth shot: Pan following the character falling to the ground, shows his relief and happiness to have escaped out of his evil fathers hands. As he walks out of the door and falls to his knees the camera will crab or pan and follow him. Cut to next scene.

Seventeenth shot: This shot is over the sons shoulder and it shows him raise his head and view the field that he will eventually escape to. Cut to next scene.

Eighteenth shot: This shot is going to be a side on shot that will pan, showing the character running toward the field to escape. Cut to next scene.

Nineteenth shot: This then turns to a close up of the characters face running toward the field showing his hope. Fade or cut.

TIME LAPSE

Twentieth shot: This shows the character now leaving the field that is by the road. However we are not sure if this will be entirely possible due to locations and wether we can find one a location that falls within our requirements. If we do not find somewhere then we will just skip this shot. If we do however we will fade transition into next shot.

Twenty-first shot : This shot will have a close up of the son character who is lost and confused in Norwich and this will hopefully be using a rig mount upon the chest to stabilise the image as seen in JME's music video. 

Planning Edit

First shot:
Over the shoulder from the kids point of view. This camera angle would help to show the audience the characters emotions towards the photo. Fades in slowly and later than the music. Colour correction makes the scene darker than normal. This would help create the desired look and would help set the scene of our thriller. Cut to the second shot at the end of this first shot. The character name of the mother will appear on this scene with the picture of her.

Second shot:
A close up shot, showing only the characters face. This will show the emotion the characters face and the ordeal he is going through. The lack of objects in the background, just the sky, will show how lost and abandoned he is. There would be a clean quick transition as no fade would be needed.

Third shot:
Long shot/birds eye from the farm with the character in the distance. Showing his weakness as he gets up.  The titles text will appear on this scene. Blur transition to effect the change in range.

Fourth shot:
High angle shot of the mother. This will portray the pain that she has been through. This will be effective as we are able to create a lot of emotion within the opening scene. The transition again will again be a quick clean cut.

Fifth shot:
Close up of the child character.  Quick clean transition.

Sixth shot:
Flashback longshot of the farm. Very short duration. Change in colour correction for this scene. Light flash in and out of this scene.

Seventh shot:
Back to the fifth shot, flash transition into it from the flashback.

Eighth shot:Low mid two shot from side of both characters. The child character walks onto the scene and falls to his knees shows his weakness and lack of motivation.  Crawls hands and knees towards mother who is cramped in the corner. No transition into this scene.

Ninth shot:
Extreme close up of mother speaking into the characters ear.  Clean cut transition.
- Same angle and shot without the mum in the scene.

Tenth shot:
Long shot of the character going mental. Blur or no transition.

Eleventh shot:
Close up of the lock. Pull focus from the lock to the child in the background. Clean cut transition.

Twelfth shot:Point of view shot of the character searching on the floor for an item to break out.

Thirteenth shot:
Panning shot from the floor following the character rising from the ground with the paperclip. The Paperclip would be the object in focus, and the audience would only be able to view the outline of the character.

Fourteenth shot:
Picking the lock, close up. Very little in the shot apart from the lock and chain.

Fifteenth shot:
Long shot of the door opening and the character in frame behind the door.

Sixteenth shot:
Mid shot of the character falling to the ground with happiness and surprise, along with being weak. Pan follows him falling

Seventeenth shot:
Over the shoulder shot as the son lifts his head to view the field in his line of sight.

Eighteenth shot:
Long shot from side on of character running towards the field

Nineteenth shot:Close up of character entering maze field.

Twentieth shot:Character leaving the field and running along road, mid/long shot

Twenty-first shot:Close up of the character in norwich, lost and confused

With thanks to Lee and Tom who typed this up as we were creating the storyboard at the same time therefore I contributed by giving my ideas and amendments to our scenes.

*EDIT* Added extra scene (17th shot) to fit our storyboard as that is what I have created into the storyboard, or else it would not be a very fluid scene.

Storyboard Basis

Compiled Frames to short video

Storyboard Frames

Production of Digital Storyboard (Photoshop and WACOM tablet)

Here, shows the production of our Storyboard on Photoshop using a Wacom tablet to essentially draw up our digital storyboard. This will later come in handy when it comes to producing our animatic storyboard as all we do is import the scenes and record a voice over describing in more through depth locations, camera movement, etc.

In process of producing Storyboard scene no. 17

Wednesday// Thriller Opening Progress update

Today, I began producing the Storyboards for our movie and we have began to finalise our idea, knowing our tasks over the weekend and our location for filming. Currently we hope to finish the storyboard and shot list by tomorrow (Thursday) so we then have that complete to begin to create a digital storyboard on iMovie and hopefully do a voice-over to explain the camera angle and development in that specific scene. Over the weekend Lee is going to take pictures of the farm in Salle where we are going to film the introduction and so we then have a better viewing of lighting and space we have to use. Next week we will begin scouting a potential actor for the Son character and costumes, props and finalisation. We have agreed to film on the 23rd of November if all goes to plan.

Thriller Ideas

Idea 1:
My first idea is for a setting in which a young girl is left standing in a forrest filled with a mist, the camera tracks into the forrest, moving in to her, the young girl will have her eyes closed as the camera is moving in. This is going to be the middle of the story plot as the girl in the beginning is being born and shows her bringing up with her family. As she grows the bitterness get the better of her and demons take over her and posses her. She remains a missing child through the movie and from the moment when she leaves her family once she has burnt the house down with them asleep in the house. Going back to the movie introduction we turn to an extreme close up when the camera is on the little girls face and she opens her eyes on a heavy drum beat. It then turns to a sudden black screen. This then fades in with a faint piano riff in the background showing previous family photos alike that of The Conjuring (View here) and was effective at building up suspense and worked well at giving an insight into the context of the movie was being set in. These photos will run until the opening when one picture will match cut into film and begin the narrative.

Idea 2:
Another idea would be a setting near dusk when the audience can just about see a corn field maze in the distance from an establishing shot. The camera then turns to a viewpoint from a lower angle near the cornfield, a man can then be seen running into shot, as he runs the camera switches to a mid shot of the man running and panting, the camera then pivots to follow the character running into the opening of the corn-field. The camera then moves to a shot from above the runner head and is almost like you can find on a go-pro type sports camera. This should be effective as it is a close up of the character allowing the audience to view the characters emotions and sincerity in his face, along with the fear he has. Not only this but it also works because it will allow the audience to view the protagonist in a clear light, exposing their gender and age group. The plot behind this story is that the man has been feared by a group of young teenagers who in an attempt to change his life through social media and scare him to get money from him so they confront him in real life by tracking him through his computer use and go to his house and begin to harass him. This is when he begins to run off into the cornfield that is behind his house as the is being chased by the hackers. This has taken inspiration from the movie Disconnect. 

Continuity Errors - Line of Action video ("Fed Wars")

Continuity Errors within our 180 Degree Rule video

Watch the video here:

Throughout most of our ‘Fed-Wars’ video it was fairly continuous however we did encounter a few troubles. This was partially down to the fact that we had planned to film throughout just one day however this ended up having to be two days due to the fire alarm going off in school and this interrupted our filming and on that day we did not manage to finish filming therefore the main character (Myself, the burglar) did not have the same shirt on. We also encountered a larger problem which was that we lost a student from our group due to leaving College therefore we had to use someone else therefore our finale was rushed.

Around 20 seconds there was a large jump between the meeting of the two characters to the exchanging of the parcel, this is due to a lack of length on the exchanging of the parcel, however it is not that noticeable and just about works. Our use of subtitles here is simply because the wind was too loud in our film and the voices could not be heard clearly therefore we substituted the speech for subtitles instead.

Another continuity error can be spotted at 32 seconds where we had left our props in view of the camera, bit of a spoiler to say the least however next time I will scan the area we are going to film for errors alike this one, preventing it from happening again.

The biggest error in our video was when I was entering the main entrance to the college; with thanks to editing we just about corrected this mistake, as I had been carrying the box in different hands from the shot from outside when I entered to when it switches to the inside shot. This is still a slight continuity error because the bin is now on the wrong side, this is because we switched the video around and ‘flopped’ (Final Cut effect for flipped) it to make the box on the correct side to conform to the shot from inside.

Not only once I have entered the college can you see me wearing a slightly different t-shirt but also at 1 minute 17 seconds you can see people hanging around in the corridor when a few seconds back there was no-one, however we were stuck for time so did not get the chance to re-record despite acknowledging the error.

The Fade to Black effect was used at 1 minute 44 seconds so that the transition between the two separate shots would be more sleek because the camera was positioned in two slightly different places when filming.

Red Lights (2012) — Art of the Title - Timeline

Red Lights (2012) — Art of the Title (Click on ME to view introduction at Art of the Title)

'Red Lights' title - 9 Frames. Courtesy of Art of the Title.

Now, I have drawn up a timeline on graph paper showing the times of introduction of specific creditable people, i.e. the cast. My apologies for the quality as I do not own a scanner so had to take a picture instead. 

0:02 – Cillia Murphy – 0:06

0:06 – Sigourney Weaver – 0:10

0:11 – Robert de Niro – 0:15

0:16 – “A Rodrigo Cortes Film” – 0:20

0:21 – Red Lights Title – 0:25

0:26 – Cast (T6 – T11) – 0:48

0:48 – Casting – 0:53

0:54 – Sound Design – 0:58

0:58 – Production Designer – 1:01

1:02 – Editor – 1:06

1:08 - Music – 1:11

1:12 – Director of Photography – 1:16

1:17 – Executive Producers – 1:31

1:34 – Produced By – 1:38

1:39 – Written By – 1:42

Music stops at 1:46

The colours used throughout the introduction are conventional of the Thriller genre, using the very vivid contrast of the red on black and white film (only during title at 21 seconds.) The score behind the opening is very heavy and loud, with the whole intro being philharmonic. The intro featured a lot cross cuts with images and film, alike what can be seen in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' . Overall, it is very traditional and conforms to thriller conventions.

FED - WARS 180 degree rule video

We shot this video and edited it ourselves, this was the first time when we got hands on with Final Cut Express (see screenshot.)

The aim of this video was to create and use effectively the 180 degree rule (also known as 'Line of Action', this is demonstrated simply below in the diagram:

This is a rule that states that the camera must not step outside of the inner semi circle (180 degrees) on a specific side of the 'Line' (see line in diagram.) If the line does cross however it begins to create confusion to the viewers as it looks like the people are switching places as we as an audience watch. 

Experimenting with Thriller soundtracks and creating our own

Me and Lee used GarageBand to create our own soundtrack for a thriller introduction. See below for a screenshot of our work.