Grade for film: Level One (0-14)

Hi George,

You need a lot of work on the editing.... Only 1m long so that's a major issue. Aside from that the editing doesn't help tell the story as well as it should. You need to arrange a time to work with me on this.

#34 The Red Cloak First Draft

I have now completed the first draft for my film, The Red Cloak. Below is my film as it currently is, without sound and with still some tweaks to make to it. I am very happy with it and look forward to finishing my second draft as I am very interested to compare the improvements, and see what works and what didn't. I have also attached my original first draft of my film before I made changes to actresses used.

First Draft:


Original First Draft:

#33 Poster Planning Sketches

To avoid wasting loads of time continuously changing my idea and having to retake the photographs I have created a sketch of what I would like my finished poster to look like. I would like to stick to this and take the pictures to fit with this and the layout to be similar. Drawing this has prepared me for creating my poster and I now have a better idea of what I am doing. Below is the sketch I have made for what I want my poster to look like.

#32 Film Poster Research.

Recently I have been shooting and editing for my film, which is coming along well. To promote my film, The Red Cloak I would need to develop a poster and trailer, which has been discussed in the post about Ancillary tasks. I decided to begin with the poster for my film. As I have little knowledge about creating a film poster it was vital that I looked at some other posters to get an understanding. I looked at a poster from 'Insidious' and from 'The Last Exorcism', I found both of these to be fairly conventional, and the task was very useful to me, as I now know what I need to include in my poster. I also have a fairly clear idea about the colour scheme I should use. The two analysed posters can be seen below.

Film poster research

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#31 About the Ancillary Tasks

When we started the project we were told that we would have to create not just a film but some accompanying media products. These are called the ancillary tasks, and consist of a radio trailer and a poster. This is so that we have created the full media product, not just a short film but also a way of advertising and promoting our creation. Now that I have got most of my film ready, it is time to start on the ancillary tasks, I need to research and plan these as these themselves are almost as important as the short film itself.

I found creating my film to be very fun, and hope that I enjoy creating the trailer and poster as much as I did the film.

research and planning grade: 10/20

For level 4:

You must upload EVERYTHING you have done so far this year

You must explain what each post is, why you are doing that piece of work and what you learnt from it - you have only written short posts which don't reflect your ability to evaluate what you are doing

Put some soul into it - it lacks character at the moment George

#30 Using Garage Band

The film I am creating, The Red Cloak has no been fully filmed, using my actress' Charlotte Bird and Michelle Stanton. Now I need to sort out the sound that I will add to my film, it is very important that I do not use copyrighted music. After looking online at royalty free music, I have found few tracks that I would be happy using for my film. I decided to use Garage Band a programme that allows you to create music by dragging the different instruments onto a timeline. Below is a print screen of my timeline that I have created on Garage Band and you can also listen to the music I have created by pressing play below. I feel that using GarageBand was good as it allowed me to create the exact piece of music I wanted, rather than limiting myself due to copyright.

Using Garage Band by gorgiep

#29 Reflection on Shoot

I have now finished shooting for my short film, and feel that it has gone very successfully. I have around 15minutes of footage all together, this amount will obviously decrease as I edit as a lot of the footage is not needed to be included, and was just filmed to provide a safety zone should anything not work. I am confident that I won't need to film again as I feel that all the shooting is correct in terms of lighting, angles and setting. Overall I am very pleased with the shoot.

#28 Editing

Now that I had all my footage filmed, I had to edit it all the difference clips together and add sounds and music in the editing stage. To edit, I used a programme called Final Cut Express, which I used very briefly for my AS coursework. I found editing to be one of the most complicated and time consuming parts to this project, as each scene has to fit in time with each other, be cut at exactly the right place, and the sound has to also fit in with what is happening in the scene. My film took a few hours to edit together, which for a five minute film seems like a lot. As I progressed through the editing stage, my skills developed, and when re-watching the film believing I was finished, I noticed areas that didn't look right and then re-edited it. Due to my research stage, I found it easy to edit so that my film was conventionally. Below are some print screens of my film during the editing stage.

This is a print screen of final cut express, showing my 'timeline', my clip 'viewer' and my clip gallery:

This image is a print screen of all my different clips and sounds, which I edited together to form the final film:

This is a print screen of my timeline, which shows all my clips and sounds placed together:

#27 Photos on Shoot

This is a photo of me taken on the shoot, I am using a Panasonic HD Camera, which I found to work very well. I feel that this shoot was very successful.

WWW (What went Well) - weather was consistent, and got all shots filmed with the same natural lighting so continuity is not a problem.

EBI - Had more time to work on the shooting.

#26 Shooting Plan

As I am working along, timing is very important to me. I have created a plan for the months November and December for when I am shooting/filming and when I am editing my film. This is so that I can remember when I have arranged to meet with my actress' and also so that I do not spend too long or too little time on the shooting or editing. This plan will help me to remember my dates and use my time constructively, ensuring that I complete all tasks in the correct amount of time. Below are my two plans for November and December 2011.

November:

December: