Evaluation

Media Foundation Portfolio Evaluation

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Our finished Horror film Opening

We have burned our horror opening onto a DVD and also uploaded it onto YouTube. We have also asked people to watch our opening and to comment on it.


This is the link to our horror film opening on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RmzD3SekA0

Finishing our horror opening

On Wednesday 27th April, we finished editing our horror opening, making sure the opening runs smoothly and that the music and sounds and all the different effects are in the right place. We also made sure that the music and sounds start and end on the right shots so it would make the opening more effective and dramatic. Our horror opening lasts for about 1minute 58 seconds which is not the actual requirement of the 2minutes horror opening but is ok as it is not over the time limit and is not massively under, only a few seconds. All we need now of the horror opening is the finished copy burned on a DVD.

Putting together the rest of our horror opening

With the downloaded footage of Scarlett's filming, we started editing together the end of our opening and with the many different shots filmed by Scarlett we were able to finish our horror opening. We replaced the shots of Hayley's phone receiving the text with the new filmed shots of Jamie's phone getting the text. We also edited and added the parts of Jamie walking down the stairs into the kitchen and grabbing a knife out the draw. We also included the scenes of Jamie walking out the door with the knife and walking up the street to go meet Scarlett. We decided to make these scenes fade out to create the sense of the end of the opening. We included the title of the film, 'Revenge is Near' using the font called 'cracked' as this made it look like a title of a horror film as the font made the words look scary and creepy. We placed the film title in the middle of the opening after the scenes of Jamie ripping up the photos. We thought that this was a good place to put the title of the film as the music at the start of the opening end at these scenes and would help create the tension and suspense for the dark and horror that the audience would sense coming at the end. We also found and added some sounds of a mobile phone receiving a text to go over the scenes of Jamie getting the message from Scarlett. With the title of the film, we made each of the words appear one at a time and added some sounds with the title to make it quite jumpy and scary due to the loud crashes and beats of the sounds, making it seem like a real horror film title being introduced. With the scenes of Jamie walking down the stairs, taking the knife out the drawer and meeting Scarlett, we added many effects of the cross dissolve to create that blurry and distorted image which would reflect Jamie's state of mind and also would build up the tension and supsence for the audience. To make the scenes of Jamie taking the knife more powerful and interesting, we added the shot of Scarlett texting and merged over the top of these scenes to show to the audience the reminder of Scarlett's fate. I really like this as it adds the horror to the film of not knowing if Jamie would really go meet Scarlett in the park and kill her. We also added some strange sounds but quite creepy to the end parts of the horror opening to keep the audience on edge and gradually building up the tension and suspence.

Continuing with our editing

As we wanted some music over the top of our opening scenes and needed to be not copyrighted, we found a website, http://www.danosongs.com/ where we have permission to use his songs. We found a piece a music called 'Love Letters' where it was perfect to go over the scenes of the sequence of the photos of Jamie and Scarlett showing their happy relationship. This piece of music really went well with these scenes as the lyrics of the song was meaningful and related to the different shots of the photos. We also added the Production and Distribution company names at the start of our opening and using the key frame and different effects we made the names drag into the frame to make it look professional. Also by adding the effect of cross dissolve and some music over the top, it made it seem like an actual opening to a film.

Finishing filming the rest of our opening

As there were still some more filming to do to help create our finish opening, Scarlett decided to finish the filming so she went to Jamie's house and filmed the last part of the opening. She filmed Jamie walking down the stairs into the kitchen, opening the draw and taking out a knife. This would help create the tension and suspence for the audience as they would see the horror coming. She also filmed Jamie leaving the house, ready to go meet Scarlett at the park. Scarlett also filmed a variety shots using different angles and interesting framing which would help make it easier when coming to edit this footage. Scarlett also re-filmed the shots of Jamie receiving the text on his phone as we found out that we made a mistake when looking through the first footage we filmed for the opening. This would make more sense to the audience and would not confuse them of having different names of unfamiliar characters presented in the opening that would not be in the rest of the horror film.

Editing with the new filmed footage

On Wednesday 30th March, we started to look through the footage and began editing to piece out the start of our opening. We wanted to create the feel of the happy relationship that Jamie and Scalett have to the audience so we edited some of the photos that Hayley and Scarlett filmed and continued the sequence of showing the different photos at the start of the opening to create the sense that it is teen horror movie. We then took the different shots of Scarlett making and sending the text and edited together to show to the audience of what maybe is the end of their relationship. This would make the audience understand the plot of the horror film more. However when looking through the footage filmed, we noticed that we made a mistake as we have used the name, Ellie instead of Scarlett showing on Jamie's phone when he receives the text. This would confuse the audience as they would notice names of characters that are not in the film being introduced to them in the opening so we would have to film these shots again using Jamie's phone to make the opening right and that it would make sense to the audience. We then edited and put together the scenes of Jamie ripping up the photos of him and Scarlett, showing his feelings and reactions to the audience of knowing that their relationship is over. We also added some opening titles following the sequence of the titles of 'Mirror Mask' as I have already looked at the opening of this film. We decided to use small lettering for the different names in our opening titles as this created the feel of a teen film as most teenagers would not care about the right grammar and capitals of the names. We added these titles in different corners of our framing where it was easily seen and was appropriate. Next we are going to find some music from the internet which is not copyright to use over the top of these scenes to create the feel of the horror film opening.