FINAL OPENING SEQUENCE

What do you think you have learnt in the progression from your preliminary task to the final opening sequence?

When I first started the preliminary task I did not possess much knowledge relating to filming techniques and aspects such as positioning the camera to create effect.

I have improved a lot in terms of editing, as you can see from my preliminary task to my final sequence the cuts are a lot more smooth and realistic and each shot flows into eachother seemlessly. In the preliminary task there were some incorrect cuts such as when my character was walking towards and opening the door to walk through. However in my final piece the cuts were very seemless as I wanted to work on this specifically.

I have also improve my mise-en-scene style as in the preliminary task my choice of mise-en-scene was really unrelated to the theme of the sequence and was not chosen for effect. However now as you can see in my final sequence I focused on the mise-en-scene and as the theme was technology and we were looking to portray a typical teenage 'hacker' we made sure the bedroom was messy and had things that a hacker would have lying around. An example of this would be the Guy Fawkes mask on the desk, which has connotations of hacking as it is highly connected to 'Anonymous' a worldwide hacktivist group.

I have also improved in my framing and positioning of the camera. In the preliminary task I used an over the shoulder shot in the shot shown below. We thought that this was the appropriate shot type as it seemed effective at the time however there is a lot of empty space on the left hand side of the characters, however in our final sequence we made sure the framing was effective. For example in this shot of the character at the computer we had him on the left hand side with space on the right to reinforce some of the mise-en-scene we had purposely put in, such as the posters.

 

 

 

Questionnaire Results

Vox Pops

We carried out vox pops in order to gather research and gain feedback from our audience regarding how our title sequence relates to our target audience through the aspects of mise-en-scene, setteing, music/sound and the overall theme of technology.

Directors Commentary

Question 5

Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Through our project we have learned and developed numerous new and existing skills in relation to filming and editing, as well as the production of our film gained us an insight into how to adequately research what we needed.

I used various programs and applications throughout this project, including web applications such as Sliderocket and Prezi; these helped me display my findings on the conventions and general research in a visual way and not just through text. I also used programs on the Mac such as LiveType for adding the titles onto our work, and iMovie to actually construct the movie and edit our recorded shots.

When filming I used a camera with a tripod at all times, which allowed me to develop my knowledge on getting shots framed well and creatively due to the ability to customize the height and angle. We also used the HD camera which allowed us to get more high quality shots and learned how to use it.

When constructing our film we used iMovie to edit our footage. We uploaded our shots from the camera onto the computer using the memory card reader, and then proceeded to put them in order in a new iMovie project and then cut them down and rearrange them to our liking. After that we learned how to use LiveType in order to create and implement our titles, this was new software like many of the other applications so it was interesting to learn how to import and implement features created in one program into another.

Using Photoshop I learned many new effects and skills when creating the film logo and production logo, such as how to make a starry type background from scratch by purely using brushes and filters from the application.

I used my pre-existing skills in web development (namely HTML, CSS and JavaScript) to create a script which allowed us to type out sentences in a matrix-style terminal application window to look like the computer was speaking to the character in our film.

Finally I used web applications such as Prezi and SlideRocket to display my findings and productions creatively online rather than just explaining it through text posts. It enabled me to attach images and videos alongside the text which made it much clearly and helped me to get my point across as images explain the point better than words.