Task 10- Evaluation

Evaluation

1.       In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In my film “Death’s Promise” I used the conventional atmospheric, dark and intense music for my thriller opening because straight off the mark because I wanted to make the impression to further audiences to guess what my media products genre is, which hopefully the audiences will succeed, the website I chose to use to be able to have the appropriate music is called ‘Incompetech’ and also I used a panicky, uplifting, high tempo incidental music to emphasize the chase scene. In my thriller I used the music from the website Incompetech to match when intense parts of my media product are coming up, for example when the protagonist looks at the antagonist on the bridge the music is high in tempo to match the action going on. As well as audio music I have used fonts from a website called ‘dafont.com’ to create the titles that are incorporated at the start of the opening, with this choice I have tried to reflect the genre like other real productions such as Se7en, Psycho, etc. Within the editing of my opening I have mostly used the ‘dip to black’ because it makes the audience wonder what’s going to happen next.

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lso in my original filming the way I planned it was very long so the use of dissolves was used to show a passage of time to create awareness of the protagonist’s whereabouts. During my editing I used the video effects of adjust->levels, with levels I am able to change the scene/environment with indicators of black, white, etc. I chose to differ the colour change in levels to a kind of the night vision look and I think it looks affective rather than have just having the original filming colour.  My thriller develops the genre by combining it with the horror genre, by having conventions that belong in both genres; I incorporated a horror themed character because in thrillers you don’t usually see ghostly/ mysterious figures it’s more of action killers so I thought to bring it in to make it more intensive and uplifting. In my thriller I have incorporated the credits during the opening scenes of the film just like other thrillers such as Memento.

2.       How does your media product represent particular social groups?

For my media product, the social group of the protagonist is represented as a young teenage boy which is conventional in such thriller genres along with young teenage girl because they are seen to be very easy to scare which is popular within the media industry, such a film that contain this is “The Host” by Andrew Niccol.

Whereas the antagonist social group is represented as more of a gothic figure who comes from the depths of darkness which is the convention of a standard mysterious figure who doesn't appear as a threat until critical moments because they are meant to seem scary within productions.

3.       What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

In my research into different media production companies I have come with the solution that I would think that the company called ‘Goldcrest Films’ which is a somewhat known UK filming company who produced such films as Private Peaceful and Dark Horse could may be distribute my media product. I chose this institution because it is very local to wear I live in thought that I don’t need to travel a great distance to go and promote it to their directors, etc and it has distributed other thrillers before, such as Black Rainbow and Enigma, which means that they might be able to produce it to whether they like it. Goldcrest films have made a mixture of big budget ventures and much smaller independent films so my film could go either way depending on whether they think it would be a big seller or not, preferably I’d would think my media product would be a small independent film because it isn’t as intensive or eerie enough as other thrillers that have been produced so it would be like some sort of test to see if anyone would come to watch it, that way the film company hasn’t spent lots of money to make it and not make any gross profit and also if it does sell much more than expected then they could develop a sequel that will make more profit next time.

4.       Who would be the audience for your media product?

In my opinion, my media product isn’t aimed at a specific audience but in general the ideal audience would be between the years of teen to adult because then they can give the best reactions to films, preferably I would want the cinematic rating to be a 15. If they were to be infants or young children they can get scared very easily and it is a rarity that your see elderly people going to the cinema to watch thriller/ horror genre films these days. Any ethnic group could come and see my media product unless their beliefs would stop them from coming to view it, so if they don’t believe in the thought of a lot of violence/death then they wouldn’t need to bother coming, which would then link to the fact that any social group can come to the viewing because if anyone was to be interested in the look of the product I wouldn’t really mind.

5.       How did you attract/address your audience?

I’d like to think audiences have been attracted to my media production. I have tried to attract my audience by the ways I’ve thought about the storyline, titles, music and characters in my opening. Attaction to the storyline was the main focus because it is usually the most significant factor about a film, so I chose to create the basic summary of a teenage boy being watched by a mysterious figure which then converts into a chase scene, also by the way I have do it creates questions and thoughts to what this boy has done in his past life to anger this figure, which I chose to hint through the titles name ‘Death’s Promise’. With this name I wanted to give these questions and thoughts a bit more depth for the audience predict their own reasons to why the figure is angry, the titles consist with the font called “Face Your Fears” by David Kerkhoff (http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=110) it ressembles the conventions of horror and thriller into the one font which I liked the look of. With the audio/nondiegetic/incidental music I wanted to add to the suspense through the film by rearing the music to pick up on tempo and dynamics when the significant parts of my production were coming up, for example when the protagonist see’s the antoganonist on the bridge the tempo begins to get faster and the dynamics become louder in relativity to the moment at hand. In terms to marketing/advertising my product in and out of cinemas I will look at other company ideas and convert them into one brand new idea of my own. One ouside cinema advertisement/marketing that I have heard of is a Resident Evil game where they only included a bath or an other object full of blood then over time they included more and more imagery/ text until their audiences finally got the notification to what they were trying to promote, I found thought that idea very effective because it made people think and if the images were good enough I made them want to know even more abput these strange advertisements. But to promote my media product inside cinemas would be quite straight forward, I would incorporate images and quotes on packaging of food and drink so when people come to buy sweets and pop to watch the movies they come to see the newly promoted film will be right in their hands which they would only have to look at, E.g the drink cup promotes The Croods. Also I would think about using a teaser trailer to give people hints that the film would be coming out because that is the most popular way of gaining new audiences because I’d say nearly everyone watches television. Another idea I could upload my media products video onto Facebook or Twitter then my friends will be able to see it then they would pass on the news of the promoting films.

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

Within the process of constructing my media product I have learnt about and used a lot of significant technologies. One of the technologies which I needed the most was the Sony HD Cameras I used to record the footage, whilst using this camera I had to learn about specific buttons which were critical for this project like the record button. At the start I felt it was difficult to work the video camera because hadn’t used it since I did the preliminary task but after a bit of time the knowledge on how to use it came back to me. On the camera their was a button which allowed you to zoom in and out on a scene, which I used quite a lot, to enable to see in on details that you want in filming. Another important bit of this project was the blogspot accounts we had to sign up for, with these blogs we had to upload all kinds of things for us to understand how production companies work and do what they do to make good films also they will become revision material for exams. We had to learn how to upload work, images and videos to accompany work for the project, e.g. we had to analyse camera angles, mise en scene, editing and sound in opening sequences of one thriller, horror, rom-com film then include the video to show what we analysed; we went onto youtube, loated the correct video then we saved the video as a j-peg and inserted into the work submited on the blog. To insert images and work was very simple because all we had to do was compy and paste them into newly created posts but some images we also had to save them and then include them as a j-peg aswell. These blogs needed to be updated frequently to ensure work was done and that the subject teachers can comment on our progress and to tell us whether we need to develop work. Another thing I had to learn about the Apple iMac’s and the software called Adobe Premiere which is the site we used to put our recored footage onto to process the film and edit it. The Mac was quite easy to use and straight forward because it was like using an ordinary laptop but there were some buttons that were tricky like logging off we had to click an apple shaped icon at the top left. Whereas Adobe premiere was okay because I only breifly used it during the preliminary task and it took some time to get to grips with it, we first had to upload the filming into a folder named raw footage which we then had to copy and paste the correct videos into the software, from this point it was just choosing the appropriate footage to put onto the film real. I had to learn about the video transitions/ effects, audio transitions/effects and the opacity, etc, with the audio and video transitions/effects I could determine when I wanted the music to change into different music or change from scene to scene, e.g. I used dip to black to symbolise passages of time. Finally I used websites on the internet to incorporate music and other things such as fonts, I used two websites inparticular Dafonts.com and Incompetech; these were where I got my chosen titles and the chosen audio. I learnt how to save/ download them then use something called import to allow the things downloaded to be used in the production.

7.       Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The preliminary task was very interesting in my opinion because it consisted of the skills that real film production institutions use to create their masterpieces and to learn what they do to come up with the nice shots they make.  In this task we had to specifically learn about working as a group (little production team), operating video cameras and filming sequences thinking about match on action and the 180-degree rule. Working as a group I have learn’t that people have different strengths and weaknesses, like in production institiutions the workers have their specifically chosen jobs because that is their specialitity, e.g. film crews know how to operate the huge camera’s they use and how they work whereas sound crews know how to use the audio technology works. So people in my group had different  abilities like for me I found working with  the camera is a lot easier than using the macs where someone else knew more about operating the macs than filming. I found operating the video cameras relatively because at home I know how to use our own which assisted me with the significant skills I needed to be able to work quickly and carefully. The camera had different buttons which did different jobs so there was one which had a red dot on the top symbolising the record button, another button I had to move light to right to be able get close ups and longshots. Also with the camera we had to learn about the different  angles and shots we could incorporate which meant we were really only had to maneuver the camera to get them. The record and zoom buttons were the main two we used to get the footage because really we used the macs to get other effects. With filming the sequences we had to focus on the 180 degree rule and match on action shots, match on action is where the camera focuses on an object from two different angles and the 180 degree rule is where you imagine a lin splitting a scene and you can only film at 180 degrees in that area- going over the limit is called crossing the line, I have learn’t these rules to ensure I can make a good production.

Task 9- Production Schedule

Dates (When)	How	Where	What	Who	What equipment will you need?	Health & Safety Implications
18/03/13	Camera angles, POV	Walking scenes through alley way, across park area	180 degree rule, establishing shot, close ups, horizontal tracking	Kyle Spencer, Richard Spencer	Camera- tripod
19/03/13	Camera angles, POV	Town area	Establishing shot, 180 degree rule, high angle shot, close up, horizontal tracking	Kyle Spencer, Richard Spencer	Camera- tripod
20/03/13	Camera angles, POV	Town centre- Running scenes	Hand held sequence, close ups, horizontal tracking	Kyle Spencer, Richard Spencer	Camera- tripod	Don’t drop the camera whilst doing the hand held/ POV scenes
21/03/13	Camera angles, POV	Town centre- final scenes	Hand held, close up, horizontal tracking	Kyle Spencer, Richard Spencer	Camera- tripod	Don’t drop the camera whilst doing the hand held/ POV scenes

Task 8- Casting

In my production it will be made of only the two actors, myself and my father. I will play the protagonist who is a young teenage boy who has done something wrong that nobody knows but someone in-particular. My Dad will play the antagonist Death, who is some sort of grim reaper but this ones in human skin so nobody knows who he really is.

Explanation of 4 phases

Christian Metz's - Model of Genre Development. Wrote the book Language and Cinema (1974)

4 types:-

1. Experimental refers to the early films which were explored and experimented with horror themes in its narrative.
     
     Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) and Nosferatu (1922) are included within the phrase.
These films were helped to formalise the conventions of the horror film in the earliest phase.

E.g. Nosferatu was a german expressionism film, they used a range of shadow to create the horrific genre and "Nosferatu" is used to symbolise Dracula because they couldn't use its original name to to copyright reasons

2. Classic refers to films which established the narrative convention of the horror genre in its most successful and defining period.
   
     Hollywood films such as Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931) made by Universal Studios.

3. Parody refers to films that have mimicked the horror genre in some comical way, which means it has the codes and conventions but they re mocking it.

     Films such as Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948), Carrying on Screaming (1968) and Scary Movie (1998)

E.g. Abbot ad Costello meet Frankenstein had the conventions of the horror genre but instead they used a bit of comedy into the film. So "Frankenstein" is mean't to be some sort of monster that has been brought to life but with he additional actors of "Abbot and Costello" it takes out some of the scariness and replaces it with comical views of this monstrous character.

4. Deconstruction refers to films which have taken the generic elements of the horror genre and combined them into varying sub-genres.

     Films such as Se7en (1995), Scream (1996), The Blair Witch Project (1998) and The Sixth Sense (1999).

Task 6- Movie Storyboard

Plot of my Movie- Death's Promise

The title of the movie is called- Death's Promise

The opening starts with the location of a town/ village where the protagonist is appearing to be calm and collected, from this point pans and horizontal tracking will be used to "watch" him walking into the trouble that awaits him. Whilst walking he begins to get very anxious about his surroundings because he gets the feeling his being watched. He then stops in panic and then he see's a dark figure awaiting him on a bridge appearing under a streetlight, Death. A close up will be used to build up the tension and to give the idea he is the antagonist. The chase begins. Again I will incorporate a mixture of pans and horizontal tracking to establish the environment and to show stress and a sense of being watched in different directions. Then the protagonist is heading to a predicament which then I change to a reverse track/close up to show the distance he is travelling which changes into a POV/ hand held shot that is used to make it look like he is panicking and shows irritation and again changes this time into a pan to run away.
      During the last pan, the protagonist begins to think logically and tries to lose this mysterious figure by running in different directions where the camera won't be able to see, then a the camera will appear round a corner and the boy is stilling running in stress and panic, he attempts to run into the local park which then backfires because the figure is standing in his path. The camera changes to the boys POV showing the figure, the tables then turn when the POV is in the antagonists eyes where he is closely watching his new victim by panning across the scene. The camera will then return to the boy running for safety and then gets the idea to hide in a somewhat high to see if he can find him, which again i will use a hand held POV to create tension the boy begins to stop and slowly turn round and behind him is the figure which will be roomed in on to make it it look like he attacked him. It fades to black no sound and then appearing on screen will be the body of the boy being zoomed to make it look like the deed is done.

The title sequence will include incidental/ non-diegetic music.

Task 4- Ideas for a Film

Horror

a. Group of teens are on a camping holiday and go into a secluded wood, but they are unaware that the woods are the home of different wildlife species which unexpectedly have been heavily mutated by nuclear run-off. From this point the volatile mutated animals start to appear an pick the teens one by one.

Rom-Com

a. The president is looking for love, but he thinks that people in his own country will only want him for his money and power. So what he does is go to another country and meets an out of touch peace core worker whom he falls in love with, but the twist is that he doesn't tell them what he really is until he knows they will stay.

Thriller

a. Etch A Sketch- After the death of the inventor of the Etch A Sketch, a crazed fan starts to kill people, leaving nothing but a clue on a an Etch A Sketch.

b. 10 Atheist Commandments- A religious nut kills people in the style of the Atheist Commandments.
Resilience, Empathy, Patience, Sacrifice, Politeness, Humour, Self-awareness, Forgiveness, Hope, Confidence.


As my final decision to watch pitch I want to do as an individual is thriller because I think it will be interesting when it comes to filming and editing. Also out of all the ideas that I have incorporated in this task I find that the ideas i have come up with in this specific genre sound better than any of the others.

Questionnaire- Research

Questionnaire Results

 In my questionnaire, my first question was "What sub-genre do you enjoy most about thriller films". My research has found out that psychological thrillers are the most viewed/ enjoyed in the present era just for the fact they make you think about films more and they mess with your head. So i will take the idea into consideration when making/ planning my film.

In my questionnaire, my second question was "How often do you watch thriller films". My research has found out that people don' watch as many as 0-3 thriller films a week. This shows that thriller films aren't the most popular genre within the media industry, inconsideration to this i feel thrillers need to be viewed more and so i will make a thriller film.

In my questionnaire, my third question was "What gender do you prefer the protagonist to be in a thriller". My research has found out that a male sex is the most wanted protagonist. This may be because males are seen as the best to scare in some peoples opinion, this will effect my decision on choosing my right actor/actress.

In my questionnaire, my fourth question was "What gender do you prefer the antagonist to be in the thriller". My research has found out that a male sex is the most wanted antagonist. This may be because males are seen as quite dominant/ big figures and can easily lose control.

In my questionnaire, my fifth question was "How would you like a thriller to start". My research has found out that people find it better that their is an opening sequence to the film to get audiences into the mood. This people do not want to waste time during and after the film to see who made it and directed it etc. With this in mind i shall create an opening sequence to my film that i will make.

In my questionnaire, my sixth question was "What words first come to your mind when people say 'Thriller". My research has found out that the most common word is scary because this is one of the emotions people want to feel whilst watching a thriller.

In my questionnaire, my seventh question was "What grabs your attention in a Thriller storyline". My research has found out that a mysterious figure/psychological dilemma is a popular attention seeker because it makes audiences think why they are happening.

In my questionnaire, my eighth question was "What factors, from a thriller film, have the best impact on your emotions". My research has found out that music create the best atmosphere for emotion. I think this is because it makes you jump and the different dynamics and tempo make you think.

In my questionnaire, my nineth question was "What do you find most intriguing about thrillers". My research has found out that suspense/ excitement is the best to draw people in to watch thriller films. I think its because it keeps you on the edge of your seat wanting to know whats going to happen next.

In my questionnaire, my tenth question was "What builds suspense in a thriller film". My research has found out that people find the audio sounds to be the most suspensive feature to a film because they make you jump to create fear which is what thrillers are known to do just like horrors.

Opening Sequence- Just like Heaven (2008)

Opening Sequence of Just Like Heaven (2008)

The movie starts with the Dreamworks logo and some incidental music of a guitar over the top of it (the music isn't the expected company sounds they use) its a happy tune. From this screen, the camera tilts down from the Dreamworks into the clouds, this creates a 'heavenly' atmosphere which links into the title. Whilst the camera tilts the titles begin to fade in and fade out, the colours used for the titles are very bold and bright the colours consist of Pink, Blue, Yellow, Green and Red to accompany the upbeat music. The camera continues to spiral down into a heavenly garden, may be ideal from 'Garden of Eden' theme. Next, the director has used a dissolve to show the passage of time from a dream to reality, she could of been in the dream for hours. Reese Witherspoon is sitting center screen, she is wearing the outfit of a doctor which makes her seem stereotypically peaceful, like a protagonist in a fairytale.
      We then see an out of context plastic chair and the song lyrics of 'Like a Dream', then an arm appears to reach out for her and the music stops when she wakes up from this mysterious dream. Reese Witherpoon is portrayed as a stereotypical protagonist of a romantic comedy; she is an original innocent person with blonde hair, blue eyes, young age, white with a homely persona. It shows that her life revolves around her job as a doctor, we can tell this by her commitment of her 24 hours at work. Elizabeth (Character name) is overworked, in the next sequence there is a constant use of cuts to different doctors giving her work, this shows the us lifestyle she has. Non- diegetic music becomes upbeat and happy again. From this point the cameras cut from different scenes to show the 'realistic' speed of how she works everyday nonstop. It appears to use as the viewing audience that she only works for a living, this is also shown by the fact their is no man in her life to balance it out and no children to keep her attention of her work all the time.
       It then cuts to a bathroom scene where Elizabeth is talking to a few of her colleagues about their lives in general, it turns out that one of her friends is married, another one of them is divorced and she is the only one to have not found love in the past and present day, this shows that she is not as confident around men as her friends and that she needs to get out more. Elizabeth then begins to speak on the phone to her sister. Her sister is the stereotypical 'housewife', she works at home taking care of the family whilst her partner has gone to earn money. We can also tell she is well off because of the size of her house and multi-tasking, whereas Elizabeth is living in an apartment. At Elizabeth's work the head of department is a black male, this indicates a dominant person, we can also tell this because the fact their is a "Kiss My Ass" comedy to it because they want a specific promotion and Elizabeth and another person want the same thing so the other character 'Kisses ass'. Finally on the way to her friends house, she isn't paying attention to he road because she has a lot on her mind, then shes bright lights from an oncoming lorry which manages to hit her car, the bright lights are a connotation of heaven.

Opening Sequence of Halloween

Opening Sequence of Halloween (1978)

Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film set in the fictional suburban town of Haddonfield, Illinois, USA on the October holiday Halloween. A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while doctor chases him through the streets.

The sequence starts of with a pitch black screen with the fade of Compass International Pictures and non-diegetic music to imply the fear and panic of the film. The titles fades through three main colours of Orange, Yellow and Red, this is an implication of fire, these editing ideas all imply thoughts of death (from the black background) and hell (from the 'fire' like titles) create the horror genre that the director, John Carpenter originally wanted. Within the next few slides their are titles of the cast and workers behind the film with the same fire effects to link in with the genre, to the left of the screen was a lit up face of a pumpkin and the titles were to the right. It starts to then forward track/ zoom in onto the pumpkin, the pumpkin could of been used to implicate the holiday.

    From this point, a sound bridge is used to create tension into the start of the film. The sound bridge consisted of a children's Halloween Song, this has been used to kick start the scary theme of the film. From the pitch- black screen we open up to a head-on view on the house, forward tracking is used towards the house and the hand held camera movement is used to create the point of view of the psychopath going to look through a window, to see a man and a woman. As the psychopath returns to the front of the house a bedroom light turns off, whilst that happened a non-diegetic screech is used to imply a sense of suspense as if something was going to happen. The psychopath then walks into the house and grabs a sharp knife from a draw. He stalks his way up the stairs and whilst walking the clock chimes and the light changes from light to dark, this could of been used to signify that the woman's time has come to an end and that the psychopath has become a monster from an innocent man. Before entering the bedroom this mysterious man picks up a clown mask this is used to indicate the thought of a devil in human skin, also the camera is filmed at a high angle to give the connotation of a full-grown man. From this point before the killing the victim shouts out the psychopaths name this could suggest the murderer is the woman's brother, and to make matters worse the bed was messy after the man left the home this indicates a sense of passion between the two characters which the psycho may not of liked, which leads to connotation of a strong bond within the family and he feels that she has betrayed that love an trust.
    Next scene we see the psycho walks outside into the front garden where a car pulls up in front of him with two people inside, the people then get out and repeat the name this indicates they may be family members, parents?? Then they remove the mask of the psycho which shows the 'transformation' of a devil into a innocent man. The director then uses a crane shot to establish the scene and also it reveals the psycho's true figure, the figure of a young child.  

Analysis of the Opening Sequence of Se7en

Pre-Opening Sequence: Se7en


The opening sequence starts with a close up of a book being opened and slightly to the right is the titles of "NEW LINE CINEMA". The titles are displayed in a scratchy kind of font this is used to be a connotation to the theme of the film which is a psychological thriller. Also there is a creepy type of non diegetic music which creates a eerie atmosphere leading the audience on to continue to watch the opening of the film and to make it feel like you were being watched. The book may be a symbol of the antagonists knowledge on how he does his work. It then dips into black which symbolizes death and mystery which creates questions for the audience to guess what the film is about, and again the scratchy titles are used to create the scary feel to the sequence. We then see the killers finger tips being shaven off these reveals the connotation of his manipulative nature to how he knows that if their are no prints at the crime scenes the killer cannot be traced. After we then see some sort of notebook, this prop could of been used to show that the killer keeps track of what he does and how he does the psychopathic jobs. Through the sequence their is changes in the pictures of different photos of people but they seem blurry which is a connotation of not everything is what it seems which links in to the eerie music. The main title of the film "Se7en" is repeated shown in its scratchy context and it moves like it played on the old film reals this could symbolize the date of the film it was created and give the film that scary, unsettled feel.
The movie begins with the medium close up shot of William Somerset (played by Morgan Freeman) from behind, first off we see the 'pure', dull colour scheme which indicates an image of his lifestyle. After making a coffee he pours it down the drain this shows a stereotypical view on a man living alone, we can also see this by the colour scheme and how women usually brighten up the place and children create mess and clutter, but we can see a few toys on his living room side?. We also see that everything in his house is organised, this creates the stereotype of cleanliness of a 'alone' single man.

Preliminary Task

Premlininary Task: Through the Looking Glass

In my preliminary filming task my role was to direct the segment of film we created in my group, this consists of Michael Cartledge, Abbey Evans and Jack McKnight. We used a range of different camera shots but chosen three specific shots to include; the 180 degree rule, match on action and eye line match.
   The 180 degree rule is a guideline that editors use regarding the on-sceen spatial relationship between two characters. I incorporated it in my work by how the actors in my video, displayed a conversation over top secret transfer over a memory stick containing significant information.
   Match on action or 'Cut out Action' is a component of seamless editing where is a point of action (like handling something to someone) is shot from different angles and cut at the point of action creating a match. I incorporated it in my work by how we use a close up on the handing over of the memory stick emphasising the significance of the item.
   Eye line match is editing from the camera to show the view points of the characters used. E.g. people having a conversation and putting a camera in their line of sight so its like we see what they see. I incorporated it in my work by how we used shots, from our characters eye line, to specify their view of the conversation talking about the memory stick.
In my opinion I think the overall filmmaking process went well in my group because our film turned out probably better than we expected. I found it interesting how directors use so many camera shots and angles to create a film, and we found it easy to change each shot/ angle but the downsides to the process was that the actors occasionally looked at the camera whilst we were recording and also the background noise was loud from the college. An upside to the process was that we were confident and seemed to know what we were doing.
Adobe premiere was very interesting to learn about because there was so much techniques to use and make your film look professional for transitions, I learned that you could dissolve, etc clips of your film to create suspense and a change in scene (one to another). For sound, we used a program called Incompetech to include music in the background and another program called Garage Band to include simple noises such as dog barking, sirens, etc. We used the titles bar to add text into our film to educate people what the film is called and who has made it. Through the overall editing I have learned a great deal, been as though I've never done it before, and I feel I will become greater with this technique through the course.

Analysis of the Opening Sequence of 'The Dark Knight Rises'

Director- Christopher Nolan

Starring- Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine

Pre- Opening Sequence:

The film begins with the titles; Warner Bros, DC Comics, and Regeny logo. Each of the logos have a dark colour scheme, showing the dark theme of the movie. There are also a metallic texture, which would represent the industry that Gotham City is built from. We then appear to see a slow zoom as ice breaks into the shape of the Batman logo/symbol, this shows that Batman is re-emerging from the depths in which Bruce Wayne gave up on being Batman.
     Next part of the scene we see Comissioner Gordon's speech, this leads up to a sound bridge as the video appears to show a portrait of Harvey Dent with the Commissioner in front of it (Harvey was a character from the original Dark Knight film), the scene then fades to black which suggests a passage of time between the two films.
     Then it shows a CIA agent from a low angle shot, suggesting a sense of power. The agent is also wearing casual clothing and combat trousers, the soldiers around him are fully equipped with the uniform, which is also suggesting he is ranked higher than them. We then see some prisoners in a car with bags on their heads, which is similar with how captured terrorists are seen in the present day. Incidental music is used to build background and to create suspense, which then leads to the talk of a mysterious 'masked man' who the agent calls 'Bane', with only the name, the audience is kept in the dark of the character.
     From this scene we see an aerial shot of a plane, which establishes a new scene's location, the CIA agent seems to want to find out about Bane, as the prisoners are told to be his henchman, he pretends to kill one of the prisoners to scare the others into talking yet one of the other prisoners speaks out and questions him. The voice of the prisoner had been heavily edited to suggest that he was Bane. Bane then shows intelligence by knowing that his fellow prisoners have not been killed. The camera then changes to a forward tracking into Bane's back, ready for the reveal. The agent questions him and Bane refers to himself as 'We', showing that he speaks for what he calls 'All The People'. Then we see a low angle shot on Bane's reveal, this is used to create tension and to show the dominance of this mysterious 'Masked Man', the CIA Agent who is knelt down below Bane is viewed in a high angle shot to show his submission towards him.
     Next we see an extreme longshot which is used to re-establish the scene in the mountain area, which gives the feeling of something else is going to happen; a new and much larger plane appears in the background. From this point, non diegetic/ dramatic music is used to show a beginning of action and a thrilling moment in the film, which also uses quick editing to emphasise the speed of the action from when bane gets revealed to when the plane crashes. Next we see the a blood transfusion Bane plans between two characters, this shows as well as his masculinity he has alot of brains to pull of schemes he plans to do. As well as that, we can see Bane's great leadership by how his henchman shows loyalty and willing to do anything by taking a dive for him to make his plane crash more realistic. Next an extreme longshot is used from the Bane plane to show the symbolise the end of the action and also to establish the scenery, then forward momentum is used to show a change in scene from a city to a bridge to Wayne Manor.