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

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PRELIM TASK [Click to View]

For the preliminary task I have to film and edit a piece of film:

OCR’s preliminary task asked for a:

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. 

 

This is the opening title sequence to the new fiction film 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' 

When filming the prelim task, I had to simply edit shots to make a sequence. Since filming and editing EVANGELINE I have understood how to use the camera better and the importance of the microphone. I also had to concentrate on continuity doing filming and editing. The shots had to fit and flow smoothly in the edit. The match on action shots had to look as one or the picture would look robotic.

Task Two - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Here is a slide show on my representation of the social groups in my thriller.

 

Day One

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Software; Adobe Premiere Pro.

Project; Evangeline.

Date; Mon 23rd Feb.

 

On the first day of editing, I uploaded all my rushes into a bin on Premiere. This was all my material I'd filmed before and wanted it all in a safe place where I could start working on it.

I labeled and ordered all the rushes and previewed them to see which clips I wanted to use. I then created a new folder and began assembling the clips into the order I wanted them to be viewed.

I tried to put each clip in a different row to the last, this was to stop them overlapping each other. It also allowed the sound to be seen clearly.

 

Art Of The Title

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I've researched a web page called ArtOfTheTitle.Com I has influenced ideas for my opening sequence 'Evangeline' and has taught me a little bit more about title sequences. 

I have decided for Evangeline to have title sequences throughout the whole sequence, this should be effective because throughout my opening sequence there are spaces and 'blind spots' on the screen where the keyhole is seen. I would like to fill these spaces with titles.

The first title will be the main investor followed by the production company, directors, actors...etc.

Souns is important as well in post production. I used pre-recorded sounds already installed into the Hurtwood RAID. The only extra sound I added was the door handle.

Types Of OS

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I have been researching lots of title sequences and have come across some very contrasting thriller openers. There is the opening sequence which foreshadows the events in the film, with a few names, companies and the title of the film being shown, sometimes the opening gives away information such as dates and locations. An example of this is Mississippi Burning. There are sound effects and dialogue in this sequence.

Other Opening Sequences can be very abstract and give very little away. The OS to Casino Royale is an animated sequence with music and important names and producers information. We see it is a thriller/action from the use of design and animation showing a man running. 

This opening sequence has little dialogue and is almost purely non diegetic music.