Evaluation

Max and aimee evaluation

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This is my evaluation of my final product, 'Deadbeats'.

Film response survey

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Copyright

We got a message from Youtube saying that a German company called Constantine, has suggested that we have infringed copyright in the title of our film. We checked on IMDB and there is actually another film called 'Deadbeats'. We tried to call them up in Germany but their loyers we not available to talk to us. We wrote back to the email challenging their decision and explaining that it is for educational purposes only, but we will be prepared to change our title name if we have too. 

We had to select a reason why we thought this copyright claim was not valid.

Final Film

This is the final edited version of our two minute opening sequence, 'Deadbeats'.

Comparing Attack the Block with Deadbeats

Close-up of our main character on the phone and in Attack the Block, they have close-up shots of their main character (female/middle-aged) on the phone.

Title from our film - the font we chose has serifs on some of the letters to make it look more type writer like.

Title from Attack The Block - very square writing in white.

Screen shot from our movie - teenager walking down the street on the phone. We used someone the same age as our audience because it's more intriguing for teenagers to watch people of their own age group.

Picture from Attack the Block - middle aged woman on the phone, walking down a street.

Picture from Attack the Block - the title is not all one colour with very square font.

title from our film is in two different colours so there is variation.

Sound

I have been working on the sound design for my film. I chose this song because it gives off a mysterious, dirty feel and it creates enigma by the slow beginning and dramatic climax. I used the Free Music Archive website to find the song i have chosen. I originally listened to fifteen songs on the website and downloaded seven and from the seven i decided on the one. I tested the songs against my film footage to see which one worked best.

The song is available to listen to below.

Once I put the song on Final Cut Pro I then edited it by changing the volume to make the dialogue clearer and enhanced parts of the song that increased the tension.

The red lines show the volume of the track and how I changed it.

The website I used to find the soundtrack.

Editing our film

This is our title that was created on Livetype, with a flicker effect. The title looks like someone has written it in blood because of the splats around the letters or graffiti.

Our first still shot of London, we took this from the top of Monument. We added titles to this clip of one of the production companies we used.

This is another still shot of London. The font is black here because it works better against the sky and it is more interesting to have a variety of different title colours. We filmed this behind metal wire to create a trapped and grime feel. The wire contrasts with the out of focus shot behind and makes London look quite dangerous.

This is a Worms eye view shot we filmed of the back of our actor walking down the street. We decided the titles look better when the camera is still so they stay in one place. We chose to put the directors titles here.

This is an over the shoulder shot we took. The camera moves with the actor as she walks, this makes it feel like someone is following/watching her and this creates tension.

This is a worms eye view of the front of our actor, the camera is still here as well so we decided to add our actors name in. Half of the title is red and the other half is white, this makes the title look more interesting and gives us more variety. The colour red also suggests danger and blood.

This is a side worm's eye view shot of her feet walking to emphasize the fact she is going somewhere and is dressed nicely. This is also a tracking shot.

Before we began to edit, we put all the clips into Final Cut Pro so we could watch them. The clips we didn't use, we put into a folder called 'throw aways', we didn't delete them in case later on we wanted to use them.

This is a screen shot of Final Cut Pro, in this shot the film (blue bars) and the soundtrack (green bars) have been edited.

This is a screen shot of Livetype, which is the website we used for some of our titles.

We tested out many fonts on Microsoft Word, for our logo before choosing the final one.

We tried out making some parts bold or different fonts to each other

We created a file, where we saved everything to do with the movie in, this also made it easy and quickly to find stuff.

This is a screen shot from Final Cut Pro, the blue bar shows all the videos we put together to make our film and the green bar underneath is the sound.

We imported all the clips into Final Cut Pro, which then lead us onto making a rough edit where we put all the clips that we were using in order. After we had them in the right order we cut down each individual clip and made sure that there was a good continuity flow. After each edit we would have to render the clips together so they became one film. Once the film was edited, we added titles and transitions. The only transitions we used was fade in and fade out and some of the establishing shots fade to black. The font we chose for our titles are serious and easy to read, the colour of the title change in different shots because some colours work better against different shot backgrounds. The main title, 'Dead Beats' that was made on Livetype, it's white against a black background so it stands out. We added a flicker effect which gives off a psychopath feel and creates tension for the audience because it makes you feel quite uncomfortable. The font of the main title is in a graffiti style but you could also associate it with smudged blood. We wanted to add a darker feel to our film, and decreased the brightness on some of the walking clips and applied this effect to the rest of the clips to create lighting continuity. Once all the visual editing was completed we then added the soundtrack we chose and adjusted it to work with the film.

Using Key frames in Final Cut Pro, we made our production company logo, Blue stamp, move on screen. The word 'blue' expands and shrinks to a normal size ad the letters from the word stamp all come in from different directions to create a stamp effect.