Account of post production
Editing of the practical was different to the prelim task we had many different shots than the prelim task which made going through and finding out what shots we liked and were good took much longer. We still used final cut to do the editing of our practical task.
We were tried to make the initial you tube confession look like It was shot from a web cam so we edited it with bad continuity with the actor jumping over the screen and movement within the frame we got the idea from watching you tube blog videos and looked at the editing. We tried to give the suspect more screen time as the film will be about her and her point of view this makes the audience be on her side of the story it builds up the audiences trust in her we could then break this trust by having a really big twist in the story much like the usually suspects. we used a cross fade with some of our cuts to different shots to show the passing of time, we gave the tape recorder screen time to signify that it is importance to one of the themes in our thriller of being watched and how everything that people do is watch and recorded, a big brother feel, we also raised the volume of the click to also highlight the tape recorder's importance to the story. The use of a lift in the opening shot draws the audience into the story line along with the camera, the space is being reduced by the camera going down into the scene this helps to create a claustrophobic atmosphere in the thriller.
The diegetic sound of the speech in our thriller had to be mixed in order to keep it the same level throughout the thriller we also had background noise of air-conditioning which meant we had to go through all the clips and try to pick out the best sound, we highlighted important sounds to the story by raising the volume of them e.g. the tape recorders "click" sound is loud also we recorded the sound of the "click" specifically on its own in order to put it into our final edit. This helps to create a police interview room atmosphere, We used the sound from lots of different parts of are shoot and layered them over parts where we wanted to link the characters together and make the change in location and shot type smother by using the sound bridge we layered the sound of Alex's youtube confession with Kate in the interview room to link the characters together and reinforce to the audience that they were together this helps to build the story around her as the thriller is from her point of view.
Non-Diegetic sound of the gun shots and screaming is almost as if Kate can hear it in her head like a flashback and the audience can her it to, this once again makes the audience trust that she is telling the truth to the interviewer as she is being victimised, we chose an piano track to go with our thriller as the sound of the single instrument is quite vulnerable which reflects on how kate is vulnerable in the interview room also the subtle piano tone goes well with the thriller genre of our movie. At the end of the sequence we chose an elctro loud music which goes with our title card the loud noise has real impact on the audience as it grabs there attention to the title card.
Out titles in the thriller come in during and at the end of the sequence this is appropriate as the thriller is called Aftermath so the title comes in after an event. The text on the credits come in at different speeds and are not symmetrical with each other, this reflects the unstable nature of the characters in the thriller also the black background and white text reflect the high school theme as they are similar style to a chalk board especially the main title card an the end of the sequence looks very much like a chalkboard. The uneven layout of the lettering on the credits is also a reference to our production company "sirated" as the uneven lines on the letters is much like a serrated knife edge which are commonly associated with horror genres of films. The speed of the titles is fairly slow as we are trying to draw the audience into the film the slow titles and crane to floor shot do this well together. We kept the font the same for the credits as it looks better and our thriller also is still at a school so some formality is needed even though the lettering is uneven but this is a reference to the shooters un-stability, but for a British bigger impact the main title card is in a different font and has a more detail but it still follows the chalk board tittle theme.
We chose vertigo films to be the distributor for our film as they are a British company and our thriller is a British film so it wont appeal that much to an American audience as it has no American actors in it also vertigo films have a dvd distribution.
The title Aftermath will draw the audience in we also included references to the title in throughout the thriller with the shooting taking place after math in a school, also people who like to watch small British films will want to watch Aftermath as the distributor Vertigo Films is renowned for British films this attracts our target British audience to watch our film. In the thriller we will also have music from metal bands as this will attract our target audience and reflect the personality of our killer Alex
The diegetic sound of the speech in our thriller had to be mixed in order to keep it the same level throughout the thriller we also had background noise of air-conditioning which meant we had to go through all the clips and try to pick out the best sound, we highlighted important sounds to the story by raising the volume of them e.g. the tape recorders "click" sound is loud also we recorded the sound of the "click" specifically on its own in order to put it into our final edit. This helps to create a police interview room atmosphere, We used the sound from lots of different parts of are shoot and layered them over parts where we wanted to link the characters together and make the change in location and shot type smother by using the sound bridge we layered the sound of Alex's youtube confession with Kate in the interview room to link the characters together and reinforce to the audience that they were together this helps to build the story around her as the thriller is from her point of view.
Non-Diegetic sound of the gun shots and screaming is almost as if Kate can hear it in her head like a flashback and the audience can her it to, this once again makes the audience trust that she is telling the truth to the interviewer as she is being victimised, we chose an piano track to go with our thriller as the sound of the single instrument is quite vulnerable which reflects on how kate is vulnerable in the interview room also the subtle piano tone goes well with the thriller genre of our movie. At the end of the sequence we chose an elctro loud music which goes with our title card the loud noise has real impact on the audience as it grabs there attention to the title card.
Out titles in the thriller come in during and at the end of the sequence this is appropriate as the thriller is called Aftermath so the title comes in after an event. The text on the credits come in at different speeds and are not symmetrical with each other, this reflects the unstable nature of the characters in the thriller also the black background and white text reflect the high school theme as they are similar style to a chalk board especially the main title card an the end of the sequence looks very much like a chalkboard. The uneven layout of the lettering on the credits is also a reference to our production company "sirated" as the uneven lines on the letters is much like a serrated knife edge which are commonly associated with horror genres of films. The speed of the titles is fairly slow as we are trying to draw the audience into the film the slow titles and crane to floor shot do this well together. We kept the font the same for the credits as it looks better and our thriller also is still at a school so some formality is needed even though the lettering is uneven but this is a reference to the shooters un-stability, but for a British bigger impact the main title card is in a different font and has a more detail but it still follows the chalk board tittle theme.
We chose vertigo films to be the distributor for our film as they are a British company and our thriller is a British film so it wont appeal that much to an American audience as it has no American actors in it also vertigo films have a dvd distribution.
The title Aftermath will draw the audience in we also included references to the title in throughout the thriller with the shooting taking place after math in a school, also people who like to watch small British films will want to watch Aftermath as the distributor Vertigo Films is renowned for British films this attracts our target British audience to watch our film. In the thriller we will also have music from metal bands as this will attract our target audience and reflect the personality of our killer Alex
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