FINISHED!!!!

OVERALL EXPERIENCE!

Overall, I have enjoyed this unit of work, I have manged to learn new things and have a good friendsgip with many of the girls of my group. I believe that our outcome is good and I don't think we could have done any better. I think  that our story line is very simple but very effective, we have manged to get our ideas across through the opening title sequence in a very effective way. I am very happy with everything we've done and think that I've learned a lot from this unit.

The Process: The Ideas

We first started with the idea of a young girl who plays an innocent killer and decided to call the film Sinful Wings. At first it seemed like a good idea, well it did the way that we imagined it turning out. However, what we had imagined and our end product were completely different. When we began editing on a Tuesday, we found we did not have enough footage and our footage was not as good as we had imagined. 


We had to make a quick decision and chose to re-film the next day. Putting aside the issues we had on this day, our recordings came out quite well and we were definitely happy with it. It took us a little longer than we planned to edit the clips but when we finished we decided to get on with the sound. It was fairly easy as we had decided pre-editing what kind of things we wanted to include, sound of the objects like the glass on the table, the make-up brush (also) on the table, and the street, which are the main examples of this. We also decided to have a constant sound throughout the opening. Once we finished with the sound we went on to the titles which were also simple to get done as we had also previously planned it. 


The changes between Sinful Wings and Dead Line:
We stripped away the innocence, but we still needed to use the same idea so we continued with the same character and tried to make her more serious, to try and make the audience take her as a character more seriously and really keep her in line with the idea and actions in the story. She is supposed to be a killer and maybe the wings did not really help the audience see her that way. 


The idea of the tittle:
The hand in the background, holding a phone, is one of a man who has been murdered and in his last moments attempted to call 999 for help. He is already dead and like the Pink Panther, she leaves something behind, as a calling card (which was another title idea) but the idea is for her to leave something in the crime scene that would not help anyone get hold of her or make it harder for investigators or police to find out the story. We have played with the words for the title, dead (as in physically dead) line (as in the phone line) and it could also mean that the young girl has a dead line to mean but also using the other meanings hence the separation of the words. 

FINAL CUT: (DEAD LINE- Opening title sequence)

Here is our finished opening title sequence for 'Dead Line'! 

Rough Cut for 'DEAD LINE'

This is a rough cut of the first 2 minutes of our movie 'DEAD LINE', it does not have sound or title sequences and the editing used in the rough cut does not match the editing used in the real FINAL clip as we decided to change a few things. 

The Editing Process: Print Screens

Here are some screen shots of us editing our clips, adding sound and title sequences to them.

Editing the thriller opening on Final Cut Pro

Editing the sound on Soundtrack

The finished sound for 'Dead Line'

Issues filming for thriller opening for 'DEAD LINE'...

As we had to re-film we could not afford to pay for the same room we had before for the previous film in the hotel. After watching back the clips on 'sinful wings' we decided to change quite a few things and needed more clips. The location was in the home of one of our group members. We used this person's room because she had laminated flooring which we really wanted to use as we thought it had worked well when we filmed in the hotel room. 


So as we arrived to the house we were all just taking about how to film and getting ready etc. When getting the camera and equipment ready we saw that the memory card for the camera was missing as we had left it in college. We tried to get hold of a memory card but we were unsuccessful. We asked neighbours as college was significantly far away from the location, but we could not get hold of one and were forced to go back to college. 


We made our way back to college to collect memory card then went back to the location and filmed, which took us about 2 hours. This time we made sure we had enough clips, so we filmed each part 3 or 4 times to make sure we had enough clips.

Problems We Had filming for first Film 'Sinful wings'...

On The filming day we had a major problem with the location of the place for our film. As we needed a bedroom no one in our group had a house to use, so the only solution was a cheap hotel or a cheap room. On the day the most of the time went on looking for a hotel. Also we were in a rush as most of us had to get back as we had other lesson, so this was another panic and short time to film. However we were very organised because the lesson before hand we planned our properly all the shots in order how we are going to shoot them all the notes and feedback we had was all written down so that on the filming day we did not waste time on thinking how to shoot and etc. After looking for half and hour for a room we finally found one at the end. Which we did get charged for. The other problem we had was we needed a male character for our film. As we had no males in our group. But someone form our group new a male that would play a part in our film which was good.  The room we had was excellent for lighting. Whilst filming there was not problems as we knew exactly what to do. So at the end we were very happy with our filming on how it went.