Peer Feedback of Final Product.

1) The group liked our use of close ups which added a sense of intrigue to our production. Also the shots through the tree's concealing Subject 16's identity was liked.

2) Comments about sound were that the use of just diegetic dialogue was effective, along with the white noise that match the on-screen static, they thought it was original.

3) The use of costume was mentioned, due to its effect, conveying authority, lighting was also mentioned as an emphatic benefit to our project. The use of a phone call added mystery and worked well, a did the variety of locations.

4) The use of quick cuts was mentioned to create the sense of urgency. The use of monochrome and colour correction to identify different people and actions was good.

5) The resounding criticism was the lack of title. But, it was also mentioned that it could of been more interesting

Uploading Subject 16 to Youtube and Blogger.

First we had to convert our Final Cut sequence into a Quicktime movie, we did this by going to File > Export > Quicktime Conversion, we then had to change the settings - like changing it to MPEG-4 video, frame rate 15, quality medium, then click OK.  We then had to change the dimensions to 640 x 360.   We then had to change the the sound to AAC rate 48 kHz and set the quality to better we then had to make sure we clicked the box for internet streaming.  We then clicked OK, and saved our sequence.

We then could upload our sequence to YouTube.  This was simple because we signed into Jacks account and simply uploaded it.  Then we copied the embed code and pasted into our blog.

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Evaluating The Editing Process x')

We have now completed the editing part of our project. We started by getting the clips we needed for our opening sequence and placing them within the correct order, we then added the white noise sound and clip to make the sequence more dramatic. We then added the transitions of fade ins and fade outs to make the sequence flow better, we took the amazing wisdom from Amar and colour corrected the scene involving the girl (Subject 16). We made a great soundtrack within garage band however we decided it would be better if we did not use it because it wasn't fitting for our genre of political thriller. 

At the beginning of our sequence we added credits to display our roles within the project, we added them during the white noise clips as this was most fitting for are project. 

CHAARS BUBZ xx

Subject 16 - Our Thriller

Removal of our beautiful soundtrack

We had originally created a soundtrack in garage band to be included within our production however we decided the soundtrack would not be necessary in our opening sequence and so we decided not to use it.
It wasn't fitting to our genre of political thriller because creating a soundtrack in garage band and making it sound suitable for a thriller project is extremely difficult as the majority of sounds on garage band are too upbeat and unfitting to the genre.


We hope this inconvenience has not ruined your viewing pleasure of our production, thank you for reading xx

Credits

We added credits during the lesson of the 10th of march 2011, the credits consisted of the names of all the beautiful people within our production group and what they worked on during this process.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post xx

The amaaaaaaaazing additions made to our production this mighty fine day by myself and mistress holly

During this lesson on the 10th March 2011, we added our production logo onto the front of our opening sequence. We also realized that the white noise sound was too loud to the rest of the production, so we reduced the noise sound a tiny bit but not so much that it looses its dramatic effect that is needed within our political thriller. After finishing this, we edited the colour layers to make the scene with the girl walking more iconic.

Thank you for reading xx

Role and Influence..

Having made a significant influence on the editing process i have decided to create a blog in the role i have played so far.

My primary role in our group has been director of editing at this stage in the project. As our group did the rough editing, sequencing our material and letting their skills develop as editors, i watched and assissted them where needed, though little guidance was needed after the basic skills were established, just help with sequencing the material was needed.

Now that basic editing has finished i have stepped in to help refine and dvelop our product into a professional looking piece, with the guidance recieved from Amar and utilising his thoughts and suggestions to help our product gain full marks. This has included colour corrections, changing the saturations of shots and adjusting brightness and contrast to create a stylised piece that will define our product. There is still titles and sound to finish, however as of today (9/03/11) the sound should be finished and will be ready to add to our product tomorrow.
 

Editing - What we have learned

The team have gained vast knowledge of particular editing areas which I will now discuss.

• We learned to add fade ins/outs to our opening sequence.

• We learned how to drag the clips of footage to the bar along the bottom therefore adding the selected clip to our sequence. 

• Another thing we learned to do is add a soundtrack from garage band and convert it to final cut pro.

• We learned to edit the colours within our sequence as Amar told us that this would be an improvement and so we took his advice and changed the colour pallet to make the colours more bold and have more layers.

• Our production has taught us to use finalcut pro in detail, and we have also learnt how to mix audio with visual, along with a lot of other things in this programme. 

• We also learned how imporant various things are in the production of this format of media. things such as continuity, getting sound accurate to the timing of the visual clips - things like that.

Thank you for reading xx

Jack...

... has JAZZEH shooes, nuff said

Amar's usefull feedback on our editing within our opening sequence production.

Amar came over to our group and gave us useful feedback from our opening sequence which we will now mention.

• Amar in his ultimate wisdom has decided that the characters within our opening sequence are difficult to perceive and that the relationship between the two characters is hard to establish. 

• Amar believes that are production is lacking in titles during the white noise parts of our opening sequence.

• Amar also mentioned that we could add more forest like scenes earlier on to set the scene right at the start instead of leading the viewing audience into misleading environment. 

• Another feature Amar suggested we could add to our production is an intense sound towards the end of our sequence to add to the thriller theme. 

• The last thing Amar said we should change in our production is that the colour in some scenes is very bland and could do with more drama, and so he suggests we alter the colours to make them more bold and add different layers to the colours. 

We owe many thanks to Amar for his wisdom. xx

Editing - 7th March 2011

Continuing our editing process, we have added all the fade in/out transitions which is good. We have also started on adding the soundtrack, which is happening as I type this sentence. The first soundtrack we have added is the white noise sound which accompanies the white noise that appears throughout out opening sequence. We also have added a soundtrack which the good people called Holly and Lucy have kindly put together on garage band which is great as it is fitting to our genre of political thriller.

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What We Did Today - 3/3/11

Today in lesson, Holly and Lucy started to edit the video, first we put all of the clips in the correct order so that we now have the basic outline set up, then we added in some transitions (Fade in Fade Out), and white noise, we tried to add in our soundtrack, but unfortunately this did not go to plan, so next lesson we need to try and overcome this problem.  Overall I think that the editing of our video is going well, and we should be on schedule to finish it by next Thursdays lesson (10th March).

Feedback Of Rough Cut

We uploaded a rough cut onto the blog, however this was quite rushed and we hadn't even finished putting all the clips together but we got this feedback;

• The White noise is too long compared to the actual clip
• Extreme close ups are used most often in the phone calls
• Characters wearing suits, mobile phones used, costumes suggest genre (Political Thriller)
• Jump Cuts are used, no transitions as of yet
• All diegetic sounds, dialogue over a phone call
• The Best thing is the dialogue - really clear

We got this feeback from Q1-07 (Saffy, Sam, Lynsey and Michael)

Rough Cut.