After we were done, there were a few people like family, friends and classmates to review our film opening. There is always room for improvement, but there wasn't a single person that didn't ask "What happens next?" The plot was so happening that the test audiences were intrigued and entertained at all times. And it wasn't even that the audiences were of the same age. We got an overall positive response from everyone and that helps us grow as individuals, and as a group.
How did you integrate technologies (online, hardware and software) into this project?
Draft:
The script for this question:
"In this project, we used various types of technologies and incorporated them in pre-production, production and post-production. Our skills developed through these technologies.
For pre-production, we used online technologies such as search engines like Google. I used Google to get ideas and visualize the film opening whereas, for some of the audios, I also used YouTube to convert videos into audios. For example, the typing sound is actually not the sound from the keyboard that was being used.
For the time of the production, for the shooting, we used a Nikon camera with different lenses to create different effects such as focus pull. Then we also used an iPhone 12 and an iPhone 13 for our shooting. To stabilize the movement, we used a phone gimble as well as a camera gimble for a day. We also used a tripod at the beginning for testing and trialling. This really helped with the stability and helped us understand the tools and tricks to figure it out.
For post-production, we used adobe premiere and Alight motion. Most of the editing was done on premiere whereas the title making was done on ‘Alight motion’. Everything from the transition to the title credits was done on premiere whereas for the title we used alight motion specifically. I tested on different colours and fonts within the app and after a while, it fell into place, even though it was a new experience.
This process more importantly not only taught us to integrate technologies but also taught us how they are used and why they’re so helpful"
The Video: Click the link below.
How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
The presentation for this question --> HERE
The draft:
The Link of the product: Click here for the link of question 3
How does your product engage with audiences and how would it distribute as a real media text?
The link for the presentation:
Click here for the presentation
The draft
Here is the final video for the second question
How does your product use/challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups?
Here's a draft of everything I wanted to include:
And after overthinking and deciding on what I should do,
Here are some behind the scenes for the editing of the video for this question:
AND Click the link below for the final product:
Here are just the questions with the content I want to include:
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online - in this project?
After filming, producing, and a lot of hard work, we've come to this point where we'll reflect on our work. Creative Critical Reflection. It's time to look back and see our progress from beginning to end.
For making the title, I used another software and then I sent it to our main editor so it could be added to the film opening. The application used was "Alight Motion". The making of the title was done on my phone, where I then emailed it to our editor.
These are just a few examples of the process where a few things seemed to go wrong. For example, in the first video, I thought that the format would be in png but it wasn't and the pixilated version seemed more put together compared to the shakey one.
Our production logo is simple and easy. "A BM PRODUCTION" It's just an inside joke among us and we weren't looking for anything too specific so it worked out fine,
Okay, I know we were really hoping that we wouldn't have to shoot again, but here we are. Just this last time. We were going over the shots and we found out, for a few seconds, when the guy gets up and starts walking, his head cuts off a little bit. And for the cherry on top, all of the shots for the 3 second bit, had his head cut off.
Luckily, that was shot in our school and we could go there to shoot again and this time, thankfully, it didn't take longer than 15 minutes. That was a relief. :)
For the credits in the opening, we tried to not get too specific and we wanted to keep it simple. Although it was not limited to these
Credits being:
For most of the scenes, we couldn't use the original audio because there was too much background noise and we didn't use any specific mics. We decided to do a voice-over for the scene where the guy is talking on the phone and another voice-over for when the girl leaves the car while talking on the phone as well.
For the specific details, we had them record themselves on their phone's recorder with the given script and then we asked them to send it to our editor.
Specifically for the sound, we had to use voice overs and audios that we could find from the internet. We had a voice over for when the guy was talking on the phone and for when the girl was on the phone, getting out of the car. Added sounds include the scream sound, the phone ring, the phone notification, the typing, the heavy breathing, and the traffic.
For the audios, I would convert them from videos to audios, then send them to Aleeta(editor).
For the background music, great job to our editor (Aleeta Naushad) for finding specific music that fit the genre as well as the plot.
Throughout the entire opening, these are the items we used for shooting:
So before our minor inconvenience. we started shooting the girl's part. We started by shooting the part in the coffee shot because we wanted to get done with the daytime scene first.
Here are some behind the scene shots:
Then, we moved on to our second location on the same day. Luckily, both of the locations were 15 minutes away. When we got there, we pretty much reshot everything. Instead of a camera gimble though, we used a phone gimble and shot.
Other behind the scenes:
As much as our group hates things not going to plan, or not working out, destiny had something else planned. :( Anyways, we were about to shoot (the last day of shooting) where we wanted everything to go to plan, it didn't.
The male lead that we had cast, had to cancel last minute. When I say last minute, I mean we were waiting to shoot and we get a call "I can't make it." With the deadline so close and having everything planned out, we decided to text/call any guy that was free and would agree to act. Weird enough, it worked out. We cast a guy, (Farhan Arshad) who agreed to everything and we explained the plot along the way.
For a significant amount of the props, I had a contribution on what to do and how to do it. Before, we were deciding to use a real knife as we only needed to lift it up and not stab, but as there was a huge risk issue, we decided that someone should make it.
To start off, we got some reflective, silver cardboard paper. Then, I searched up some ideas of knives to get an idea of what the shape should be (my search had become questionable after this). Moving on, after I cut the shape I was wondering what we could stick it to so it looks real. For that, I grabbed an actual knife to examine it and then decided to use a spatula.
For the blood, we used some gelatin, food colouring and some water. The colour was a little less pigmented compared to what we wanted, so we used some dry-erase marker ink. Since the fake blood was left out for some time, it began to clump a little so that intentionally made it more realistic.
After we were done, there were a few people like family, friends and classmates to review our film opening. There is always room for improv...
