Title Sequence Placement Control

For our title sequence, we decided we wanted to place the credits on the spaces below the polaroid pictures. On iMovie, you only have a limited amount of choices to where you can place a title so I found this video which shows how to overlay typewriter animation onto iMovie. We do not need the animation but it does also show how to overlay text in any place you would want, using PowerPoint and iMovie. This, I think, is the easiest way to do our title sequence the way we wanted, instead of our original plan to transfer our footage file to one of our laptops/computers at home to edit on the credits using Windows Movie Maker.

Foley Sound

As said in a previous vlog, we decided to Foley all our sound on top of our footage. The Foley technique is the process of recording audio and laying it over your footage during post production. Our footage didn't have loud enough sound so to make the audio more effective, we intend to add multiple audio effects like footsteps, leaf rustling, unzipping of a bag, etc. We, also, decided to Foley on sound of Zoe saying "Shit" because our footage didn't capture it too well. I found a video, below, that shows how Foley artists work:

Clean Version Of Our Opening

We had a discussion in lesson about whether a cleaner version of our opening would be more effective. By this, we mean that our opening would not include swear words such as "Shit!" which is especially emphasised in it as it is the only line of dialogue throughout.
We showed our original draft with swearing to a couple of our peers and asked whether they liked it or thought it would be better without and after thorough discussion and feedback from a variety of people, we decided that the use of swearing made the panic more effective and made more sense in the context of our idea.

Film Review: Se7en

In lesson on Wednesday, we watched the film Se7en (1995). The film was about a serial killer who, in series, committed seven sins based on the seven deadly sins; gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride and lust. I, personally, enjoyed this film thoroughly as there were a multitude of plot twists and unexpected events throughout it which kept me on the edge of my seat. I do not, generally, like horror/thriller movies but this was certainly an exception. The distribution of murders throughout the film kept it intriguing though I did feel it was a bit claustrophobic: there were practically zero breaks between the plot lines so there was little build up of suspense as it was constantly tense throughout.
Though the constant tension could've led the movie to become unendurable, the depth and gravity of Morgan Freemans version of a retiring policeman kept the film somewhat interesting.
The portrayal of each sin and its corresponding murder, also, kept me exhilarated throughout as I found myself excited to see how the next murder would be carried out and how that would help to solve the mystery of the crime.

Filming Day 3 Research

As previously mentioned in our last vlog, I am going to film a couple more shots. I am mostly likely going to be doing it this Sunday as the weather forecast is sunny yet cold. Once more, this is essential for us to keep the continuity and verisimilitude of shots.

Another contributing factor to my decision to film on a Sunday was that I would have the entire day free to film rather than being limited on a school day and I'll get to capture some establishing shots in golden lighting, possibly raising the quality of shots and overall standard of our film opening.
I have made sure that I can use the shoes that Zoe wore on the original film day and I have organised a similar outfit so that we can guarantee continuity is achieved. I have, also, been to the location recently to ensure that the autumn leaves are still there so that everything looks like it was filmed together and the realism is achieved.

Vlog 6 - Filming More Shots

Saturation Issues

Whilst editing Phoebe realised that the saturation of some of our shots are different. This clearly ruins the realism of our film opening so we made the conscious decision to manually change the saturation on iMovie. The shots that we refilmed were slightly darker than the earlier shots so to resolve that, we lowed the brightness and saturation of the original shots so they matched. We thought that it would be better for the genre if we lowered the shots instead of brightening them as it would add to the atmosphere and tension.