I am currently at the Voice Over stage. I have found the quality of sound with the inbuilt microphone in my macbook pro not to be so good. The memo application my iPhone however  records outstanding quality. Voice over is vital for my film as it needs to have some sort of narrative otherwise my opening two minutes is in danger of looking like a montage. I have transfered the voice memos to my laptop and I will transfer them to adobe premiere for editing.


The good thing about this preloaded application is that it tells you if I am speaking too loudly. This will stop the quality from sounding too muffled.

I am in the EDITING stage at the moment. I am having trouble moving the titles in a certain position. In an ideal world, I would like them to be at the top right, so it does not cover the face. I am limited in the software i am using which is iMovie 12.

At the moment, I am using COREBEL which is conventional of an ART HOUSE film.

This is a screen shot of the editing suite with the corbel font featured.

As I am at very early stages of the process, iMovie will not be the software I will be using. I am still getting to grips with a new software called Adobe Premiere. With this, I will have more freedom with the editing of the sound and better looking titles

Filming Report

Filming Report

Over all, I filmed over two days. The first on the 1st of December, the second on the 4th of January. I found my greatest struggle was dealing with the winter light. We started filming at 11 oclock in a West-End gallery and by 1 o'clock, it started getting dark. We found that we had to rush filming just to deal with light. This meant that we had to rush the exterior shots. Our exterior shots were the easiest however when we were filming the bench with Churchill on it, the greatest struggle we had was dealing with the mass of people. On average, we only had about five seconds to do a clean shot. If we went over, tourists would get in the way or sit on the bench. It would be impolite to get them to move! Here is a screen shot of the shot I am talking about: - We only managed to get a clean shot of about five seconds before tourists got in the way-

 On our second day of filming, we hoped to film in the national gallery. Sadly the National Gallery managers rejected our  demand to film within the gallery. We did however manage to get the entrance in to the National Gallery up the three flights of steps, even though we had to negotiate with gallery managers. Our hardest shot was the 360 pan. I wanted to get a steady cam effect however we did not have the resources. Luckily warp stabiliser on adobe premiere helped us with this effect. Here is a screen shot.

Our major problem we had was camera life. I was filming on a Panasonic Camera TM700. We only had five hours of filming time, and if we stopped and started recording. The battery life would be a lot less then five hours.  This was the camera I was using:

Finally, our last shots were random shots of paintings, we did these hand held with a jolty movement to give the impression that these paintings were animated. I found these shots very effective. I used a west end gallery to do this. This is seen in the beginning of my opening sequence. 

Mood Board

Mood Board

A mood board is an image that contains lots of different photographs to create a collage effect to make someone visually understand our production aims and the plot. Mood boards are not just used for film. They can be used for food brands, or fashion products. They may include costumes, props, location, or general Mis en scene.

Here is a mood board taken from google images:

This is a James Bond mood board. It includes all things that one associates with James Bond. These include Gadgets, Cars, Guns etc.

Here is my mood board. Things that feature in my film are art works, frames, and key sites in London e.g Trafalgar Square. 

Opening Credits

I am now in the process of coming up with some OPENING CREDIT. I am going to use my research of Art House films to create conventional titles for the genre.With all film openings, the director always goes at the end. I am using my own company ident, which is called "2FacedPictures" Here are the credits that are to follow.

Excluding my Company Ident (2 FACED PICTURES)


1. Film Four Presents

2. A 2 Faced Film

3. A Oliver Mould Film

4. With Participation of
-Canal +
-FILM4
-Maison d'Artistique (made up)
-Indépendant Studio (made up)
 With Patricipation of Canal +

5. -Imogen Watkins
    -Angus Bell
   - Fabio Beverage

6. Title of Film: DEAD TRUTH

7. Production Designer: Dean Chisnall

8. Effects Supervisor: Steven Lawton

9. Music by Lola Firenze

10. Director of Photography: Iain Stirling
   
11, Directed by Oliver Mould
 

I have come up with a company i-dent. I want to call it  "2FacedPictures" which connotes the genre of my film of an "art-house fantasy".  I am in the rendering process at the moment. Creating an after affect was by far the most complex stage of the process. I learnt that it is a lot of layering, and lots of work even though my title is about five seconds. I got an image of the internet of multi coloured wall and chose the font. I got a "glitter shot" effect which goes up and down. Here is a screen shot of the rendering process:

Script

Here is my first script for 'Dead Truth' that I put together. Although there is only one light of dialogue within my opening two minutes, there is non diegetic V/O.  It is with my voice though as my protagonist was not able to do the recording. This however did not disrupt the flow of the film. I edited out Mr Thornmans lines in my actual film as I believe it disrupted the film. Please click the arrows to enlarge the script. 

I used the program of celtx. This sets the script out in a conventional feature film fashion. This gives space for shot sizes, description of location, V/O and dialogue. Celtx did not only contribute to the quality of the film though it enriched the practicality and gave us a format of how we were going to structure two days of filming.