Wednesday 5 February 2014

Non-Copyright Music By Emily Hardy

This is a website we can get the non copyright music for our film from:
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

We need to work as a group and decided what soundtracks we want to use in our film. It would probably be something from jazz or silent film as they would fit most into our film noir genre.

Final Continuity Task

Continuity Task- First Cut




Feedback:

Here is the first cut of our continuity task, there are many issues filming it and we need to improve on it. Mr Ford gave us some feedback and gave us possible improvements we could do. We had difficulty filming it as we could not find the time to film that suited all of us. We tried to find the best location filming our continuity task however you can see in 0.40 there are posters on the wall, however we couldn't do anything about it as it is school property. Mr Ford gave us a list of shots that we had to include however we had broke some of these rules. Such as a shot reverse shot, 180 degree rule, top of her head was cut off and needed more varied angles. The 180 degree rule is when two characters should always have the same left and right relationship to each other. We had difficulties filming this as we weren't confident however this is one of the aspects of the task we need to improve on. When Simran informs Prada she is pregnant there is an extreme close up shot of Prada however this didn't go to well as her chin and her forehead was cut off this made the shot look unprofessional, this is another improvement we need to re shoot for out final cut.


There are many improvement we have to do, this includes:
-A shot reverse shot
-180 degree rule was broken
-More varied angles need to be used 
-The top of her head was cut off

Monday 3 February 2014

Order of the opening credits

In a Motion Picture, television program, or video game, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. Where opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence (such as the familiar James Bond).


Common opening order credits:
  • (NAME OF THE STUDIO)
Name of the Studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).
  • (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)
Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").
  • (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)
  • Director's cut  first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".
  • STARRING
Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodger;s and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name of the principal actor will be shown before the names of the producer, i.e. "The Canon group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").
  • (FILM'S TITLE)
Name of the film.
  • FEATURING
Featured actors
  • CASTING or CASTING BY
Casting director.
  • MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY
Composer of music.
  • PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

This research is very important to our film because when editing we will know what order to put our opening credits in.