Blog Update

Today I went to the library from 1:30 -4:30. None of the people from my group turned up though so it was a bit annoying. I created a bit of a theme tune for Katie and Skylar but I am still not to much certain if it fits - these are the loops I use

THEME SONG

Alernative Rock Base01
Nordic Keyed Fiddle 02
Percussion Combo 09
80s Dance Sythn 07

So anyway, I spent the whole time eyes glued to the screen trying to do the sound track for it and I am still not happy with it at all. So I will skip netball tomorrow afternoon and go back to the library.

ANOTHER WONDERFUL PROBLEM IN THE WORLD OF PROBLEMS RELATED TO THIS ASSIGNMENT! The memory card from the sound recorder is not responding... Computers don't reconise it and neither does the device. So yay. Just loving this assignment...! 

I have stopped worring about the others, I re-told them what we agreed on at the start and I am just trusting that they will get it done, even through they didn't turn up today. Hey who know, maybe I am just really slow and bad at this!? 

I am going to update my EDL even through it doesn't have all the times on it because I am worried that I will have time to add the times.

Production Title: The Blue Butterfly Director: Amanda Tauber		Sequence/Scene Name: Scene 4 (Lair) Editor: Amanda Tauber
File/Clip Name	Time Duration	Shot Description	Music/Over narrative
4.1 walking down stars	0.00-00:00:01;21	Medium of Katie walking across (est shot)	Have some sort of exciting music
4.1 walking down stairs (close up)	00:00:01;21-00:00:02;17	Closer of previous shot, Katie turns to look back
4.11 open doors + bloopers	00:00:01;21- 00:00:03;24	Longer shot of both Katie and Skylar walking towards the stairs.	Go into suspenseful music
4.11 open door + blooper	00:00:03;24- 00:00:06;21	From behind Katie arrives at the door + looks up and nods to Skylar
4.7 skylar nod better	00:00:06;21 - 00:00:07;28	Shot of Skylar nodding in return
4.11 open door + blooper	00:00:07;28 - 00:00:10;00	Katie opens the door and heads inside
4.15 walk in split 2	00:00:10;00 - 00:00:13;24	Est. of room, Katie and Skylar walk in
4.16 walk across room	00:00:13;24 -00:00:15;19	Closer of Katie walking slowly
4.17 walk good	00:00:15;19 - 00:00:16;16	Skylar walks towards the camera
4.25 sniffing powder	00:00:16;16 - 00:00:18;02	Katie walks towards shelves
4.17 S walk good	00:00:18;02 - 00:00:19;02	Skylar walks past camera
4.25 sniffing powder	00:00:19;02 - 00:00:21;00	Katie reaches and touches poweder murmurs something
4.25 sniffing powder	00:00:21;00 - 00:00:22;06	Closer up of Katies hand in the powder
4.25 close up of powder	00:00:22;06-00:00:25;18	Scream! Katie grabs gun
4.25 K sniffs powder and turns	00:00:25;18- 00:00:26;04	Katie turns with gun held high, different angle	Quiten music!!!
4.25 Ksniffs and turn + walk (behind)	00:00:26;04-00:00:29;05	Shot of feet walking
4.29 feet walking through doorway	00:00:29;05-00:00:30;09	From chest up a shot of Katie going towards the door
4.28 K walk through door way	00:00:30;09 - 00:00:30;25	Feet enter room
4.28 K walk through door way	00:00:30;25 - 00:00:31;29	Enters through curtain and goes to the wall
4.29 Feet walking through doorway	0:00:31;29 - 00:00:33;12	From the behind she angles her gun towards the adjar door
3.32 K walking through door (front on)	00:00:33;12 - 00:00:37;06	Hook wall and her gun is aimed at the door
4.33 K sneaking at doorway:	00:00:37;06 - 00:00:39;27	The click of gun to victor add click sound
		Back shot of Katie opening door add door sound
		Behind of Katie with inside of room shown
		Victor putting diamond in pocket
		“”Well well well
		“”Look who we’ve got here
		Medium of ella
		Close of ella (continuing head turn
		Katie with gun held high “”victor irving, I here by place you
		Shot of victor
		Back to Katie “”and ella treasime
		Shot of ella “
		”under arrest
		Close of victor “”no.. you put
		Ella: that under arrest””
		VICtor: you put that gun down and let me walk away
		Katie steps forward: “”no I don’t add some sort of suspence sound
		“” you sure you know how to use that darling?
		Katie shoots gun ADD GUN SHOT
		Chair falls add sound or louden sound
		Shot of Katie just holding gun
		“”Sorry love	Have theme music from Katie and skylar
		“”I got places to be and diamonds to deliver
		Katie puts down gun
		Victor tips hat and starts walking backward
		Katie shrugs
		Skylars feet walk in
		Katie looks bored
		Skylars feet walk in
		Shot of victor walking back and Skylar walks in
		Hat into the back of gun – victor putting hands up
		Victors hands go up
		Skylar puts gun down and grabs chains
		Back of chains cut of earlier!
		Front of chains
		Katie puts gun down	“” have a new narrative from Nat
		Hand in pocket
		Show to Skylar cut off before shown to victor
		Close up of diamond and put in pocket
		Skylar arrests Victor

Blog Update

Im just going to post what I emailed out to the group and then it is pretty much self explanatory from that.

Okay. We know it is not done. And we all know that we will not be able to get it done monday afternoon, fact. We need another session to get it done and Sunday when the library is open is the only time we can. I will be going to the library from as soon as it opens (pretty much) to whenever I get my lair scene done, sound and all. If you think that you need this extra time as well, then I'll be there. Please do not leave the sound to Monday afternoon because it is highly likely that you wont get it done in time.

Not to sound like a teacher or anything , but it is a group assessment, everyone needs to do their part. All I am saying is that I will be there on sunday if you wanted another person in the group there too then please come allong. I cant make it for Monday so that is why i am doing it on sunday and because I have longer.

I know we all have assesments, but yeah, just make sure you have the things that you agreed to have done at the start done and well, it needs to be put together by monday.

so yeah... it has taken us thing long already, lets just get it done properly

amanda

Okay everyone just clarifying

On Monday andTuesday lunch times we will put the film together. For then each of us needs this done.

1. Scene Edited

2. Sound Track made for the scene

3. Re-recorded dialogue put into the sound track

4. Sound track exported

5. Sound track added to scene (as done in step 1)

6. Make sure everything works and there aren't doubble up voices

7. export scene 

If you have forgotten this is for who is in charge of what;

Amanda: Liar scene

Natalie: Chapel

Alice: Office + final credits (do you want to orginise something with emma)

Emma: Lab and Final scene 

Please please please a million times, please have these things done my monday lunch (if you don't then you will have to take out a laptop and finish it at home and add it to everyone else's by yourself)

thanks everyone. 

***********************

So pretty much a sum up. I am sick of orginising everyone elses work and I am just giving them a deadline and what to do. All I care about now is just getting my part as good as I can get it and then it is up to the rest of my group to get the rest done. 

I will post my EDL on Sunday after I get the times (I just put it in oder but I don't know the actual times. It didn't really help all that much but then again, it was good to know when approximately things were turning up. 

Today we couldn't refilm because a) no handcuff b) alice did not have her costume.

MR ANDREWS, IF BY CHANGE YOU READ THIS THIS WEEKEND - I LEFT MY HEADPHONES IN THE COMPUTER BY THE SCREEN. SO YEAH, THEY ARE MINE :D

Blog Update

I have forgotten to blog recently so this one will cap all that has happened.

Learning wise, Mr. Andrews showed our group how to use the soundtrack pro and the full class the garage band. He also went through how music creates dramatic effect and makes the film interesting.

But by how things have been going within the group, it has been slighly hectic. We are "kinda' on course so to say, but it has a lot of variables. The first lesson this week we worked just on the editing of our individual scenes and shortened or cut shots, corrected brightness and desaturated each indiviudal shot. Thanks to my previous editing at the start before I knew that is was going to be another group assesment, it was very easy for my group to edit their shots and for some scenes, hardly any changes needed to be made. On the second and third lesson we worded on the music backing. And it is really really hard. I'm not an expert of 1920's film noir music, all I can really think about is saxophones, so it is a long, paint drying process trying to get a sound track that matches and enhances our film. Every free afternoon we've had afterschool we have been recording the dialogue and all we need to re-record now is Natlies voice over emma's character. We were unable to get a male teacher to go over Alice because we just ran out of time are were not orginised in that aspect.

Today after school we are to meet in the Molfy basement adn film a few shots and if we have handcuffs we will re-film that, or else we will just have to put up with the golden chains. 
then we just need to do the full music, put dialogue over it and then put it back into a final, final cut thingy. I will be leaving around 5:00pm. nothing much *please notice sarcasm*

But that should do it and I think i will stay later if need be, I did have a laptop form but I have no idea where it went so i will stay for as long as i have to. 

Blog Update

Today Mr. Andrews went over some of the first steps to properly editing using final cut. It is mainly a process of drag and drop. However I know that it will be harder to do when it comes to the actual scene.

After school today I did a bit of editing in the library and just focusing on trying to cut down the run time of the film.

Blog update

I think that our group need to work as quickly as possible to get the filming done because I have relised that we do not have much time at all.

Blog Update

Today we watched the films and had popcorn! But in all properness, we had a good depicting of all the films (appart from one) and I got a better idea of my own. In contrast to what I wrote in my reflection, our film in not entirely bad, there are shots that can be easily cut to make it appear better and maybe even a few shots that can be easily redone. These include the handcuff/chain shots and maybe a few in which the camera is not following the 4 walls idea. Mr andrews also suggested to put a man's voice over Alice's voice to make it better and we need to do a lot of sound editing so I am thinking that we should start soon.

Pre-Production/Production reflection/evaluation:

Respond to each of the following points (using complete sentences or paragraphs). You should include as much detail as possible in your responses.

1.    Describe any problems or difficulties your group encountered during the planning. These may include; organizational problems, group related issues, etc.
We did not have many problems in the planning process, everyone had down their treatment and storyboards to an acceptable standard and we completed as a group and props, shot and production times list. However we did have minor problems with people attending the first after school meeting in which two of our members did not turn up. Also some of the shot lists were not through, and the director of that scene did not really know what she was doing.
2.    Clarify any time-management issues your group encountered during the planning process and describe the steps you implemented to improve in this area;
We did not know it would take so long to film (especially the lab scene) so we did run into a few problems in not getting that scene done in the time that we assessed to it. To fix this however, and with the new information on how long it takes to film, we re-evaluated the production timeline and made necessary changes.
3.    Discuss whether your group made effective use of the provided templates to assist the film-making process;
We used all the templates as we thought that it would cover what we needed, so it seemed like a good idea to use them. In the side of effective use, as said above, some members did not fill out their shot list to a necessary level and we had to re-do a lot of the lists because they did not imitate the scene filmed.
4.    Explain whether the planning process helped your group during filming. In particular, discuss whether the use of devices such as storyboards, shot-lists, and rough edits assisted throughout the filming process;
We used mainly the shot lists and just used the story boards in some scenes to try and get the scene looking like it was planned. However, problems occurred in filming (background issues) in which we had to adjust a few shots in order for them to look authentic.
5.    Describe any problems or difficulties your group encountered during the filming process. These may include; organization problems, unreliable cast members, group related issues, equipment problems, etc. 
As said above, organization problems resulted in people not turning up. We also had problems in which the camera once died in battery when filming a scene so we had to waste about 15min while we waited for it to charge up to an acceptable level.
6.    After reviewing your footage and completing the rough cut of your film, describe any aspects of your film, which need to be addressed. i.e does your group need to reshoot any scenes; are any additional shots required; are there any scenes which worked better than expected.
We need to re-shoot the very first scene as it is on the wrong focus and some of the shots as because they were filmed at different times and we did not bring lighting, the shots go from extremely dark to bright. In the individual editing there needs to be a few cropping of some shots because the film in 4min over time, but these shots can be cut to the editors preference.
7.    List any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project.
We learned how to use a lighting camera successfully and some good, effective shots. We also learned how to cut shots in order to make them look like they are just flowing from one to another. Also, we used a screen with lighting to change the brightness or contrast of the shots.
8.    Discuss whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection to throughout your project. Have you provided enough evidence to support your work? (Look back at your blogs/journals and think about whether it looks like 6 weeks worth of work).
Yes, I had posted a blog every lesson (after being informed we were supposed to take blogs) and it covered all I needed to achieve a good reflection of the filming period.

Discuss your feelings about the production task:
9.    Are you satisfied with your groups final result?
Not really, it is boring, unclear of what the story line is, and has a lots of holes in which you need to improve. It think that in order for myself to be more happy with the finished product, we will need to refilm certain scenes and re-record the sound over the top.
10.    Would like to change any aspects of your film?
Yes, I think that we should do the film from one of the characters point of view (Skylar) and have her narrate over it, this will give the viewer a better understanding of the storyline before the film begins.
11.    If you could start the project again what would you do differently?
I would re-think the plot and try to make it so that the audience will be able to understand more of the elements in without the need for too much explanation before. I may even think to make the film more of a suspence so that the audience isn't even supposed to know what is happening till the end and this will help cut down on time used explaining who the characters are. I probably would have liked to have done an activity before it where we wouldhave been given a sample scene that we had to film and edit for i think that that would give everone a better idea of what they needed to do. 

TASK 3 2012: PLANNING.UPDATED TREATMENT

Plot:

The title appears on a black background and slowly fades. On a wooden door two metal plaques have the names engraved, “K.Samuels” and “S.Grey”. The faint sound of multiple heels clipping against the floor can be heard. Detective Grey turns the knob and enters the office followed by detective Samuels. The door slams shut and the blinds rattle. Detective Grey picks up their next case from the pigeon shoot and they both walk to their desks.” What have you got there?” Detective Samuels asks. “Our next case”, replies Detective Grey. Detective Samuels grabs the file and flips through it. Inside are statements from witnesses and photos of the diamond, an image of Victor Irving and an image of Ella Treasime. “Well, you ready then?” says detective Grey. “Sure am” says detective Samuels. They both walk out of their office.

Katie and Skylar walk through to the front of the chapel passing a man in a suit praying at one of the pews. As they walk past he looks up at them but says nothing. Katie suggests to Skylar that she should go and talk to the priest to see what he knows. Katie walks up to the front where the diamond was and she sees a hair on the cushion, so she takes out her magnifying glass to get a better look and using her gloves she picks it up and puts it in a zip lock bag which she then tucks in her pocket. She turns to leave and signals to Skylar that it is time to go. They start walking off and the priest nods to the man in the suit. As Katie and Skylar walk past him he nods to the priest and gets up following them out of the church.

Skyler is seen sitting at a desk peering at the evidence through a large microscope. She is focused on the evidence and not her surroundings. Katie arrives at the door and with a quick glance she looks in the direction of skyler. Upon seeing skyler, the camera follows katie as she works her way over to the desk. Katie attempts to spark a conversation but skyler looks up with a mean stare and gives katie a shove. Katie then decides to take a seat whilst waiting for skyler to finish up. She drums her fingers becoming quite impatient. Finally, skyler looks up at katie and says without a beat 'the chemicals calcium and magnesium chloride were found in the evidence and there is only one lab that contains these chemicals.' Katie fluently replies with '320 Richmond Avenue!' Skyler nods and they look at eachother with pleased looks. They then walk over to where all of the lab coats are located and Katie pulls on her blazer and emma starts to take off her coat.

Katie and Skylar hop out of their car walking past many orange roofed houses, they stop outside the door of one. Slowly they make their way towards the door finding it slightly ajar. Katie, who is in front, shoots a glance towards Skylar who nods and grips her gun. With a deep breath, Katie pushes open the door and both girls quickly make their way in, bringing their guns to eyelevel. After a quick scan of the room Skylar nods to Katie and goes off in a different direction.

 Creak! The door to Victors section of the lab opens and Katie is looking directly at Victor holding Ella in captive. Katie glances around the room and holds her gun up at Victor. She informs Victor that he will now be arrested but Victor laughs and says to Katie 'No No No! You arrest that thing!' whilst pointing to Ella who is on the ground next to Victor. Katie nods knowingly and points her gun straight at Victor. Without a flinch he says in a voice dripping with sarcasm and humour 'Are you sure you know how to shoot that darling?' Katie becomes irritated and shoots but narrowly misses Victor, instead hitting a chair. 

Crash! The seat falls over and crashes to the ground and the camera follows it as it falls down and shows the bullet hole. Victor just laughs and says 'Places to be, diamonds to deliver.' Victor starts to back out of the lab towards the door but little does he know that Skyler is awaiting at the door behind him. He stalls once feeling the gun against the back of his head and slowly looks around. He sighs, knowing hes out of luck. Skyler walks around to the table to put her gun on the table and pick up the handcuffs. Once she is back to Victor she ties each handcuff over each hand. Katie puts down her gun, then shows her hand to Victor signalling to him that she wants the diamond to be handed over. He looks saddened but hands over the diamond. Katie smiles and puts it in her pocket.

Skyler then leads Victor over to a chair which is where he is chained to for the remaining of the time. Skyler then walks over to Katie where they discuss what is going to happen to Victor as he waits on the chair. Skyler informs that someone will be picking him up in five minutes. Ella, who has been quite this whole time pipes up and says 'too bad ill be gone before then.' She takes hold of Katies gun and walks towards her whilst pointing it straight at her. She moves out her hand, asking for the diamond without actually speaking. Katie reluctantly hands it over. Ella says 'Thanks for that!' and then walks straight out the back door, leaving it slightly ajar.' The camera then follows Skyler as she walks over to grab her gun and then follows Katie out of the door. Skyler is the last out the door so she closes it with a certain degree of force. The credits then appear on screen.

Update

Yesterday we exchanged all the files. I tried putting some into my computer but it took to long to do it.

We also made a list of all the shots that's need to be redone

Blog update

Today I came in late because I had a maths test. When I got there my group was working on their blogs. We put the film onto the computer and watched it through.
It. Is. Terrible.
You can even tell the plot it just has such an unconnected plot and it is just horrible to watch. Like nails on a black board.
It looked slightly better in black and white and I can see a few shots that need to be cleaned up.
It's nearly 10min long not included the title and finish credits so some shots need to be cropped out

TASK 3 2012: PLANNING.SCRIPT

It is not a highly sprint driven film so all of our sprit in included in the shot list so we could know exactally when and where is was being said and to make sure it was in the right shot.