First Draft Title sequence

This is our film title sequence that we have created. 

Evaluation of the group

This post is only going to be about how i feel the group worked well together and how each member in the group worked. 


Harj (Me)


At the beginning of the course I was very lazy and laid back. I did not do much and I did not contribute a lot. I then had to come to my senses and find a way to prove to the teacher that I can be worthy of the work I produce. We all had to assign job roles for the people within our groups so I took on the Job of having to be the camera man and the editor. Everybody took some part in the editing but I had thought that I had done most of the editing it is a good thing that I had done most of the editing because that was my job role. I did not do any acting but I had the privilege to film our title sequence and get the best possible shots i could get. There was one problem that  I had created is that we was going to film our title sequence but I had to be somewhere. I think it was easy working with the group and we did have laughs and enjoy it all in all. 


Aaron-
Aaron was meant to be our director and guide us through the whole title sequence and I think that he had done a good job of that. Aaron only had one role initially and that was a big job but we had to re film our title sequence but James could not make it so Aaron took on the job of becoming the actor. So I had to help Aaron in directing the shots as we were one man down. In the last time that we had filmed James could make it so we made it fair that he could do some directing as we all had a turn. Aaron did work very well in the group and contributed with everything he helped me edit, place the shots and we also filmed it in his house. There was only one problem that when we was presenting our film Aaron didn't come so Me and James had to present it. 


James


James did give input into the work he was our actor at first but he did not turn up so he had to have a different job role. When James directed he was good because he told us were to place the shots well and he helped with some of the editing as well. He had helped with one of the shots in the title sequence which we had used. James did not turn up to one of the shoots and we thought we would have been behind so we had to come up with something fast and in the end Aaron had to act.

Finishing up

This week we have finished our title sequence, we have completely done as much as we can do to make it look as good as we can. We tidied it up as much as we could do so and made it look as smooth as we could. We are happy with what we have produced and happy with the changes we have made (feedback sheet). We decided to finish editing and not to add anything else in there are two reasons because we did not want the film to exceed above two minutes also we did not want to waste any more time otherwise we would be behind in time. 

Changes i would make

As are near to the end of completing our title sequence I will be talking to you about what I would have changed to it if we had the chance to do it again.

1. I like our title sequence but it was really hard to film and it was totally un expected we thought it would be easy but we found out when we started filming. So it is best to film something you know that you will be able to do. 
2. The footage was okay but it would have been much better if we had more lighting as we wanted to film it in the dark but we could not get enough lighting. We could have used some sort of light to tension and make sure the scene was set. 
3. If we filmed earlier it would have been better as we could have used 3 different locations which would have made it more effective but we didn't have enough time in the end. 

Changes we have done

This week we had begun to change things to our title sequence that we had been told to do by people, we knew what we had to change by the feedback sheets. We had sorted out the cuts and made them as clean as we could between each shot and it is looking much better then before. We had also sorted out shots were the paper comes in, because most of the titles came off the page but we sorted that out and even added effects. We had also changed the characters names that we were told to do and done a research on a actor to see if we think he would be the right person for the role of that character. We had to sort out the song at the end because it just suddenly stopped but that is also complete. There is one more thing to do then we will have completed our title sequence and make sure it is ready to be shown. 

Feedback

12 of the feedback sheets that we got back were 2 out of 3 stars. Most of our feedback that we had got was positive and made us feel as we have created something good. 9 out of the 12 thought that our title sequence that we had created had potential. The other 3 gave us 1 star, which means that we need to do a lot in order to please them. No one in the class had given us 3 stars but we did not expect 3 stars as we knew that we had more work to do and it was only our first draft that we were showing to the class.


Many people like the camera angles that we had used in our shots. The typography was well liked, also the idea of the titles to appear on the paper was a common good note to our film title sequence. Even though many people thought the paper idea was good we had thought that we could have shown it much better then what we had produced in that time. The also like the opening titles that we had done because it had created an enigma of who the character was? What and why he was doing, what ever he was doing?


The downfalls that people thought that we need to work on is make the transitions between the shots more smoother because they are rough cuts. Even though we had to change that we knew that we would have got that in our feedback. Some people did not like the typography that we had used but we have also changed that. Many people did not like that we only had one location, but we was only going to use one location in our title sequence. It would have made it look more effective but we only wanted to have one location. People were saying that the caste was not right so we had changed what we thought needed to be changed. 

Week before half term

The week before half term we showed our first draft to Shaun in his lesson. The class had to fill out a feedback sheet on their thoughts on our film title sequence. They had to say what was good, what needs improving and what does not work at all. Most of our feedback we had got from other people was good and appropriate feedback. There were a few things that we had change and we will do our best in changing them. One of characters were not right for the role so we will have to change them and we are changing the character to Alan Rickman. We are happy as a group for what we have produced after the things that we have changed. 

final cut pro

This is the booklet that we were given in media. We were shown a demonstration on how to use the software but we had also been given this books just incase we forget or missed something. This book was used as guidence and it was a good thing to do becasue if anyone was stuck thent they can just look in the book and it will tell them what to do it is basically a manual.

Job roles

We all had roles within our groups and we had all agreed with eachother with the job roles that were set. In our first shoot james was our actor, but when we filmed in our re-shoot Aaron had to be our actor as james was not able to make it. So aaron was originally our director but he had to also take on the role of acting. We had to film our title sequence three times because the first time it was too dark. The second shoot was okay but we needed more shots so in the third shoot we made sure we had enough shots to cover all areas. So Aaron was the actor and the director. James did help me with about two camera shots and he also helped with abit of the editing. My role was to be the camera man and edit the video. I did take on most of the editing but people within my group did also contribute. James had made the song but it did not go well with our title sequence so me and Aaron had created one. I had put the beats in and we both made the decision if it worked well enough.