CONSTRUCTION: EDITING NEWS BROADCAST SOUND

In todays lesson I added a news broadcasting sound just infront of the voiceover to reinforce the fact it was a newsreport. I then alligned the voiceover so that the key words such as 'Crime' and 'a nice girl' are heard at the same time that the visual image appears. Both the visuals and sounds reinforce each other providing a strong suggestion that a crime involving the girl will happen.

CONSTRUCTION: SOUND EDITING

We recorded a voice over of a news reader reporting prejudice against immigrants as a result of sensationalist coverage of rising crime figures. We have made particular meanings clear through our sound and vision editing:

• The word crime occurs at the same moment as Olez, the Ukrainian immigrant, picks up his fish filleting knife. This links the idea of crime to Olez's thoughts.
• The audience's understanding that Olez is an immigrant is reinforced by the slow tilt pan upwards towards his face occurring as the news reader talks about the plight of immigrants.
• Olez dreams about his chances with "a nice girl" like his co worker has. His dreams are conveyed through our vision editing technique of the opacity tool combined with slow mo. The words of the Public Affairs Officer for the Migrant Rights Network ("All they want is to find a nice girl and settle down with a good job") occur at the same time.

CONSTRUCTION: SOUNDTRACK VOICE OVER

We developed the back story today through the creation of a news report that drew attention to negative press coverage of immigrant workers. We had noticed sensational news articles where immigrants are depicted as criminals or as depleting essential services. One example is the sensational reports that immigrant mothers were draining the health service budget in hospitals. Others included sensational statistics about immigrant crime. 

Our central character Oles is represented as a Ukrainian immigrant with a job in the service industry. Negative news reports inevitably make him uncomfortable socially and have an impact on how successful he can be when he tries to meet girls. Compared to his younger colleague who works with him on the fish counter, he doesn't stand a chance. Insecurity and jealousy mount.

Today we wrote the script for the voice over spoken by the news reader and the public affairs officer of the Migrant Rights Network

CONSTRUCTION: MUSIC CHOSEN

I created a PIKTOCHART to show how I decided on my final piece of music to accompany my film opening.  Click here to view my PIKTOCHART IN FULL

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING LAST SCENE

I used SIMPLEBOOKLET to present what, how and where we filmed our final scene. This is a creative piece of technology which allows users to create an online book which can be viewed by the individual or the public. These are the screenshots from my book.

Creating the booklet

This is what the final pages look like when the booklet is displayed online.

CONSTRUCTION: IDENT PICTURES USING ANIMOTO

USING ISTOPMOTION TO CREATE OUR PRODUCTION COMPANY IDENT

We made an ident for our production company Voyager Productions using stop frame animation. It features a boat going on a voyage over a vintage map with the words 'voyager productions' appearing behind the boat, connoting the voyage of discovery taken by the target audience. The ident serves to signal the genre of the production and entice the viewer.

TRELLO

I used Trello to create a to do list online. This app enables me to organize my thoughts in a way which is easy to keep track. By doing this I have identified what I still need to do, what I have done and what I am doing. This enables me to structure what is most important to do first and carry out that task.

CONSTRUCTION: P&A: POSTER

This is the original image we took of the actress playing Celine. We felt we needed a close up of an eye to be in accordance with our films title 'An Eye For Danger'

This is our first edit of the original photo. We added a filter to the picture which made the photo sharper and the shade darker. We could not have the photo bright as it would not represent the genre of the film.

This design is a working progress, we feel that the eye is perhaps slightly too dark and will not catch the audiences attention. Therefore we intend to make the eye brighter. This will draw the audiences attention to the eye which is a key element in our film. Also we feel that the picture needs to be cropped slightly so that we cannot see the beginning of the other eye on the face.  All we need to think about now is the slogan which we have not come up with yet.

This is the final poster design. The eye has been brightened to draw attention to it. The title below on the slight red background pops out from the page due to the colour contrast. Our slogan 'Keep one eye open at all times' has been added to entice viewers and is the same as that seen on the website. In the black space in the top left corner the release date is located along with actors names to inform viewers.

CONSTRUCTION: PRODUCTION COMPANY IDENT

In today's lesson we decided what our production company ident should be, we decided on the name Voyager Productions. We will use stop frame animation, iStopMotion. We decided that as our name was going to be Voyager it would be effective to have a boat going on a voyage over a vintage style map with the words 'Voyager Productions' appearing behind the boat.

CONSTRUCTION: WEBSITE

I designed the layout of our films website using adope photoshop. I started by researching othe film websites so that I could get an dea of the type of things which needed to be included. After doing so, I decided to start with one main picture from the movie as the backdrop for the website. The still image I chose was the overlay of Amber and the knife as this gives an overview of the film. Over the still image I placed the title using the same font as used for the poster to ensure consistency across both media advertisements. Also I have placed the words 'An Elliot Hogan Film' to allow the website viewers to see who directed the movie thus possibly increasing peoples will to see the film. Slightly above the bottom of the page I added a white band in order to create space for the different neseccary tabs: trailer, videos, downloads, itunes, facebook and twitter. Beneath this white band were a further three stills from the film to create more of an image in any viewers mind about what the film contains.

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING MURDER SCENE

In today's lesson we filmed the murder scen, this is the scene in which Elliot's character (Olez) kills Amber's character (Celine). This was a difficult scene to film as we had decided to film this scene in a car. We placed Elliot in the backseat of the car and filmed through an open door. We panned from left to right to show amber getting in the car then revealing elliot in the back seat with a knife. The next component of the scene was more difficult. We planned to film from the outside of the window looking in at amber so when she noticed elliot we could see her full reaction. This was difficult due to being able to see the reflection of the camera in the window and the light distorting the picture however, we eventually successfully filmed the necessary shot.