Thursday, 11 February 2016
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Trailer Focus Group
This is the focus group we held for feedback on our trailer, we used the questionnaire to structure it a bit more and receive more focused feedback on the success of our trailer.
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Finished Trailer: Young Breed
This is our finished trailer for Young Breed. To finish off we would like to gather some audience feedback and so we have planned to hold a focus group and will also get people in our target audience to fill out some questionnaires. Our feedback will help us decide whether or not we have been succesful and show us the areas that could be improved that we might not have noticed.
Editing Session: 5
This editing session took place on the 4th February and was our final day of editing. Our aim for this session was to add the faster paced music into the gaps we had left in the previous editing session. so we didn't need to waste any time moving things around.
I originally gathered some faster paced music that we could potentially use in our trailer for the action sequence, on Tuesday, however the external hard drive that I saved the music on was not compatible or readable by the Macs or the school PC's, which meant we could not access the music on it to import to Final Cut Pro X. This meant that we would have to come back another time, and Sam provided me with his memory stick to save the music on ,as mine was broken and we knew that his USB stick worked with the Macs.
Successfully, I brought the memory stick in with all the music I thought to be suitable saved on in and I started off the session by importing all of the music to Final Cut Pro X so we could listen to each one and experiment to see which fit the action sequence best. After listening to all the music we came to a decision between two of them that both suited the trailer in some way. They each focused on drums, which is what we wanted to build up the liveliness of the trailer and the action that takes place, however the second song that we looked at turned out to be a bit overpowering and intense for the amount of action that occurs and so we decided to go with our first choice, which suited our trailer even better as it started parallel to the action.
As were about to finish off and put the trailer onto YouTube Sam noticed that the end transition wasn't as subtle or smooth as it could be, and decided to place a jump cut to black, with the boom sound effect we had previously used to signify the end of the action sequence. Once this was done and we watched the trailer from start to finish for a final time, we saved it to the Mac desktop , which allowed us then to upload it to YouTube.
I originally gathered some faster paced music that we could potentially use in our trailer for the action sequence, on Tuesday, however the external hard drive that I saved the music on was not compatible or readable by the Macs or the school PC's, which meant we could not access the music on it to import to Final Cut Pro X. This meant that we would have to come back another time, and Sam provided me with his memory stick to save the music on ,as mine was broken and we knew that his USB stick worked with the Macs.
Successfully, I brought the memory stick in with all the music I thought to be suitable saved on in and I started off the session by importing all of the music to Final Cut Pro X so we could listen to each one and experiment to see which fit the action sequence best. After listening to all the music we came to a decision between two of them that both suited the trailer in some way. They each focused on drums, which is what we wanted to build up the liveliness of the trailer and the action that takes place, however the second song that we looked at turned out to be a bit overpowering and intense for the amount of action that occurs and so we decided to go with our first choice, which suited our trailer even better as it started parallel to the action.
As were about to finish off and put the trailer onto YouTube Sam noticed that the end transition wasn't as subtle or smooth as it could be, and decided to place a jump cut to black, with the boom sound effect we had previously used to signify the end of the action sequence. Once this was done and we watched the trailer from start to finish for a final time, we saved it to the Mac desktop , which allowed us then to upload it to YouTube.
Editing Session: 4
This editing session took place on the 1st of February.
Our aim for this editing session was to complete the editing for the sound effects that Sam downloaded in his own time using the same site we used last year, PurplePlanet, as well as Youtube. I was supposed to find some more fast paced music to layer over the action sequence, however I have been pre-occupied with my ICT coursework and so haven't had time to fully gather the amount of music I would like to present with the rest of the group and experiment with in Final Cut Pro X. In light of this we will experiment with and add the music in our next and final editing session.
Sam began the editing session by importing his three sound effects and downloading the Film 4 Productions short video to add to the beginning of our trailer. After doing so we remembered that we wanted to add the Green Band trailer statement and quickly found a suitably sized image on Google that didn't blur when the size was edited slightly. We thought it best to place this before the Film 4 Production short clip at the beginning as this was still and if we'd placed it after the Film 4 clip I thought it would've disrupted the flow. Once Sam had synced the music, Nichole, up with the Film 4 Productions clip, he then went on to adding the bang sound and layering it to take place with the flash transition. I thought for continuity's sake that it would look a lot better if the flash transition and the bang sound effect occurred whenever the drug dealer appeared and said something.
After this we went to add the heart beat sound effect to the drug deal scene on the fade transitions ,however after experimenting with this I thought that it didn't sound right and then Sam and James understood what I was hearing and went with my suggestion to place the heart beat throughout. I then thought it would be a lot more tense if we increased the speed of the heart beat by duplicating and putting them closer together as Shaun handed the drugs to the client.
The last thing we needed to do was add the sound of glass smashing, to the shot where Shaun hits an enforcer with a bottle of beer, that Sam found on the internet. To place the sound file as accurately as possible Sam zoomed in and placed it just as the bottle hits the enforcers head. Once it was in position we watched it over a few times and then lowered the sound of the smashing to make it more realistic. Now all we need to do to complete the trailer is add the fast paced music that I will find in my own time.
Our aim for this editing session was to complete the editing for the sound effects that Sam downloaded in his own time using the same site we used last year, PurplePlanet, as well as Youtube. I was supposed to find some more fast paced music to layer over the action sequence, however I have been pre-occupied with my ICT coursework and so haven't had time to fully gather the amount of music I would like to present with the rest of the group and experiment with in Final Cut Pro X. In light of this we will experiment with and add the music in our next and final editing session.
Sam began the editing session by importing his three sound effects and downloading the Film 4 Productions short video to add to the beginning of our trailer. After doing so we remembered that we wanted to add the Green Band trailer statement and quickly found a suitably sized image on Google that didn't blur when the size was edited slightly. We thought it best to place this before the Film 4 Production short clip at the beginning as this was still and if we'd placed it after the Film 4 clip I thought it would've disrupted the flow. Once Sam had synced the music, Nichole, up with the Film 4 Productions clip, he then went on to adding the bang sound and layering it to take place with the flash transition. I thought for continuity's sake that it would look a lot better if the flash transition and the bang sound effect occurred whenever the drug dealer appeared and said something.
After this we went to add the heart beat sound effect to the drug deal scene on the fade transitions ,however after experimenting with this I thought that it didn't sound right and then Sam and James understood what I was hearing and went with my suggestion to place the heart beat throughout. I then thought it would be a lot more tense if we increased the speed of the heart beat by duplicating and putting them closer together as Shaun handed the drugs to the client.
The last thing we needed to do was add the sound of glass smashing, to the shot where Shaun hits an enforcer with a bottle of beer, that Sam found on the internet. To place the sound file as accurately as possible Sam zoomed in and placed it just as the bottle hits the enforcers head. Once it was in position we watched it over a few times and then lowered the sound of the smashing to make it more realistic. Now all we need to do to complete the trailer is add the fast paced music that I will find in my own time.
Monday, 8 February 2016
Editing Session 3
This editing session took place on the 28th of January. In this session we aimed to get the voice over, monalogue of our main character, Shaun, which we were unable to do last time. We also wanted to finish making some final adjustments, using some sound effects Sam had found and edit the main song that occurs through most of the trailer.
I began the session by trying to access the voice over files of Tom through my email address as I discovered that this was the only way we could access the audio on the Mac. however when I came to try an log into my email account it was being blocked by the protective software on the Mac, as the site was down. I decided that I would go and try logging onto my account using a normal computer in the neighbouring building ,to which Sam provided me with his memory stick to put the sound files on.
In the time I went of to transfer the sound file of Tom talking, Sam started to edit the text on the trailer to make ita font that was a similar style to all of our posters and magazine covers, this was after the original font we had decided on using could not be imported to Final Cut Pro X as a font itself, and because the file it was recognised as was and image it went blury upon enlargement. In light of this Sam decided to try and find an existing font in Final Cut Pro X that best fit the conventions of a British Film Drama, being bold. After a while of looking he discovered a style of font called Grunge ,which created a weathered and torn appearance. He then decided that it didn't fit with the theme of our film narrative enough so looked for another font to combine it with. Successfully, he managed to find a good combination between the Grunge font and one called the Gaz font, making the text look even more damaged and broken, like the main character in our film.
As well as sorting the font style out Sam found a Film 4 Productions logo that he was going to add to the beginning of our trailer in order to show that we are in association with them and they are helping to produce our trailer. The problem with it being an image was that he came across the same problem that he had with the font, with it becoming blurred and low quality upon enlargement. I return whilst Sam was doing this, with two of the voice recording Tom did, and suggested that instead of adding an image we should use an animated GIF of the Film 4 Productions logo and I tried looking for one but was unsuccessful. Sam then thought about using a short video clip of the Film 4 Productions logo but unfortunately the site was down so we were unable to look for one there and then, and Sam planned to find one in his own time.
Once we had finished adding the text, and deciding what the best way to word lines was, I went about importing the sound files of Tom reading Shaun's lines into Final Cut Pro X from Sam's memory stick, and then we experimented with the volume and placement of it in the trailer. After a while of placing the voice over in different places we decided that it needed to be close to the beginning before the faster paced action shots started, and it needed to end as Shaun was walking away from his mothers grave to get a more emotional response and moving monologue. Next Sam thought of adding a flash to the cut to black before Shaun is confronted by the drug dealer. I thought the flash was a good idea and looked good, however this made the cut to black unneeded and just slowed down the pace of the trailer for no reason abruptly.
Once I had finally finished placing and editing the voice over, Sam began editing our main trailer song, by Gravehurst, Fading it out as the action in our trailer begins to increase, and ends where we plan to add more
fast paced music to layer on top of the action sequence. He has added the end to the into music at the end of the trailer and faded it in slowly and left a gap for the faster paced music to go in. After this we attempted to find some royalty free sound FX and music to use but unfortunately the majority of the sites were blocked and the ones that weren't had no music or sound FX on suitable for our trailer. Since, adding faster paced music and the Film 4 logo were the last thing we needed to do, Sam and I decided that we would get these in our own time.
I began the session by trying to access the voice over files of Tom through my email address as I discovered that this was the only way we could access the audio on the Mac. however when I came to try an log into my email account it was being blocked by the protective software on the Mac, as the site was down. I decided that I would go and try logging onto my account using a normal computer in the neighbouring building ,to which Sam provided me with his memory stick to put the sound files on.
In the time I went of to transfer the sound file of Tom talking, Sam started to edit the text on the trailer to make ita font that was a similar style to all of our posters and magazine covers, this was after the original font we had decided on using could not be imported to Final Cut Pro X as a font itself, and because the file it was recognised as was and image it went blury upon enlargement. In light of this Sam decided to try and find an existing font in Final Cut Pro X that best fit the conventions of a British Film Drama, being bold. After a while of looking he discovered a style of font called Grunge ,which created a weathered and torn appearance. He then decided that it didn't fit with the theme of our film narrative enough so looked for another font to combine it with. Successfully, he managed to find a good combination between the Grunge font and one called the Gaz font, making the text look even more damaged and broken, like the main character in our film.
As well as sorting the font style out Sam found a Film 4 Productions logo that he was going to add to the beginning of our trailer in order to show that we are in association with them and they are helping to produce our trailer. The problem with it being an image was that he came across the same problem that he had with the font, with it becoming blurred and low quality upon enlargement. I return whilst Sam was doing this, with two of the voice recording Tom did, and suggested that instead of adding an image we should use an animated GIF of the Film 4 Productions logo and I tried looking for one but was unsuccessful. Sam then thought about using a short video clip of the Film 4 Productions logo but unfortunately the site was down so we were unable to look for one there and then, and Sam planned to find one in his own time.
Once we had finished adding the text, and deciding what the best way to word lines was, I went about importing the sound files of Tom reading Shaun's lines into Final Cut Pro X from Sam's memory stick, and then we experimented with the volume and placement of it in the trailer. After a while of placing the voice over in different places we decided that it needed to be close to the beginning before the faster paced action shots started, and it needed to end as Shaun was walking away from his mothers grave to get a more emotional response and moving monologue. Next Sam thought of adding a flash to the cut to black before Shaun is confronted by the drug dealer. I thought the flash was a good idea and looked good, however this made the cut to black unneeded and just slowed down the pace of the trailer for no reason abruptly.
Once I had finally finished placing and editing the voice over, Sam began editing our main trailer song, by Gravehurst, Fading it out as the action in our trailer begins to increase, and ends where we plan to add more
fast paced music to layer on top of the action sequence. He has added the end to the into music at the end of the trailer and faded it in slowly and left a gap for the faster paced music to go in. After this we attempted to find some royalty free sound FX and music to use but unfortunately the majority of the sites were blocked and the ones that weren't had no music or sound FX on suitable for our trailer. Since, adding faster paced music and the Film 4 logo were the last thing we needed to do, Sam and I decided that we would get these in our own time.
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Editing Session: 2
This editing session took place on the 27th of Jan, and lasted around 1 hour 30 mins.
In this session we aimed to add more audio to the trailer. For example, Toms voice over for Shaun's monologue over the first part of the trailer, talking about his emotions in a way to somewhat justify his actions in the film. Additionally we wanted to add a song, that gave off the feeling of sadness and at the same time hope. Sam Warren wrote the script for Shauns character, however we noticed that one of the lines was not gramatically correct and so we changed it slightly. Once the script was to a good standard we found a quiet room and I got Tom to read out the lines into the microphone on my iPhone. To capture the audio I decided it was best to use the default voice memo application as it was developed by Apple and released with the phone, pre installed, meaning its is more specialised to work easily with other Apple products like the Apple Mac's. The first few attempts to get Tom to record the script were unsuccessful due to him either laughing or stutering and messing up his flow. Eventually we got a successful recording of him reading the script, however we were unsure of whether he was speaking too quickly for the pace of the footage in the trailer and so we decided to get him to record it again but this time speaking a little bit slower. To assist him with timing I counted him in to speak each line with my fingers.
Once we had finished up recording this we began editing with Sam trying to upload the song he had found called "Nichole (Instrumental) by Gravehurst" from his iPod to the Mac. Annoyingly at first we were unable to transfer the song from his device to the Mac, trying a number of different methods. Firstly, trying to drag the song onto the desktop directly from iTunes, as this works for all of us at home using our Apple products. We then tried searching for his device in the system with no avail as all of his apps appeared to be blocked by iTunes. Having no luck here Sam decided to find an MP3 converter site and change it from a Youtube video to an MP3 file we could use in the trailer. This saved directly to the desktop and was easy to import into Final Cut Pro X. From last year we remembered adding in a warning at the beginning of the sequence for adult content and making clear it was only to be viewed by people of a certain age. Having watched lots of trailers for films in the British Film Drama we decided it would be good to add a Green band trailer rating right at the start. This made it look more realistic and professional, like something that would be associated with Film 4.
After Sam had finished importing the trailer music, I then took over and tried to import the monologue from our main character, however I ran into the same problems as Sam and have decided to try and email it to myself for our next editing session.
In this session we aimed to add more audio to the trailer. For example, Toms voice over for Shaun's monologue over the first part of the trailer, talking about his emotions in a way to somewhat justify his actions in the film. Additionally we wanted to add a song, that gave off the feeling of sadness and at the same time hope. Sam Warren wrote the script for Shauns character, however we noticed that one of the lines was not gramatically correct and so we changed it slightly. Once the script was to a good standard we found a quiet room and I got Tom to read out the lines into the microphone on my iPhone. To capture the audio I decided it was best to use the default voice memo application as it was developed by Apple and released with the phone, pre installed, meaning its is more specialised to work easily with other Apple products like the Apple Mac's. The first few attempts to get Tom to record the script were unsuccessful due to him either laughing or stutering and messing up his flow. Eventually we got a successful recording of him reading the script, however we were unsure of whether he was speaking too quickly for the pace of the footage in the trailer and so we decided to get him to record it again but this time speaking a little bit slower. To assist him with timing I counted him in to speak each line with my fingers.
Once we had finished up recording this we began editing with Sam trying to upload the song he had found called "Nichole (Instrumental) by Gravehurst" from his iPod to the Mac. Annoyingly at first we were unable to transfer the song from his device to the Mac, trying a number of different methods. Firstly, trying to drag the song onto the desktop directly from iTunes, as this works for all of us at home using our Apple products. We then tried searching for his device in the system with no avail as all of his apps appeared to be blocked by iTunes. Having no luck here Sam decided to find an MP3 converter site and change it from a Youtube video to an MP3 file we could use in the trailer. This saved directly to the desktop and was easy to import into Final Cut Pro X. From last year we remembered adding in a warning at the beginning of the sequence for adult content and making clear it was only to be viewed by people of a certain age. Having watched lots of trailers for films in the British Film Drama we decided it would be good to add a Green band trailer rating right at the start. This made it look more realistic and professional, like something that would be associated with Film 4.
After Sam had finished importing the trailer music, I then took over and tried to import the monologue from our main character, however I ran into the same problems as Sam and have decided to try and email it to myself for our next editing session.
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
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