Thursday, 23 January 2014

Submarine soundtrack test



Submarine Soundtrack Effect

For the opening of the film 'submarine', our group chose a rock tune as we agreed it the most suitable genre for this specific opening.The reason is due to the dark lighting from the start and the setting of the teenage room which is quite messy and dim, it also has sort of quiet and serene feel to the atmosphere brought out by the calm view from the teenage boys window which he is staring out from of the sunset and the beach - this goes perfecto with the soundtrack our group had chose for the opening of the 'submarine' film, because even though its a rock tune, we carefully chose one which is a mix of melodic and upbeat tune making it perfectly suitable for the extract.
Due to the short limited amount time we had to for this task, we were not able to personally edit the soundtrack which we had intended to do at the beginning, but were still content with the track we've chosen as there was no need to make any changes or alterations.

Monday, 20 January 2014

Breakfast Club - Editing

Breakfast Club - Editing

While we were editing what we found difficult was getting a smooth transition of showing the characters getting out of the car and then showing the cars which were toy cars, this made the editing difficult.
As there is a voice over in the original scene we had to record our voice on a flip cam and the upload it onto the computer and the import it into Final Cut Pro which was time consuming. We had to extend some of the scenes in order to get the voice over to fit the scene.
Another thing we found time consuming was that during the scenes where there characters are speaking we would have to cut the voice over in the background and then bring the voice over when the characters had no dialogue.
One thing we will take back from this, is that we will have to be organised- we will have to plan the script before and spend more time on editing to get a smooth transition. During our free time we will have to use Final Cut Pro in order to make the film interesting than the others.



Breakfast Club - Filming

Breakfast Club - Filming

From watching the original opening of the Breakfast Club, we thought it was a simple task doing a shot by shot remake. However once we stared filming we realised it was actually a very difficult task. at the beginning of the Breakfast Club the student are seen coming to school in cars, the problem we faced was that we do not drive so instead we had to use toy cars.

We then had to show how the characters were going to be coming out of the cars as we used toy cars, this made it very hard as the toy cars are small and it made it very time consuming.

Another problem we faced was, once we looked back at our footage we realised that in some of the scenes, in the background your were able to see camera equipment and some of the props. This is something that we will need to make sure that in our film that we do not make the same mistake.

What we in our group all found hard was that we were very restricted  as we were not able to leave the college grounds and film outside. Also we were put under pressure as we had to film in a short space of time.

For film next time we will make a storyboard and have a digital storyboard and have the script and props before filming in order to work quicker during pre production. During editing we will also need to work quick in order to finish on time so each person will be allocated to do something different so we finish on time.