Saturday, 1 May 2010

Thursday, 29 April 2010

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Preliminary tasks has allowed us to develop our skills during filming and editing process, however when we look back to these tasks (bag swap & unnamed exercise) we have realised that we made some mistakes. By taking these notices further, we made sure that we don't repeat these faults during the filming process of our thriller title sequence.


Still from Prliminary task 'Bag Swap'

The still above shows a shot from our preliminary task that is out of focus. This has allowed us to be aware adjusting the focus before setting a new shot.


Still from the thriller title sequence

The still above shows the focused shot from our thriller title sequence. The differences between the focuses show our development in progress and being aware of our previouse mistakes.


Still from the thriller title sequence
The preliminary task has allowed us to clearly understand how to create math cuts through filming different shots in different angles then create match cuts whilst editing. As the still above shows we became successful in producing match cuts from the skills we have learnt during preliminary tasks.

Evaluation Question 7

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Our first preliminary task was the "Bag Swap". It was the first time we was filming with JVC cameras. Even though it was our first time filming.. I think it went really good. After having some scenes shot in the bag swap we had to take it to Final Cut Pro. (a program which was used to edit the clips.)

Using Final Cut Pro we have put the clips in-order to make it work out, we used razor tool to delete un-needed bits of the clips, made it into match-cuts to make it work out really well. it was the first time we've used Final Cut Pro too. Before all this we had a little tutorial from our teacher to show us how to use it.

As a group we had different ideas - we put the ideas together to come up with a even bigger idea, to lead us to success. The Bag Swap clip was just a little test.. to get our media skills involved and come up with a good peace. We had good camera shots, zoom ins and outs and so on in our clip.

Little exercises such as the Bag Swap was very helpful to us - as it helped us in our final work. We had better ideas of shots and techniques for our final thriller peace.



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Tuesday, 27 April 2010

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

This whole experience has allowed us to learn many things, and most importantly it has helped us develop our skills in certain technologies.

Technologies we were introduced to, and technologies that has helped us with the process of constructing our media product:

By using Google, we were able to research nearly anything we needed. For example, if we needed to research a particular film we would just simply use google to open IMBD which would show us all the information we would be needing on a film. Youtube allows us to find almost every video we could possibly look for such as, films, music, trailers and many more things.

We were introduced to JVC cameras. We had a brief tutorial on how to use cameras. This tutorial really allowed us to understand all the functions to a high tech camera.

Soundtrack Pro, soundtrack allows us to create music that we could use in our thriller opening title sequence. Music can really create tension, and Soundtrack is a great program to use because it allows us to combine a variety of instruments with each other, which could possibly turn out to be music that really creates anxiety and suspicion.

Livetype Pro, Live Type allows us to create a title sequence which helps express the mood and genre of the film for example, every font, size of font and colour represents an emotion. Live type can be used in Final Cut Pro, which is very handy because, we originally need to create our thriller opening title sequence in Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro is a professional Non-linear editing software application developed by Apple Inc. The software logs and captures video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited and processed.

Overall all these technologies combined together has really helped us put together a good piece of a opening title sequence.


What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?

As a group we have produced an armature thriller film called 'The Killing Spree'. Our thriller would be best suited to be released by a low-budget production company. Our low-budget film would be a motion picture shot on limited budget. We class ourselves as young armature directors, and because we are unknown it would be appropriate for us to start our film with a low-budget production company. Candi Studios would be best suitable to invest in our film, due to the support and experience they provide for young directors.


Our thriller would get an independent release mainly because its an armature film. Every film sets a target audience depending on their budget and genre. For example if you release a film based on romance with a high budget production company, then you are bound to have a mainstream audience.















Here is a picture of the type of cinema at which our thriller would be shown.

For examples of the style of marketing campaign we would envisage for our movie and examples of the types of media which would promote our movie. We would be using social networks, such as, youtube, facebook and myspace.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address your audience?

Thriller film opening 'Killing Spree' is produced by amateur students. As a low budget film 'Killing Spree' would be released by a low budget production company similar to WT2. As we were aware of these conditions, we decided to release our film through Candi Studios as the production company pursue on products that involve amateur students. Candi Studios was also ideal to connect with the target audience.



This is a thriller opening sequence from amateur students which was launched on a video website (youtube.com). Eventhough this is a low budget film it had large number of hits on Youtube as people can share or send these videos to their friends and families which can then lead to reach a global audience. As OOH advertising is not possible because of the low budget, we can also attract our audience through social networking sites such as Youtube, Facebook and Myspace as they are free of cost.

The screen on the green is a suitable cinema for our film to be shown as it is a small cinema where selected films are screened.

The Screen On The Green

83 Upper Street,Islington,London,N1 0NP

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Every media product aims at a particular target audience, so therefore media products include representitive aspects for social groups. The social groups are set with many different representations such as the age of the characters, ethnicity, costume or style.

The still above shows the character who is psychologically disturbed from our opening title sequence. A film 'Kidulthood' involves a character who is similar to ours. Both characters are wearing hooded jumper/jacket. The hood and the darkness in their clothes implies that they don't want to be seen, as this also imply the darkness of their lifestyle.

A still from 'Kidulthood'


What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

From the start to the end of the process of constructing the product has involved us with gaining new information and learning skills within the technologies that we were introduced to.

Research (web) - http://www.google.com/ http://www.imdb.com/ http://www.artofthetitle.com/

During the period of producing our title sequence we have used web to either to research or to reach a particular information, for example to analyse different shots from other movies we used Art of the Title Sequence to select the movie shots we wanted to analyse.

Introduced to JVC Cameras

We had a tutorial by technicians showing us how to use a JVC cameras and other equipment. This tutorial had allowed us to gain skills that we have taken further during our filming process. To experiment and undertsand clearly on how to use the cameras we had an exercise on filming Preliminary Match Cut. This exercise gave us visual understanding on how the camera should be set and used.

Apple Macs & Softwares

Apple Macs are one of the leading technologies along with the different softwares it includes, such as Final Cut Pro that allowed us to edit the shots we have taken as we first edited our Preliminary match cut exercise, which we mostly enjoyed producing. Soundtrack Pro includes variety of different sounds that can be put together to create a whole new soundtrack as we have created our own track for the sequence. Livetype has many different types of font and style this was very useful to select the type to highlight the genre clearly.


Overall, throughout the process of constructing this prouct has involved many different technologies. Without involving even one of these techologies, the final outcome of producing thriller title sequence could not be completed successfully. I have learned many techniques and gained many information about these technologies that led us to success.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Media products such as films, tend to represent particular social groups. For example if your media product is aimed at a particular target audience you need to make sure the product is suitable and representable for that audience. A social group is, characteristics shared by members of a group, which may include interests, values, representations, ethhnic group or social background and kinship ties.

In our media product, we have represented a male character who is psychologically disturbed. This character is simply disturbed in the mind. The use of drugs and alcohol triggers him to assault, rape and kill people, however his main victims tend to be women. He takes advantage of the vulnerability and weakness of women.




This image portrays our psychologically disturbed character, he is dressed in black and keeps his hood on to disguise himself.









Adulthood is a film based on characters who have different characteristics. Adulthood has a character named Sam. In the film Kidulthood Sam is a bad person, who takes drugs, sexually assualts his girlfriend and kills someone. Like wise the character that we have represented also has the same problems and bad habbits. Both characters are dressed in dark colours and have their hoods up. Being dressed in dark colours and having your hood up can indicate that you are a threat and you use your hood for disguise.

Evaluation 8


Here are words our classmates used to describe our media product.

Monday, 26 April 2010

Evaluation Question 6

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Eventhough I've used Apple MACs before, when I was introduced to them once again with my AS Media class, I've learnt more things. e.g. how to use programs even better.. Final Cut Pro, LiveType & SoundTrack. I'm sure these programs will be helpful for me in the future, as I'm planning to take media further more in life. Apple MACs are difficult to use, but once you get used to them, it gets easier. At first we got a little tutorial from our teacher with the programs, and later in other lessons we used these programs to edit our clips.

Evaluation No.5

5. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 3&4

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think that working title 2 (Universal Pictures) might distribute our media product. The reason why I picked this distribution company is because our film is most likely going to be a low budget film. Working title 2 is known to do low budget films, as in a way of giving them a chance to succeed. We weren’t really inspired by any other film, so we wouldn’t need any great special effects or anything. As a group we thought we should come up with one ourselves and I think we had succeeded very well.

4. How will you attract/address your audience?

I will be advertising my media product on Youtube. Make it into little teasers to give a taste to my audience. Youtube has millions of viewers daily, so using this should be a good idea. Also I will be advertising it on Facebook/Twitter. Making my media products own page and advertising it through there should be easy to, with this we could get through to many people around the world.

Evaluation Question 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our media product we only had two characters (main characters). The male character was sterotypical in a way, he had his jeans down low and a jacket which had a hoody, which went back to the saying "people with hoodies are criminals". The male character was a killer, he was the type of person who didn't care, he does what he wants and is a pretty strong character in the media product. This character easily fits into the 'criminal' category.

On the other hand we had the female character, also playing a sterotypical vulnerable female, easy to hurt and is very weak. She was the victim who the 'killer' decided to choose. She was wearing casual clothes - which a girl will wear in a normal day out, nothing special.

In the scene the male character was sitting on the bench, waiting for its best victim - reading the newspaper, like any other man will do in the morning. At last comes along a vulnerable female who decides to sit on the other bench near the killer. After a few seconds of staring, the girl feels uncomfortable and unprotected and decides to leave and walks away. The male character puts on his 'hood' and starts to follow his victim. This is where the tension builds up and the actions kicks in.

Overall, our clip shows what most girls go through nearly each day.

Friday, 23 April 2010

Evaluation No.8

8. Audience feedback and comment

Evaluation No.7

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Our first preliminary task was "Bag Swap". We thought our first filming using JVC cameras and editing using Final Cut Pro worked really well.

We have learnt several different techniques during filming process, such as before zooming in we had to adjust the focus. In our thriller opening we made sure that every time we set the new shot we had to adjust the focus.

A short clip from preliminary task "Bag Swap" showing unfocused shot.

A short clip from preliminary task "Unnamed" showing unfocused shot.

Another technique we have learnt from this preliminary task was that whilst recording the person in front of the camera should be in role after few seconds.

Our second preliminary task was about a police officer questioning a serial killer. We didn't have a title for this particular clip as it was just one of the task we wanted to create to improve our skills.

We thought we had succeeded in creating this task as our match cuts had worked really well. The only thing that went wrong in this task was that we did not turn the microphone on, so therefore the was no dialogues throughout the clip.

Evaluation No.6

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When I started AS media i was just using an ordinary windows PC, then when we had our lesson in the computer room we was using Apple MAC’s.
I’m not going to lie, the first time i was using the MAC’s it was quiet difficult but after the first 15minutes i got used to it, it was like i have been using them all my life. After awhile we were taught how to use software’s like, Final Cut Pro, Live Type Pro and Sound Track Pro.

In my first encounter with Final Cut Pro i used clips from Bait tutorial to practice putting short clips together in order to make sequence that made sense.
We had a couple lessons to learn how to use both Live Type Pro and Sound Track Pro, using Live Type Pro i have learnt how to create a title sequence. I have also learnt how to make a effective background and how to add affect to the text, e.g. how the texts comes in/out during the sequence. While using Sound Track Pro i have learnt how to create a soundtrack with lots of different layers of sounds to make one full soundtrack.
Then came the time when we was filming i really enjoyed filming, as you could see i’m mainly the actor in the clips we take, but i have still learnt how to use to JVC HD cameras and the tripod. I have learnt how to turn the camera on/off, to turn the open/close the lens, how to put in the memory card and to use focus. I also learnt how to set up the tripod, by learning how to change the length of the tripod legs and how to lock the camera onto the tripod.

Evaluation No.3/4

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think that Candi Studios would distribute our media product. The reason why I picked this distribution company is because our film was made by ameture students. Candi studios is known to do low budget films. Candi studios was ideal for distributing our media product, as alot of students known about them. We weren't really inspired by any other film, so we wouldn't need any great special affects or anything. As a group we thought we should come up with one ourselves and I think we had succeeded very well.


4. How will you attract/address your audience?

There are many ways you could attracting my audience, I am planning on advertising my media product on Facebook. This is a very easy way of advertising because it’s a very easy process, e.g. just creating a page foe your media product or having advertisement on Facebook.
Another way I could attract audiences is by putting advertisements on YouTube and movie sites e.g. IMDB (Internet movie data base), for example if they wanted to watch a specific thing they would need to watch our media product first. I would try to aim it at students all over the world as we would hope the film to be released globally and at the same time in order to decrease privacy on the film.


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Evaluation No.2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In out media product we had two characters starring in it. One of them was the victim which was played by a female, the female character was wearing casual clothes, e.g. jeans, t-shirt and a cardigan, this character in our media product represents the social group of a vulnerable girl that have a higher chance in becoming a victim.

Another character starring in our media product was the killer, which was played by me (male), for that I wore the normal cloths I would normally wear, e.g. jeans, t-shirt and a hoodie. For this to be represented for a particular social group it would have to be stereotypically as all hooded teenagers are up to no good.

Our media product was filmed in the location Regents Canal in the morning, we chose that location as most teenagers would be walking around there, as you wouldn't really see a lot of people in suits walking along the canal, our characters were both wearing casual clothes to be suit into the location.

The killer was just waiting around reading his newspaper waiting for the perfect victim to arrive, when that victim comes he puts down the newspaper and starts watching her, see what she does, since the girl isn’t sure what it going on she starts walking off, the killer follows, then finally catches her and finishes what he was set out to do.

This part of the clip sort of shows nearly everyday life, boy sees girl, boy likes girl, but this is where it changes, instead of boy trying to talk to girl, it turns into boy killing the girl. Overall, this media product represents how boys are attracted to the girls.



I think our film is kinder similar to the film Kidulthood, Kidulthood is is a 2006 British drama film about the life of several teenagers in a certain area.


Our film relates to this because our film is about the life of a couple teenagers, but this one partically teenager that has a problem, a mental illness lets say.


Trailer for Kidulthood






This is the killer who played in our film( played by me)

This was a character in Kidulthood who was also another killer.

Both characters are similar as they are both are wearing a hoodie in order to hide thier identities.

Thursday, 22 April 2010

Evaluation No.1



This is the thriller title sequence made by Sukru Taskiran, Baran Arslan, Derya Yilmaz, Sifa Karadeniz. We chose Candi studios as our production company.

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel (The Shinning)

There are similarities and differences in both opening title sequence. Both sequences are a narrative opening with the titles running throughout. The differences are, in Killing Spree we view the characters along with the location where as in The Shinning the characters are excluded and we only follow a car throughout its journey.


Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Audience feedback and comment

I have recieved feedbacks from four other groups after watching eachothers thriller title sequence. After reading each groups feedback on our title sequence I have selected the specific words each group has used to describe our sequence then created a 'word cloud' made on wordle.

These are the words that is used by other groups to describe our media product.

(Created by web Wordle.net)

Feedback


I've used worldle cloud to customize one of the feedbacks which we have recieved from one of the other groups.

Evaluation No.8

Feedback
Wordle
I have made a cloud of words using the site http://www.wordle.net/, ive used the keywords from the feedback i had from the other groups in the class.

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Preliminary Match Cut

Preliminary match cut forms the basis for continuity editing, it also allows us to understand how important it is to have different camera angles, camera shots, alongside camera movements that are combined together to produce a good clip. Match cut enables your shots to look really interesting and creative, most importantly it enhances a meaning with the continuity editing.

After we were done with out tutorial on camera introduction, we started on our Preliminary Match Cut excercise. We started off by planning our storyboard which had to relate to a title sequence that we were given by our teacher. The title sequence we had to illustrate was, 'A character opens a door, walks into a room, sits down opposite another character, then they share a few lines of dialogue'. This exercise allowed us to experiment with the camera and it also helped us identify the use of Preliminary Match Cut. To complete our task we had to have examples of, match cuts, shot reverse shot, and lastly we had to show our understanding of the 180 degree rule. Overall i really enjoyed the whole exercise and also found Preliminary Match Cut very useful.

Our storyline illustrated a suspect waiting to be questioned by a police officer.

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Preliminary Match Cut

Preliminary match cut exercise has allowed us to film variety of different shots in different angles to produce match cuts.
These shots were then put in to Final Cut Pro to be edited to set the match cuts for the shots to be continuous.

Camera Shots

  • Extreme Long Shot
  • Long Shot
  • Full Shot
  • Mid Shot
  • Extreme close-up

Camera Angles

  • Bird Eye Angle
  • High Angle
  • Eye-level Angle
  • Low Angle

Camera Movements

  • Crane Shot
  • Panning
  • Tracking Shot

Camera shots are used to highlight different aspects of a film's setting, characters and themes. Camera angles are used to position the viewer so that they can understand the relationships between the characters. Therefore camera shots and angles are very important in shaping meaning in a film.

Preliminary match cut exercise has allowed us to improve our skills on how to produce match cuts during filming process and editing.

Bag Swap




This is another practice that we have produced along with the preliminary match cut exercise. This practice has allowed us to create further developments during our filming process and improved our editing skills.

Friday, 5 March 2010

Preliminary Match Cut Film

Preliminary Match Cut Film
In this lesson, the teacher told us that we needed to make a short clip and then edit it after we had took all the shots. We had to had a idea of how to use the equipment and what kind of shots we had to use before we actually started filming the real one. We had to have match cuts in the short clip so it looked like a proper clip with cameras all around the room.
I like the match cuts we had done while I had opened the rooms door and walked in, we had the camera outside the room behind me opening the door, then we took the camera into the room and do the sequence again but this time inside the room while me walking in. After we had edited it, since we had edited it good it looked like a continuous cut, in my opinion it was a good match cut.
There were some stuff that i thought we could of done better like the over shoulder shots, since the room was small we couldn't actually put the camera behind anyone, if there was more room we could of done that better and also could of done shot reverse shot to make it look better.
I think for a practise run, we made a good attempt to make a short clip with match cuts and to make them look smooth where you can not tell a match cut has taken place and i think we achieved that as all match cuts look professional. I think this was a good practice because now in the real one we would know how to improve it and not make the same mistakes.


Thursday, 4 March 2010

Monday, 1 March 2010

Intro To Cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial

Health & Safety Tutorial

Our teacher had given every group a JVC camera, then he opened a slide show for us to watch in order to learn how to use the camera correctly.
After watching the slide show we had learnt,
- How to insert the memory card into slot A & B
- How to insert the battery
- How to turn the camera On and Off
- How to record & play back
- Focus Assist function
- User selection (1 & 2)
- Manual audio control - Auto shooting mode
- Zoom In & Out
- Tripod - to attach camera for steady cam
- Tripod base adapter
- Lock and unlock the camera on the tripod

Thursday, 18 February 2010

Intro to Cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial



Intro to Cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial has allowed us to understand how a camera works and improtant aspects of Health and Safety.



Firstly we were introduced to JVC cameras and we have learnt the followings;


  • How to insert the memory card into slot A & B
  • How to insert the battery
  • How to turn the camera On and Off
  • How to record & play back
  • Focus Assist function
  • User selection (1 & 2)
  • Manual audio control - Auto shooting mode
  • Zoom In & Out
  • Tripod - to attach camera for steady cam
  • Tripod base adapter
  • Lock and unlock the camera on the tripod

Art of the Title Sequence

Casino Royale


Casino Royale title sequence cut to the film's title song, You Know My Name, by Chris Cornell.A narrative opening with the titles running throughout the sequence includes graphic elements of motifs that reflect the style and the genre of the film.
Designer: Daniel Kleinman

News and current affairs events


PAIR ARRESTED OVER DEATH OF TWO-YEAR-OLD

Two people have been arrested following the death of a two-year-old girl in Birmingham. A 47-year-old man and a woman aged 23 were arrested on suspicion of neglect and have since been bailed pending further inquiries. Police said the incident occurred on Monday morning in Harborne when emergency services received reports of a child in cardiac arrest. The girl later died in hospital. A cause of death has not been determined.

This disastrous event could be story line for a crime thriller as they usually emphasize action over psychological aspects. The 47-year-old man could have pychological problems where he forces a women aged 23 to help him plan his cruel action to kill two-year-old girl to take revenge from her family.

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

News And Currents Affairs Events


Afghanistan blast kills UK bomb expert in Helmand

A British soldier has been killed by an explosion while trying to clear a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

The member of 36 Engineer Regiment died as a result of wounds he suffered north east of Sangin, Helmand province.

This explosion happened in Afghanistan. This could become a good thriller movie, the movie could be about the UK bomb expert was going to clear a roadside bomb but then another group had planted another bomb near by, he is trying to defuse this bomb, and any minute now the new bomb could go off.

News And Currents Affairs Events

















Kingsman Sean Dawson of 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, who was killed in southern Afghanistan.


Kingsman Sean Dawson, 19, from 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, died in the Musa Qala area of Helmand Province on Sunday evening.

Kingsman Dawson, from Stalybridge, Manchester, was deployed to Afghanistan on January 16 after passing a course to become a sniper. He was killed while taking part in an ambush of suspected militants near Patrol Base Minden in the north of Helmand. The incident was not connected to the ongoing Operation Moshtarak to drive the Taliban out of a stronghold around Marjah and Nad-e-Ali in Helmand.

This sad story could potentially be a good thriller, mainly beacuse there are many thrillers based on terrorism and war. This story could be about a young man who's only ambition is to serve his country, however his journey could be very sad, thrilling and traumatic.

The Art Of The Title Sequence


The title sequence i chose to Analyse is Dawn Of The Dead.













Dawn of the dead is a haunting thriller, it has many bloody and scary scenes.

Intro To Cameras & Health and Safety Tutorial

In our intro for camera & health and safety tutorial we learned how to use a camera and this tutorial really allowed us to understand all the functions of the camera.

We learned, how there are two slots where we could put two memory cards in (A&B).
How to turn the camera on and off.
How to set up a Tripod.
How to focus with the camera and zoom in and out.
How to detach and attach the lens.
How to record and play back footage.
How to insert the memory card, and how important it is to always remember to take the memory card out of the camera after we are done with it.
How to attach the camera to the tripod, and also how to lock and unlock the camera on the tripod.


Camera Tripod











Thursday, 11 February 2010

Art Of The Title Sequence

300
The title sequence of the movie 300.
The font used in this title sequence looks like a font which is used in comics.
The titles are placed onto the black parts which are shown as shadow's.
The title is 300 which explains how many warriors there is or how many is left.
They don't give any images of the real characters, the imagery looks like it has came out from a comic.
The shots used are mainly wide shots, to show to show the surroundings and also to see a bunch of characters, a mid shot to see a man holding a shield and a knife and a close up of a man spitting blood.
The reason i have chosen this title sequence is because it sounds out from other title sequences, its a comic title sequence and it doesn't introduce any of the characters.
The title sequence of the movie 300:
http://artofthetitle.com/media/film/2006/300_end_titles_720p.html

Hi Group 13

Hello there happy group. The blog is looking really nice overall - I especially like some of the analysis you have been doing on fonts. The blog could be a little more varied in the media you use - so start to embed some clips to add variety. Also - none of the practice filming you did for the bag swap/card game is up there so come to workshop to upload!!
well done so far.

Match Cut Preliminary

Friday, 5 February 2010

Live Type & Sound Track Pro Skills

Live Type
I have learnt how to create a title sequence by using the software Live Type. I have learnt how to make a effective background and how to add affect to the text, e.g. how the texts comes in/out during the sequence.
Sound Track Pro
We also used the software Sound Track Pro, this software is to create a soundtrack with lots of different layers of sounds to make one full soundtrack, it was easy to use as you only had drag the sounds onto the time player.

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Live Type & Soundtrack Skills

This is a title which I've made in LiveType. We will be using this program to create the original title for our original clip. LiveType is great to use because you can choose from different effects and different types of fonts for your title.

This is a program called SoundTrack. I will be using this to create the soundtrack and some types of sound effects for our little clip. This program is actually good to use because it has a variety of instruments to choose from.

Skills Audit - Livetype and Sound

Livetype


To create the specific type of font during producing our thriller film opening, we were introduced to Livetype a program on Apple Macs which has allowed us to view variety of different fonts in different styles. The program Livetype is really useful and quick way to produce the type of font you would like to have.

Soundtrack

On Apple Macs we were also introduced to Soundtrack. This program allows us to listen to variety of different sounds. It is also possible to edit the sound you have inserted on to the timeline. This program will be useful for our soundtrack for our opening sequence as we are need to produce our soundtrack without a copywright.

live type and soundtrack pro


To have a good thriller opening title sequence, we need to have a good quality opening title with a soundtrack that creates anxiety. The two programs that will allow us to do this is, Live Type and Sound.


Live Type allows us to create a title sequence which helps express the mood and genre of the film for example, every font, size of font and colour represents an emotion. Live type can be used in Final Cut Pro, which is very handy because, we originally need to create our thriller opening title sequence in Final Cut Pro.

Soundtrack allows us to create music that we could use in our thriller opening title sequence. Music can really create tension, and Soundtrack is a great program to use because it allows us to combine a variety of instruments with each other, which could possibly turn out to be music that really creates anxiety and suspicion.