Blink Murder

The Main Task

Blink Murder is the name we gave to the film that we made the opening sequence for as part of our main task. The brief was to create a 2 minute opening sequence for a film of any genre, including titles and a soundtrack, with no copyrighted materials. Please click the HQ option at the side to view in high quality and improve your viewing experience! Enjoy : )

The Prelim - Ugliest Jumper Ever

The Preliminary Exercise

This is our preliminary exercise, which we called Ugliest Jumper Ever. The aim was to create a sequence demonstrating good continuity techniques, and had to show match on action, shot/reverse-shot, and the 180-degree rule. The brief stated that it had to be 30 seconds long, and comprise of a character opening a door, crossing a room, and sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom s/he exchanges a few lines of dialogue. Again, please click the HQ option for a better viewing experience!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Editing

Editing is going well! Mary captured most of our footage in her free period 1 on Monday, and we then had a double media lesson so we got the rest captured and started arranging and cutting up clips. I had periods 4 & 5 to edit and I put the shots in order and trimmed them to the right bits as well as adding in temporary titles and playing around with some effects. Bhavika had 7 & 8, and found a really good effect to use on our shots - which you can see when it's finished : )
We had media again today and found some more strange echoey effects where the images overlap and it looks pretty awesome - just the kind of thing we wanted, so basically it's going pretty well, and hopefully we can make good progress when we get the rest of our footage too.
We decided we were going to have a lot of foley sounds in our titles mixed in with music - which we may or may not be creating ourselves, but it's looking unlikely - similarly to Se7en (see group blog), but we need to find some music to use as well. I think we really need to decide on this soon because it will be easier in the editing process to add the music in now rather than later, as we can then edit to the music, and make it all fit together really nicely. We also need to come up with a title for our film, although this is less important for now - but it would be nice to have some kind of anchorage to it in the opening, so we're keeping it in mind.

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