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!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Production: The End!

So, after three final shoots and a lot of hard work and hours spent in the editing suite, we've finally produced a finished opening!
When we'd nearly finished, we did a test screening with other media students as an audience, who gave us some really useful feedback about what we could change to make it better and anything that didn't seem quite right. We followed their advice and made the necessary changes, and are, at last, pretty happy with our final product.
There was a lot that I was particularly pleased with and I think made our product quite distinct from the others, such as the montage of 'sudden's at the beginning, and the foley used as a soundtrack without showing what it was from - e.g. eyeliner pencil being sharpened which produced quite a creepy noise, which fitted in well. I really liked the credit effects that Bisma and I chose, and think they fit in well - the fonts too! And maybe it's just because I'm glad we finally came up with them after ridiculously long, but the title of our film, Blink Murder, and our production company forty4 [because we filmed at my house, the number of which is 44... and 4+4 is 8! our group number!].
There were a few things we couldn't change, such as:
    • inconsistent lighting - we had to use Adobe Premiere to try to get the light levels the same but unfortunately, in doing this, we lost some quality in the sharpness of the shot
    • sound - we had a buzzing noise made by the camera in our dialogue shots which we couldn't get rid of without making the speech sound a little muffled - however, this isn't all that noticeable and I think I'm more conscious of it, as with the other problems, because we spent so long editing these things and trying to correct any mistakes.

However, this is, of course, all about learning, and I think I've definitely learnt a lot that'll stay with me! Now onto the evaluation...

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