Week 5

Evaluation

Question 1











Question 2
1)Joey Sukonlawut is a high school kid born in a middle class Thai family who lives in a boarding school. This is shown in the first cut where the background is his boarding. His love to playing magic is also shown in the swipe scene where he swipes 2 pieces of paper together. He also owns suits. These suits are made by Taylor Constants as shown in the card.

2)I would use Kento Varavarn to act as Joey. He fits the role very well as his personality is what I intend the character to be like.

3)The evidence of a troubled child is very faint at the start. At the end of the first scene. The camera moves a slight bit this is done in an attempt to make the sequence feel a bit rough since his life is rough. The whole sequence is a bit gloomy despite the conventions of comedy being that it is filmed in a bright place.

Question  3

My main target audience would be adults aged at about 25-39 since some of their school background is from this type of school. It would particularly hit people who had problems in their school life and was bullied on for being weird and silly.

Question 4


Question 5


Codes and Conventions- At the start of October, I did not know the word conventions no need to mention for comedy type films. At the end of February, This is more clear and more understandable since I have to use it a lot during the production of the film opening. 

Planning & Organisation- My organisation skills were very bad to begin with. During the course, It has improved by a very slight bit. Working in a team and working alone of course had its different benefits.

Camera Work- I did not know how to  cameras at the start, but having to use them all the time during the course caused to understand different things about it and got me into photography.Visual FX- At the start of the course, I knew what they were but didn't know quite how to incorporate them. Now, they are almost the most crucial part in most of my editing as my style requires some fancy things but rather depending on what the task is.

Editing- I loved to edit videos from the start. This course involved a lot of editing. When more tools at my disposal, I can safely say that it has improved by a lot. With that I did not realize how much power editing holds in creating meaning.Creative confidence- My ideas in creating videos and sequences were very much over the top but with my skills in creating the work right now, they aren't realistic. My creative confidence is very mediocre as most of it isn't realistic.

Question 6

Research and planning

Much of the research that I did was digitally based using websites such as imdb.com and wikipedia to a get a grasp of current comedies and expected conventions.
Sites such as artofthetitle.com were useful for not only looking at analysis of use of credits but looking at how professionals plan and created their own work.

All my findings were then put on blogger - another digital site - as it enabled me to upload images and combine it with texts. I also used sites as google slides to present the conventions I found. Due to the embed codes these were easily put onto the blog.

Youtube is another site that allows sharing and embedding and was very useful for looking at clips from comedies and looking for inspiration.

Youtube was also used as a hosting site for my own content which enabled me to share it with other people in my class and get their feedback. It also allowed me to post it on my blog.

In terms of other planning I tended to use paperwork to storyboard and plan a schedule. There are digital apps to do this but for ease of carrying around, especially on location, paper made more sense.

I look at youtube for tutorials for After Effects 

Production

I used a DSLR to film the piece. The focus capabilities were very useful for the shot of the car and the boarding house in the background. 

Shooting with a DSLR allowed me to shoot a lot of footage and then choose the best clips.

As well as shooting on location I used Photoshop to create the cards from the credits in the title. Creating digitally wasn’t enough as they had to be printed and then laminated to seem real.

Much of the other props were paper based and had to be made before the shoot.

Post production

I use a lot of effects in the opening and made use of Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects. These three softwares are all created by Adobe and are designed to work together (integrate).

I’ve covered my process of working in these posts.

As an overview I looked at youtube video to learns techniques, then used Photoshop to cut out the images I need and make them have transparent backgrounds. Next I took the psd documents into After Effects which recognised the transparencies. I then animated and moved the different PSD images to create motion.

Once I had the animation I moved the project to Premiere to add sound. Finally I exported it in a digital format so I could put onto the start of the final opening and also so I could upload it to youtube.

All this is only possible as the different technologies are designed to work each other.

Week 4

Editing

I used Photoshop and After effects to edit most of my opening.


The Swipe

I masked the 2 shots over each other and masked along the arm as the arm swept. With the speed of the arm itself it looks continuous and uncut. This was to depict that he likes playing magic.

I used the write on function in AE to make it seem as if 'Joey' was the one writing it.

Using Pr, i put together all the components and added some diagetic sound to the sequence making it seem more original.

Week 3

Filming

When filming the birds eye view shots, i used a tripod and placed it against the wall to make the camera stable. This took some effort as the tripod and the camera was fairly heavy and moving the props at the same time added to the fatigue in holding up the tripod. Most shots are took in bright light and the background usually is the setting for the film itself. The background for the production crews credits are set up to their corresponding jobs.

Week 2
Ident Making

Plant was a random name since I thought it was easy to remember and simple which are what makes Idents an ident. I used photoshop to make the text parts I needed making white backgrounds transparent.

 The background was made by putting a bunch of layers on top of each other. I put every component into Aftereffects. I added motion blur to make the monkey seem a bit more realistic.

 I then go on to work with it in premiere to add sounds to it finishing the ident.

The finished product

Student Card Making

I used a picture of a Yr13 Student as the star. I specifically asked him to make his face look as idiotic as possible without ruining the sense that he is a student. This card is meant to show that the character is in his last year of school and that he lives in boarding. The logo came directly from the meaning of the word myriad which is indefinitely a large number.

I used the color orange because it is bright and is catchy even from a distant. I used warp text to create a sense that it is still a credit sequence and not just a showcase.

Taylor Card Making

The Taylor card is made to look simple and clearly relate that this is the costume designer. The address is Napoleons Dynamite home address.

Planning week 1

My idea would be coming from Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

In this film opening, most credits are diegetic and relates to the main character (Napoleon Dynamite) very well. It is simple and catchy.

In my film opening. I plan to take the basic concept of this opening using what i have available to me.

Genre: Comedy

The main story would be a guy who loves sport and doesn't want to study but then is forced by his parents to study hard to be a engineer. He lives in a boarding school. This would be expressed by having the background as a building in one of the scenes to express that this movie is set in a boarding school. Physics and maths textbooks and torn papers would be on the desk in another scene suggesting that he is forced to study in the engineer route and that he is stressed. I would make a laminated card with the main character name on it. Doing all of this would take about 50 seconds of the board and would tell most things about the character. This film opening would be based of my real life. The film title would be La Vie which means life in french.

Conventions of Comedy

The conventions for comedy film are based on the type of comedy you are doing however some apply to all comedies.

1.Settings are in a bright place usually where it is well populated
2.Camerawork is naturalistic and film in a way that shows that the main character is superior to all the other characters.
3.Sound is the most important things in comedy. Diegetic sounds like the dialogue has to be clear so that it could be laughed at. Non-diegetic sounds is also important. It is used to place emphasis on certain scenes.
4.The lighting is mostly bright because it creates a realistic environment. Most scenes are shot in daylight.
5. Props are another very important part of comedy. The props that hurt the main character are the memorable ones.This is especially important in slapstick comedy where situations are absurd and actions are vigorous and violent.
6.Characters are idiotic and used in comparison to "normal" people. Usually compared because they are smart but are socially awkward. The most noticeable trait is sarcasm.

Codes and Conventions of Teen Comedies - openings

Is Se7en a Thriller?

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Theory of scary films

How to make people scared in films

• Limit the information in the frame
• Guide them through the dialogue so it creates anticipation of whats happening
• the story is told outside the frame in the minds of the audience
• Tension often plays with the audiences fear of the unknown.

For example in Let the Right One In the audience is given just enough information to know what is going on. At swimming pool scene we an insert (a close of up on anything but an the actor's face) the shoes of one of the protagonists tormentors. 

The next time we see these shows is when they are seeing kicking through the water.

We know this is the boy being dragged through the water - obviously in distress and in retribution for his earlier bullying. We don't see the violence, but we are left in little doubt what has just happened.