Monday, 9 April 2012

A little Update

This is just a post to simply clarify that an evaluation is being prepared for this task. Our group came to the decision that since we have acted like a professional film making team, why not finish like one.

We have a surprise to produce an Evaluation the way a top Hollywood screening would also be evaluated. With an interview. A professional set up will be made, with the Pelican Hunter Poster along side a chair or two for the makers of the production. In this case it would be our selves. We will produce questions we feel need to be answered and each individual member will upload a final video of their own evaluation for the Pelican Hunter

Monday, 26 March 2012

FEEDBACK

Our teachers produced a couple dozen questionairres, for each individual groups video

here are some of the feedback answers that students have given

Alex Mwanza aged 17
Bit too dark lighting in some of the shots, however it has all of the action genre conventions
The lighting could be improved because at some parts it would be too dark

Charlie hayford aged 17
Camera work-amazing
Editing-brilliant
Mise en Scene- darkness-action

Bethany Allison aged 15
Everything! The locations, camera work, editing...flipping brilliant-looks like a real movie

Henry Lee aged 17
Excellent on all levels...but speech was a bit poor

Teah Randall aged 17
I love how it looks like a real trailer

Brooke Sargent aged 15
Cut shots created tension-the trailer showed every aspect of its genre well

Daniel Sim aged 14
The best parts of that trailer were the editing and special effects. Very good it fitted the action genre

THE FINAL PRODUCTS

Here are all of my final products, including the joined production video










the two red themed gun shot text shatter posters, the character profiles, are the groups work


we all individually gave our ideas, but worked on it as a team

The Film time magazine front cover, is my individual ancillary task, as mentioned in previous posts, we all agreed to produce a magazine cover each, so we could portray our individual skills

There are two silver themed posters, which are also character profiles
This is a poster i produced, as an original idea, which then never went ahead, because we felt that the red themed ones looked better

I saw the images that were there, in a photoshoot album, and decided out of my spare time, to create another poster. The group members really liked how they were beginning to look so we decided to add them to our collection of posters


The accidental Miracle

When we started ancillary tasks, as you know, we began to produce a DVD cover, however we later learned, that there was no requirement to do this ancillary task
At the time it was near completion so the group just decided to add it to the massive advertising campaign, that is THE PELICAN HUNTER 

It's been busy

You haven't heard from me in a while, because G.O.O.D production has been busy, with the finishing touches of editing, and finally...
...WE HAVE FINISHED!
Once we had finished all of our work including ancillary tasks, the school put on an ARTS evening, hosted by our media teachers.
Overall it was a very good evening, which turned out to be very professional
Much like a Seminar, each group had to individually talk about their video, and then step back to allow an a small audience to watch.
This allowed us as a group to understand our strengths and weaknesses, in both production and editing
Over all we became proud of our videos success, also we were astonished with the way it looks on a larger screen

During rendering, i had to go back and fourth with colour corrections, and brightness, for it became slightly darker when on the larger screens. Other than this minor speed bump, we finished with a great final product, which will shortly be uploaded

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Progress

G.O.O.D has been busy, producing drafts and finalising our ancillary tasks, and soon posts will be made about the creation of my individual ancillary task, and the groups.
The tasks that we decided to do, as a group, were to produce individual magazine front covers, and a combined series of character posters for the trailer. Each poster would focus on the main characters from the film, with details about the release date of the film, and just to simply advertise the film.

Editing has been under way for some weeks now, and we are at the final stages of editing, where we are putting the finishing touches, on the sound, and the timing of clips.
As the lead editor, because of my experience in video i have sat down with my group and showed them how things work, in the programmes used, so they could edit and speed up the editing process.
I must say we are all overly proud of the outcome, especially considering the group members have had no video camera experience

Monday, 20 February 2012

Organising The Final Scene

I have just finished writing the list for the extras, that we want to be in our final scene.
The final scene, is a shot where Frank enters a room, and in there is Petrov with all of his highest ranked men, with weopons.
The shot then fades through Frank draws his guns, and shoots. The screen then cuts to a shot of the words PELICAN HUNTER, which is hit by bullet rounds. This is the end of the trailer.
Here is the list, and next to each name, is the prop they will be individually equipt with
People to do final scene
Paul                         revolver  
George                      shotgun
Louis                         glock
Tayo A                       revolver 2
Tatenda                    bb pistol
Charlie                       revolver 3
Dan                            bb pistol
Harry                          (own)
Ayden                        machine gun          
Craig                          not yet found          
Peter                          not yet found

Also i have taken the time to make a little token that each extra/cast will be given, to notify them and remind them of the day and the things they need etc