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

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

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

How Much Longer

During the half term, a few more clips were recorded for the trailer, however we are running out of time, and still have a fair few of clips to do. Obviously with such little time, not everything will go according to plan, and on some shots, we will have to lower the efforts, however we have agreed to make sure that no scenes will go without carefull mise en scene, so a few days have been planned, where shots that will be taken, will be done in the same area, but in an area that matches the mise en scene.

We have realised that recording little clips at a time are pointless, so instead, we have planned two days out, that will provide atleast 10 final clips each. Major clips will be shot this week, also a photoshoot has been organised to photograph the final poster shots, of Petrov Kane and Frank.

The posters are simple yet effective, and the final drafts will be uploaded in the next post or two, as wil my magazine drafts, and the clips that were filmed through out the half term.

Half Term Schedule

HALF TERM SCHEDULE

HALL PLACE

Arrest scene

  Back of pelican

  Long shot of house and being arrested

  Evil eyes

 Lips-ill see you soon frank

pelican in room-find him, or ill find you

PELICAN ESCAPE

Petrov leaving prison

Office scene

Frank his escaped

Sniper Shot

through the scope

on building shot

School shots

Katherine scene-basement

Final scene

UP LONDON TRIP

david jumping over wall

katherine and david running

fight scenes

CURRENT PROGRESS So far, so G.O.O.D

At this stage of production, all of our members are working well on their individual Ancillary Tasks, with two close to completion so far. All that needs to be done is a jpeg image of the PELICAN HUNTER text that needs to be applied to all 3 magazine covers.

Soon a post will be uploaded of my final draft, and perhaps my final piece itself.

As extra credit, because we are so far ahead in our project, we also decided to add an extra task, of making a potential DVD cover, however this can only be properly finished when more filming has been done, because the screen shot images that are conventional of a dvd, need to be taken from the film itself, or photographed pictures from the day, in the action itself.

EDITING

Editing is taking place, and the clips have been added to three timelines, in three different programmes. Sony Vegas, Premiere Pro, and ofcourse after effects.

I as the lead editor have spoke to the group and have decided on using Sony vegas and after effects, for colour correction and special effects.

They were fine with this, and we made the decision that they sat down beside me and i showed them how it is done. Because of my experience, i was okay with this decision, and also because of my experience, i knew that by using mulitple programmes, the process speeds up, leaving us with more time for blogging, and filming if it needs to be done

POSTER

It was decided amongst the group to produce three magazine covers (one each) and a few posters, which would be created as a group. Another photoshoot has been organised for the posters, as we want new pictures, because we dont wish to use the same image throughout. Although using the same image, is a way of people recognising the link between all types of advertisment we produce, but there are other ways. The one way we are using, is through text.

The text being used is called UNREALISED and it being used throughout, that includes trailer text, posters, magazine and DVD covers.

All that needs to be done for our group  production, is to finish all recording, edit it, and finalise our products.

-Charlie Morgan