Evaluation Part: 7 " Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? "

For my title sequence i worked with Danny and Tyrell. Danny decided to take the job of Cinematography. Tyrell took the job Editing. Meanwhile i took the job of Soundtrack, Fonts, and Mise en Scene. Throughout the majority of the film we all worked together on cinematography and a bit of editing. Also on some fonts. It mostly started with out giving feedback to each other and deciding what we wanted to do.However, overall all the communication and feedback from ourselves and peers allowed us to improve the title sequence greatly so the the outcome was amazing from the initial planning.

Overall in the process of making this film i have learned quite a lot. I was able to learn new things and greatly expand my knowledge on media and film topics. This is mostly because it was my first time learning about this subject. Although, even though i didn't have editing as my job or cinematography i was till able to learn quite a lot. I leaned how to utilize Final Cut Pro to add real quality to my title sequence. I managed to learn lots of extra things that Final Cut Pro had to offer that would help me improve my film and make it better. This was things such as filters and fonts. Speaking about fonts Tyrell also introduced me to a website called 'Defont' which gave me access to multiply different unique fonts that would improve the quality of my work. This worked well since i found a font called Orion which looked futuristic and helped the mise en scene of our film through typography and using the font to portray the name of the film on the map i found.  I was also able to gain a lot of knowledge on researching different aspects of film. This was things such as Target audiences, which allowed us to specifically choose which audience we were going after.

I personally learned that thinking outside the box will help the most when in any situation as i focused on Soundtracks and mise en scene. I was able to find new soundtrack through a educational audio site called 'audionetwork.lfgt.org'. This helped me get two potential sounds one called vampire kiss the other thunder doom which was eventually chosen. I also had lots of ideas for mise en scene when Danny made his plan for our film. An example our evangelist scene where Tyrell was holding a rosary or our new rebel scene with the guns, bandanna and the fake tattoo drawn on my arm. 

Another thing i learn was time management as we had to use our time wisely even if it meant coming early stay late it was done. I think it was thank to constructive time management and focus that we were able to get our title sequence done. Teamwork also was important because we had to depend on each other for us to get the job done especially on Tyrell since he was our best editor and had to spend alot of time working on editing. 

This proved to be important because as we started there was poor communication and and lack of team work as Danny wasn't around much due to personal circumstances and i was little help since i was new to editing and filming. This forced Tyrell to teach me alot of editing as i hovered him trying to learn from what he would do. There was also confusion with our initial idea for the title sequence. However, after we came together and fortified our schedules we were on the right track and were able to take full control of our work to create something we appropriated and put effort in. After the initial feedback I realized another important thing is to re shoot. this is because it is very important to re film scenes to get the best footage that you need and the more footage you have gives you more options and things to work with. Also after everything i realized that the first work will always look bad in the creators eyes as when we started i was upset with our films performances compared to other films but later realized that it could only get better with more dedication and hardworking. The feedback really helped for our final draft as it allowed s to get the audiences feedback and fix our film

Evaluation Part: 1 " In what ways does your media product use, develop or chalenge forms and conventions of real media products? "

Evaluation Part: 2 " How does your media product represent particular social groups? "

Evaluation Part: 3 " What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? "

Evaluation Part: 4 " Who would be the audience for your media product? "+ 5 " How did you attract/address your audience ? "

For questions 4 + 5, we as a group decided to answer them together due to them being very similar.

Evaluation Part: 6 " What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product ? "

Title Sequence Evaluation

For our title sequence, I made sure that I worked and followed closely to our specification for our title sequence,  'Genesis: The Uprising'. I worked in a group of three consisting of Danny, Tyrell and I.  Initially, for our title sequence and movie, we decided as a group that we wanted to essentially make a movie that would a Dystopian/Sci-Fi movie (however Dystopian is a sub genere). The narrative of our movie consists of a dystopian future with different cults and groups forming who aspire to take down the government of this society, however, the government is in fact one step ahead and are planning to overthrow and eliminate these groups and, they are tracking their every move via CCTV and found footage being sent to them. Our title sequence sets up for the rest of our movie as the plot/narrative is briefly introduced through the beginning of the movie via our title sequence. Purposely, the title sequence creates and sets up enigmas for the audience to question, hopefully making the audience intrigued and wanting to actually stay on and watch the movie in cinemas to see what happens next.

In my opinion, I feel as though the title of our movie 'Genesis: The Uprising' that i came up with fits it well with the narrative of our movie which was as genesis means the beginning or creation of a narrative.This links to the idea of the filming just beginning giving the audience the thought that their could be sequels to the film. It also links with the idea of a dystopian future society beginning to forming and creating cults in order to overthrow the government.  Uprising is also something I found fitting for the narrative of our movie as this links well with the cults rising upwards together in order to overthrow the government and, come out on top successfully. The genre of our movie is action thriller scifi with the sub genre of dystopian.

Title Sequence - The Final Version :D

This is our finished version of our title sequence for our movie, 'Genesis: The Uprising'.

Evaluation Pt 3

We  have decided to begin recording and planning ideas for our evaluation for our title sequence.  We used a tri-pod, a camera, high-key lighting and, a green screen behind us. We decided to use a green screen for the recording process of our evaluation as we thought it would be best to screen our title sequence behind us whilst we provide our answers to the camera. We brainstormed all of our answers for our evaluation the day before and have now gotten around to recording 3 answers to 3 of the evaluation questions. This left Tyrell now to edit the recorded parts of our evaluation and, for the other remaining answers, we will be answering them in another digital and interactive format such as prezi or power point.

2nd Draft of our FIlm

For the screening of the second draft,which was the  improved version of our title sequence, we received again another set of feedback from our class mates and our teacher in terms of what has been improved since the previous screening. This time we  received more  praise on things such as: the lead government man (Kaseem) pointing angrily at the CCTV board and, the re-shoot of our Rebels scene. When it came back to editing, Tyrell  actually found that our original Illuminati sequence that featured a focus pull with Jacob was still on my Apple Mac. He decided to add this version into our improved title sequence. Classmates felt as though the narrative was conveyed much clearer than previously and, that the re-shot version of our Rebels scene looked much more fitting compared to the original Rebel scene. However, some bad feedback that we had received was that people weren't too fond of our font choices and, felt as though the appearances of the text on screen was out of place. Also, some classmates felt as though our Rebels scene should be similar to The Scavengers scene in terms of also including a found footage, handheld camera filter. All feedback on that day has been taken into account and was to be added and improved to our official final version of our title sequence.


Here it is

Preparing for our Evaluation Pt2

For our evaluation, Tyrell, Danny and I have sat down within our own spare time in order to start preparing answers for the 7 evaluation questions. We made a variety of mind maps for 4 of the questions that we decided to answer. We brain stormed ideas for each of the questions that we chose. The 4 questions we chose was:
" What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product ? "
" Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product ? "
" What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why ? "
 " How did you attract/address your audience ? "
After brainstorming our ideas for these 4 questions, we decided to present the answers for these 4 questions in particular through a fun interactive media technique which was to film it in front of a green screen. We decided to play our title sequence continuously on repeat through the duration of our answers. For the remaining 3 other questions, we decided we were going to experiment with other fun interactive techniques by using things such as: PowerPoint, Prezi and actually posting blogs on to Blogger. 

Government Leader CCTV Shoot New One

Tyrell, Danny and I  managed to go to our schools library (the 'iBrary') and shoot an extra scene with the Government Leader our friend Kazeem. As Tyrell had previously created the 4 different pieces of CCTV for each cult and group and put them all together, he put a big red cross over each one to insinuate to the audience that Kazeem wasn't of favor or the cults and simply wants to take them down.The scene we shot today shows Kazeem pointing furiously at the different groups, with over the shoulder shots and close-up shots of him done by Danny. Once the shooting for today was finished, Tyrell  proceeded to go and edit the footage using 'Final Cut Pro'. He incorporated the recently shot scenes into the beginning of each cult members being shown within the title sequence in order to make it clearer for the audience to understand that what is being shown links together with the government scene from the beginning of the sequence.

Government cctv footage from tyrell bibbiani

CCTV Footage Scene

In order to make the Government scene stand out more and be more noticeable in terms of following the plot, Tyrell had decided to create a poster including all 4 CCTV footages from all 4 of the cults/groups. He did this using photoshop. This part of the scene will be used when the leader of the government is delivering his speech for his hatred towards these groups and that he wishes to execute them all and take them all down. The poster includes all 4 of the cults through CCTV and will have big red crosses over them to show that the government will take them all down.

Rebels Scene Re-Shoot And its Amazing

Danny, Tyrell and I have managed to gather a couple of our sixth form friends in order to act for the re-shooting of our 'Rebels' scene for out title sequence. We reshot it because our classmates and teachers shared our opinion on the previous one that we shot, we decided to change the original concept and re-shoot the scene with a different cast and a different locations. However, we kept some of the visual mise en scene such as the graffiti.   Tyrell did the cinematographer since Danny was one of the rebels as was I. He used different camera angles and different camera techniques like focus pulls and close ups  of different characters. This scene consists of the 'Rebels' group going about their daily routine, with their guns and masks at the ready but, they are actually being recorded through CCTV footage that is planted by the Government that they were unaware of at the beginning. We have decided to alter something quite significant within our title sequence and that is that the Government have indeed put in secret CCTV footage in order to view and keep track of each different cults/groups. In terms of miss-en-scene, this will prove most effective because before, we used the original map that we altered  to establish each groups location. But now, we will be using CCTV footage that displays the names of the groups and, we will used props and symbols in order to represent the group/cults in order for the audience to have a clearer understanding of who is who. After watching it over it seemed very effective compared to our previous take and visual mise en scene such as the tattoos seem to also help out .

FeedBack

We screened our rough draft and got pictures of the feed back we got from our class mates and teachers.


 

Feedback for our title sequence from tyrell bibbiani

Feedback on first Rough Draft of the title sequence

Here the 1st draft of our Title Sequence

Refilming

' You have to film, film, film, look at it, re film, re film, re film, then film to finally get the right footage and this is just for the easy ones' words spoken by a wise woman. Miss Mcgrath in loving memories.

Danny, Tyrell and Ia have begun working on editing our title sequence for Media studies. Tyrell, Danny and I  have been staying after school to edit the shots we've recorded for our title sequence over the past week using the applications Final Cut Pro on the Apple iMac. We have done multiple draft versions of our title sequence, ensuring that we can edit and alter what we already have so that it fits what we  envisioned for the genre. We have had to re film a lot of things for example the Illuminati sequence since we couldn't find it.

We then also decided to film the evangelist scene in the same place as the Illuminati, ironic isn't it. We then did the oppose of the demonic scene by bring out bright lights and using special editing effects on Final Cut Pro to make the scene look more holy and divine. We also use a rosary as a mise en scene which had Jesus on its cross.

Picture powerpoint of illuminati from tyrell bibbiani

Our credits in Order

This is the order of credits that Tyrell has done for editing he posted and i thought why not follow suit. This is the order that our subtitles will come up during the title sequence. We decided to add them as something relevant to them in the film came up for example Idris Elba coming on during the evangelist scene

1. " 20th Century Fox Presents "

2. " A Film Directed by Ridley Scott "

3. " Tom Hardy "

4. " Gemma Arterton "

5. " Idris Elba "

6. " Matt Bomer "

7. " Produced by Sam Raimi "

8. " Edited by Tyrell Bibbiani "

9. " Cinematography by Danny Wright "

10. " Executive Producer Elina Roditou "

11. " Soundtrack by Danny Elfman "

12. " Genesis: The Uprising "

Shooting Locations

We now started talking about our Evalution so Tyrell has also brought up our Shooting locations along with Danny of what we have done so far.


"For our title sequence, we as a group have decided long and hard in terms of the variety of different locations in which we are going to shoot our title sequence. Initially, we want to shoot at London's Shard building in order to have an establishing shot for where our Government meeting will be taking place. This proved to be highly effective for out title sequence because it is essentially a very busy place, involving lots of busy people trying to get to their destinations.

For our Illuminati sequence/Evangelist sequence, we decided that we want to shoot these scenes within our school's drama room. This proved to be a very good setting and location for these scenes as the room has many features in terms of lighting that we could mess around with and alter to our likings. We used low-key lighting for the Illuminati scene and we then contrasted using high-key lighting for the Evangelist scene. The drama room essentially provided an essence of eeriness and darkness, which is the route we were looking for for our title sequence.

For the actual government scene, we used our school's main library named the 'iBrary'. This proved to be effective as it had a wide and long table for all of our government/actors to sit on. We also had a projector which displayed the map behind the main government leader.

Finally, for our Scavengers and Rebels scene, we went to Fanny On The Hill park, creating a wooden stick hut and involving our actors climbing upon trees. We then went around the corner to shoot our Rebels scene, which featured a graffiti wall and had a gritty essence around the location, which me and Danny thought was perfect for the theme we were going for for this scene." -Tyrell

Title sequence Fonts

For our font choices for out title sequence, Tyrell has done alot of investigating into which fonts in particular best suits the dystopian theme of our genre for the titles.So this is his findings. "After spending multiple and countless times searching through the website 'Dafont.com', I came across a font in particular that I felt really stood out and fitted very well for the font on our government's map. I used the font style of 'Orion' to achieve this as I felt as though it was bold and eye-catching, which is essentially what I felt was needed." -Tyrell  *News Reporter Jacob voice* And that was Tyrell from the Mac Room.






Tyrell then found another font to use

"For the titles and names that appears during the title sequence, we again investigated and looked into different fonts within 'Dafont'. We finally came across a font in particular in which we again felt fitted the theme of our title sequence, with this font being the 'Dark Underground' font. We chose this font as we felt it appeared to look very gritty yet bold and again, eye-catching. " - Tyrell

Not impressed Re filming needs to be done

After Checking the footage of the previous rebels and scavengers film we decided that the scavengers part came out very good and decided to use it as it seemed very natural. However, we realized that the rebel scene didn't seem good so we decided that we would re film it .  So it back to the drawing boards, or this case the woods *aha*( was I the only one to laugh)

Scavengers and Rebels

Tyrell and Dannys Day out

On Thursday 18th February 2016, Tyrell, Danny and I decided to meet to shoot the scenes for our Rebels and Scavengers for our title sequence. Unfortunately, due to miscommunication, I wasn't able to come and film with film with them and also due to my data/ simless phone *sobs*. So, Tyrell and Danny went on their own with some of our actors. They took the same  tri-pod and the two cameras with we used at the shard. We decided to use the location of Fanny on the Hill park in Welling for both of our scenes. I however found this place but not them. Luckily, we managed to get 3 actors to act the parts. In the park near the woods, they managed to build and create a mini-set of survival things such as: shelters made of twigs, an amateur clothing line and an stack of twigs for a fire. They then shot this and took multiple angles and camera shots to achieve the vision we wanted for this Scavengers scene overall.

For the Rebels scene, they went to a back road near the park in Welling. Down this road, after walking they saw a wall covered in graffiti, with the road looking quite desolate. They went supplied with 4 fake guns for our actors to use for the Rebels scene, along with scarfs and bandannas to create an atmosphere of mystery and, to make them look the part for this particular scene. They also experimented with different camera angles and different camera shots to help achieve the visions we had set originally.

More potential filming

16/02/2016

Danny, Tyrell and I traveled into London in order to capture the two establishing shots that we needed for our title sequence which were the Shard and a church. We equipped ourselves with a tri-pod and two cameras that we borrowed from the school. At the Shard, we were able to film using both the cameras on the tri-pod and, the camera separately to give a hand-held effect. We panned left and right to try and get the full space of the Shard and, we titled the cameras going from top to bottom and from bottom to top. As we traveled deeper into London, we also decided it was necessary to record the outside of a church since it happened to be at a good vantage point, again using the tri-pod and camera together and then the camera separately. These two establishing scenes that we shot were for our government scene and for out evangelist scene in our title sequence. It was a day well spent

Confirmation on The Soundtrack

For the soundtrack for our title sequence, we decided to go on to the un-copyrighted website 'audio'. I managed to find the soundtrack that we wanted from this website and use it as the soundtrack for out title sequence. Personally, I chose this soundtrack because it is a soundtrack that builds, grows and develops as it progressed which went with our title sequence. The soundtrack at the beginning of title sequence begins very dramatically but slowly, but as the sequence progresses further, it becomes more intense and dramatic. Whilst editing, Tyrell purposely ensured that when each cast members names appeared on screen, it fitted well every time the song peaked at particular points.

Storyboards

We have storyboarded our ideas for our title sequence by hand-drawing each different scenes. We have demonstrated roughly our ideas on the basis of what we kind of want each scene to look like. Although this isn't necessarily the final copy/version of the way our title sequence looks, it is a rough idea as to how we want the finished version of our title sequence to look like.  Amazing drawings down by Tyrell and Danny with my input :D