'The Dolls House'

http://www.youtube.com/user/kittysadler1#p/a/u/0/o_7F3gxv3IQ

KS: Final editing

Todays lesson went well in terms of editing, making finishing touches and neatening frame sizes, lengths of footage and title transitions. We reviewed our film opening and made suitable changes before our final export tommorow, such as changing our font to a deep red colour to heavily contrast the black and white background, and to match the traditional horror/thriller colour conventions. We made sure no portrait still images were left in the film and added appropriate dissolve and fade transitions to our titles. Although we encountered an issue yesterday with parts of our footage being overwritten by new footage due to them having the same file names, leaving our 2 minute filming opening in parts, we quickly and efficiently solved this by reentering these pieces of footage from our exported film, and by re shooting some necessary shots. The final outcome is very successful and has greatly improved our piece by making the narrative more clear and obvious. It has been suggested that our sound is a little repetitive; having a heart beat as our main rhythm throughout the piece means it looses its punchiness and impact. Therefore we have edited it so it drowns out at parts, then re enters, in which we will review the changes tomorrow morning, deciding on the most appropriate soundtrack before exporting.

KS: Just over a week to go!

After reviewing the sound we produced and matching it against our film, the opening is beggining to look very dramatic and proffessional. In todays editing we began adding titles throughout our sequence, howeven using a different font to our previously selected 'A Lolita', instead we found one we prefer and have been using that. We also began to add black pauses to our piece to spearate scenes and space out the flashing mad sense created.

KS : Progress Update

We completed a rough cut of our film opening, exported and presented to our group. Feedback was good, our peers thought visually our peice was great with particular sucessful editing techniques such as the mirror shots. However the narrative was not clear so we need to work on our order and cuts to help this, we must also re check all stills and footage are taken landscape. To make sure our narrative is clear set we aim to have flashes of the possessed girls face, how she was before the doll obsession, before each change of scene. This will allow the audience to keep relating back to her more stable state of mind. 

LH: Story Boarding

KS: Storyboarding

By storyboarding our film opening we were able to work out the order and each particular shot we will take. We could draw out the transitions we will use, the angles, duration and sound each still or film will be. Below our images of the graveyard/ruins scene, the wallpaper scene, the close ups and the dolls house scene.

Wallpaper

Dolls house, interior and exterior

Graveyard and ruins

Mirror shots and laughter

KS: Editing update

Todays editing went very well, we experimented with the editing technique 'mirror' which we chose to use for our playground footage, also picking out the colour red against the plain black and white footage and stills in our wallpaper scene using the technique 'colour pass' to draw attention to the blood as a horror connotation. Although some of the black started to come through the colour red, I think the footage still looks very good adding dimension to our piece. We experimented with the technique used in 'Black Swan' in the mirror scenes, where the figure turns yet the reflection of her in the mirror stays stationary facing the front. This however did not work as we planned, due to the fact we did not use a  tripod for this piece of footage, the still image and the film did not match up in the position of the mirror so we aim to re-shoot this in our final shoot tomorrow, 29th March, we will upload and capture this footage in tomorrows lesson and continue editing!