Evaluation Q3

EVALUATION #3

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Express as a TRUMP CARD:

CODES N' CONVENTIONS

BEFORE ~ 5.5.........AFTER ~ 8.8

I've decide to put my understanding of Thriller convention and understanding of film opening at 5.5 because at first I didn't understand what convention means but as the course goes on I was able to bring my understanding of conventions to a higher level and same goes for my understanding of film opening. I was able to increase my understanding of film opening by watching many Thriller opening such as Black Swan.  

This here is my notes about CODES & CONVENTIONS that I took in class and this helps me to gain more understanding about CODES & CONVENTIONS.

I've applied this to my FILM OPENING by using TECHNICAL CODE because in the dancing part of my film opening I've decide to close the lights while the MC is dancing to show the distinguished between her mind and the real world also this part become more clear at the end of the film with the mirror effects.

Evidence to support my point:

Here I was able to bring out my understanding of CODES & CONVENTION into my own work and develop my skills in understand Thriller especially PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER.

These are ideas of checklist that I might need to think about when I'm doing the film opening and we brainstorm this as a class to help each other to tick of each bullet points also to make sure that I don't go off track with what I'm doing. 

This is a research I did with the class on order of credits and how to order our credits so this is an example for me to base my order to also to see example of how credits could be place in different ways and fonts.

PLANNING N' ORGANISATION

BEFORE ~ 7.5........AFTER ~ 9.5

ACTOR

I noticed myself to be a person who is organised but I still noticed some gaps in that I am still lacking in some part of planning and organising people because I found it challenging to ask someone to participate in my coursework as an actor. However, I over come this fear of asking by just taking action and ask my friend to be the actor for my film opening  and this allow me to finish my coursework on time because I haven't wait till the last minute to ask for an actor.

LOCATION

For the location I decide to used the school dance studio because it's easy to access and don't need to go anywhere far and could be film after school when the studio is free. I've also went to look at the location to see if there is anything that is need to be added or moved from the studio because I don't want any problems to happen when it's time for filming. I also did a BLOG post on location.

PROPS
Although I didn't used any props in my final film opening but in my first draft of my film opening I decide to use some props but then decided to change the storyboard so there are no more props needed in the film opening because the props wouldn't work with what I wanted to do.

DEADLINES
I was able to meet my deadlines because I create a plan during the month of want I have to do within that month in order to get everything finish in time and layout everything to make sure that I can handle other work that came in unexpectedly.

EDITING

BEFORE ~ 4.0.........AFTER ~ 9.0

At first I have no experience of editing but then I was able to improve my skills throughout the film opening process because editing the dance move need to be continuous so I need to be really careful when doing my editing to make sure that I don't create any jumps and mistake so this increase my editing skills to another levels. 

Evidence from film opening: 

Also how I create narrative to make sense to the audience is I try to make contrast of the mind and the real world by using light and edits to show the difference where at first the audience could see that the lights are turn on but then when the dancing starts the lights are off so this show contrast and without editing I wouldn't be able to show this.

Evidence of editing contrast to create meaning:

MIND VS REAL

CREATIVE CONFIDENT

BEFORE ~ 6.5........AFTER ~ 9.5

During my brainstorm I have many ideas for my film opening but what I decide to go with is psychological thriller because I also want to do something related to dancing and then I can across "BLACK SWAN" that is a psychological thriller that has Ballet in it so I was inspired to do a similar type of film opening but to go with different type of dance. I kept this idea in mind and try to develop my idea to fit with the thriller concept and this is how I decide to use lights as the key to show the difference in two people and with the ending to become clear that there are two people.

The difference in lighting:

CAMERAWORK 

BEFORE ~ 5.0..........AFTER ~ 8.5

First I never film before so my control of camera were really low so I didn't thought that I would be able to do such a really challenging camera movement. However, when I was thinking of what kind of camera would work well with this type of opening an idea came to me to use 360 camera so I need to make sure that I don't turn up in the filming and make sure that I have some experience in doing the 360 camera so I did some camera testing to see if there are any issue with the camera and location. 

360 Camera:

I've also used continuous shot when the MC opening the door to enter the dance studio.

VISUAL EFFECT

BEFORE ~ 4.5........AFTER ~ 7.5

I didn't used much visual effect in this film opening however I did experiment with lights and changing colours by using AFTER EFFECTS to make the film opening look better and to bring more clearer communication to the audience.
Another thing that I did was I created credit by using AFTER EFFECTS as well at first I didn't know to insert text so I look up on YOUTUBE for tutorial on how to create text and how to make it fade in and fade out to make is more smooth when watching the film opening.

Evidence of using Fade in and Fade out + adding texts: