Hannah and Nicolas - Evaluation

more feedback

substitute teacher gives us feedback on our second last cut of our film

Our Evaluation of final cut

here is me and dan evaluating our film due to circumstances beyond our control we had to do our evaluation separate to hannah and nicolas

Feedback Films

feedback for media film

final cut screen shots

here we have a video of screen shots from final cut with our soundtrack

Video of the screenshots from our sound track on garageband

this is a video of some screenshots from garageband with the soundtrack for the film i made the sound track to have a slow tempo to match the calmness of the killer i added big distorted bass to convay the deepness and depth that our killer has gone to in the planning of this muder

Final Cut "Reflections"

here is our final cut of our film

Comments to shooting schedule

 

We filmed our opening sequence of the thriller in the lower school of Thomas Adams. 

The murderer scene was made in the boys bathroom.

The cleaner was shown in the corridors of the school and in the bathroom too.

When the murderer escapes, he walks out of the bathroom, through the corridors and at the end he leaves the building and walks away from the main entrance of the school.

At the beginning of the movie, the murderer is also shown in a classroom in the college of Thomas Adams.

We chose these places for our film, because the viewers should realize that the main characters are students. It had nice images and places that we needed for our film.

 

We started filming on 12^th of January 2010 and finished it at 26^th of January 2010.

 

 

                                                                                              Written by Nicolas Inzelmann

Character Profiles - Pictures

The Janitor(Daniel Ross).
The Killer(Ryan Moffitt).
The Victim(Nicolas Inzelmann).

The MacGuffin

If you have watched our film, you probably noticed a MacGuffin, cleverly(and to be honest accidentally) added in to keep you guessing.

The MacGuffin, which is the rather 'shady' movement of the janitor, was an originally accidental movement I did during the acting, but we kept it in and it later turned out to be a brilliant MacGuffin - the way the janitor moves makes him seem suspicious and a likely suspect in the murder.

Character profiles

Character profile of the killer:

The killer is a student (actor: Ryan Moffitt) that is about 17 years old.

He wears a school uniform (white shirt).

In his first shot you see an extreme close up of his eyes and his nose. You hear him breathing and the watcher realizes after some time that the opening sequence of the film is about his memory.

Between the different shots of other persons you always see the same extreme close up of the murderer until he has his first part in the movie, that supports the idea of the memory of him.

His first part in his own memory is when the victim is dead and he is walking in the background. In his next shots he is walking around the school till he leaves the building and but his rucksack away.

Character profile of the cleaner:

The cleaner is an adult (actor: Dan Ross).

He wears a uniform of a cleaner and his equipment is a mop, a bucket and a sign.

In his first shot he is just walking around the school and passes the boys bathroom.

In his second shot he is walking down a corridor and walking into the boys bathroom.

At his last shot the viewer can see him in the bathroom and see him finding the dead victim on the bathroom floor.

Written by Nicolas Inzelmann

Choices of Character

The murderer in our thriller sequence was played by Ryan Moffitt, we chose him to play this part because he is an A level drama student and we thought that he would bring the best acting skills required to play the part. We thought that he fitted the right image for the character.

The victim was played by Nicolas Inzelmann, we thought he fitted the characters profile well because he looked young enough to be a school student, and was able to create the looks we needed.

The Janitor was played by Dan Ross, we waned a male character to play this part and luckily dan was willing to. We thought that he created the right image with all the useful and convincing props. His body structure fit the role convincingly.

Rough Cut

Here's our rough cut. We had to cut ALOT of footage to get the film into the time constraints, but we're happy with the end result.

feedback

feedback from media teacher is 

1. silence in the music using it to more effect
2. ken burns effect on the last scene to keep distance from the boy
3. cctv cut to change tapes to confuse and worry the audience  and mess with the clarity to give a more gritty effect

Presentation of film opening from Flight Plan-Hannah Mitford

It starts off making the audience jump with a quick movement of a train and the titles appear in white bold writing on a black background. It then changes to the next scene where you can see the back of a woman sitting alone in what looks like an underground station. The camera moves in closer towards the woman and the title of the film appear on the right again in white bold writing. The music makes the audience feel some suspicion about the woman because they haven't yet discovered her identity. The camera then switches to a mid shot of the woman and you se that she is upset probably in mourning because she is seen to be wearing black. The scenery behind the woman looks cold and damp.

Editing Techniques

Okay, I'm here today to explain to you the various editing and effects we will be using in the editing of our masterpi- I mean, film.

It took us roughly about one week to film our thriller opening sequence. We based our filming in the school bathrooms in the junior school. As a group we all nominated Ryan to be the director. We wrote our own theme music because we felt that it would be a lot easier to adapt it to fit our opening sequence. We edited the sequence using different formats such as, blurring it; using different colouring effects, and making it look like CCTV footage. We kept to our storyboard, but on some occasions we felt that some scenes needed to change. To help us get a better picture of what kind of scenery and setting we would be using we decided to take some pictures of some of the different scenes. We used a variety of software like Garage Band, and we used Final Cut Pro for our editing.

Written by Hannah and Nicolas

Character Profile - The Victim

Victim:

The victim is a student (actor: Nicolas Inzelmann) that is about 15 years old. He is in the bathroom and washing his hands, when he sees the murderer in the mirror. He is relaxed because he doesn’t know the person behind him is a murderer but after some time he realize it and is shocked. In the next shot he is dead and his blood is everywhere. The victim wears a school uniform (white shirt).

(Written by Nicolas)

Location shots - Cont.

The main entrance. The statue that the killer places his bag on is to the right.

The Reception hallway that the killer walks through to get outside.

Location shots

The dining hallway which leads to the reception area and the entrance. The killer uses this dining hallway to move to the entrance.

View from the entrance into the bathroom. This is where the victim meets his demise, and the janitor discovers the corpse.

Another view in the bathroom, this showing the entrance to the bathroom which the killer, victim and janitor enter from. The teachers would also have entered from here.

The bathroom and sinks where the victim notices the killer shortly before his death.

The D&T area in the hallway where the teachers would have met to discuss suspicions of the then unknown killer, prior to their removal from the final script.

Hallway No. 1 - The first and main hallway in the film. This is used by the murderer, victim and janitor. The teachers, once again, would have used this hallway prior to their removal from the script.

Animatic

Here's our animatic finally uploaded.

The animatic outlines the basic times we want each scene to run for, approximately. Of course, we may not stick exactly to it, but it is a guideline. So if we follow the animatic's times, we should end up with a 3-4 minute film.

As far as I(Daniel) am concerned, there doesn't appear to be anything that needs changing at this point, apart from possibly more cuts. Either way, I am sure we'll end up changing things during filming, but until then, we'll see.

All we need to do now, of course, is film and edit.