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Welcome to my blog! I hope you find my blog informative and interesting, containing my coursework from B324 and B321. My GCSE film work is centred around the Film Noir and Thriller genre including my near three minute film, 'In Cold Blood'.  I worked with three members of my GCSE class: Charlie Myers, George Flack and Thomas Stevens.

IN COLD BLOOD FILM OPENING - B324 PROJECT

25.03.2014 - CONSTRUCTION: FEEDBACK

I sent my friends and family an email containing my completed movie. I asked for general feedback on my project that I would then use to change any areas of my work or take it as constructive criticism.

25.03.2014 - CONSTRUCTION: UPLOADING ONTO SOCIAL MEDIA

We uploaded our film onto YouTube and Facebook, awaiting feedback from the public!

 

21.03.2014 - CONSTRUCTION: FEEDBACK

We are nearly at the final stages of finishing our short film, with only the voice over to write and record as well as the ident to add at the begining we should be finished by around Friday next week. After showing 2 teachers (a compact group) our film we got given positive and negative feedback, this included:

Positives

1. Good use of authentic location

2. Liked the aspects of natural light and wind used for example in outside scenes to create a sense of 'realness'.

3. Liked the fast pace music - suitable to the period and genre of the piece - Film Noir/Thriller

4. Suitable timing of around 1.5 minutes including title and ident

5. Liked the sound effect of the gun shot

Negatives & what we will do to make these areas successful

1. The title of 'In Cold Blood' wasn't recognisable - the writing was too thin and you couldnt read the red writing against the red brick wall it was projected on - make it thicker and readable

2. Make title writing showing the directors, production, writers etc on separate slides or only choose one name instead of 4 bunched up together - change the names to one word or co group

18.03.2014 - CONSTRUCTION: MAKING FILM TITLE USING VIDEOCOPILOT

Firstly typing in a word related to ideas for your title - blood or graffiti related to ours

 VIDEO COPILOT

After selection of a suitable video we watched 'Graffiti Writing'

After putting off making the film title through Adobe After Effects (we didn't really know how to use it to be truthful) we stumbled across the website VIDEO COPILOT. The website gives free advise and displays tutorials showing you how to make 3D motion art on software such as Adobe After Effects and Dreamweaver. The step-by-step guide gave us useful quick information on how to splatter blood onto the screen and write our film title, 'In Cold Blood' across a wall. Making it was extremely quick and simple thanks to the website and with the narrator, Andrew, there for help we couldn't get a step wrong. 

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