Final OTS

Bianca and Charley OTS -film noir FINAL from SCHS TV on Vimeo.

Evaluation

Evaluation on Prezi

Self and Peer Assessment Sheet

Peer Overview

Final OTS

OTS Charley and Bianca -film noir from SCHS TV on Vimeo.

Logo 2

We designed a second logo so that we had a choice of two, this one we thought we'd be a bit more creative with and play about with different ideas, so infact we cropped mine and Charley's faces and framed them in the o's of the word 'Production'.
It came to the conclusion that we preferred the first logo, but creating two gave us the chance to actually decide which logo we thought was better, we had to make a desion whether we wanted our logo to look more professional or more personal, we decided that the first logo was better because the colour scheme followed closely with that of a film noir.

Click here to see the steps to how we created this logo.

Production Meeting

Charley and I have spent the day watching and re watching our OTS and trying to perfect it. since getting to a levle of satisfaction, we've uploaded it to vimeo and embeded it on to our blogs, but since watching it back again we've found there are parts where the sound cuts out completely, we're beginning to find a lot of troubles with our OTS and everytime we think we've nearly finished something else goes wrong.

Actors

Charley and I will be playing Tracey and Lauren, who from the first film are known as Thelma and Louise, we will be interpreting their roles but giving them a new persona, Dillan and Katherine also helped us too.


I will be playing Lauren (Louise)

 Dillan will be playing the Detective

 Charley will be playing Tracey (Thelma)

 Katherine will be playing the house keeper

Logo design

Proof of logo designs click here
We experimented with different designs to open our OTS.

Production meeting

This morning, Charley and I went to the places where we filmed and took photographs of our locations (which you can see here)

Today we are just adding finishing touches to our OTS getting it uploaded to vimeo and embedding it on our blogs.

Our first attempt at an animatics

First attempt at a story board from SCHS TV on Vimeo.

I have previously posted about the troubles we had creating a story board and how it turned out to be a lot easier to create an animatics because you could place pictures wheereever you wanted and change them around how ever you wanted to.

Second Production meeting of the day and continuation of editing

Link to post on Charley's blog

Proof of sound

Link to proof on sound on Charley's blog

Animatics final piece

Animatics from SCHS TV on Vimeo.

This is our final animatics piece this went a lot better than the first because we managed to complete it within one day and get it just how we wanted it.

Production meeting

Finally we've been able to find a way of uploading our animatics and first version of our story board to vimeo, by using the schools account we're able to upload larger files and convert them before embedding them to our blogs.
Tried to finish the last part of editing today but couldn't find the file with Dillans voice recording on it, so editing will have to continue tomorrow before it will be complete.

Self and Peer assessment sheet

This sheet was helpful to give us feedback and show us which elements people liked and which people didn't think worked as well.

Production meeting

Charley and I decided it was best to try out some foleying today to add more of an effect to our OTS. We struggled with this because we didn't know which sounds in our OTS were clear enough already and which needed to be overlaid. We chose to record some of the sounds in the dark room in school because it was quiet and wasn't bound to have any one in there. Another problem we couldn't seem to work around was finding the right noise for the exact action, or getting the timing right, because we didn't have a big studio where we could watch the clip whilst imitating the action we just had to use what was at our disposal.

Production meeting (backlog)

During the half term Charley and I came in to school for the day to continue our editing but we came across more problems, for example blogger was down in certain areas of the school so we couldn't actually access our blogs to finish large amounts of work, also when we had finished foleying and we tried to upload it to imovie to add it to our OTS the computer wouldn't 'recognize' the camera, so now we're having to work around that and find another way of uploading our foleyed sounds to finalize our piece.

A major problem we had with our OTS was some of the clips would play and then the screen would just turn black, we tried clearing the effects and re adding them numerous times but nothing seemed to work, since being back in school the problem seems to have gone and now all of our footage runs coherently.

Production meeting (backlog)

Charley and I tried to upload our animatics to Vimeo -which is a video sharing site; so we could get our projects on to our blogs, but we came across some problems, firstly when we tried to upload the file, it was too large, so then we converted the file to decrease the size and then Vimeo claimed it was too small. We are now still searching for a solution to this problem as our animatics (story board) is an important addition to our planning process for our OTS.

Production meeting

Me and charley came in to school early today to work on our OTS again, today was fairly productive as we managed to get some music involved in our piece, although we have come across a slight problem, we don't quite feel like a certain piece of music, Bob Belden -Before, quite fits in to our piece, we decided to leave it where we originally placed it and we're going to wait for feed back.

Whilst editing the piece today i came across some problems using imovie, some of the transitions wouldn't add to a particular clip, i've now learnt that there is more than one way to add a transition, sometimes using imovie can be quite difficult as i find it's temperamental.

Script for our OTS

Proof of story board and script

Props we used whilst filming

Here are a few pictures of props which we used whilst filming our OTS, everything we used was found in our own homes which is good because it means our production wasn't as costly as we first thought it would be. Charley and I were lucky that I owned two fur coats, because even though our OTS wasn't meant to seem as though it was set in the era which film noir started, we did want to stick to some of the traditional conventions.

Sunglasses used in our get away scene in the woods.

Fur coat 1 (worn by me -Louise/Lauren)

Fur coat 2 (worn by Charley -Thelma/Tracey)

Champagne glasses

Worcester sauce was what we used to create our drinks

The glass which the detective drinks from

Proof of editing and filming