Evaluation

Final Outcome

Out-Takes

As explained previously, we were meant to come up with various different ways to shoot and demonstrate our actors and roles credits, as we took inspiration from the opening of 'Napoleon Dynamite', but instead of using student cards and food (as seen in the film), we wanted to try various scenario's but with school related objects instead, to keep within our school theme (such as the highlighting video below).

                                                                 

After many a conversation, we then decided to change this idea, as despite it's originality and uniqueness, we were advised that having too much variation within our credits was a bad idea, as they should all appear to the same theme. After this was pointed out, we agreed with this completely, hence our final product's credits appearing all similar.

Our third scene which was planned on our original plan was a time lapse of a typical lunchtime at our school. However, as you can see the camera jolted constantly within the clip, and no matter how many time we tried to adjust this, more problems began to arise. To make life easier, we concluded that we should just remove this brief clip, as we feel that we had already successfully set our school scene previously with our drone shots. 

                                                                 

My final example of some of our out-takes is our bully scene, which (in hindsight) was a key moment within our plot, as it highlights the motivation behind the hiring of the Hitman in the first place. However, after moving the clip around and adjusting it's colour, length and speed, we soon realised that this whole clip was not really needed to explain his motives. Wherever we placed it, we felt that the clip was out of place, so we just decided to permanently remove it.   

                                                   

Editing

For our actual main video editing, we used a system called 'Final Cut Pro'. I personally found this system really simple to handle, but also liked how it had complex capabilities when I really grasped the software.
When looking back on Editing as a whole, I realised our main editing was cropping each video clip, but most importantly was the use of colour correction.









As seen above, we completely transformed every clip we ended up using in our final project, and significantly adapted it's overall appearance. Our clips may appear slightly blue, as we took inspiration from the global phenomenon 'The Twilight Saga', as it was apparent to us during our preliminary research, that they also used the same colour saturation, as it confirms the eerie nature that we initially wanted to set out for our audience.

Music (Garageband):

As said in my previous post on music, my group and I knew that it was imperative for us to incorporate Piano and Strings into our soundtrack. We knew this, because we decided to be heavily influence by the soundtrack of 'The Exorcist', as we preferred to have a repeating riff of music running throughout, to stick within this Thriller Stereotype. We also wanted a repeating soundtrack like this as we wanted our project to be memorable... for the right reasons!

One difficulty Laura, Matt and I had to overcome

was the layering of each musical clip, so that the

beats were all the same, and that changes in the tempo and instruments themselves were in time with the clip changes we had organised previously. Another task we struggled (initially) with was the use of 'loops'. As predicted, once we all got the hang of Garageband and it's capabilities, we began to just hopelessly add loops that in fact crowded over our main

piano and string features, meaning we became unhappy

with how it worked with out project, compared to how

we imagined it would be (simple, repetitive yet effective).

Luckily, in the end we managed to source the correct balance between the loops, and legitimate instruments, and it is safe to say that we all agree with our musical outcome, and believe it works well with our project as a whole, finished product.