The opening credits for this new film 'LUCY' is very similar to what we want to do in our credits, by having the names come up on a black screen. Here it lets the audience focus on both the film and the credit separately. Unfortunately i could not find a video of these opening credits on youtube.
One of the troubles we have come across when we were re-editing our film opening was that we have found it difficult to fit in the credits with our footage, so we decided to go to a black screen for our credits as it doesn't take any attention away from our footage that way and the audience can focus more on the footage.
This media lesson we were given some feed back from the year above us about our two minuet film opening and realised that our two minuet opening wasn't working and something just seemed missing so we decided to rearrange the whole thing.
This time we placed the montage scene shots between the shots form the medical room. we only just started editing it all together but its already looking twice as good as it did before.
This could also be used in our opening for the shots in the alley scene. This 'fuzzy' sound could represent the state of the character's memories as being disjointed, fragmented and broken.
For our film opening, we decided in the alley scene that we should wear more casual clothes (as you can see in the screen shot below) as if walking home one night from a friends house or school.
We also used a little fake blood and ketchup for the blood of one of the girls as it was the easiest to get a hold of. the weapon we wanted one of the girls to be killed with was a claw hammer because it is a very common item that most people with have in their garages and we wanted to let the audience know that the murderer was just an ordinary person and not just a cruel killer.
In the medical room scene, I wore my pyjamas since when people are in hospital or in institutions they usually wear comfy and baggy clothing such as pyjamas. Furthermore, my character had just woken from one of her night terrors so it was only appropriate to be wearing pyjamas, and we wanted to make it as realistic as possible.
The non-diegetic sound used in out clip came from a website called The Epidemic Sound Player, where you can download short pieces of music that has no copy-write. The two tracks my group used was Restless Night and Residunn 3.
Foley effects are sound effects added to the film during post production (after the shooting stops). They include sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, crockery clinking, paper folding, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking, etc. etc. In other words, many of the sounds that the sound recordists on set did their best to avoid recording during the shoot. Without Foley, a film sounds empty and hollow - the actors seem to be talking in a vacuum. The sound recordist, if they did a good job, has given us the dialogue and excluded everything else, but our films needs more than this for the picture to come alive. We need to hear the little sounds of clothes, furniture, etc - but we need to control those sound effects so they don't obscure any of the dialogue.
Another common use for Foley sound replacement is adding it to documentary footage. Old historical film seems lifeless when it is screened without sound, and adding foley to it helps bring those long dead images to life. Next time you watch a history documentary that uses silent archival footage, listen closely and you should hear at least minimal Foley sound fx, mostly footsteps, behind the narration.
Foley can also be used to enhance comedy or action scenes. Watch most comedy films and you'll notice that many of the sounds are enhanced for comic effect, and sometimes the Foley sound is the joke. As for action, most fist fights do not involve the actors really hitting each other, and even if they did we would not be able to record a satisfying punch sound. By punching and variously molesting such objects as cabbages, celery and sides of beef, Foley artists can record unique and much more 'realistic' action sounds.
We decided to use foley to make our film opening a lot more realistic and of better quality.
This is the first draft of our two minuet opening and the deadline to hand it in is next week! we still have a few more things to do to improve and touch it up just a little more such as the sound.
After we spent two hours in a dark alley shooting the montage, and a hour and half after school shooting the medical room scene, we tried to upload all our footage only to find out our camera had been in the wrong mode the whole time and couldn't upload it to iMovie. So we had to re-shoot everything again. Luckily, this time the camera wasn't in the wrong mode and everything turned out really well! I think that we had gotten much better at filing different angles with all the practice (from the previous filming) and this time our filming was a lot quicker and better than before.
Before I Go To Sleep is a psychological thriller and fits into out chosen genre. In this film, the main character suffers with amnesia and brain due to a traumatic event but slowly recovers her memory and the reason she lost it which also makes it a mystery and crime thriller. This theme and story line is very similar to our plot for our film due to theme of memory loss and crime. It also involves many flash backs as the character slowly regains her memory which has inspired our two minuet opening.
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twenties onwards.
