Here is my evaluation for my advanced portfolio.
Nadine's Media Evaluation from Nadine on Vimeo.
Sunday 27 January 2013
Thursday 20 December 2012
Monday 17 December 2012
Thursday 13 December 2012
Soundtrack
Using Soundtrack Pro brought from the Apple Store, I was able to look through a variety of different soundtracks from the cinematic section. These are all copyright free as they are provided within the app from Apple.
I found a track I particuarly liked called 'Blackout' and I felt it went well with my trailer. The strings and eery tones fit the mystery and thriller aspect of the film, whilst the piano part of the song make it seem like a drama film, which also fits in with the film's theme.
Cutting the song into parts and looping particular moments of the song, I knew I wanted to use the drum and heavy beats at important parts of the trailer, for example once the girl's face changes to the mask.
I wanted to have a faster sound during the montage/last half of my film trailer and I looked at different songs I could use. Everything I chose seemed to really stand out as it was played after Blackout and it didn't fit right, so I thought I would play around with Blackout's tempo, speed and so on.
I changed the tempo of 'Blackout' and made the pitch slightly higher, which speeds up the music and therefore adds tension. I used this in the last part of the film trailer and faded it out towards the end.
For sound effects, I found a sound called 'Dark Side' which I used at the point where the soundtrack changes tempo. This is to show that there is an obvious point where everything in the trailer speeds up, which is the time that the face of the girl is revealed to be a mask.
Throughout my interim feedback, a few people kept telling me that the little girl and older girl's scream did not fit in with the trailer, as the scream was too short and appeared out of nowhere. So I played around with the editing features of the song to see how it would be worked.
At first I copied a chunk from the middle of the scream and reentered it into the middle, this is so the scream is now longer in duration. I then used the echo effect from Final Cut Pro to extend the scream and make it echo/ The echoing scream reflects the narrative of the film, as the little girl is haunting the older girl. The scream I use is one I recorded of the little girl, and it goes over both visuals of the little girl and older girl screaming, so it shows that the two girls are connected.
Another sound I used within my trailer is another sound effect from the little girl. As the song the girl sings at the beginning is Ring A Ring o'Roses, I wanted to connect the beginning of the trailer with the end of the trailer like a loop. At the beginning the little girl sings one part of the song:
During the last part of my film trailer, I wanted the little girl's singing to echo throughout the montage and end in the final scene. So I recorded here singing another part of the song.
I made sure that I positioned the last part of the song to have the countdown to three appear just when the character opens her eyes in the last shot. I also used another effect so that her voice appears like an echo, a voice in a head which is a code of psychological thrillers.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o'_Roses
I found a track I particuarly liked called 'Blackout' and I felt it went well with my trailer. The strings and eery tones fit the mystery and thriller aspect of the film, whilst the piano part of the song make it seem like a drama film, which also fits in with the film's theme.
Cutting the song into parts and looping particular moments of the song, I knew I wanted to use the drum and heavy beats at important parts of the trailer, for example once the girl's face changes to the mask.
I wanted to have a faster sound during the montage/last half of my film trailer and I looked at different songs I could use. Everything I chose seemed to really stand out as it was played after Blackout and it didn't fit right, so I thought I would play around with Blackout's tempo, speed and so on.
I changed the tempo of 'Blackout' and made the pitch slightly higher, which speeds up the music and therefore adds tension. I used this in the last part of the film trailer and faded it out towards the end.
For sound effects, I found a sound called 'Dark Side' which I used at the point where the soundtrack changes tempo. This is to show that there is an obvious point where everything in the trailer speeds up, which is the time that the face of the girl is revealed to be a mask.
Throughout my interim feedback, a few people kept telling me that the little girl and older girl's scream did not fit in with the trailer, as the scream was too short and appeared out of nowhere. So I played around with the editing features of the song to see how it would be worked.
At first I copied a chunk from the middle of the scream and reentered it into the middle, this is so the scream is now longer in duration. I then used the echo effect from Final Cut Pro to extend the scream and make it echo/ The echoing scream reflects the narrative of the film, as the little girl is haunting the older girl. The scream I use is one I recorded of the little girl, and it goes over both visuals of the little girl and older girl screaming, so it shows that the two girls are connected.
Another sound I used within my trailer is another sound effect from the little girl. As the song the girl sings at the beginning is Ring A Ring o'Roses, I wanted to connect the beginning of the trailer with the end of the trailer like a loop. At the beginning the little girl sings one part of the song:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,The song is an urban legend song, which has been around for hundreds of years since 1800s. However, some people say that the song comes from the Black Plague of 1665-1666, where thousands of people died. The song therefore has quite a sinister meaning.
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
During the last part of my film trailer, I wanted the little girl's singing to echo throughout the montage and end in the final scene. So I recorded here singing another part of the song.
Fishes in the water
Fishes in the sea
We all jump up
With a one, two, three.
I made sure that I positioned the last part of the song to have the countdown to three appear just when the character opens her eyes in the last shot. I also used another effect so that her voice appears like an echo, a voice in a head which is a code of psychological thrillers.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o'_Roses
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Pitch
Film trailers are created after a film has been made, by editing different parts of a film for a promotional package. Therefore, it was only ideal for me to come up with a full story for my film and then to make the trailer.
Here is my story:
While their mother was sleeping, Mattie brutally murdered her younger brother Michael, who was only 3 years old at the time, with a knife in the kitchen while their mother was asleep. Mattie was only 6. When her mother came into the kitchen, she saw Michael on the floor with his blood everywhere, over the knife and all over Mattie. Mattie was taken into a mental hospital because she was blamed for her brother’s death, which was too much for her mother to handle so her mother committed suicide. After therapy and care, Mattie describes that a dark haired man, with a wonky leg, in a duffle coat had come through the back door and murdered Michael in front of her and that she was innocent. Matthew, a neighbour six doors down, matched this description and was found guilty for the murder meaning that Mattie was able to leave child care when she was 18.
15 years later, Mattie lives in her own apartment, with job and a predominately healthy and stable life despite her past. Mattie appears unaffected by her past, her mother’s death and witnessing the murder of her brother. Suddenly she start’s having nightmares about her childhood, seeing herself with Michael’s blood over her and painting a picture with the blood. Over the week, the nightmares become more vivid and Mattie see’s that the picture her young self is painting is of a mask. Here, her nightmares come into her waking life, as she begins to see her young self on the street, in work and even in her home. The mask too begins appearing in her day to day life, as she sees a man in a duffle coat wearing the mask in shops, in restaurants on dates and at home. Then one day, Mattie is getting ready and she looks into the mirror and sees herself wearing the mask. These nightmares become too much like reality and Mattie becomes frightened. Mattie goes back to the child care home she grew up in and asks to see the physiatrist, Dr. Kien, to see if she can start therapy again to help her nightmares.
One night, while Mattie is sleeping, she wakes up from another vivid nightmare of her and everyone around her wearing this familiar mask. She wakes up to see that a masked silhouette behind her. She demands to know who the person is and why they are haunting her. The masked person replies that this is just her dream and that Mattie is still in the mental hospital from her childhood. She had been declared insane and started to have happy dreams of a normal life, in a normal apartment, with a normal job and normal friends, being happy and healthy. However these dreams began to be taken over with the masked man, the one that she told police killed Michael when in fact, Matthew was never arrested. Mattie killed Michael when she was young and was taken to the mental hospital. She has never left.
Here is my story:
While their mother was sleeping, Mattie brutally murdered her younger brother Michael, who was only 3 years old at the time, with a knife in the kitchen while their mother was asleep. Mattie was only 6. When her mother came into the kitchen, she saw Michael on the floor with his blood everywhere, over the knife and all over Mattie. Mattie was taken into a mental hospital because she was blamed for her brother’s death, which was too much for her mother to handle so her mother committed suicide. After therapy and care, Mattie describes that a dark haired man, with a wonky leg, in a duffle coat had come through the back door and murdered Michael in front of her and that she was innocent. Matthew, a neighbour six doors down, matched this description and was found guilty for the murder meaning that Mattie was able to leave child care when she was 18.
15 years later, Mattie lives in her own apartment, with job and a predominately healthy and stable life despite her past. Mattie appears unaffected by her past, her mother’s death and witnessing the murder of her brother. Suddenly she start’s having nightmares about her childhood, seeing herself with Michael’s blood over her and painting a picture with the blood. Over the week, the nightmares become more vivid and Mattie see’s that the picture her young self is painting is of a mask. Here, her nightmares come into her waking life, as she begins to see her young self on the street, in work and even in her home. The mask too begins appearing in her day to day life, as she sees a man in a duffle coat wearing the mask in shops, in restaurants on dates and at home. Then one day, Mattie is getting ready and she looks into the mirror and sees herself wearing the mask. These nightmares become too much like reality and Mattie becomes frightened. Mattie goes back to the child care home she grew up in and asks to see the physiatrist, Dr. Kien, to see if she can start therapy again to help her nightmares.
One night, while Mattie is sleeping, she wakes up from another vivid nightmare of her and everyone around her wearing this familiar mask. She wakes up to see that a masked silhouette behind her. She demands to know who the person is and why they are haunting her. The masked person replies that this is just her dream and that Mattie is still in the mental hospital from her childhood. She had been declared insane and started to have happy dreams of a normal life, in a normal apartment, with a normal job and normal friends, being happy and healthy. However these dreams began to be taken over with the masked man, the one that she told police killed Michael when in fact, Matthew was never arrested. Mattie killed Michael when she was young and was taken to the mental hospital. She has never left.
Sunday 9 December 2012
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