Final AS Piece | Blackmail

Evaluation Question 1-7

Proof that all links are mine

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Improvements for the opening scene before deadine

With the feedback we have received we have addressed some improvements for our as opening scene to assure a higher quality film.

One of the improvements is to make the titling better, however after looking again the titling looked okay, but it was decided to have all caps on for all the titling as the text looked better in all caps.

Copyright free music used in my thriller film

bump in the night - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100789

this is the music we used as the main music for when everything starts to kick off and Jamie goes to find linden hanging from a tree.

piano - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7mv-wouoY8

this was just used for the beginning so the indent wasn't silent.

Editing The Opening Scene

The editing was done at my house with two different editing software's, one being sony vegas 13 and the other Camtasia 8.
When doing the editing Jamie came round to see how the film was going to be edited, as he hasn't had any experience in editing prior to this.
Whilst editing a lot of different techniques where used, these included, voice narration where you overlay someone speaking other the other clips. Also zoom in the editing software was used to cut out some objects in clips (one being the camera bag). Croma keying was also used for our indent at the beginning with the smoke. And the rest of the editing was just tweaking with the brightness and clip length and so on.
We also added some parallel editing in where it shows to things happening at the same time which is me hanging myself and Jamie ru7nning to try and stop me.

How The Opening Scene Was Filmed

The opening Scene took a solid 4 hours of  constant filming on the 3rd of march 2016. The location of filming was Jamie's house and all the way to the den at biwaters. To get to this location I had to bus it to clay cross to meet Jamie. Once arriving at 5pm we got straight into the recording, the first  scenes were recorded by putting the camera on a tripod to get a middle shot of Jamie seeing the text we then did a variety of other shots through out the house to show him running to biwaters. In jamies house we also filmed the 2 years before clips to save time, so I didn't have to go back to his later that day. after this we then filmed all the match on action clips to bi waters, by just moving certain distances and placing the camera to record just looking at the surrounding locations to think of some unique shots such as the puddle shot. When we arrived at the location for the hanging scene we checked the location thoroughly to make sure it was safe to record the scene. This involved checking the strength of the branches so they didn't snap resulting in me gaining an injury or actually hanging myself when pretending to put my head through the bike lock. After multiple branches snapping when testing them we finally found the right one which was strong enough to hold me, we the set up the camera and I hung by my arms so you could just see my legs in the shot. For the last scene of my head Jamie stood on a wall and lifted the bike lock up, to give it the effect that I had hung my self, we then had help from another media student Jon-jo to set up the camera so it looked legit.


Throughout all the clips we used a flash light as the surroundings were pitch black. the light was used as we felt our film would look best in the dark, so a light was needed to illuminate Jamie running to me.

Distribution

Distribution is the process of ways in which the product is sold.
These include: Cinema, 3d cinema, imax, dvd, Blu-ray, 3d Blu-ray, online streaming (Netflix), tv channels (film 4) and boxoffice and many more ways.
For big budget films they can cover all of these areas, but for small production companys like warp they can only cover a certain few. Warp films would be able to pay for the cinema on rare occasions, but not 3d or imax, and after that they would be able to go onto dvd, maybe the odd Blu-ray film, and after that they would be able to streaming and tv channels.
Our film is a small budget thriller film, so we would be looking at a straight to dvd type of film, as we are not a well known production company and it would be a risk for a cinema to show our film, as the sales cant be determined from our brand name as it is unknown of. However we could get a independent cinema to show our film, as they cant afford to show the big names, so ours might have a chance off screaning there.