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Final OTS

This is the final OTS

Rumplestiltskin: Final cut

Rumpelstiltskin: Final cut from Fabian Harrison on Vimeo.
This is the final version of our noir fairytale, Rumpelstiltskin. As a group we feel that this short film turned out very well. I feel that this version turned out far better than the previous ones which had a few errors which we hadn't noticed.

What was done well:
Fabian's cinematography was very good because he had great knowledge of how to use his camera. This meant that he could do very smooth focus pulls and other camera techniques.
We all wore suitable costumes for the noir genre as we were all dressed in suit.
The amound of smoke in our film suits the noir genre very well. We used it to add some mystery to the character of rumpelstiltskin and also to fit the typical conventions of noir.
The guns we used were fitting because they looked realistic in black and white.

What could have been better:
Some of the clips didn't look as good as we initially though when we came back to them in editing. We were also low on time so we had to edit these to make them look as good as they could without being able to re-film the scenes.
In my house we also had lots of things in the background that didn't fit the time period such as: an xbox, a flatscreen T.V, etc

Fifty shades of Grey | Sweded Trailer

50 Shades of Grey sweded trailer from Max Shepherd on Vimeo.

We were set the summer task of creating a sweded film. We chose the fifty shades of grey trailer because it seemed like it was going to be fun to film. It also seemed relatively simple and unique. We couldn't find any similar things on youtube because it hadn't been attempted before.

Editing

During editing I changed the clips to black and white then adjusted the clips to be slightly blue which made the clips look slightly darker but also added some vibrancy. I also adjusted the darkness of the clips so that it would be darker depending on the scene. For the flashback scenes

For the flashback scenes I added a slight yellow tint to the scenes, cross blur transitions and added the dream video effect to make it obvious that it was a flashback.

This image shows the editing I did to make the clip black and white with a yellow tint.

This is showing the different video effects in iMovie.

This shows where I added the transitions.

Audience

I looked on yougov profiles and looked up similar films to our OTS. I started with Double Indemnity

This shows us that double indemnity appeals mostly to old men due to the time period of noir film. It also shows that the typical person who likes double indemnity has a high social grade. They also have left wing views of politics.

I  looked up the yougov profile for the noir film 'The Third Man.' The demographics are the same as the ones for 'Double Indemnity' and share the same political views.

These results show us that our target audience should be old men with high social grades with left winged political views.

These are Pete Buckingham's audience profiles which is used to interpret an audience.

Out of these profiles I feel that our target audience is film fanatics because they are very organised and are in the best age range of all the profiles.

The target audience for our ilm will be men in their 50s who are film fanatics.

Camera dolly

We decided that for our opening title sequence it would be nice to have smooth pans across the desk. The best way for this is a camera dolly. We decided that for this we would follow a video tutorial. Link to tutorial. We looked at all the things we needed from the video tutorial and hen went to homebase to get it all. 

Once we'd collected everything we started with the tubes for the dolly to roll on by driling holes through either side.

We then cut the wood to an appropriate size for the camera to mount.

Instead of a 90 degree metal strip we used plastic because it was cheaper and wouldn't affect the structure. We then cut this to size to be used to hold the wheels

Instead of a 90 degree metal strip we used plastic because it was cheaper and wouldn't affect the structure. We then cut this to size to be used to hold the wheels

We then drilled holes into the plastic so that it could be held in place by the wood and hold the wheels

We then cut more wood so that we could have a place to mount our poles

When we were adding wheels from a pair of old skates we ran into a problem because he wheels were too big to have them where the video tutorial instructs. This meant that it was very hard for to keep the wheels on the metal poles

We decided to add a strip to the end of the wheel and the used duct tape to keep it in place. This made it harder for the wheels to fall off of the track

I forgot to record a few steps but basically we took the head from a small tripod and then we used a special drill bit to hold the tripod head in place. 

I also forgot to record a few steps for this but we just drilled holes in the wood then put roofing bolts through the wood and the metal poles before 

This is the final product 

I am relatively happy with the camera dolly however wish that we had more time to create it because we may have been able to get some  different wheels which would fit the tutorial and make the dolly roll without having to be held in place. This camera dolly should reveal objects to the audience nicely and smoothly. This was also a much cheaper alternative to buying a camera dolly because they're usually very expensive. Here are a few examples Link 1 Link 2. As you can see these are around £60-£80. Although there are a few setbacks with our dolly it only cost us about £20 which is far cheaper than buying a premade one.