Props List

The props list was in table form and could not be copied across to my blog.
I have emailed it to you..
Thanks,

EDL

File/Clip Name


New2

HaS01

Op01

Op02

Op03

Op05

EZS01

Op06

EZT02

EZS04

grave

Sand02

Chap01

Chap02

Chap03

FS01

FS04

FS12

FS11

HS02

HS03

HS10

HS13

HS14

GOOD

CJS01

GOOD

DOG01

DOG03

DOG09

DOG07

DS01

DS03

DS02

DS03

DS02

DS03

SS01

SS03

SS04

SS04

SS05

SS07

SS06

SS09

SS12

End01

Genre Specific Elements

My film is a drama, i had once thought of making it a thriller but changed my mind. I wanted to make a film that really exploited its genre and with a thriller i knew i wouldn't have been able to do that quite as effectively. There are a couple twists in my movie which lean themselves to the thriller genre, such as when she discovers her dog is actually alive. I love the ending of my movie, it really confirms the dramatic ness of the story.  My music also helps create an effective dramatic basis to my film.

Transitions and Speical Effects

The only real special effect that i added was on the sandwich scene. Ts involved layering the footage, finding at start position that matched Claudia up, then the second layer changed the opacity. This enabled the people walking past to have a ghosted effect. I have put different filters on various scenes; however these don' t count as special effects. I have used transitions to hopefully make it clearer what memories are real, which are fake and what aren't memories at all. I have use cross dissolves as my primary transition, though have mixed i up by having the transitions dissolve to black o white, depending on the next scene. the white looks really effective, and he black looks more normal <-- as in seen more commonly. The white and black transitions are genre specific elements, creating a more suspenseful atmosphere.

Biggest Mistake

The largest mistake i have constantly made throughout this whole movie is that i haven't reflected enough. I don't purposefully not reflect rather i just forget to. This is a bad habit I've had from the beginning. Nevertheless, when i reflect i write larger reflections to make up for it. I hope i don't get marked done for not having an abundance of reflects, i think the time and effort i have put into all my assessments makes up for it.

Sandwich Scene Effect

Up until the start of this week, i still had no effect on the sandwich scene but i decided it was extremely necessary for me to have the effect on it. Initially it was Mr Andrews who came up with the specific idea of the effect; however it came form my idea of lots of people pass her yet she is never noticed. I opened up Finalcut again, as i also wanted to put in credits, and i sought Mr Andrews advice on how to do it. the end result is really quite effective, the people look like ghosts, perhaps implying they were never really there, maybe Fiona just thinks that if people were there, they would ignore her, and as she is ghosted as well maybe she doesn't see herself as a whole just fragmented, which all comes back to her being not mentally stable. So all worked out well from the sandwich scene effect.

What I Could Have Done Better With My Sound

Some transitions between loops could have been created/changed to sound a lot better than they did. Most where acceptable but one or two, I could never get quite right; however I gave it my best shot. I’m not the most musical person around so the sound was a little difficult in that regards. Nonetheless, garage band was created for people who have no musical ability, so that made my life a little easier. I could always hear if something sounded wrong, but I didn’t always know exactly how to change it straight away as I might if I were more musical, I just kept playing with it, changing loops and transition until it sounded better. The biggest thing I could have done better is that I could have finished it quicker in general, instead of wasting the couple of lessons I did at the beginning. With those extra couple of lesson I could have been less stressed at the end, had more help to develop and better my final sound track. So time management is something I still need to do better. With using Finalcut I learnt how to do things more effectively, this I tried to apply to garage band; however it wasn’t until later on that I got to doing things more efficiently.