Thursday 31 March 2016

Title Sequence - The Final Version



This is our final and finished version of our title sequence for our movie, 'Genesis: The Uprising'.

Monday 28 March 2016

Editing our 3 Answers for the evaluation

In order to edit our 3 answers (via video) for our evaluation on our title sequence, we have decided that we will come into school within our own time during the half term in order to edit the answers using Final Cut Pro.

Wednesday 23 March 2016

Furthermore, today, me, Danny and Jacob have decided to begin recording and planning ideas for our evaluation for our title sequence. Today, we used a tri-pod, a camera, high-key lighting and, a greenscreen behind us. We decided to use a greenscreen for the recording process of our evaluation as we thought it would be best to screen our title sequence behind us whilst we provide our answers to the camera. We brainstormed all of our answers for our evaluation the day before and have now gotten around to recording 3 answers to 3 of the evaluation questions. This leaves me now to edit the recorded parts of our evaluation and, for the other remaining answers, we will be answering them in another digital and interactive format 
Today, me and Danny have decided to improve our title sequence by incorporating all of the feedback we had previously received and, improving our title sequence. We have changed the font to a more simple yet with a sci-fi tone, but we kept the Dark Underground font for the end titles of the sequence. Furthermore, we decided to space out where the names would pop up throughout the sequence. Finally, we decided to incorporate the found footage, cam-corder feel to our updated Rebels scene is this was what was mentioned during our feedback. 

Tuesday 22 March 2016



For our screening of the second draft, improved version of our title sequence, we received again another set of feedback from our class mates and our teacher in terms of what has been improved since the previous screening. We received praise on things such as: the lead government man (kaseem) pointing angrily at the CCTV board and, the re-shoot of our Rebels scene. Upon editing, I actually found that our original Illuminati sequence that featured a focus pull with Jacob was still on my Apple Mac. So, I decided to add this version into our improved title sequence. Classmates felt as though the narrative was conveyed much clearer than previously and, that the re-shot version of our Rebels scene looked much more fitting compared to the original Rebel scene. However, some feedback that we had received was that people weren't too fond of our font choices and, felt as though the appearances of the text on screen was out of place. Also, some classmates felt as though our Rebels scene should be similar to The Scavengers scene in terms of also including a found footage, handheld camera filter. All feedback on this day has been taken into account and will be added and improved to our official final version of our title sequence. 

Preparing for our Evaluation

For our evaluation, me, Danny and Jacob have sat down within our own spare time in order to start preparing answers for the 7 evaluation questions. We made a variety of mind maps for 4 of the questions that we decided to answer. We brain stormed ideas for each of the questions that we chose. The 4 questions we chose was:
  • " What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product ? "
  • " Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product ? "
  • " What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why ? "
  •  " How did you attract/address your audience ? "
After brainstorming our ideas for these 4 questions, we decided to present the answers for these 4 questions in particular through a fun interactive media technique which was to film it in front of a green screen. We decided to play our title sequence continuously on repeat through the duration of our answers. For the remaining 3 other questions, we decided we were going to experiment with other fun interactive techniques by using things such as: PowerPoint, Prezi and actually posting blogs on to Blogger. 

Thursday 17 March 2016

Mistakes Made Whilst Filming

Whilst filming for our title sequence, there was a variety of things that could be deemed as a mistake that occurred at different times. When going to film at The Shard building, we decided not to use the tripod in order to get the panning shot, tilting from the top of the building to the bottom. As a result, when it came to uploading the clips onto 'Final Cut Pro', we found that the shots we took came out as shaky as we used a handheld camera. When editing, I then had to find a different shot that we took and reverse it on Final Cut and, we used the 'Stabilisation' effect to ensure it wasn't shaky. 

Tuesday 15 March 2016

Government Leader CCTV Shoot

Today, me, Danny and Jacob managed to go to our schools library (the 'iBrary') and shoot an extra scene with the Government Leader (actor Kazeem). As I had previously created the 4 different pieces of CCTV for each cult and group and put them all together, I put a big red cross over each one to insinuate to the audience that Kazeem isn't of favour or the cults and simply wants to take them down. I created this using Photoshop. The scene we shot today shows Kazeem pointing furiously at the different groups, with over the shoulder shots and close-up shots of him done by Danny. Once the shooting for today was finished, I proceeded to go and edit the footage using 'Final Cut Pro'. I incorporated the recently shot scenes into the beginning of each cult members being shown within the title sequence in order to make it clearer for the audience to understand that what is being shown links together with the government scene from the beginning of the sequence. 


Monday 14 March 2016

CCTV Footage Scene

In order to make the Government scene stand out more and be more noticeable in terms of following the plot, I have decided to create a poster including all 4 CCTV footages from all 4 of the cults/groups. This part of the scene will be used when the leader of the government is delivering his speech for his hatred towards these groups and that he wishes to execute them all and take them all down. The poster includes all 4 of the cults through CCTV and will have big red crosses over them to show that the government will take them all down.


Friday 11 March 2016

Rebels Scene Re-Shoot

Today, me, Jacob and Danny managed to gather a couple of our sixth form friends in order to act for the re-shooting of our 'Rebels' scene for out title sequence. Due to having received not very favourable feedback a from our classmates and teachers about our previous 'Rebels' scene, we decided to change the original concept and re-shoot the scene with a different cast and a different locations. I decided to take in charge the cinematography so I decided to experiment with using different camera shots, different camera angles and different camera techniques like focus pulls and zooming in and out of different characters. This scene consists of the 'Rebels' group going about their daily routine, with their guns and masks at the ready but, they are actually being recorded through CCTV footage that is planted by the Government. We have decided to alter something quite significant within our title sequence and that is that the Government have indeed put in secret CCTV footage in order to view and keep track of each different cults/groups. In terms of miss-en-scene, this will prove most effective because previously, we used the original map that I created to establish each group. But now, we will be using CCTV footage that displays the names of the groups and, we will used props and symbols in order to represent the group/cults in order for the audience to have a clearer understanding of who is who. 

Tuesday 8 March 2016

Feedback on first rough cut/copy of the title sequence

Here is our first rough draft/first rough copy of our title sequence for our movie 'Genesis: The Uprising'.



Today I screened the first rough copy/first rough edit of our title sequence. We had to display our fist draft of the title sequences in front of our class and both of our teachers, whilst they took notes and provided me with feedback on what had went well with the first draft, what needed improvements and what completely doesn't work. I have taken the feedback from our classmates and our teachers and I will be looking to improve upon the faults that were being picked up upon.


I have decided to make a powerpoint in order to display the different feedbacks that I received from my classmates and from my teachers. I have reviewed and evaluated the feedback I had received and I will ensure that I take on board what needs correcting and what actually needs improving. The most common feedback that I received was that the use of editing and the cinematography used was mostly what people liked and enjoyed. However, what people mainly thought needed improving was that the camera was a bit shaky at the beginning of the sequence and, that the narrative isn't too clear. I will take this on board and try my hardest to improve the sequence. 

Thursday 3 March 2016

Me, Danny and Jacob have begun working on editing our title sequence for Media studies. Me, Danny and Jacob have been staying to edit the shots we've recorded for our title sequence over the past week using Final Cut Pro on the Apple iMac.

We have done multiple draft versions of our title sequence, ensuring that we can edit and alter what we already have so that it fits our vision and direction for the genre. In terms of altering certain things for our vision/direction, we found we had to re-shoot a scene. For our Illuminati sequence, we originally discovered that the file hadn't saved and loaded properly onto Final Cut, meaning that we unfortunately lost the footage. But, on Thursday 3rd March, we decided to take the initiative and re-shoot our Illuminati sequence again, using the drama room. We played around with the lighting equipments provided by the drama room in order to get our desired effect. 


On top of this, we decided to shoot the scene (again on Thursday 3rd March) for the Evangelists and the Illuminati scene. We again used the drama department and played around with the different varieties of lighting equipments that were provided. We used symbolic religious imagery in terms of Mise-En-Scene as the setting was brightly lit, almsot as if this scene was spiritual and illuminating. We also used the Jesus' Cross symbol again for the imagery aspect. Ultimately, we still have to shoot one more scene which shows the government leader entering into the building and meeting his secretary who directs him to his meeting and then, we should have the majority of the title sequence finished (along with any more re-shoots that may need to be considered).


Wednesday 2 March 2016

The Title of our Movie

In order to create the title for our movie, we used an effect on 'Final Cut Pro' called 'Tumble 3D'. This allowed the titles to pop up on screen and then slowly but appropriately flip away backwards into the blank background. We used the font of the 'Dark Underground' in order to get the dark, bold and gritty font, which fits the theme/genre of our title sequence. I also decided to use the 'flashing' effect over the text so that it stands out and is eye-catching   

The Order of the Credits

1. " 20th Century Fox Presents "
2. " A Film Directed by Ridley Scott "
3. " Tom Hardy "
4. " Gemma Arterton "
5. " Idris Elba "
6. " Matt Bomer "
7. " Produced by Sam Raimi "
8. " Edited by Tyrell Bibbiani "
9. " Cinematography by Danny Wright "
10. " Executive Producer Elina Roditou "
11. " Soundtrack by Danny Elfman "
12. " Genesis: The Uprising "