EDITING: THE GIRL AND TOY SCENE

Today we edited the scene in which the girl is playing with her toy in the field. We decided to add the "dream" effect to the footage as it adds a sense of mystery and fantasy to the scene. As this scene is where the protagonist is watching the young girl we shot from behind a tree and we used point of view shots. This shows to the audience that the young girl might be in danger and sets an ominous atmosphere.

CONSTRUCTION: RECORDING THE LULLABY

Today we recorded the lullaby, "Hush Little Baby", to go over the soundtrack for our film opening. We went to our schools music department and recorded the song in a recording studio. The room had a slight echo which made the recording sound more eery and have a thriller atmosphere to it. We recorded the song a few times in order to ensure that we had the best quality and accurate version of the song.

Here is the recording: 

CONSTRUCTION: MAKING OUR IDENT

Today we made our ident using stop frame animation. It involves us taking a photo of the hot air balloons and then moving them up and down as real hot air balloons would. We have finished this part however we will add a title on iMovie, which will be HOT AIR PRODUCTIONS, as we feel this would be more effective.

I have created an ANIMOTO to show the steps of us making our Ident.

Making an Ident

COMPOSITION: FINAL THINGS TO DO

I have created a TRELLO to present in a clear and precise way what we still need and intend to do, in order to finish off the final stages of making our film opening.

CLICK HERE TO SEE MY TRELLO

CONSTRUCTION THINKING OF A PRODUCTION COMPANY

We decided to use stop motion animation to make our own production company. We decided to use old wrapping paper with images of hot air balloons on it. We cut out one of the images of a hot air balloon and captured it moving up and down along the paper. The name of our production company would be Hot Air, as this is what keeps the air balloons afloat and fits in well with the animation.  

CONSTRUCTION: FEEDBACK ON OUR FILM OPENING

• The filming is successful with different camera movement.
• The narrative is clear due to the successful editing.
• The music went well with the filming to create suspense.

The points which she suggested we improved were:

• Add sound effects of guns over the war photography to create a better sense of trauma.
•  Adding in a scene with the toy doll and the little girl so at the end we know the girl is in danger as the doll is on the barbed wire.

We also got other feedback from other audiences who said good points were:

• We had clear thriller codes in our opening which create suspense, enigma and tension
• The editing is successful at creating a sense of anxiety.

The feedback given to improve were:

• Decrease the brightness of the red during the park scene
• Adding a voice over, which we were planning on adding anyway to improve the narrative and help the audience to understand better. 

I have made a PREZI to go into deeper understanding of what we need to improve and how we are going to fix this criticism.

EDITING: DECIDING ON TITLES

Today we decided on our film titles, Georgina and Amber made a short video explaining our choices.