Everlasting Journey - Opening 2 minutes (Final video and blurb)

This is our final version of our opening two minutes.

Blurb:

Tick... Tick... Tick... The Countdown begins...

Finally the weekend! A group of friends head up to London in search of a good time. But it seems someone else has decided to come along for the journey...

Acting on our targets

Special Effects:

We decided that we wanted to act upon our targets for next year early, by researching into our targets. One of our targets was to develop our use of special effects. Below is a link to the website that we tried out. The videos were really useful in describing how to add special effects and we now feel confident that we will be able to use this technique next year.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/add-video-special-effects.html?playlist=/ccx/v1/collection/product/after-effects/segment/designer/explevel/beginner/applaunch/orientation/collection.ccx.js


Dialogue:

We realised that the quality of our dialogue wasn't clear so for next year we are going to use a microphone to make our quality better. Having read lots of reviews, we decided that the most affordable, still with good quality was:

http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Tie-Studio-Broadcast-Microphone-with-35mm-Mini-Jack-Plug/1S7T?origin=product-ads&utm_campaign=*PLA+Shop+-+All+Products&utm_medium=vertical_search&network=google&adgroup=**All+Products&merchant_id=1279443&product_id=83225d1&product_country=GB&product_partition_id=41477300408&gclid=CPiHkvbdxNMCFcIp0wod_qoBhg


Cinematography:

We will experiment with more camera angles and shots between now and next year to make sure our work is unique and our style is identifiable.

Changes to script

As a group, we decided that we should explain the slight change in our script and the lack of dialogue that we had in our final film. Essentially, we felt as a team that our film linked more to the horror genre when it didn't have the subjectively 'cringey' dialogue that we had included. Although this may have created a slight disconnection from the audience due to their being no conversation, we feel that it reinforced the horror genre.

This therefore means that our final changes to the script include no dialogue and a change to the shots, which can be seen in the uploaded shot list.

Evaluation of opening credits

This is the order the opening credits are written in, we decided to put most of the credits in the very beginning of our opening.

Cloud 9 Productions:

We put our big production company and distributor first. This is because this was the company ‘behind’ the film. In all films the production company is shown first, therefore it makes the film look more professional.

Everlasting Journey:

We then put on the title of the film in an effect. We showed the title before the actors as we wanted the audience to know the name of the film first.

Directors:

After, we put the list of directors all together. There was no ‘one’ director, therefore we decided to put all our names in but in no particular order.

Gemma Gosden

Eloise Williams

Katie O’Rourke

Starring:

We then had our actors names come up on screen. We had the order that you saw the actors so that there was an order to the names.

Grace Sullivan

Eloise Williams

Prassanna Uthayanan

Gemma Flower
Connor Bassett

Evaluation Storyboard vs. Final Opening 2 minutes

Over the duration that we produced our film, many changes took place for a variety of reasons from our original plans. During the days of shooting we discovered a number of things that could work differently or had to be changed due to any problems we may have encountered. In this post, I will be detailing the changes from the storyboard animatic with the final product.

 Shot 1: Our establishing shot went exactly to plan, as we had the train pulling into the station.

 Shot 2: This shot of the girl on the train was very ambitious for us when we first started with our storyline and cinematography ideas. However, when we got the shot on the first attempt it was a dream come true.

 

Shot 3: This shot had some slight changes as we realised it was quite risky to take a knife to a public area and have fake blood on it before dropping it on the floor. Instead, we just had the feet of the murderer walking so that there was still some action in the shot.

Shot 4: This shot was slightly different and did not include the shoulder of the murderer. This is because on the day we decided to use a point of view shot of the murderer so didn’t find it essential to capture the murderer looking at the girl. It also introduced the convention of loneliness that is commonly seen in the horror genre.

 Shot 5: This shot, along with a combination of other surrounding it in the editing, merged to make our original image as seen in our animated storyboard.

Shot 6:  This shot did not go exactly as planned, however it was still a success in telling our story.

 Shot 7: As mentioned in many other posts, we decided to change the watches to an on screen timer instead as it was easier for the audience to understand and gave a more modern eerie feel.

Shot 8: This shot was very similar of the group of friends on the platform, the only difference being there being one less person as they meet them later in London.