Final film - 'Blood Ties'

This is our final short film. 'Blood Ties'.

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 4

Ancillary Text - 'Blood Ties'

 

This is my Ancillary text for our media Production called "Blood Ties"

 

To do this, I started in Microsoft PowerPoint, I then watched through scene 5 of our production and found a shot which I liked and could use for editing. I chose this shot of Jason looking into the mirror holding his gun. I then used Photoshop to edit the screen shot and put the effects in. Added the title which we used in the film itself, and chose two production companies and put them either side to add realism and effect. Then I re-added the screen shot and over layed the same photo of Jason which had no effects on; Matched the colour treatment and placed it perfectly on top to make this. I then transferred this to PowerPoint and added text boxes too add all the writing and the starts. I then grouped the whole photo together and saved it is a photo. 

Ancillary Magazine Cover & Review

This is my second Ancillary text in the form of a magazine cover and review. I created it in the style of empire magazine, I have kept the same image that I used on my poster but I just used a different section of the image and moved the title. To created the original image using Photoshop and PowerPoint, I just transferred it to publisher. I made the review as a real magazine review would, too add realism I added the start rating on the bottom right hand corner and general information about the film. Such as, certificate, run time and cast.

Foley Sound - 2

For our last 3 scenes of our production, we again wanted to up our game by including more foley sound for general atmospherical gain. We wanted to add sound to the parts where we didnt have any background noise to further add realism to our film. Also we wanted to add something extra into the parts were enthusiasm was needed. for example, a small part where Jason gets a gun out of his draw, Music is playing and as he looks at the gun he pulls it out the draw and cocks it. As he does so we added a power recording of the gun which comes over the song itself and adds a real punch to the scene which was exactly what we were after. With this extra foley sound we hope to bring our overall practical grade up and improve the dramatic side of our production.

Editing Sound

We have started editing the scenes that we have shot and had an idea that would make our post production run a lot smoother and more efficient. Serif Movie Plus is not powerful enough to handle the large amounts of media we were importing such as HD video files and audio files like our Foley sound, sound effects and sound tracks, making it very slow running. 
  

It also does not have the tools and features that we would need for sound editing because Serif Movie Plus x5 is video editing software that is not optimised for sound editing, where as Garageband is and will allow us to produce alot better and more clearer sound, making ti easier for us to line it up on time with our video files back on Serif. Garageband also allows you to import videos so you can watch the visual whilst editing the sound. Which is essential for us to line up the sound to our video files perfectly.