Sunday, 1 March 2015

Sony vegas

 Using sony vegas i found out a number of new things. I started editing my prelim with no experience with sony vegas however by the time I edited the final version of my film I had a much better understanding. Here are some pictures showing some little things I have discovered:

This picture shows that there is a way to 'position' the sound. Here I am panning the sound of the alarm clock to the right as it appears on the screen. I found this gave a much more comfortable feel to this clip.
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This second picture shows how I made the titles move on the screen. Here I clicked on the cropping button on the title that I had added

Second I added new keyframes for my text.


Lastly I made the screen pan away at the last two keyframes so when the sequence plays the text moves off the screen at the right time.

Friday, 27 February 2015

Name of film

We originally had the idea of using Morning Coffee as our title for our film however we decided to go with the title Mug Shot for two main reasons.

The first is that the title highlights the two main aspects of the plot that affects both Layla and Sophia. This is used because later in the film you find out the cause of death was poison in the coffee that Sophia drank and the second aspect is that Layla is sentenced to prison and the picture of her 'mug shot' will be shown. This works well with the music change because it really helps to bring out the subtle shots and the connotations of them throughout the film opening.

The second is because the title is a pun. In social media puns are used quite often and even though people find them annoying they are easily remembered. This is good because it helps to give our movie a lasting effect.

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There is a third minor reason and that is the pun in the name is a reference to my prelim video I created in the summer. At the end of the film the words 'coming this fall' appeared which was also a pun towards the short movie.

Sunday, 22 February 2015

Audience: Interviews

Here is a list of all the interviews that we have made addressing our audience.

Click here for the link to our first interview on our over 60 audience.
Click here for the link to our second interview on our over 60 audience.

Click here for the link our interview on our over 40 audience.

Click here for the link to our first interview our under 25 audience.
Click here for the link to our second interview our under 25 audience.

Thursday, 19 February 2015

Music

We have asked Christopher Higgs to write us some music for our opening sequence. He created Midnight Madness and Straight Through It for our opening. I will post two versions for our film openings with both the opening sequences later.

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Fonts: Typography

We decided on using the Benchnine font because the other two fonts had more childish connotations and gave a less professional look. Also the shape of Benchnine was much more compact making the font easier to place on movie opening. Here is a segment of what the two fonts look on screen.




The Stainy font is what will be used as iconography for our film such as the title on advertisements. The Benchnine font is what will be used for credits because of its simplistic shape. Click here to see my original post about each of the fonts.

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Plot

Here are some bullet points explaining the plot of the whole movie that are opening will be a part of.


  • Layla had to pay a shark loan for the new apartment
  • Sophia thinks that Layla is cheating
  • Sophia commits suicide making Layla look like the killer
  • Layla thinks Sophia was murder
  • Tries to find out who the culprit was
  • Layla is also dealing with the trial and she is the prime suspect
  • Layla finds out the truth
  • Layla is found guilty of murder with a life sentence

Friday, 30 January 2015