So that we were able to do our editing Josh and I created the forum pages we were going to intercut with the blog clips and the shoots of 'Lester 727'.
Josh, as i've mentioned previously, designed the 'Facespace' pages and I have created and designed the 'Artbox' page. Here are some pictures of some of the pages I created using photoshop.
The original idea, to animate to entire opening sequence, we still wanted to keep elements of.We had this idea after seeing the opening sequence for 'Catch Me If you Can' by Steven Spielberg.
But we are going to include shots of 'Angel 3323' blogging and of 'Lester 727' typing.
Editing Process
We start off by Logging all of the shots but into seperate log bins. We put all of the shots of 'Angel 3323' into a bin called Chloes bin and then we put all the shots of 'Lester 727' in a log bin called Paedo bin.
Chloes Bin Shots:
1) Weekend
2) Necklace/Paris
3) Iphone Chat
4) Iphone app chat
5) Lipgloss/interuption
6) Short walk to Bed
7) Sleepover
8) Weirdos appearing
9) Luke in Room
10) Going to bed/ potentially exciting news
11) Mention of 'Artbox'
12) Chloe eatting a banana
13) Putting Top on (Being casual)
14) 'Lester 727' first mention
15) Going out 1
16) 'Lester 727' kiss
17) Big Brother chat
18) More Big Brother chat
19) Great night out 1
20) 'Facespace' mention 1
21) Met 'Lester 727' 1
22) Artbox/ 'Lester 727 date
23) 'Lester 727' in the bathroom 1
24) 'Lester 727' in the bathroom 2
25) 'Lester 727' in the room/ final of Chloe
26) Empty room
Paedo Shots
1) Side on typing
2) CU of typing side on
3) High angle typing
4) CU of necklace
5) Side on face 1
6) CU eyes
7) Sweat drips
8) CU mouth
9) POV typing
10) CU enter
11) Mouse Moving
12) CU Angel Dust
13) Angel Dust and Necklace
14) POV typing 2
We cut up all of these shots, so we didn't have out takes etc. and then started deciding which ones to use. Then we started dragging them onto the timeline. At first we place all of chloes shots onto the time line and put them in order. We then place the shots of Lester where we thought they maybe place. This just made the time line a mess. So experimented with only using small clips of several shots intercut with Lesters shots but this seemed really messy. So we then experimented with cutting it up MTV style. This seemed to work really well so we did this to Chloes shots.
After we had cut up all of the shots, we began to use 'After Effects'. This programme will enable us to animate around the clips and allow us to insert the 'Facespace' and 'Artbox' pages in too.
After Effects
Wikipedia: Adobe After Effects is primarily used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. After Effects allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2D and 3D space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation.
Both After Effects and some non-linear editing systems (NLEs) are layer-oriented, meaning that each individual media object (video clip, audio clip, still image, etc.) occupies its own track. In contrast, other NLEs use a system where individual media objects can occupy the same track as long as they do not overlap in time. This track-oriented system is more suited for editing and can keep project files much more concise. The layer-oriented system that After Effects adopts is suited for extensive effects work and keyframing. Although other compositing packages—especially ones that employ tree or node workflows, such as Apple Shake—are better suited to manage large volumes of objects within a composite, After Effects is able to somewhat counter the clutter by selectively hiding layers (using the Shy switch) or by grouping them into pre-compositions.
The main interface consists of several panels (windows in versions prior to After Effects 7.0). Three of the most commonly used panels are the Project panel, the Composition panel, and the Timeline panel. The Project panel acts as a bin to import stills, video, and audio footage items. Footage items in the Project panel are used in the Timeline panel, where layer order and timing can be adjusted. The items visible at the current time marker are displayed in the Composition panel.
We are using After Effects to make our thriller different from all the other groups work and make ours visually dynamic and interesting.
Using final cut we have used our 'blog' like footage of our actress Chloe and cut it up in an MTV style. This makes it very fast moving, which is what we what to achieve in our thriller.
Also to give it an errie, sinister affect we have made some of the starts and ends of blogs flicker with one of them having a subliminal image inserted of 'Lester 727' within it. These blogs, once edited, are inserted into After Effects which is where our piece starts to take shape. We have decided to startwith one of our blogs filling the whole scene which after a few seconds will start to move back revealing other parts of the Facespace page but in different layers and these layers appear as the camera zooms further and further out creating a 3D effect. The camera then continues to zoom further and further out and goes through a pixel like wall to show that this is all within a computer and then ends up going through to the Artbox page, where we have animated typing, which is suppose to look like Lester727 is typing in real time. We are then getting lots of other peoples comments to pop up as the camera zooms out to reveal more of the page. Now that we have established that this is all based within the world wide web network, we are now just going to manipulate the camera in different and interesting ways intercuting it with clips of Lester727 and Angel3323's facespace page. The titles, we want to be animated as if someone is typing them and they will appear throughout the sequence.
The story line is very simple, creepy guy stakes pretty girl, he pretends to be something he's not, she believes it, goes to meet him and then he kills her, but hopefully the editing makes this simple plot visually exciting and dynamic. I found After Effects very difficult to use because there are so many options and it's all a trial and error process to see whether bits will work or not, which makes the process longer and tiring but it has really given our thriller life and made it look like an opening sequence and not a trailer or a teaser trailer or a miniture film, which is the whole aim of the AS level.
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