28 Mar 2010

Analysis

1)in our preliminary task we learnt the basic skills of post production this helped us when it came to the editing process of our main task in our preliminary task we were told how to edit thing together to make it into a coherent whole piece and we were shown the basics of aftereffects and the narrative to have meaning however in the main task we had to learn for ourselves how to edit to make our narrative cohesive and how to use after effects more extensively.

2) Our product centralizes on editing and after effects so they played a big part in creating the final piece, using the program final cut pro which I had established some experience with in the preliminary task but I had not yet mastered. Our plan was to cut quickly and switch between the video blogging and the close ups and POV of the killer because we wanted to show the virtual communication from person to person and make it clear to our audience that that was what was happening. We set up a new camera layer witch meant we could move freely around the image and then We cut up the 2d image into layers and positioned them at different distances from the camera witch meant when we moved the camera around we could create a 3d effect. Using the mask tool on AFX to cut out parts of the page and make 3D proved to be very effective in the final product. Identifying lester727 as a killer would prove difficult as there was a lack of verbal communication in our footage (this was of course intentional). We thought that it break convention to do an introduction to a horror film in this manner as I have never seen in done before usually the basic story line in established entirely verbally in a horror, but I have seen similar visual communication in more intelligent films my favorite example of this a scene in fight club the video is attempting to visually communicate the how soulless, heartless and empty his life is because everything comes from ikea and he lives a tasteless Ikea life style.




The simpler part of the editing was done on photoshop we designed our web pages for “art box” and “facespace” and the awkward turtle production company logo (shown at the start) I had already had practice with photo shop so this was quite simple but we needed to design them to look like their counterpart websites the font was done in facebooks image and the colors were carefully chosen. We took photos from the internet for both websites using dark and sinister photos for “art box” I think that the photo shopped pages worked very well in the final product and the color schemes were effective.

3) The sound played a big part in Angeldust, we wanted to have mostly non-diagetic sound and the only diagetic sound would be “angel3323” ubt we wanted to shape the non-giagetic sound aroung her talking and editing her voice for example when we pull out of the face space page and using AFX go through the green matrix we distort her voice then fade it out and using soundtrack pro we introduced an electronic sound to this was trying to show the