Ringing Noise

As we want the audience to feel uneasy and a bit uncomfortable we used a high pitched ringing sound in intervals. The sound can also represent an emptiness and this portrays how Lucy's character feels alone and isolated during the course of the opening sequence. This really helps to build tension and make the audience feel uncomfortable. There is also helps with the contrast between sound as we have quite upbeat party music in contrast to this ringing sound which shows the two sides of Lucy personality.

Post Production

Whilst re-watching our opening sequence I noticed that scene 12 might be quite confusing for people watching for the first time , there is a skip in between each of the same shot followed by a ringing sound. The skip between represents Lucy's character (later to be named) to be disorientated and out of breath, we found that this was a nice way to visualy represent this rather than have the stereotypical heavy breathing. This short shot of lucy standing still really helps to differentiate between all the fast paced shots and really helps Lucy to get her thoughts together , to then be followed by numerous shots of her running. 

Overview

After finishing our opening sequence and being happy with what we've done, it is very hard to be able to criticise it as mentioned before because we have watched it many times. Even after having class feedback, it is still hard not to keep watching it over and over again just to check any mistakes. Some questions might arise that we will be able to justify in a later blog post.

"I need your help!"

After getting feedback from our class, Yasmin pointed our that the quality of the sound when Lucy says "I need your help!" sounded as if it was recorded indoors (which is was). Yasmin also mentioned that it would make a much bigger impact if it was recorded outside, so you're able to hear wind,birds,cars etc. So myself and Lucy went outside and recorded it with our phone with our earphones in so we had closer access to the microphone. We uploaded it and changed it and found that it sounded so much better. We then showed Yasmin that we fixed this problem and she agreed that the sound quality improved. Getting feedback from the class helped us a awful lot, because we have seen our own opening sequence many times over and over again its hard to pick out and criticise things. When a fresh pair of eyes and ears watch it for the first time it is a lot easier for them to pick out mistakes. This also helped us a lot with continuity, because Lucy's character is outside in the first place, so the sound did need to sound as if it was outside. We also added the sound effect of a women breathing heavily as if she was out of breath, this again helped us with our continuity.

Production Companies

After finally finishing our opening sequence we wanted to add in production companies to give it more of a realistic feel. We found this quite fun and creative to do. Our production companies are Blue Eyed Productions , which is a moving picture followed with Pocket Film and Pocket and Underground Cinema. We found that these helped tied the whole opening sequence together, ever though we do not get marked on this. We found with our last opening sequence we needed to leave a longer blank screen before it faded into our opening sequence this again is following similar media conventions. We did not wanted to add all moving pictures and we found that this could be quite overwhelming and could distract from our actual opening sequence. 

This moving picture starts with our eyes closed and slowly start to open

Shot 7-8

The contrast between the artificial lighting on the stairs to the darkness outside is to create a timestamp. Its is to show the length of the time Lucy was at the party, we found this very successful and there was a direct contrast between the two. We also like how some of our shot are dark because when the party scene is playing , even though it is dark, the brightness of the party lights create a huge impact and contrast. Whereas if all of our shots were light then the party lights may have seemed irrelevant.

Shots 8-15

Shots 8 to 15 were filmed in one evening, this was stressful for us as we needed to make sure that the lighting didn't get to dark as mentioned in my Continuity blog post. This was difficult because we did have to take many shots for one scene. As it supposed to be continuous and fast paced, from Lucy running out of the door then down the stairs, then running down he road until she finally stops. If the lighting was the slightest bit darker you would be able to tell that it was filmed further apart.

Evaluation

Evaluation Questions 

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation include:

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

4) Who would be the audience for your media product? 

5) How did you attract/address your audience? 

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Continuity

On our first day of filming we paid very close attention to continuity. We found this very difficult to attain as we had to pay very close attention to the mise en scene. As we wanted to film shots 2,6&7 in the same day to make sure that the lighting was the same. We were able to film the party scenes later on in the day as it only required to be filmed indoors.

Even though it was filmed indoor (lucks hallway) we did have to wait for it to get darker because we wanted the lights to be as bright a possible. As we filmed in Lucys hallway the light coming through her front door was a problem.

Whilst filming the glitch and the party scene we marked the floor with masking tape so that Lucy walked on the same line so the scenes matched when creating a 'glitch'. The lighting for the glitch scene was very dim and we decided to increase the brightness on the clip and we found that it tied the whole 'glitch' scenes together very nicely.

The complications we had with the door scene (scene 2&6) is that we needed to make sure that the lighting from the window indoors did not affect the shot. So we covered the window with blanket. Another complication we had is that whilst Lucy was opening the door the party lights could be seen. Here are some of our attempts with these scenes.