Summary

This has been the first day where we all looked back at our work as a group. We are amazed at what we have accomplished in such a short period of time.
Words can't describe how proud we all are of our film.


We've all agreed that its been the most stressful time of our lives, as the deadlines were hard to keep too because editing was so time consuming. Daniel and Luke literally stayed up all night to get it finished. 


Now its over there's an immense weight off all our shoulders. 
We would like to take it up next year, as its also been really fun.


Thanks and goodbye,
Group Y

Printing

We've just printed our final draft of The Delivery Boy to HD video.

Our other drafts the quality hasn't been that great, so we were nervous about how it would turn out.
Luke had stayed round editing with me so we could get the video done, and it we hadn't slept at all. At 7.30 in the morning the print had finished. It had only taken 45 mins to write to HD, which compared to the other "Bad quality" versions was very fast. So naturally we thought it had gone wrong.

To back up our conclusion, we looked at the file size before we played the clip, and it was only 1 gig.
We'd been doing media for over 30 hours by the time we clicked play, and i've never been more awake in my life.
The quality is insane!
Me and Luke were literally screaming at the computer screen, which only happens on very, very rare occasions.

Media Project Complete

Last Edit

We all went to the studio, re-recorded the voiceover, recorded the music onto the track, and made loads of cuts.
The hardest task was levelling the audio throughout the whole piece. It took a long time before we got a comfortable mix. Studio quality headphones were the best thing to use for this, as you can hear every sound, and with that we probably overdone it with the audio levelling.

We'll check the project again soon after some reflection time, but other than that I think its ready to print.

The Delivery Boy

This is out final product.

We listened to what our test audiance had to say, and we re-recorded the voiceover, added music, and cut many shots out.
Now we're happy with it.

Me and Luke (re)Recording the Voiceover

We hooked up the microphone to a duel channel headphone amplifier. This allowed both me and luke to hear what i sounded like on the recording, while i was recording it.

This ended up being a long and painful process, as getting the timings right was very difficult. We didn't want to edit into time too much, because we wanted to emulate natural speech. 

The microphone was recording the paper rustling as i was holding it and reading it. We spent a few minuets making a double clipboard to hold the three sheets in place. It was harder than it sounds.

Luke held the narrative so i could read, and also checked the audio whilst trying to keep the timings. 

It took a couple of hours to record and edit into the track, but we were all please with the result. 

Opening Credits; Ident

This is our opening sequence. The group decided to take it from my horror still images. We added effects and created audio using garageband.

Shooting Schedule

Our shooting schedule. We planned it for sunday as it was the only day that the industrial estate would be free of cars and lorries parked up either side, which would of spoilt the shot. We started at 10am and finished by 5pm. We managed to film everything we wanted more than once, so that we could eliminate any continuity errors.

First Group Meeting

This is our first meeting in which we gave each other roles. We figured that it would help us in drawing the storyboards if we could see the actors faces and knew their mannerisms. The 'Plan of opening sequence' is where all the storyboards derived from.

Film Research

Georgia's Research

Luke's Research

Daniels Research; (specifically focusing on narrative and music)

Alice's Research

Mrs Thrasher was kind enough to lend us many films with voice overs, specifically gangster films; as we had a meeting where we decided we'd like to combine a "Gangster styled" piece with a shock horror. 

We Individually looked through various films, and collaborated out ideas in a meeting. We decided that we definitely needed some music played over the background, and that music should be something that originates from major cities of America, which is where a stereotypical gangster would exist. We decided to tribute the  stereotypical american gangster with a jazzy/blues track which played in the background. However we also decided that this is as far as we would go in stepping into a stereotype. Therefore the accents are our own accents, and we don't try to imitate a particular style. We instead invent our own.  As I play blues guitar, and know various forms of jazz on piano, i quickly wrote a track ready to be recorded for our film. We also revised the voice over idea and wrote a script.

Piano Score, First Draft

This is the first draft of what I intend to record over my piece. Its inspired from Dave Brubecks 'Blue Rondo A La Turk' which features a large improvisation in the middle section. I intend to take the chords and improvise around them, which will make it an origional piece.

Shot Log

This is the shot log of every clip we used in the opening sequence. On the day of the shoot, we went back to mine and viewed every shot, making a note of which ones to use and which ones to dismiss. This made the edit considerably easier.

Group Mindmap

This was our initial mind-map which prompted the first group meeting. We each brainstormed out individual ideas, then compromised with each other as we combined them together. That way everyone was happy, and the film would be equally shared.

Preliminary Sequence

Admittedly.. we did joke around with this a bit, but we had fun while we were doing it, which motivated us to edit it as best as possible, and get some good shots in.