Evaluation

For my evaluation, I used Prezi and embedded videos into it. Enjoy!

Behind the scenes: Filming Hyde's scenes

Matt has spent the majority of the filming time recording the happenings and planning that went into the filming days amongst filming and directing. This is the behind the scenes video of the second filming session where we filmed the majority of Hyde's scenes. My post on the day can be found here: http://asmediastudiessamshepherd.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/final-filming-hyde-scenes.html

There will be another video for the first filming day but there is much more that Matt will need to edit and he has faced many issues editing it. His post on editing the video as well as the actual video can be found here:
Behind the scenes from Matthew Evans on Vimeo.
http://asmediastudiesmatthewevans.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/behind-behind-scenes.html

Editing to near completion & Contrast between scenes

For the last week or so, the group have been coming up at lunchtime and during free periods to edit our Opening Title Sequence. We have been doing this either to sort out continued issues with synchronizing the wild-track (added sounds) to the video or to build on the feedback we had received from the focus group a few days ago. The feedback has helped us see the issues that we have overlooked. The main issue being that there is no clear distinction between Hyde and Jekyll beyond costume. We knew this would be rather difficult as we are using one actor and we haven't seen Hyde's face so it just looks like he is wearing a hat. W are currently experimenting with zoom blur and bump distortion to show that although it may be the same physical being, he has clearly undergone some mental transformation. We have also added black and white filters to all of Hyde's scenes. The plan was to make the whole film black and white but it seems a good idea and adds contrast to areas it was previously lacking. This still meant that the Jekyll scenes looked like it was a modern film which we had hoped to avoid. We used inspiration from the neo-noir TV Drama Red Riding which uses a sepia filter to make it feel old. We have used this effect for the scenes starring Jekyll. This makes it seems warm and makes it feel a lot less sinister compared to the Hyde scenes

An example of sepia effect.

Gunshot sound

Since we have no access or experience with a gun, it was obvious from the start that we were going to have to recreate the gunshot using the art of Foleying (displayed here: http://asmediastudiesmatthewevans.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/art-of-foleying.html). We started with a juice carton and a blown up crisp packet. We realised we wanted a different sound as it was too weak and therefore was scrapped. We hit a ruler against a desk and then added a lot of reverb to get a decent sound. We found it too artificial so we tried stamping on large air pockets which we were very happy with the result, the result is found in the video below.

Recreating the Gunshot from Sam SheepDawg-OEight on Vimeo.