End Credits (Pink)

Recently I watched the film 'Pink' (2016)  and the film was about three girls who are trying to prove a group of men guilty for potential rape. The whole film is based around the court case and each of the characters try and prove their innocence by recalling what happened that night, however, that night is never shown throughout the film. At the end, alongside the credits, that night is finally shown to the audience. The part leading up to the potential rape is an actual clip, but the part of the girl resisting and escaping is done in camera shots, not a film clip. It is kind of like motion picture.

This is a powerful technique as I remember feeling relieved as the whole film is about that event and after 136 minutes of viewing I had finally seen what actually happened that night. The impact this had on me is one I would want our audience to feel while watching and after our film. Inspired by this film, I would want our end of credits to be just like this. Our film is about Yasmin's disappearance which could potentially be kidnapping, and at the end, during our credits, we could show the 10th December 2015, the night she disappeared. It would be the three of us in the park, starting at the exact point our opening sequence starts at, when Morgan says "Bye Yasmin". Then it will follow to Yasmin walking home and what happened.

Exporting 22/02/17

Morgan and I attempted to export our movie multiple times. First we did it in 1080p but the quality did not look good. The outline of objects were smudged and it looked as if there was a filter on it. Morgan suggested it was because our filming was done in dim lighting, so the camera could not film using its best quality. However, our film looked better on iMovie, so we believed we could try and export it again in hope for it to be clearer. Plus, one of the titles wasn't completed and the talking parts were too quiet at some parts.

We fixed these problems then exported it in medium, instead of 1080p, but we couldn't open it in quick time, it only opened in a different programme mocha AE CS6 (Adobe after-effects). So then we exported it in large and I managed to open it in quick time but the timing of the light-switch was off. The sound came two seconds before the action. Also, the placing of the title with Morgans name in it had moved upwards, and we attempted to bring it down but it kept bouncing up. Instead of clicking the button to bring it down, I just pressed the 'enter' button to bring it down a line and it stayed there. Life would have been easier if iMovie just allowed us to move titles around, however we solved this problem. Finally, we have all the titles where we want them.

Now we exported it in 720p and this time the light-switch sound happened at the right time and the credits were in the right place. The ringtone did not sound loud enough though, so we exported it one more time in 720p after turning up the volume of that one point. Now the ringtone is quiet in the first part and loud in the second, so we had to export it again after fixing this by raising the volume in that point.

Editing 17/02/17

During the half-term, Morgan and I came to school to edit our work and Yasmin didn't come. First we broke up all the audio of her and I talking so it would be easier to place it where we wanted. We then successfully layered the sound. At some parts, it sounded too loud so we lowered the sound of some of the speaking parts, but it sounded messy when the handheld clips played, because we had the orchestral music, the diegetic sound and the recording of Morgan and I speaking. To overcome this, we got rid of the sound in all the handheld clips, except the first one of me on the slide. This is because the music is very quiet at that point and there is no voice over. Also, in this clip we are laughing and this shows the contrast between the fun the girls were having to the serious situation they are now in.  Another part where we got rid of sound was the panning of the inboard as we diegetic sound isn't needed there because there is no movement of the detective.

After we finished with the sound, we noticed our sequence was only 1:41minutes. We added another clip of the detective underlining the fact that Yasmin had problems with her dad. We wanted this to stand out because it may confuse the audience and make them question whether her dad had anything to do with her disappearance.

We were only up to 1:44, and still needed 16 seconds. Morgan had the idea of having a blank screen and audio playing in the background, so I added another handheld clip and put a black screen over it and played this for 8seconds. 8 seconds may sound like a lot but it gives the audience time to take in whats happening even though they can not see. The clip we used is when we say bye to Yasmin just before she leaves. The fact that the audience don't see her leaving intrigues them as they want to have the full picture as to what happened. There is one second of silence at the end of this black screen and we did this to mimic her kidnap or disappearance as we don't know what happened, no one was there, like it was done in silence. We also added 8 seconds at the end for the title to come up. 

Font

As a group, we have to decide what font we want to use for our titles. We have downloaded some from 1001fonts.com.

There are many different types of fonts we could use. I have looked at different crime and mystery films and each use a font directly related to their film, so there is no specific font made for this genre. 

This is the font used in 'Seven (1995)' It looks like someones handwriting which is quite intriguing yet spooky. 

'Taken (2008)'. A simple font which attracts audiences as it is in red upon a black background. Red signifies danger which relates to this film

'Gone Girl (2014)' uses a simple font too.

From what I have seen, the majority of mystery and crime films use simple fonts which don't overpower the title sequence, however, there are some that go against this and use fonts which catch the audiences eye, such as 'Seven'. 

Editing 01/02/17

We tried to add the audio of Morgan and I speaking about what happened on the night, but we couldn't add that audio while the Orchestral music was on it. We googled how to do this but nothing came up. If nothing worked, our idea was to make the opening sequence without our speaking clips, and then create a new project in iMovie, enter our opening sequence then layer another audio piece on top, even though this may decrease the quality. 

Meanwhile we decided to go through the clips from the park, as some parts are too loud which makes that part of the sequence uncomfortable. There is one handheld clip of Morgan and I walking but it starts when Yasmin is finishing off her sentence, which makes it sound harsh and confusing as you don't know what she was saying. 

The last clip of the sequence has the sound of a light switch being turned off and after that there was some sound which might've been the camera moving so we cut that part out. Morgan suggested that we make the switch sound louder, so I split the clip of that one sound and attempted to make it louder but it didn't sound good as we couldn't select the part only with the click. Later on I tried it again using a different method. Instead of splitting the clip I selected a part of the sound waves and increased it to 180%.

When Miss Foster came in we asked her and she showed us how to fix it by dragging the audio to the specific part we wanted, instead of it covering the whole sequence. This way, you can have more than one audio file playing at any time. We tried to do this, but the sound didn't match up the way it did last time, and we have somehow also lost 10seconds of our footage. Before, it was quiet when the phone rings, but now the loudest part of the song has matched the phone call and you can't hear the phone ringing anymore. 

Where did Yasmin go?

As a group, we have not decided what will happen to Yasmin, was she taken or did she get lost? As the film, if it was to be made, revolves around the private investigator, I would like the case to somehow tie into his personal life. Him thinking about the case and trying to solve it is disrupting his daily life, but something happens in his personal life that triggers his brain to connect the pieces and solve the case. Almost like how in BBC's 'Death in Paradise' it is usually the simplest things that help the detective solve the case. For example, in one episode the fact that he didn't place the pictures in the right order helped him solve it. Something like this could happen to the detective in his personal life, and then he ends up solving the case. 

It is possible that Yasmin could have been kidnapped, but we don't know who this is just from the opening sequence, otherwise the film would be pointless if we found out straight at the beginning. There are hints that Yasmin had issues with her father in the opening sequence. Personally I don't want her father to be involved in her disappearance. The father could be portrayed as a dangerous character who does have a criminal background, but I want him to be a character that would throw off the audience and make them suspicious. So that throughout the film the father is the prime suspect, but at the end it reveals that he had no part of it. Maybe it could be someone who was really close to Yasmin, maybe even one of her friends who went to the park with her. Or it could be a complete stranger, but I feel like the ending wouldn't be as dramatic if the kidnapper was a stranger.

However, Yasmin may have not been kidnapped, she could've just gotten lost and ended up in a risky situation. Although, this would not make sense as in the opening sequence Morgan and I state that she walks home alone everyday which means that she knows the area well, so the chance of her getting lost is very miniscule. 

Editing 25/01/16

Last lesson this popped up on our screens and we didn't know what to do so we just ignored it. On the 25th we went back to edit, and everything we had done had disappeared. It was so disappointing, but thankfully Morgan wrote down everything we did while we were doing it, so she read through that while I edited it, following her instructions.

After re-doing our work, Morgan and I went to record our voiceovers. It is a verbal witness statement taken by the police when we reported the incident. We previously recorded it before but Morgan had the idea of me speaking, then Morgan, then me, then Morgan etc. instead of me saying a paragraph and then Morgan saying a paragraph. Therefore, we had to record our witness statements again.

We learnt how to use the recorded Miss Foster provided. There was a setting that allows it to record from both sides which is what we needed because we were sitting opposite from each other with the recorded in the middle of the table.

 

 

Editing 20/01/17

This is the second time we edited our work.

We uploaded the clips of us in the park and worked out what clip goes where. We had a lot of footage as we recorded about 15minutes overall, but we only needed 10-30 seconds of park footage. The first park clip we put after the detective has pinned up a picture of me, about 10 seconds into the clip. We didn't want to start the clip with a park clip as we wanted to introduce the detective first. I edited those clips to last a maximum of 3 seconds as we wanted them to be short, like a quick glimpse of the past. Sound wise, we kept the audio on those clips. If we got rid of the audio, the clips wouldn't show the full picture. Even though they only last 2 or 3 seconds, the audio is a huge part of it as it shows the girls having fun as if everything is normal. 

Then we started editing the detective clips. The panning of the pin board was quite long so we broke it up and placed other clips in between. Also, some of the pictures on the onboard were too dark so we cut that part of the clip out. We also did this when it panned over a plain part of the pin board. 

Although we had reached 1:55 minutes of footage, there is one scene where the detective is just looking at a paper, flips it and then eventually pins it up. We didn't like that part as it looked unnatural and the shot was too long, so we cut out 7 seconds of that clip. 

When we watched our clip again, I realised that the transition between the first and second clip sounded funny. The natural sounds of both clips didn't fit well together and it sounded choppy. In the trial opening sequence Morgan made, hers didn't sound choppy as she used a different clip of the detective sitting at his desk in the beginning. However, we didn't want to change our clip as in the one we had he moved restlessly which shows that he is working late at night. Morgan and I attempted to fix this problem many times but it didn't work, until I realised that if I cut of 1 second of the end of the first clip and the start of the second clip then it sounds natural and not choppy. 

There is a shot where the detective underlines a part Yasmin's information sheet, he moves a little and the line is not straight, which makes it look weird. Also we couldn't re-record that part as he wrote it in pen. What we did is cut it so it only shows him underlining before he moves.

After all our editing we only reached 1:43minutes. We tried to add more par clips but Morgan said that they didn't make sense where they were placed, and that if we added more they would be overused. Therefore, I had the idea to slow down some of the clips. I changed all the panning videos to 85% speed and the rest of them to 90%. The reason why i only did 90% for the rest of the videos was because it was natural movement and it would look off slowed down. As the clips were only slowed down by 10% or 15% it didn't make much difference to the way they looked. I asked Yasmin after I did this as she wasn't involved in this decision and she saw no difference. After we had finished the opening sequence went up to 1:51minutes