Motion Projects - Editing

These are just some of the motion projects we have been working on for out film. Some of them have been used and others haven't. Motion was completely new to us this year and so we were excited to get to grips with it and find out ways in which it could improve our film. It certainly helped with the slicker style look we wanted compared to the 'final cut' titles.

 









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Sound - Construction and Editing

Sound - The Problems We faced!!

Once Filming was completed we tackled the editing stage of our production of 'ShadowMan'. Due to the fact that Charlie and I are not accomplished musicians, we faced many problems to do with sound in our two minute opening clip. Originally, we planned on having film noir style jazz music playing throughout the opening scene, but struggled to find a piece of music that fit the shots we took in the filming stage. We found a piece of music by Miles Davis that worked perfectly with our opening but due to the fact that we were not allowed to use copyright music we were not allowed to use it. After much time spent, trying to track down an accomplished musician to record a piece of music similar to the Miles Davis song, that we had found failed, we decided against the Jazz music and begun our search for more contemporary style music to adhere to our thriller/neo-noir style opening.

After a few hours of research on many copyright free websites all over the internet, we finally located a piece of music that, not only worked well with our film but also fitted our style and genre perfectly (and so began lots of cheering and hugging). This piece was called 'nightfall' and sounds both atmospheric and dark, which are two key themes in many Film Noir films, such as the 'Maltese Falcon'.

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Filming Days - Location Change

Filming - Location (Car Park & House)

Location was a problem for Charlie and I seeing as we were no longer aloud to use the car park, due to our use of a gun in a public place. After much deliberation, we decided upon our 'house' location, which in fact worked well with our film as we wanted the second antagonist to appear in a wealthier position, creating a class and social hierarchy amongst the criminals. I thought we re-organised quite well in this situation as we still filmed on the original day we planned. Although it was nuisance as many of our previous blog posts referred to the 'car park' location, which has now been changed.
Overall, we are pleased with the changed location as it certainly fits the style we were going for (neo-noir style thriller) and hopefully shows the status difference between the two antagonists.