Group: Final Production

RD: Feedback

RD: Feedback

Strengths

• Flesh Title impressive and exciting.
• Continuous, makes sense.
• Different storyline, it has an unexpected twist.
• Good use of music throughout, raises tension well.
• Good sound effect of knife.
• Titles clear, but don't distract from action.
• Very good contrast between the usual and the unusual, cooking dinner and keeping people.
• It makes you want to watch on to find out what will happen to the victims and why the antagonists are doing this.
• Nice uses of close up on meat and newspaper.
• Good relationship between the two lead actors.

Weaknesses

• Music too quiet in the second scene.
• Flesh title should be at the very end.
• The first title looks a bit wobbly shaky.
• The two tracking shots are quiet long, and of the same place so it looks strange that they are so close together.
• Chain rattling sound in the kitchen scene doesn't sound right.
• You can hear a voice when zooming in on the newspaper, which isn't supposed to be there.

Group: Final Film Opening

F.L - Feedback

Strengths:

• Good storyline, with an unusual concept. 
• Wide range of shots and angels, and good tracking shot at the beginning of the film. 
• Establishing shots work well at the start.
• The extreme close-up shots are good, like the ECU of the meat cooking in the pan.
• The titles work well with the action - they're significant enough to be noticed, yet don't detract from the action on screen.
• Tension is built well at the ending towards the run up to the 'FLESH' title.

Weaknesses:

• Some unsubtle shots that detract from continuity, for example, the shot with the hat being taken off.
• The two different low angle shots of the feet going up the stairs at the start and end are unnecessary, and maybe we only need one shot of this. 
• Too much noise when he starts to go down into the basement, with the close up on the newspaper. 

F.O'C: Feedback

Strengths:

• The soundtrack works well
• Intercutting the newspaper wall with the kitchen scene was effective
• Very atmospheric going down into the basement
• Excellent range of shots
• Close ups of news paper walls are good
• Nice opening sequence & establishing shots
• Good lighting in the basement
• Great make-up on the victims

Weaknesses:

• The part with the chain rattle which leads Rob into the basement is unclear. A different sound was recommended.
• Some bits (towards the end of the kitchen scene and the middle of the basement scene) need more sound adding to them as they're rather quiet.
• Rob's voice echoes slightly on the close up of Kath's face.

F.O'C - Extra shots

After the second shoot we realised we still had a few shots that we needed to complete the production and achieve continuity. The first set of shots we needed were the shots showing the wall of newspapers full of the couple's victims. We didn't actually need to go back to Harry's house for this as the majority of these shots are close ups. Freya and I went and took these shots during a double media lesson.

The last shots that we need are some establishing shots of the outside of Harry's house and a close up of Kath & Orla's eyes if possible. I will be at Harry's house tonight with Freya's camera taking some still establishing shots on the tripod. One of these will be of the outside of Harry's house and the others will be of what I think looks good when I'm there due to the lack of complete familiarity with Harry's house.

F.O'C: Post Production

On Monday the 26th of January I led the editing process. On this day I were editing the kitchen scene and adding some shots into the basement scene.

The main point of this hour of editing was to properly establish the correct order of the kitchen shots and achieve continuity. Over the course of the 2 lessons and lunchtime I played about with intercutting shots of the basement into the kitchen scene, completed the kitchen scene so continuity was there ready for the rough cut viewing in the afternoon. 
I made the kitchen scene more continuous via:

• Addressing the length of shots and cutting them earlier to achieve a quick succession (almost montage) of clips, denoting her efficient cooking skills.
• Cutting on action was important as it gave a much needed flow to the scene which we didn't have before.

Some of the intercutting techniques I tried were:

• Cutting 5 frames of the newspaper wall crabbing shot in sections in between the longer shot showing the newspaper he put on the kitchen shot. This required me to use the cut clip tool and increase the rate of 'flashes' as the shot of the newspaper progresses.
• Intercutting the bloody knife in between various shots such as the shot where he feels Orla's face. (This may still be used but we ran out of time and had to scrap it for the viewing)

During this editing session I, along with Freya, were polishing up the basement shots and making them suitable for viewing. We did not however get the ending of the film edited during this session.
In the next lesson we were adding additional shots to the basement scene and finishing it off. What we need to do in the last few days coming up to Friday is add in titles, sort out diegetic sound & add in some additional sound.

J.P - Post Production

I started editing on the 19th January with Rory, we started dropping the kitchen clips onto the timeline and refining cuts. Freya and Fred had already started editing so we had half of the timeline to work with, on the week beginning 26th January; Freya, Fred and I are coming in every lunch and free when possible to continue editing.

First week of editing:

• We started by dragging and dropping the clips onto the timeline, we did this through a selection process of which shots had the best angles and the least disturbances
• I then refined the cutting rate between shots and proceeded to add more shots onto the timeline while following our storyboard

In the second week:

• In this final week of editing we started coming in to edit in our free time, in this time we refined the order of certain scenes based off our rough cut.
• We decided to have some intercutting scenes between the basement and the kitchen so we spent a bit of time deciding and doing this
• Also we re-filmed some shots of the newspaper wall which we needed to add to our timeline, this linked in with the intercutting since it was part of those scenes#

The rest of the week:

• We need to finish cutting our clips to how we want them, also we need to refine our diegetic sound as well as adding extra sound effects
• Finally we need to add our fonts to our production

RD: Soundtrack Ideas

I think we will be using multiple soundtracks rather than just one on going one, so here are some ideas for the different sections of the clip:


This is an idea for when the male antagonist is walking down the stairs:

https://www.freesound.org/people/thanvannispen/sounds/30274/

I think this could be used for the revealing of the victims:

https://www.freesound.org/people/Xanco123/sounds/202504/


These are possibilities for the kitchen part but we are still considering what style to go for at this point, these are calm but slightly creepy:

https://www.freesound.org/people/Setuniman/sounds/222741/
https://www.freesound.org/people/Setuniman/sounds/149770/