Rough Cut 3

Things to Improve

Add the rest of the titles - in this rough cut we trialled a few of our titles to see if they worked, for the most part we liked them, however our main actress' name, Ruby Ballantyne was too long to fit so we will have to swap that for a different name in the next rough cut

Fix the shade of red - as the exposure was different in each shot we will have to individually go through and match the shade of red of the coat, to make them look the same.

Fix the sound - Not only is it unmastered but also me need to synchronise all of the non diegetic sound that we recorded after, such as the footsteps and the gasp with the visuals

Add more shape masks - this needs to be done in shots such as the shot of the left below, to make sure that nothing that we do not want to be red is in colour.

Sort out the feet shot - this can be seen below on the right. It has proved very difficult so far as there is none of the red coat in the shot and there is a large amount of red in the background, so we need to decide how we want to deal with this.

Rough Cut 2

Here is the rough cut of our film...
This rough cut we arranged an audience viewing for it see what people liked so far and find out any ideas they had for how we could improve it.

Things our Audience Liked

• Thought it was very stylised
• Really liked how it was edited, with us removing the colour apart from the red
• Commented on specific shots they thought were clever and the angles we used, such as the low down shot of the footsteps

Things to Improve on

• Sort out the diegetic song throughout
• Either remove the footstep noises or put them for all footsteps
• Maybe re film a shot or two of the friend for the beginning to make the audience be able to relate to her more and slowdown the pace
• Add a fade from black at the start of the film, again make the beginning less sudden

Rough Cut 1

Here is our first rough cut that we completed, all the clips have been placed in order but the sound and the colour still needs to be sorted
Below you can see a quick trial of the Pleastantville effect that we have been experimenting with

Filming Process

We arranged to film Saturday the 21st January, we first ordered two coats and a pair of gloves from amazon for under £50. We then borrowed a boom mic, a digital audio recorder and a S60T Stabiliser from school and used a canon G25 that my partner already owned. We met our three actors in Paternoster square where we had planned to film our opening shot, at 2:30, so we would be able to film through the golden hour. We at first encountered some problems as we were told we were not allowed to film there, or on the millenium bridge, our other main location. However, this ended it up working in our favour as we realised smaller, quieter, back alleys would suit the mood of our film much better than the busy millenium bridge, as these would be a far more likely place for an attack to take place. It also helped us avoid getting other people in the film which would make the continuity hard to keep and we still managed to get a very cinematic shot of St Pauls in the background of the girl crossing the road.

Shot List

Shot #	Loc	Info	Shot Type	Camera Movement	Shot Description
SC.1	1
1		EXT EVE	CU/Mid/Wide	CU->Mid->Wide on stabiliser	Friend taps GIRL on shoulder. (GIRL is in group talking to friends, tracking around)
1b		EXT EVE			Alt. shot GIRL is in group talking to friends, tracking around
SC. 2	3
3		EXT EVE/ NIGHT			GIRL begins to walk home
4		EXT EVE	Wide	Side Track	Side Tracking, FOLLOWER walks in
5		EXT EVE	Mid	Tracking backwards, GIRL walks towards camera	Shot In front of GIRL looking at face
6		EXT EVE	C/U	No.	Track feet
SC. 3	2
6		EXT EVE	Mid	Tracking behind GIRL
7…			C/U		ALL SORTS OF BITS, Man’s body and girl’s face. Editing speed picks up.
13, 15		EXT EVE	Mid		FOLLOWER is not there
14		EXT EVE	C/U		GIRL looks scared, looks behind
16		EXT EVE	C/U		Match on Action, GIRL looks behind
17		EXT EVE	C/U		Man’s Hand on Girl’s Shoulder. Mirror of first shot. Right hand right shoulder. Cut to Black.

1 – Paternoster Square

2 – Millennium Bridge
3 – Street

Font

Aharoni is the best font 

for our purposes - it is 

bold and clearly readable, 

whilst not being too 

obnoxious or weird.

We also liked The Quick, 

but decided that it did not have a serious enough 

tone for our film.

Similar Media Texts

We have drawn inspiration from a number of similar media texts. Theses include the visuals in Sin City - a very noir-esque feel, with touches of colour to emphasise the girl's vulnerability or to pick her out in the crowd.

In after effects, I will use 'Leave Color' and mask out any areas that shouldn't be highlighted. I will also increase the saturation to highlight these colours and pick them out further.