Collection 100 General Secondary Research.

Above are some Title Cards which have been used in the old style films, these are the style of things which i want to base mine on. The outside border i think makes it look a lot better than expected and the way in which it has been created overall makes it look like it could style it right. The old view and the way the text always appear to have speech marks around them, i have noticed this and i will incorporate this to the end product i will create to keep it legit. 




I have now tested what i can achieve with the Final Cut Express, this is to be able to achieve the style that i want but i am however struggling to create a style which has the style that i am needing to achieve. I may have to change one of the concepts so that it fits in with the brief more likely, the best style for this to be achieved would be with the jerky images. I could edit these more on photoshop before i add them to the actually video this way i can get that style which i am wanting, i can take these images in the morning and this then would be able to give me what  i am needing. 




Also to add audio to the outcome i will need to speak with a technician again as he did not cover this very well in the tutorial. As i think the audio would add to the overall outcome of the movie. its needed to work as a whole. 


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These are some Title cards which have been used in other films. They all have a similar style in common which is the script type which sits in the centre of the image, the way that it works is to draw most attention to it yet keeping it relevant to the movie. This is what i plan to do with my final movie, this should make it more realistic.

Test Samples of Video from Phone and Final Cut Express

This is the first standard video which i have created, the image is a clear normal shot used straight from my camera phone, the idea will be based around this and this will be the quality of the end few frames in my movie clip.

This is the second short video that i took, this one is in greyscale, this changes how you look at the outlook of the video and how it appears all together. On the final video i would like to be able to create a more harsh effect, i think i can achieve this through the process of Final Cut Express. the outcome would need to be created for monday dinner time so i am under pressure to create this on time. 

This is the Sepia effect. This effect may not be used in my final outcome as it doesn't really play a part in the development of the Film genre, however i think it could link into the Kinemacolor section as its only one tint which then would still show the development of the film genre. 

This is a version which i will not be using in the final outcome of everything, the way to which it has been used makes it to out there for it to work correctly. The solorized effect just makes it for a more futuristic effect. I think that it could work if it was not as glossy effect and more of a single toned style again this could have been used for the Kinemacolor style of work, but i think the sepia would work better overall for that style.

Collection 100. Research into previous video creations.

"A horse in motion" 1877







"Roundhay Garden Scene" 1888 







"Strongman Sandow" 1890







"The Story of the Kelly Gang" 1906







"Kinemacolor Film" 1912







"The world, the flesh and the devil" 1914







"The Toll of the Sea" 1922

"Weston-super-Mare, Somerset" 1924

"Charlie Chaplin - The Circus" 1928

Videos Which I Created In Final Cut Express.

These are the two short movies which i made today, they relate to the project i am doing as i am going to express the journey which i am choosing to do, the way they are blurred and jerky i think adds to the effect and the overall outcome of what i am wanting to achieve overall to make it appear more of a movie scene, i added colour halfway through which then lead me onto my idea which i am going to produce further, the evolution of how film has changed over the years whilst creating a educational video on my journey to university each day. The way in which i have made these will then produce into an even deeper meaning and it would be nice to have this completed for monday around eleven o'clock as it could then be shown in the  cafe area as this would show its distribution overall. 

Final Cut Express Software Tutorial.

Go into user work and create a new folder 


Open Final Cut Express HD


Setup final cut project, according to a specific specification 


Select DV-PAL    (digital video)


Select Final Cut Express, then click system settings 


Change the settings with the ticks next to them and then also chance the waveform , thumbnail and autosave settings to the folder that you want the work to be saved into. 


File save project before you even do anything. This gets you into a good habit and can save losing work. 


The time bar above the video tracks is split into different time segments, this consist of 
00:00:00:00 (hours : minutes : seconds : frames)


Now you can import your images


File > Import > Folder 


Now your images should have been imported and you can see the images if you choose the folder in the browser window in the top left area of the screen.


Drag your first image into the section to which you want it to be placed in the video. 



Theres so many possibilities, as you can now order your sequence about more, you can rearrange the images so you could have a ten second gap between all the images and then later in the film you have no second gaps. 


Now to change the duration of each of the images in our time bar.


you can choose to add each image individually or you can add all the images by dragging the folder down onto the time bar 


to change the duration select all the images and then press control and click on one of the images, you can then change the duration of all of the images.


You can then change the rate of each of the frames. the less frames per second the faster the video will be and if you have enough images then it will create a strong clean video. 


If you have some of the red section at the end you can then go to sequence, Render, Both. This will then get rid of the red section at the end of a video and will create a perfectly smooth outcome.


Then go to File > Export > Quick time conversion > Edit the settings the same as Quick Time. 


Your Video file should be complete and ready to watch in your folder.






Other Useful Sections. 




How to Import Sound.


Sound is imported the same way as you would with image, although you need to have converted the format of the music over to AIFF, the best way to do this would be to take the file format onto Quick Time 7 and then resave it so that it turns into the AIFF format which you need. 

Visual Language. Paper Art.

These first images are created for my word Bright. The image which was facing the viewer had alot of bright vivid colours on it so i thought that when i do that they would stand out even more as they would bounce in the wind and as people walked past, but instead it just made a more interactive outcome, i could create this using more vivid colours and then i think this idea could work alot better.

This idea i think worked alot better than the first, it has a certain graphic style about it and the way that the only strong colour on the page was the crabs and i have cut them out so they stand up has made them become even more visible to the eye but only when you look at them from a certain angle. You can see from looking at them from behind that the idea could be developed further but some artists have created work which is similar to these and they have achieve it using plane white paper. I will try and complete this just for the sake of trying, and i will then have both aspects of this for my blog.

This idea didn't work aswell, what i was planning on doing was cutting through the book to each of the pages to the colour sections, this proved alot harder than i first though so i abandoned the idea as the edges of the paper were not cutting straight and then the other sections were alot smaller and more precise, this would not have been a good outcome for what i needed to achieve. This idea could have looked really good if i used a laser cutter to make it a perfect cut but within the time limit we had and the style i wanted to achieve then i used a scalpel.

Lecture - Book Folding.

The way to which the paper is folded is how you can plan out how the book will look when created. Here i folded the paper and numbered the corners so i can see where each of them will sit and work out for each of the possible layouts.  The third image down is cut in half so its more of a newspaper style of doing things. Its also possible to do this with a full sheet, for example if you were to do this with a large sheet of A1 you would get a return of a A5 booklet, then you would just have to bind the spine and its in working order.

Collection 100 ... Primary Research.

 Primary 

question i asked - Hey, please can you answer this question for my university project... What are your feelings or thoughts about the modern day Films/Movies ? and how many do you watch each week on average ?



dont really watch films..

I pretty much only watch horror films, and i tend to prefer the older ones, as they rely too heavily on CGI these days, and replace tension with jumpy moments, and i probably watch like.. atleast 5 a week

well for thoughts.... theres a pretty wide range of films out so theres a lot to think lol i suppose there seems to be a new gimicky trend for 3d films?
and maybe like 1 or 2 a week

there alright, averages bout 3 a week
went to see the black swan last night, not what i expected but good
All movies effect us differently, all touching a different emotion in each film


modern day films r total shit and i watch about 7 films a week :):)

it depends on the week. sometimes i can watch about 3? others none. i used to go to the cinema alot at home. but dont really go anymore. i love films :):) but not the crappy romance ones. i like thrillers ones with lots and lots of plot.

i watch about 4 films a week
feelings and thoughts, i feel they're getting a bit too high budget and actors demand too much money, however talented they are

erm.... id say i think they are realistic. . catch peoples emotions i suppose. i dno.. and id say like one a week!

i prefer film4 productions with up and coming british/europena actors

 

Personal Questionaire that i created For the public

 favorite genre of film ?

Thriller
how many films per week do you watch ?

about 3
do you prefer to watch movies at home or at the cinema ?

home, people might stare at me in the pictures.
do you watch movies alone or with people ?

alone

 

 After asking 100 people this question these are the results...

I also created some info graphics to best display the information which i have collected. This makes it easy to read and adds a new style of collecting and displaying data. 

 Favorite Genre of Film 

Thriller - |||||   |||||   |||||   ||| 18

 Horror - ||| 3

Action - |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   |||| 24

Romance - |||||   |||||   |||||   || 17

Comedy - |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||| 35

Sci Fi - ||| 3

 

How Many Films do you Watch per Week 

1  - |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   || 22

2  - |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   |||| 29

3  - |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   | 21

4  - |||||   |||||   || 12

5+ - |||||   |||||   |||||   | 16

 

Do you prefer to watch movies at home or at the cinema ?

 Home    - |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||   |||||   |||||   |||||   || 62

Cinema  - |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  ||| 38

 

Do you prefer to watch movies alone or with people?  

 Alone        - |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  || 27

Company   - |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  |||||  ||| 73

Type and Grid Layouts

The images at the top are created by me drawing in where you would find the grid, then i had to recreate this into four different styles which i could then choose the one which i think works best and draw this out alot neater and more precise. The outcome which i went with is above and i think it worked well as a final outcome. There are different colours for different areas of the page, the aqua colour represents where the sub titles would go and then the grey is for the main titles. The rest of the little lines are all created from just normal random text which you would find everywhere else.