For our evaluation, we answered 7 questions to do with the production and post-production. We decided to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create the slides. Once all the questions were answered, we saved each slide as a picture, then added them to iMovie. In iMovie we then added various transitions, effects, music (Smooth Criminal + Jam by Michael Jackson) and snippets of our film, Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels and the intro of Warner Bros. Aswell as this movie evaluation, we also have the original presentation uploaded to www.slideshare.com
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Dealer Evaluation
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Dealer - Opening Title Sequence
This is the final version
We have changed the introduction, and created our own production clip, 'Full Deck Pictures.'
This is the first version of our film for the opening title
using the a cover version of the song "Beat It" by Michael Jackson.
Because of the layout I have chosen, a quarter of the film has been cut off. To view the full video, you will either need to double click on this video (to open a new window), or click on the link which has been provided below.
These photo's show our location , where we filmed (double-click to enlarge)
GrarageBand And I-movie Screenshots (double-click to enlarge)
The title of the film in which we have made opening titles for, is called 'Dealer'. The story is that one character (Ryan) is seen walking along different roads and paths, leading to another character. The other character (Max) is shown waiting. When the two characters meet each other, the waiting character gets a small black box out of his pocket. He hands the box over to the other character. You then see him open to box, to see that the contents of it is just a card, the Ace of Spades. We chose to end it like this to leave the audience asking the question "What is that card? Why an Ace of Spades?"
Our original was going to be a chase scene, but one of the members in our group was unable to attend due to unknown circumstances. We thought up the idea of our new plan on the day, traveling to our location.
Our storyboard is based on our first idea, the chase, and we were told not to create a new one. I edited the film in roughly a week, using various effects including changing the brightness and the sound effects. For example, we changed some footage to black and white so that it looked like it was from a CCTV camera, and we added a camera shutter sound to make it look like someone was watching us and taking pictures. Other sound effects which we used included a police car siren, a car passing at speed, various buttons, and a lift going up and down.
We chose our titles to be linked with the name of our film, ‘Dealer’. So we decided to use words such as Ace and Royal Flush.
The original song for our movie was a guitar cover of ‘Beat It’ by Michael Jackson. Although this music went well with our short film, it didn’t really suit an opening title sequence. Instead of using this song, we to create our own songs using Garageband.
As our group was the first to finish the opening sequence, we received a lot of feedback. The only criticism was that the first titles were not how they should be, like a conventional film. Taking this into consideration, we decided to make a third and final version, changing the titles at the start of the film. At the beginning, we now use the Universal Pictures logo. As well is this, we also made our own little clip for our own production company, 'Full Deck Pictures'. We added music to this as well.
Key Roles
Ryan Howard:
Director
Executive Producer
Music/Sound
Editing
Props
Max Levene:
Producer
Filming
Cinematography
Costumes
Location
Moorgate: Around Moorgate and on the roof of the Barbican Centre.
Cast List
Dealer - Max Levene
Receiver - Ryan Howard
Equipment List
Mino HD Video Camera
Tripod
Props
Sunglasses
Box
Set of playing cards
Cigarettes
Lucozade bottle
Costumes
Ryan - Black hat, sunglasses, grey jumper, blue jeans, white/blue trainers
Max - Black hooded top, blue jeans, black trainers
Sound Effects (In Order)
Noise of zipper
Police car siren
Fast car driving past
Camera shutter
Button for lift
Doors opening/closing on lift
Lift going up
Date Of Filming
4th January, 2010
Editing
iMovie
Garageband
Shot List For Opening Title Sequence
span style="font-style:italic;">This is our storyboard for our first production , however it was scrapped due to one of our members be unable to attend.
This is My Animatic
