Obsession - Response from the Team

After Reginald and I had filmed the footage at my house we gave it to Shanae and she noticed quite a few bits that went wrong about the footage and things we needed to change.

Our first problem was the fact that our opening sequence didn’t include our names and credits to others because we tried to find a place where it would fit nicely but we couldn’t out it anywhere where it would look nice and presentable to the audience.

Also, Shanae pointed out that lighting was a clear problem with the footage from my house since on the first part the lighting is significantly darker than in the second and the lighting was just way to dim also the quality of the filming was not as good since towards the end the piece looked poor in quality. Also in the first part Artan (the main character) he wore a red blanket but what Shanae pointed out is that there is footage of him without the blanket but no footage of him taking it off.

She also pointed out that the papers were not as convincing which was my fault since from close up they looked quite professional and something he would be obsessed with but from far away I agree did not give the same effect and that means the Mise en scene was not particularly convincing for the piece.

We had also watched the clip back and had seen that what Artan was wearing was a shirt and trousers which in Shanae’s opinion was not very good for the storyline, I disagree since a conventional detective even if after being fired doesn’t really seems to care what he wears and I think the fact that he is obsessed with his career makes him obsessed to continue wearing the same clothing so he can convince himself he can still do his job even though he has been fired. But as a group we collectively agreed that it would be better for him to not be wearing that and wearing something different to portray his character. 

Obsession 2

Group Discussion

After organizing with some of our fellow sixth former's Reginald and I went to record their voices for the opening sequence of our thriller. When we came back we listened to the voices we were questioning whether it did fit into the piece as we originally thought it was. The main problem is that it didn't sound convincing enough from the peoples voices and a team member believed that it would damage the atmosphere we had created for our opening credits.

We discussed and a group member suggested we could add effects to make it sound the way we envisioned it to sound in the first place which wasn't as successful so we then came to the conclusion to not use the voices and use some music instead to create the atmosphere we wanted for our film.

Obsession credits 1

This is how our opening credits scene should begin before all the other filming we wanted to add a little mystery and tension which was created by this part of the opening scene we didn’t feel that this part would be the best to put our names since they would go better somewhere later on in the sequence.

We all picked the images to put into the sequence and picked different things to do with the illuminate. Then Shanae the main editor took the images and made them look wonderful by adding different effects and transitions which added a quite climactic effect also Reginald had an idea of the rain effect and the reverse which we discussed and came to an agreement to include. I watched Shanae do the effects, her being more experienced than me I just learned from her how to add the effects do the transitions and add the audio onto the video which I never knew before until Shanae had shown me. I believe so far our sequence is going well and I have learnt a lot so far about editing that I did not know previously.

Opening Credits : The Dark Knight Rises

Sound: the fact that it starts in complete silence is quite effective since the audience anticipate for something amazing to happen and around 50 seconds in the music begins slowly building a climax towards the beginning of the film showing all the distributers and production companies.

Camera: we have a zoom onto the Wayne enterprise building then we see a track from the front of the joker when he walks to the man showing that he is a key character in the film and they use a pan when the joker goes towards the truck, establishing shot right at the beginning

Editing: fade out and fade in on opening credits also the bank robbery creates a climax right at the beginning making it very engaging.

 Mise en scene: the masks convey the mystery of the film, the guns show violence and that this is going to be an action movie also, the difference between the business men in suits and robbers in worn out old clothes shows the different representation of good and evil.