Coursework: Music

Our search for music started pretty early. We just tried to find websites that provide thriller and tense music and just go from there. We got several songs but none of them fits so we just decided to find it at a later date.

http://www.purple-planet.com

Tense

• Spy story
• The Orphanage
• Turning the Screw
• Impending doom

Mysterious background

• Disturbed
• Entombed

Dark background

• Necropolis
• Wrong Turn
• Evil around

Relaxing

• Deep serenity
• Reiki healing
• Crystal waters

In the end i found nothing I like on these websites such as Purple Planet so I went to YouTube and searched for it there instead. I then stumbled upon a channel called Fesliyan Studios which provide all kinds of royalty free music.

SNEAK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMQMuP4-WIM

Seeking the truth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoqMpJC0tZY

Project Pheonix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtRF2m5oAzI
Anticipation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS6dhZc6uac
Agression - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmcociyH0d8
Ticking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Df4hZDCrA4
A dark time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgbQZ0lWVFs'

There were many songs up for contention but Detective Caution won out because of the swelling it provides which in itself helps create tension. It also has a climax which fits perfectly with the climax of our opening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX7bhwzt1TA

Coursework: Evaluation #4

How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online - in this project?

I am someone who is very interested in hardware and software. I do learn computer science after all. So coming into this forced us to learn so much about media and how it utilities hardware and software together to create the best piece of media it can.

Hardware

This is what allows us to utilize software which in turn allows us to create this in the first place.

Computer

Firstly is obviously our computers to gain access to websites and connect software and hardware all together. Without our computers then this wouldn't have happened

 

Camera

Camera = Canon 80D

Canon 80D is an DSLR wih a 

• 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor with Dual Pixel AF
• 45-point AF system with all cross-type points
• 3" 1.04M-dot articulating touchscreen
• 1080/60p video capture
• 7 fps continuous shooting with AF
• Weather-resistant body
• 7560-pixel RGB+IR Metering Sensor
• Wi-Fi + NFC

This is Lewis' camera that we got to use. It did everything you needed it to do and was great for the job. It was able to record at 1080p 60fps which was just he perfect amount for us.

Lens = Tamron 35mm f1.8

This allowed us to make Bokeh footage like this:

 The lens had VC(vibration control) which helped stabilize shots.

We also had a tripod to stabilize the shots.

Microphone= Rode Video Mic go

This mic helped us record background sound for some of our shots and canceled redundant sound when its not needed.


iPhone 6s

This was used to make time lapse during filming process and record dialogue in after production on voice memo.

Software

Adobe Premiere Pro

This is what we chose as our editing software for this project as it is one of the most well developed and also one of the most used which means that finding help for it will be much easier.

This allows us to connect all of the footage from the hardware together into one fluid piece. It allows us to change and tune aspects of it to our desire. Dragging and dropping sound and video to sync it up together so that it makes sense.

We were able to colour correct to make the colour in the films like what we wanted it to be. This gives the product a greater polish making it more believable and immersive to the audience.

This also allowed us to place credits with our name on the product

Voice memo

Voice memo was used after filming as, the sound on the footage taken was not great, due to background noise. We integrated this with Premiere to make up for the terrible recording we had on set, this allows the phone call to be much more clear for the audience to hear. Voice memo is basically the program used to record sound, which is an app on the iPhone. We only used this once as there were little to no dialogue in our product.

We also used several websites

YouTube:
to find tutorials that helped us, music for our project, inspirations

Purple Planet:
website that provides royalty free music

Blogger:
Blogger is what we use to record our progress own, this allows us to go back a see what we've done, and what could have been improve.

Google maps:
We use google maps to identify the location of where we are filming.

Dusk (nearly finished version)

From the opening first draft that we showed our friends I learned many things and took time to go finish everything off and to make everything more polished

1. We firstly cut off the length of several scenes to make it better to watch
2. Made the cuts more fluid
3. Included music and sound effects
4. Finalized most of the credits
5. Unfinished title card

Coursework: Script

DRAFT 1

Street lamps illuminate the road which lays next to the gigantic lake. A eerie road that suggests danger

Roger walks along the road on the phone talking to his wife

ROGER, late 20s, married, wealthy, CEO of corrupted corporate company, has caused 

X, serial killer, kills people that have caused the death for other people, enjoys killing, 

ROGER goes out of his house for a walk 

ROGER

I'll be going for a walk dear, I'll be back very soon

PAUSE

[Wife says something we can not hear]

ROGER

Uh huh, don't worry.

Puts on shoe, goes out of the house

CUT

EXT. LAKESIDE, NIGHT

Still frame of ROGER looking at the lake (smoking?)

[Phone rings]

ROGER

Yes dear, I'll be going back now.

Starts walking home

X

[Voice comes from unknow directions]

Roger spins around confused

ROGER

Who are you?!

[Abrupt sound]

Roger scarily stares at where the sound is coming from 

CAMERA LOOKS AT ROGER HEAD ON

Silhouette approches quickly from behind

Rope like object used to strangle Roger

Both goes on the ground to struggle

Roger slowly stops struggling

X

This... is for all your deeds

X acts very satisfied 

X drags the body along the road to his house's door

Presses door bell and walks away

CAMERA SLOWLY MOVES IN 

Door opens with wife standing there

WIFE

Oh my god... OH MY GOD

VOICE FADES OUT AS CAMERA PANS DOWN AT ROGER, DEAD AND BEATEN

There is a file of paper titled "ROGER'S DOINGS"

CUT TO X WALKING DOWN THE ROAD

EXT. LAKESIDE, NIGHT

Follow for a bit then camera pans to the lake

TITLE: Midnight Pulse

EXT. LAKESIDE, NIGHT

(Phone call that might be used)

Phone rings

ROGER

How did it go

[PAUSE]

ROGER

Do you think I care?... Get his money and just end him. We don't need that trash anymore

[PAUSE]

ROGER

I expect good news tomorrow, George... I have high hopes for you. Happy hunting

Coursework: Credits

First idea

Production Companies
Luminous
Avalon Studios
Daybreak Creative

Main Cast
M. John
P. Wong
A. Anivat

Supporting Cast

S. Ratanavaraha
M. Blanche
M. Van Houten

Staff

M. John - casting

M. John - costume designer
R. Jackson- music

P. Wong - editor
M. John - production designer

P. Wong - director of cinematography

D. Harrison - producer
P. Wong- writer
P. Wong - director

We decided to reduce it down to this

Production Companies

Luminous Production

Daybreak Creative

Avalon Studios

Cast

Payut Wongthongsri

Methawis John

May Blanch

Staff

Michelle Van Houten - Production design

Attapun Anivat - Cinematography

Soranop Ratanavaraha - Sound Design

David Harrison - Producer

Payut Wongthongsri - Director/Writer


We wanted to have a font that was really easy to read and simple. This is a thriller film like any other so a fancy font would have taken the seriousness and realistic aspect away from it which i didn't want to happen. So I had lewis go search for simplistic fonts that we could have used. There were some good ones but I was still very unsure about it.

We have picked the font "Another TypeWriter"
As we like the gap between the letters which makes it look simple and easy to read.


After a while when I was editing we just decided that the best to go with is Adobe Arabic which was literally the default font for Adobe Premiere Pro embarrassingly. The font was just simple and perfect for the job so we both had no complaints for it. I thought that this might have been too easy a choice so I searched through more fonts and none of them fitted as well as Adobe Arabic so we just decided to keep if after all.

We also used this font for our title card for the same reasons.

Coursework: Paper work

RISK ASSESSMENT

The risk involved in the making of this film opening

• First thing is the possible car accident. We will primarily working or filming on the street. If not careful we may be hit or in danger the people whose driving. To prevent or lower the risk of the happening we decided to film when there are minimal cars. Either late at night or early morning.

• Secondly is the lake near the filming location. The lake is out of bound without a supervisor. It is also possible that we may drop camera gear into the lake. To prevent this we have decided to stay away from the lake to avoid falling into the lake or dropping any thing into it.

• In the film there is a killing scene involving a wire around the neck. This may lead to serious injuries. To prevent this from happening we will try to be gentle and not put to much force on the wire and use a suitable material that wont leave a rash or scratch on the actor.

• At night we might come across strangers who have bad intentions to try to steal our camera gear. To avoid this we have planned to stay near houses in the village which we know have people in them incase anything unexpected happen.

Coursework: Learning

Premiere pro 21:9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcQaLx4oFHw
Colour correction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1xPcUZnZF8

At first I had virtually no experience with Adobe Premiere Pro at all so this was all new to me. From editing using all the windows and tools given to me. I was in charge of all the editing done and I had always wanted to have it in 21:9 to closely imitate real films and to be more cinematic. So i just searched up how i could be able to do this. There were many methods; one being putting b It was surprisingly easy though being very confusing at first. The next part which is obviously essential to all film is the colour correction. I wanted it to have very pretty colours and for it to really pop. We were lucky enough to have a very beautiful sunset which gave me a lot to work with. Some of the scenes had the colours i wanted already so i based the other scenes of that to keep the continuity. So i went off to research about how to colour correct in Adobe Premiere Pro. It taught me tips such as having several colour correction files is much easier to manage and to have another layer for it because colour correcting on the scenes itself mean that you have to manually do it for every other scene. Having a layer just for this means that I can just make one and drag it over several scenes. I played around randomly with it at first to get to know what it can do. I then just try to match as closely as possible to the scene which had the colours I wanted. This has worked out pretty well in my opinion and I am happy about the colour correction in our work.

Colour Correction

Colour correction layers

Sequences