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Addiction- film diary of editing

Addiction - Film diary of editing. 

Day 1 - Uploading the Clips.

The editing process of our film was quite easy, mainly because we broke it down into several parts and edited each part separately, and then combined all of those parts at the end so that i could then apply the music and sound effects. However, in order to get the clips to work properly we had to find the right clips and separated them from the outtakes which took some time in its own right. Secondly, we had to upload the clips and place them in chronological order in order for it to be easy to find and edit, because if i was to upload the clips in a wrong order it would take a long time and would be a boring process which would be a waste of time. After doing this I eventually was able to cut down the clips and make sure that they fitted together perfectly, so that there was no weird or edgy cuts and to ensure that  some parts or sections of the clips aren't shown as it would ruin the opening two minutes of our film.

Day 2 - Editing the clips

in order for us to edit the clips, we had to put them on the timeline and then render them so that they would be smooth, and we watched the full clip to be able to view and understand what we needed to do, so this was really the starting point the the editing. After this, I cut down on as much waste shots as we had to to shorten the film as much as possible because we had quite a few clips which could have damaged the scene, also we had to delete some shots which we needed but didn't have space for, so we made up for this by using editing to cut from one character to another character, rather than having a prolonged time span for that character e.g. Lewis Hall walking towards the drug deal.

Day 3 - Adding music 

as the music was a big influence of the feeling in our film,  I decided that we should start editing the music as soon as the clips were sorted out, and cut out, the music was very difficult to find and I ended up changing the music several times because it didn't fit very well with the scene, for example i was originally going to just use one song throughout the whole clip, but ended up using at least 3 songs. I thought that the idea that three songs was good to use was because it could change the mood of the audience during the opening scene, rather than just having one boring song which doesn't fit perfectly. Another benefit to using more than one song was that it would adapt and fit into the mood of the scene, and which then would influence the audiences mood.

Day 4 - Sound effects

The sound effects were probably the trickiest part of the whole sound topic in the editing process, which was mainly due to the impact which it had to enhance, for example, trying to get the right timing for a punch sound effect when a punch was thrown into the clip, also, the sound effects were hard to find because there were many YouTube videos which talked about them, but did not include them, so I spent a good few hours trying to find the right sound effects. but luckily there was a video which had a link to some Non-Copyright sound effects which i then downloaded and used for the editing process, and although some sound effects did not fit (due to limitations), i was able to change the speed in which they are played so that they sound either heavier or lighter. 

Day 5 - Finish and Publish

After finishing editing the film, and making sure that everything was in place, i was able to finally save the video onto the computer and then was able to upload it and publish it on YouTube, however there were some errors which we came across and I had to edit the original video on Adobe Premier Elements 10 to add a Title, and deleted the video i uploaded before that and added the improved version a few weeks later. After that it was finished and available to view.

Addiction - film diary day 4 ieuan

Day 4: Once we had done the filming, we uploaded it to a computer and reviewed it to see what we had to do again and to when we went back to make sure we weren't locked in again we got a spare set of keys so we could lock and unlock the gate and Luke was available that day so we redid the meeting the scene and a few other parts we needed to do that day, this is because for our shot reverse shot, we had filmed off the wrong shoulder again, which we made that same mistake during our preliminary task, so we tried to correct that, and we got the shots done, but we decided that because of the amount of shots we had, we didn't really need to introduce the shot reverse shot, instead we decided that we would leave that shot out when we were doing the editing.

Addiction - film diary day 3 ieuan

Day 3: For day 3 we had to film what was left of the fight scene and the cliff hanger at the end of the film but we had a problem because Luke who played Andrew McGregor in our film was in another group and was just doing us a favour by being in our film and had to film with his group that day so we got Billy to film for us that day, he introduced us to some match on action shots which are evident towards the filming, also, this was one of our last days filming, so we had to concentrate to our full potential and be able to get as many clips as we could done in order for us to be in a secure section in our editing process, also we knew that we would have to leave a cliff hanger at some point, and is shown in our clip.

Addiction - Film diary day 2 ieuan

Day 2: For day 2 we decided to film the encounter between Lewis Hall and Filthy Frank once Andrew McGregor has left and when Lewis Hall starts to chase Filthy Frank and when Lewis Hall knocks over Andrew McGregor and threatens him with a gun and we filmed most of the fight scene but once it got too dark to film the rest of the scene so we had to leave but one of the staff had locked the gate not realizing that we were still in there so we had to climb out the back and walk along one of the fields to get out of the grounds. Also, because of the change in weather we had to rely mainly on time in order to get all of the clips that we needed in order to complete that section that day, but because it got dark quite quickly we ended up having to finish the actual filming another day, otherwise we would have been stuck with clips, the reason that we have a few shots in our opening two minutes of our film which were quite dark was because we decided that we had to do the shots then and also that we didn't have much time to film on that day, so all those factors made us re-shoot a couple of clips.

Addiction - Film diary day 1 - ieuan

Film Diary

Day 1: We decided to film in order of the events which took place so in the first day we filmed Lewis Hall first sighting the drug deal and approaching the scene and we did the part where you see Andrew McGregor walking towards Filthy Frank because we did five separate shots for that part to try and make it more interesting and capture where and how and where he was walking. We also filmed the conversation in the first day and the drug deal between Andrew McGregor and Filthy Frank, this was because we wanted to get this part done as soon as we could, because we needed to get some shots where Filthy Frank and Andrew would be having a conversation and we would try out several shots such as a shot reverse shot and we tried to follow along the basis that you needed to have them on the same shoulder angle, so that it was in a 180 degree angle. but we ended up trying several other shots in order for the immersion to be fully exposed to the camera.

Addiction- soundtrack analysis of action films

Addiction - Soundtrack analysis of action films.

The soundtrack analysis was relatively easy for us because in most action films we had to include quite intense music to quickly and easily introduce the characters into the opening two minutes, also, the soundtrack would heavily influence the mood which the audience should be placed into when they first start watching the movie. Our non-diegetic sound (i.e. music) would have to be relatively intense all throughout the opening as we needed to always have that mood that something is going to happen or that there will be a fight at some point, where the music would intensify even more and gradually stop, which is quite a basic thing to do considering most people do it but at the same time is also very graceful and effective for the audience, as it would build up the tension over time and suddenly stop and confuse everyone. We also used the music to surprise the audience, as suddenly there is tense music and next there is fast paced music which suddenly jumps the audience into the scene which the characters are in.

Also, in other action films such as The Raid, the music is slow at first and builds up over time like most action films, where it works with the action which is happening, e.g. at a fight scene the characters would be getting ready to fight, and then the music would start quiet, then the characters would start fighting and then the music would intensify throughout and then most likely suddenly stop. Most action film music is generally influenced by the genres of dub step and rock music, because generally both of those genres have fast paces music and play a big role in building up tension. 

Addiction - audience research

Audience Research

  Generally in Action films, the age group which views action films the most are around the age of 13 to around early 30's. this is usually due to the fact that there is a lot of explosions (Michael Bay) and a lot of fight scenes and almost always guns or weapons of some sort are included into the film, so this would attract (usually) males because of the violence that many males essentially want to have, and I can admit myself that i would be more likely to watch action films and horror films simply because of the fact that there is a lot of gore, fighting and violence throughout the film. 

Also, because our film is an Action/Crime film, we thought that our audience age would be an average of 15+ and maybe to the age of 40, however there are some things that dictate that our film may be for an younger audience, as it stereo-typically includes fighting and chase scenes which would assert the fact that our film would be preferred by this age group. 

Another thought that we had when making the film is that what we included into the opening two minutes would have a big impact on who would want to view our film, for example if we were to completely skip out the fight scene and chase scene and go straight a scene where the character would be in an interrogation room and the scene would just be two minute of that, it would be guaranteed to repel any younger audience because of the slow pace of the scene.

Also, in most crime films, there is a good mix of males and females as actors, so this would attract both sexes to watch the film because it would show equality. Also, the general age range for crime films is around 15- 40. This can be due to the fact that although they include some gore, they also contain some sort of action maybe a few fight scenes but they do not play an important role and so this would again repel a younger audience (most likely). 

Certificate Research

Certificate Research

Addiction will be rated a 15 because of its scenes of strong violence and drug use and strong use of language.

In the dialogue scene we have a bag of weed gets passed between two characters which make reference to drug use and we’ve use strong violence in the fight scene at the end of the clip.

Fight tutorial

The Fighting tutorial is part of our ideas for fighting tutorials and choreography. it is a part of a channel called indie action tutorials which show how to choreograph certain fights and action scenes. for our film trailer we needed to choreograph certain take-downs and strikes. and edit/render it so that within our film it looks good and as best as we can make it. we also looked at another tutorial for fighting scenes from the movie undisputed, a notable fighting movie which is known for its fighting scenes.  we also decided to put sound effects within our movie although we didn't watch a tutorial for this we just put non-copyright music within the movie trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXxNRFctiCJc_pwgYY9Sjng

Film treatment

Film treatment:

Within our movie the plot begins with filthy frank and Lewis hall and Andrew macgregor having a drug deal, while filthy frank looks in the distance with a close-up shot angle of his facial expression being one of seriousness. Filthy frank is basically leading a gang drug deal with two ex-soldiers who basically end up within the criminal business for adrenalin kicks and to get the excitement which they experienced when they were in the war, during the first scene our protagonist Lewis hall is spying on filthy frank and Andrew mcgregor. after a while of waiting  Andrew mcgregor appears from around the building and slow walks towards filthy frank who then looks towards him. After filthy frank and Andrew mcgregor meet after a handshake they start talking, then Lewis hall tries to sneak up to a wooden barricade. whilst he is sneaking filthy frank gives Andrew the drugs, whilst Lewis cautiously watches after they shake hands whilst Andrew walks back around the building filthy frank goes up the stairs and then walks back down, whilst this is happening Lewis hall takes advantage decides to try and capture filthy frank.

However filthy frank notices Lewis hall and proceeds to run away in the direction of Andrew. the chase scene lasts a few seconds, where filthy frank bumps into Andrew and panics and continues running. Whilst the chase scene is happening Andrew notices people running towards his direction and decides to check it out. This is where filthy frank bumps into him.

Lewis hall sprints around the corner of the building in pursuit of filthy frank, but instead crashes into Andrew who is investigating the scene. Andrew is pushed to the floor where Lewis hall threatens him with a gun but decides he doesn't want to kill him as his main target is filthy frank.

As Lewis hall walks around another corner filthy frank grabs Lewis's arm which he is holding the gun with him, and slams him into the wall, then proceeds to throw him onto the ground and kick him. Andrew then gets up  and blocks a punch from filthy frank and takes on a few knees to the body. and then takes him down and hits him several times.

filthy frank picks up the gun Andrew dropped and whacks him around the head and concusses him for a few seconds, and then he stands up and points the gun at Andrew and then it fades out to our production credits.

Addiction Script

Addiction Script

Andrew McGregor: Hey yo what’s up man

Filthy Frank: Hey

Andrew McGregor: Got the stuff man

Filthy Frank: Yeah yeah yeah it’s not much man but I hope it does for you

Andrew McGregor: Pretty good stuff man

Filthy Frank: Yeah cool see you later.

Andrew McGregor: yeah see you

Addiction Screenplay.

Addiction Screenplay

The film starts off with the camera following Lewis Hall as he moves into position to confront Filthy Frank but then the camera moves to Andrew McGregor, who is walking towards Filthy Frank for a drug deal then the camera shows Filthy Frank looking towards Andrew McGregor then the camera goes back to Andrew McGregor as he continues to walk towards Filthy Frank.

For the first part we use a range of short and medium shots to establish the characters in the film and to capture what they’re doing.

The next part of the film is where Andrew McGregor and Filthy Frank meet up for a drug deal and for the encounter we use a close shot of the hand shake and a 180 reverse shot to capture the conversation.

The next part we get Andrew McGregor walking off and Filthy Frank looking towards Lewis Hall and for these shots we use a mix of close and medium shots.

As Filthy Frank looks towards Lewis Hall, the camera follows Lewis Hall standing up and pointing a gun at Filthy Frank and for this shot we use a close up shot looking down Lewis Halls arm to show the gun pointing at Filthy Frank and then Filthy Frank runs off and Lewis Hall peruses him and the camera follows behind Lewis Hall and then skips to a medium shot facing the wall to show both Filthy Frank and Lewis Hall running past and then skips to a long shot facing up showing Filthy Franks and Lewis Halls feet running.

The next shot shows Andrew McGregor walking away and looking back when he hears Filthy Frank running and for this shot we use a medium shot and then the shot switches around to show Filthy Frank run past and run into Andrew McGregor and for that shot we use a close up shot following Andrew McGregor. Then we see Lewis Hall run into Andrew McGregor pushing him on the ground and for this shot we use a medium shot follow Lewis Hall and we use another medium shot to show Andrew McGregor being pushed on the ground then we use a reverse close up shot’s and a long shot to show Lewis Hall threatening Andrew McGregor with the gun while he’s on the ground and then Lewis Hall running off and then the camera follows Andrew McGregor as he runs away.

The next shot is a medium shot following Lewis Hall as walks around a corner and then Filthy Frank is there waiting for him and then that breaks out into a fight scene and we use close, medium and long shots to capture the fight then once Filthy Frank hits Lewis Hall round the head with the gun and he goes down and we use a following close up shot to get Lewis Hall falling to the ground and then we use reverse close up shot to get Lewis Hall being threatened by Filthy Frank with the gun and then there is a sound of a gunshot and then the film skips to the title sequence.

Influence On Production.

Influence On Production:

 

our influence on the production of our film was varied, we had different influences, some of it was primarily drug deal scenes from other movies, such as scarface a notable movie which includes a Cuban drug lord who comes to Miami in hopes of becoming a powerful drug kingpin, we also had influences from military films such as Rambo as at least two of our protagonists are ex military and get involved within the drug deal for the adrenalin factor mostly, and because they get scarred from the war and become traumatized as a result.

 

another influence on our production was for some of the characters we were influenced by comedian and you tuber filthy frank- not his real name, so we called one our characters with the same name, as we thought it would sound good and appropriate for our movie. also we were influenced by games such as grand theft auto 4 and generally just stereotypical eastern European gangsters when we decided to include Lithuanians as part of our cast. for the different scenes as part of our trailer such as the fight scenes we were influenced by fight films such as Undisputed 2, way of the dragon and blood and bone, although the fight scenes pale in comparison to the said movies we tried to emulate some of the fighting moves/choreography used.

 

more influence on our production we tried to include some humor from you tube videos we watched as part of our outtakes and fails before we edited and rendered, so this meant at first we messed around a bit before actually filming but afterwards got down to the nitty-gritty of the filming itself,