Evaluation

Planning

Narrative:A mother (Andrada) and her son (Kevin) have had a

troubled past together because her son is involved in drugs and has the devil on his back. After 2 years, he

returns home from prison one night and demands financial support. However the mother is unwilling to

help out and tells him to disappear into the dark roads from once he came as she has a younger child (Whom of

which he has no idea of) who is ignorant of the disturbance going on downstairs.

Dialogue:

• Son: Hey mum...Mother: What are you doing here?!Son: That doesn't matter right now, I need your help.Mother: NO! Get the hell out! NOW! I don't want you here. I don't want any trouble from you.

• In order for the actors to be able to get to know what their character was like; we had to create the denotation and connotation for each one.

Mother:

• Denotation:Smart (Physically, presented well)Long hairMake upAccessories

Connotation:Dominate body language e.g - Straight posture.LoudConfidentDeterminedPossessive

Son:

Denotation:Well presented (Dress sense)Short hairShadyWell spoken

Connotation:ArrogantTunnel visionedBig egoRelaxed

Camera Shots:

• Establishing shot, Low angle - A shot of the housePanning side shot, Stationary camera - When the son is arriving at the door.Stationary camera, zoom in over the shoulder to the door, focus lens on the doorPOV - Of the mother as she opens the doorWide angle shot as the son is going through the living room doorway.MS - On the son as he sits down on the couchLong shot, two-shot as the mother walks into the room following her son.CU - On the mother as she says her last line

What I’ve learned from planning:

• Different camera shots and the affect that individual one can create.

• Analysing different scripts and choose the one that everyone can relate to.

• Denotation and connotation and how these work to express a characters looks and personality.

• How the Narrative helps the viewer understand and engage easier with the film; as it provides them with extra, background information about the finished product that they are about to view.

Final CutFinal Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and later Apple Inc.

The software allows users to log and transfer video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited, processed, and output to a wide variety of formats.

This is a screenshot of the over all process that I’ve been through. Later on I will explain every part that I’ve been made to produce my film.

The upper left of the screen is your Browser, which is like a file cabinet for your project within which you put your media files - audio, video, still pictures, etc.

Just to the right of the Browser is the Viewer, where you can display and play individual video clips you select in the Browser.So if you double click on a video clip in the Browser list, it will be displayed in the Viewer.Just below the clip in the Viewer is the playhead, a small yellow triangle in the white horizontal box that you can click on and drag to the left or right to move or scrub through the clip.

Below the Browser and Viewer is the Timeline, where you assemble your video and audio clips into a sequence to create a movie.

On the upper far right is the Canvas, which will play whatever sequence of clips is in your Timeline.

Final Cut has a set of green buttons at the left hand site; if they are clicked they will mute your video. This is useful if you have several audio tracks.

To save the project

I went to ‘file’ the I

went down ‘save

project as’

To the right of the screen is your tool bar and your audio indicator.Raiser tool is used to cut away image or audio that you don't want to use or would like to move. Pen-tall- by clicking on the icon that looks like a fainting pen and taking it into the pink lines which appear when the toggle button is pressed.

You click onto the pink lines three times and you can use this for your fade in.

If you want to change your sound level you can act on this by clicking the toggle button which looks like a strange ‘N’. When this is clicked two pink lines will appear, allowing you to rise or lower your sound level or put in fade in or fade out.

You can click on and drag video and audio clips from the Viewer into the Timeline.

The Timeline displays video tracks in blue and audio tracks in green.

Just above the top video track in the Timeline is the playhead, a tiny yellow triangle you can click on and drag to the left or right to move or "scrub" through your sequence of clips.

To the far left of each track are buttons that can be selected to turn off each individual track.

Also to the left of each track are buttons with tiny lock icons that can be selected to lock a track. This means you will not be able to edit or change it accidentally.