Long shots

One of the problems brought up in the response was that some of the scenes were too long, and became somewhat boring and lowered the tension, so we added in some more reaction shots of Kira looking panicked, which hopefully solved the problem.

Music

This was a point of contention between members of our group, as each of us had a clear vision of the sound that we wanted to use. The beginning was decided before filming, as the music was exactly what we wanted, so that wasn't the problem. The problem was that during the running shots we couldn't find the right music, we knew what we wanted, but we couldn't find one that fit, or decide on which one was the most similar to our vision. We eventually decided, but after it had been added we realized that our choice didn't work in the slightest, and we scrapped the sound. We finally found the right music, which was a mix of tracks, and the opening came together.

'Elementary'

I found this article about gender roles and race in CBS's Sherlock Holmes adaptation, 'Elementary'. It was extremely interesting, and deconstructed how changing the gender and race of Watson (from British Male to Asian Female) changed the dynamics of the characters from previous adaptations.

Reaction to our rough opening

We had roughly finished our editing, and we showed the result to our class, to see what the picked up on to improve that we had missed. We are hopeful that all the issues brought to light will be easily solved!




Sorry about the quality, It was filmed on a phone, so there was nothing we could do...

Broadchurch

Title                    
Broachurch (season 1)

Director
Various          

Writer    
Chris Chibnall        


Network
ITV

Plot 
When a young boy is murdered, a small town is rife with suspicion and blame as the police try and find the killer.                    
                               
My review
This show was amazing. The premise was one that I had heard before, so, despite many gushing reviews I was not excited to watch. However the shots were so brilliant from the very first second, the atmosphere so intense that I was hooked. There is no doubt in my mind that the shots and music are virtually unparalleled in any T.V. show I have seen in recent years. The acting was also extremely compelling, and very real, as many scenes were shot in one take, with no rehearsal time. I absolutely loved this series, and I will be watching the second, although it will not be able to rival the first as this is a show that only really works once, due to the suspicion being placed on virtually every key member of the small coastal town.

Blip in the title

Unfortunately, there is a blip in our title where the font flickers for a second. We have worked extensively trying to correct the problem but we couldn't find any reason why it should be flickering, and therefore couldn't fix the problem.

Recording sound

We folied our sound over the top of our opening, as it was the sound effect of a phone ringing and a busy message which did not record well, as the sound was coming  through the phone, on the initial filming. We also added the voice answering, as it was also coming through the phone, and we needed to get the timing exactly right to match with Kira's reactions, which was easier to do during the editing process.

Title

We decided to have our title 'wipe' from the screen as Kira ran past, and we achieved this through keynote. The editing was extremely fiddly and intricate as Kira did not always run at the same speed, so it didn't look right when the text decreased steadily, but we managed to edit it so it was relatively smooth.    

Typewriter effect

Once we decided to use keynote we suddenly had a wider range of effects to use on our titles. Kira had the idea of the typewriting effect, and we all readily agreed, as it was very fitting for the atmosphere and themes of our film.

Keynote

As I mentioned in my previous post, I used keynote to create the title and the credits. Keynote is the equivalent of powerpoint on apple.

To be able to transfer the text from keynote to iMovie the slide on keynote has to be the right shade of green for green screen.



Then it is merely a matter of adding the text and choice of animation.




















Once this is done, then the title is ready to export. It is exported to Quicktime player so that it will easily import to iMovie.

Once in imovie, select the animation you wish and drag it over the video, and click the green screen option, and your text is now superimposed over your opening.

Typeface choice

We had some trouble choosing the font for our credits. We were originally going to use iMovie to produce our titles, but both the choice of fonts and the choice of where to place the titles was limited, so we moved onto keynote, where the font choice was considerably larger. After looking at all the available fonts we eventually chose 'Lucida sans typewriter' as it fitted the theme of spies and secret agencies that would be much larger in the latter part of the film.

Re-filming

In the original filming the central character of our opening had her hair in plaits. However, when we looked over the footage, we fount that this appearance did not quite have the effect we were looking for, so we re-filmed the shots where Kira had loose hair, and felt that her panic came through better than in the previous shots. It also helped the character seem as though she is running from something, as she has less make-up and less hair-styling.

Arq

Title                        
Arq

Director                  
 Tony Elliot

Writer                    
Tony Elliot

Production Company
Lost city
XYZ Films
MXN Entertainment

Distributed by        
Netflix

Plot                        
In a dystopian world, where the Earth is polluted and at war, Renton and Hannah have to fight to protect an unlimited energy source whilst stuck in a time-loop                                      


My review
This film was, in my opinion, extremely well filmed. The tension was
 extremely high throughout, and this was acheived through long moving shots. There was very little cutting between camera angles, and the camera instead panned over the scenes. The tension was also heightened by the restricted location. Except for the about a minute near the end, this entire fast-paced action film took place within a single house, which added a certain tension due to the closeness of the enemy.

The plot left a lot to be desired. It had so many plot holes that it hardly made sense. As with any time travel fiction it needed a hard and fast set of rules that it sticks to, and Arq didn't. They tried to complicate it too much, by having a closed time-loop, and it fell a bit flat.

Overall though this was a very well filmed action film, and the tension worked well, but the plot means that I agree with the 3/5 rating it received on Netflix.