ANCILLARY TASK | THE PROCESS 2

As for my Review, I again used pixlr to create it.

I began with the same black screen i used for my poster and layered it will my film poster in the top left hand corner. 

After this, I went online and researched who commonly gives star ratings to films online and narrowed it down to The Gaurdian, Daily Star and Zoo. I added in images of star ratings at 31\2 and 4 with a quote about the film. As I didn't want to write much about my short film, i thought it was suitable to add in screen shorts of my film in order to give the audience an idea about what the film actually looks like:

I then added a red band down the centre of the page and added in a 'Coming soon'. I then placed the date across the coming soon to portray the style of a stamp. I think this gives it a cool quirky look to the review. 

Finally, I added in a fact file about the film and a brief synopsis of the plot:

ANCILARY TASKS | THE PROCESS

For both the review and the film poster I began with a rough sketch of the layout and how I wanted it to look.

I started with my film poster as I knew I wanted to include it in the review. I edited one of my raw images (see ANCILLARY TASK | POSTER IMAGES) on my macbook pro laptop using lasso selection:

I then uploaded a black screen on to pixlr and layered it with the image of the eye and cropped it to the size i wanted the film poster to be. In order to make the eye red, i altered the saturation and hue of the whole image until i reached the colour red i desired. I then cropped the title- taken from a screen shot of my short film again using lasso selection on editor. This again was then layered on the image of the eye and black screen along with a tag line 'See it of never know"

As changing the hue and saturation changed the colour of the white of the eye, i had to make the whole image black and white and use 'colour splash' to colour in just the iris. I then typed up the credits using the font and placed it in the bottom third of the image. Along with this, I also placed a certificate in the right bottom corner as this is a convention of film posters.

Lastly, i added more credits at the top of the image 'from the producers of..' and VOILÀ:

WHAT I USED | DIGITIAL TECHNOLOGY

I had to consider alot of different aspects when deciding what digital technology i wished to used in the pre and post production of my short film.

Withing digital technology there are three individual aspects:

• hardware
• software
• online technology

In terms of hardware, i used the followed equiptment/devices when creating my short film.

• Macbook Pro
• Iphone 
• School Laptop

Software is the technology that is already on the computer, or device that I am working on. 

• itunes
• pages
• word
• serif applications
• powerpoint

 Online technology, is similar to software however it is devices that you can find online

• pixlr
• facebook
• youtube
• blogger
• slideshare
• prezzi

NARRATIVE THEORIES

EDITING TECHNIQUES

There are many types of editing techniques I will try to fufill in my short film. By using these editing techniques, i hope to create a proffessional and realistic short film.

Continuity techniques: 
• Establishing shot (establishes the space in which action is to happen) 
• The 180º rule (ensures that the same space is described in each shot) 
• Shot/reverse shot 
• Eyeline match (e.g. character looks off-screen, next shot shows us what they see) 
• Match on action (character begins to move in one shot, we see continuation of the same movement in the next shot)

• Non-Continuity:
•  Montage – giving information in compressed form – can come under
• • Non-continuity editing – Continuity is broken and construction is more apparent. Meaning often created through juxtaposition and metaphor shot inserts.
• • For example, the Six Feet Under opening. 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYAe0qwg9Yw
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• Transitions
• • The process of cutting from one shot to another usually involves a simple straight cut. However there are other means of transition available to a film editor such as,
• • Fade to black
• • Dissolve/cross fade
• • Wipe