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News and Current Affairs events

'TSUNAMI' kills two off France

Two passengers were killed as 30ft water crashed on board of the Louis Majesty cruise. Sailing from Barcelona to Genoa with 1,350 passengers and crew, the tsunami struck whilst they were in the Mediterranean Sea. This idea could have been used to create a thriller film because as in the winter, France is meant to be looking spectacular with the landscapes covered in snow. Tsunamis create panic and tension as they are abrupt and unknown to its environment and being featured in a thriller plot allows the audience to communicate with the character as their safety is in caution. Suspense and tension are built very quickly here and this is successful to the plot, because the audience are able to quickly grasp the plot.

Volcanic ash CHAOS

For the first time ever in Britain, flying abroad has been brought to a standstill whcih doesnt include maintenance difficulties or weather problems. The answer to this- VOLCANIC ASH! Small grey-like powder which injected by fumes can provide a deadly experience for passengers. The tourism industry has hit a downturn as we reach the summer months where profits are made. This can be used as a background story in a thriller because the idea of being 'grounded' in Britain provides suspense for victims trying to escape from villains. A common source of transport used to get out of a country is by plane so when this escape is is suddenly out of use, the audience is stuck to the storyline as panic uses them to react to the plot. It can also be used to maximise of the idea someone being physically trapped in their mind to a larger scale. This makes the audience want to offer help to the character in danger which effectively means they are 'glued' to the storyline.

Skills Audit: LiveType and Sound

LiveType is a program which allows people to create and manipulate text to insert into their film or to use as credits. The Inspector is the place where you type to change the text which is displayed in the middle section of the page. The Alignment function is used to manipulate the text on how it looks. For example, the Attributes section allows you to physically change the text like the font. Media Browser enables you to put efforts onto the text. For example, ‘Textures’ which changes the background of where the text is in. ‘Effects’ features the transition of each character individually which can be used to create tension if used in the actual film footage (not on the credits).

SoundTrack Pro is a program which uses the ability to create music for a piece of footage which can be linked together with the video footage from Final Cut Pro. This makes it easier to transport music onto the footage and make it quicker to do so. On the bottom right-hand side of the page, it allows you to select the instruments that you want. Once clicking on this, you can hear a repetitious melody which is played over. Like Final Cut Pro, in the middle section of the page, it features a timeline so that you can place your sounds onto. Above this, it shows the times so that you can see how long you would want your track to play on for in the background of the footage. You can also layer clips underneath each other so once played, you can hear the sound. This makes it easier to make an extract and insert this where relevant onto your footage in Final Cut.

Technical Audit: Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro is a program which is designed to edit footage. To open Final Cut Pro, a video hard drive must be inserted so that you can save your footage, music or text onto. This makes it easier to locate when looking for files when merging clips together. To start editing, a blank canvas is used to display and place your work where you can easily make changes onto the footage. A timeline is used in Final Cut Pro to position your clips where you can rearrange them to piece together how you would want the film to look like. This is positioned on the bottom central half of the page where you can make transitions between the clips. Pressing Command + T allows you to put a transition to swiftly move the audience onto the next scene. On the left hand side of the screen, this displays all your work on the hard drive so when inserting pieces onto the timeline, this saves time and is very easy to use.

To play footage, you can simply press the space bar and press again to stop it. On the top right-hand side of the page, a large screen is shown as a viewer to present the footage that you have edited so far. If the footage is right for the clips, it can be dragged onto the timeline and from this, you can re-arrange the positions on the timeline suited to your desire. A red icon beneath this highlights the ability to overwrite clips and the yellow icon placed near this is the ability to move clips out of the timeline and put the desired clip into place.

When editing footage, watching the clip is necessary to see improvements to be made and also allows you take and place that certain footage onto the place you want on the timeline. By pressing ‘I’ for In to mark out the start of the clip and ‘O’ for Out to mark the end of it and drag the footage onto the timeline. Drag the yellow marker key to the beginning of the footage to view it and it’s the same process if you want to insert more clips. If you want to delete a clip, pressing the delete button will do this. Razor blading is used to delete snippets which is good because it allows you to easily insert other clips into its place.

Skills audit: filming and editing preliminary match cut exercise

During a 3hour lesson with Donna, my group managed to film and edit the match cut sequence. As one member of the group was away, we asked another person from the college to fill in as an actor. Whitney and David were the actors of the sequence while I filmed it. We made sure we got as many interesting shots as we could within the short amount of time, for example, over the shoulder shot, arial shot, close up shot, tracking shot, and also, we made sure we didn't break the 180 degree rule.

We spent the first half of the friday's lesson filming, and the second half editing. Overall, I think the filming and editing went well. The only negative thing I could say about the sequence was that we didn't check that the ND filter was on and this made our sequence seem dark. But other than that, we managed to film and edit smoothly without hardly any struggle.

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Planning Preliminary Match Cut exercise

Our initial plan is a meeting with a teacher and a later student who needs to explain himself. Scott walks into the room where his teacher is waiting while typing up documents on the computer.

At first, we found it quite challenging because match cuts had to look perfect and play smoothly. But in the space of roughly 30minutes, we found that we had done quite well

Final Edit of Livetype and Sound Filming Practice