Script Breakdown: Production Designer

Script-blocking Production Designer Sneha from Aperture Productions

Additional Research - Basic Lighting Techniques

As cinematographer, I wanted to look for techniques to ensure that the lighting of our movie opening created a atmosphere based on the action going on. After research, I felt that this video was useful at labelling basic lighting techniques which would set the mood when filming.

Additional Research - Making the right music

As I was in charge with producing the soundtrack for our opening i wanted to encapsulate a dark, gritty atmosphere to help sell the genre. To do this I had to first learn the basics of garageband. These videos helped me:

From watching these videos i was able to gain the base knowledge needed to help create our soundtrack, this included the use of tempo, metronome, equalisers and eventually volume control. It really helped me become more familiar with the software and made me more confident when using it.

I had also decided to listen to the soundtracks of more renowned crime/action films such as The Dark Knight Trilogy.

Additional Research - Achieving the film look

Here are the following sources that I researched upon to help achieve a higher quality media product and how they helped me:

Source 1:

This video helped in understanding the camera settings that could be used to make our opening look more cinematic. This also showed me how in post-production shots can be edited and enhanced to look so much more professional, stable and smooth. This was especially helpful as the software being used in the video will be the same software that we will use whilst editing our film opening.

Source 2:
https://snapguide.com/guides/colour-grade-dslr-video-with-adobe-premiere-pro/

The link above is to a page that explains how to successfully colour grade on premiere pro. This will come in useful when we are editing our film. Experimenting with different colour tints could enhance the opening and make it look more professional. The different tones used can be replicated in our own film opening when trying to achieve a certain look such as dark and gloomy.

Additional Research - Editing skills

My other role for our movie opening was the editor. Although the whole group would collaborate and edit together, i was considered to be the head-editor and thus i felt it necessary to learn how to edit properly. I’d researched the different softwares for editing and found that Adobe Premiere was the best and is what we would be using. I browsed youtube and watched many videos that helped me understand how to use the software:

Script Breakdown: Camerawork

Script blocking camerawork from Aperture Productions

Script Blocking: Editing and Sound Design

Yellow for editing
Red for sound