Pete Fraser Work
Today Pete Fraser 'The God of Media' from BFI in London came to talk to us and help guide us around our coursework and gave us tips on how to help improve films we make and showed us key mistakes other pupils have made in the past. I learnt many things from him and below are all the things he told us about and top tips on what to do and what not to do. Below are some of the tips he told us and what I learnt from him.
He made sure to tell us that film openings are not trailers. Many students end up submitting trailers not film openings. If you do this you will end up loosing your effect of the viewer and it will result in you dropping marks in the marking scheme.
Below are key features for a film opening.
Below are some of the key features of the film opening.
- Genre
- Narrative
- Character
- Atmosphere
- Setting
- Genre
- Narrative
- Character
- Atmosphere
- Setting
His top tips for making a film opening
- Start General
- Home in on specifics
- Make your research focused and relevant
He then went on to give us a handy website that is full of film openings. This will be very useful in the future and its a great website to have all of them in the same place. The website was called www.artofthetitle.com
Next he spoke about the titles. The names that fly up onto your screen either before or after the film has started. He explained several things I had no idea happen. For example that actors lawyers battle it out to see which actors name appears first in the title sequence. Actors who have their name solo are usually the biggest and most famous actors of the cast and they will play a lead role in the play. Having these names solo will hopefully attract more customers to watch your film. Titles flow through the opening to make sure people don't think that this is a trailer and that it is the actual film.
He then went onto explain about Foley. I again had no idea about this. Its someone recreating the sound needed. For example if there is a part where someone is walking and you can hear the foot steps some one will have recorded the sound of them and only them walking. This goes for several sounds and Pete explained how every noise made in the film that is not speech is made through this process.Below is Gary Hecker and he is doing some Foley for Robin Hood back in 2012.
Organising your project, doing this will help the project dramatically and being organised will mean that more will get done in a shorter time.
Step 1
Take Stock- there are 20 marks available for the research and planing and for the evaluation of the project. Then there is 60 available for the construction of the video and the end product.
Some top tips for this- Build up research and planning
Build up skills
Keep evidence whilst filming
Step 2
Build up skills
Sound
Camera work
Editing
Step 3:
Investigation
Step 4:
Brainstorm ideas
Pitches
Mood board
Feedback
Step 5:
Planning
Experimenting
Story board
Logistics
Step 6:
The shoot
People, places, props, costumes
Directing
Equipment, jobs that people need to do on the
day
Step 7
Edit- Take screen shots of process of editing
Step 8:
Evaluation
