Titles

We did our titles in order of the typical film style where you show the idents first and then the cast. We did our casting titles in the order of appearance and also importance as Ton is our main actor in the piece and then secondly Joe and of course then Laura. We then show all of the extra details of our film such as music and directed by throughout the first scene when Ton is being chased because this would have made the title sequence too long and boring so we added a new dynamic to them in a way which is typical to most films in which we overlaid them on our intro. At the end of the first scene we then show our main title of the film Family Omens to show the audience that we have finished the opening sequence and now going more into the film.

The main improvements

After some feedback from our target audience we were told that our film looks too much like a trailer and so to improve on this we added in some extra shots at the end after the titles. The titles were used to separate the main intro of the film which is fast paced and then after it introduced a much calmer environment. We did this because we wanted this introduction to be more like a typical film because not many films start with a fast paced intro and then keep on going fast paced immediately after. We wanted our intro to look like more of a proper film and by going by the general conventions of film i think we achieved this. We also were told that our film needed some extra titles so we also quickly added in titles throughout the intro. Also some of the chase shots were too long so we edited them down so it was much faster paced.

Black and white or colour decision

We had an idea to turn our film entirely black and white for effect so we decided to audience test this to see if the film is better in black and white or in colour. In our audience testing we decided to keep the film entirely colour. Sadly due to technical difficulties the audio clip cannot be transferred. Below are the processes we went through to get the black and white filter.

Target audience testing for titles.

Below is a video in which we asked our target audience to give their opinion on which font we should use for our titles chosen from five fonts. We agreed with both of their opinions and have decided to go for the supernatural font.

Fake blood making

To make fake blood i used red and green food colouring mixed with golden syrup to give the nice blood look but also i added water to give it a runnier consistency. I used around one third of syrup and two thirds of water. I gently dripped in red and green food colouring to make the right colour after stirring. I took inspiration from this video below to make my fake blood to apply to my character.

Update - Props and costume

We had a lot of changes during filming and decided to not use feathers to represent the angel as we found this too cheesy and not as effect as it could be in our film. We also got the costume exactly right and ended with this for the Angel and demon. For representation reasons we used pure black for demons and white and bright colours for angels to show the light and the dark. Joe is also wearing a demonic symbol necklace around his neck to add to this costume.

Editing - Light burst title

I created a simple effect in after effects by using the clip of Laura and Joe throwing Ton to the floor and adding the light burst effect to the image. I simply clicked on the effect and anchored the light burst to appear on Ton to appear as he is teleporting (falling to heaven) also it leads onto the titles. i intensified the light with keyframes to make it brighter and brighter really quickly to pure white. In this pure white image i added in my title of Family Omens and overlaid with the blending mode over a wine glass filled with water and drips of food colouring exploding inside to give a good blood flow effect to overlay the titles fitting our theme.

Editing - Super speed

To achieve a supernatural feel to my film i wanted to give these supernatural creatures a power in which humans do not so i made them both have super speed to show the incredible powers. To achieve the effect i went into after effects and took a screenshot of the body of the character as shown below and then cut the clip to the point where i want it to start and stop. I took a clean plate shot of the location and framing of the shot. i used this to create the background. I then masked the screenshot and set keyframes on after effects to allow the image to move from one side of the shot to the other. i made this moving of the clip really fast and used directional blur on the screenshot to give a super speed effect. I then got rid of the screenshot as it lined up to another shot with the same framing and made it look like he super speeds in and then stops mid way and runs normally.

Titles - Decision

Out of all of the title choices we had we have selected a few to target audience test which one we should choose out of these. Me and Laura both think the supernatural font is best but we are going to target audience test this.

Sound problems

We had many problems throughout our editing and found this difficult to accomplish a final film but one of our major problems was sound, as the voice of our actors were not picking up on the film so we tried to adjust the gain of the sound but this resulted in the voices having a really crackling and fuzzy noise over the clip. As shown above. To fix this we dropped the gain and raised the volume on the clips and now this has been fixed.

Updates post

We have made a load of changes to our film as we have went through the filming process. We have changed a lot of shots from the original storyboard as we found a lot more opportunities for shots when filming. We also didn't use reflectors to give good lighting on our actors as when we tried we did not see a difference so we decided to cut out this hassle.

Family Omens second cut

rough cut of film