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TOM BOWLING 

CANDIDATE NUMBER 1807

CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL 64680

My production team included Preesha Patel (1838).

 My brief was the film opening task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film (to last a maximum of two minutes). The title of our film is Criminal Faces. As a romantic crime drama, it combines the enigma of the romance 'Will they, Won't they' trope with the drama elements generated by the world of crime our film-opening teases.

Editing:

Taking the main role in editing, this stage was highly important as many of the decisions made in filming were made with the editing in mind. Many of these edits were highly intensive and required large amounts of time, in fact nearing the end of the project our group decided that many of our editing goals were too ambitious. In light of this, we approached our filming in our year 2 project with editing in mind.

 The most challenging of this editing was the ultra-key motion tracking required in a scene where the actors are cleaning a wall of graffiti. As we didn't have a wall with graffiti at our disposal, we used a simple brick wall with hopes of using CGI to superimpose the graffiti onto it. Much of the feedback commented on this graffiti being unnatural and strange, If I were to attempt this scene again, I'd have used a green screen to avoid the difficulties of the motion tracking. 

Our editing had a further emphasis on voiceovers, with audio being a complaint in initial feedback we were required to be creative in our use of voice-overs so that the dialogue would be heard. We used cuts and audio mixing for the voice-overs to fit seamlessly in with our project

Directing: 

As we took in external actors for this project, directing in such a way that communicates our vision for the scene was a challenge. A particular scene required 8 actors and organizing everyone to be positioned properly was a large responsibility. With the interest of our actor's time in mind, we weren't able to take as many shots as we would have liked, therefore this became a large concern we considered moving into our choice of actors in our next project.

Camerawork:

Many scenes required a multi-camera setup, thus meaning that we had to be coordinated with our positioning to capture precisely what each of us had in mind. This scene challenged our skills as it required us to experiment with angles that simultaneously kept true to what we wanted to capture while not getting in the way of our respective shots. Our camerawork was made highly advanced in utilisation of the expansive amounts of technology at our disposal. With tracking shots being a highly integral part of many shoots, we used a gimbal, allowing shots to move seamlessly.