Production Evaluation for singles

I am quite happy about my editing work because I used three different programs so I could make every thing I want. For example, make the garage scenes darker, add flash lighting to Coming soon and speed down the black eyes scenes.

I have finished all my filming and editing, but I still not really happy about my final movie. Because when I editing it, I realized some scenes are not clear enough (garage scenes) but I don’t have time to do it again. Some scenes are too shaky (computer scenes) because I don’t really know how to hold my camera correctly. I am sure I could do it better next time.

Production Evaluation for PAIRS

1.       Pre-Production Meeting

I got the idea of my movie from internet and I write a treatment with my friend’s opinions. I wrote a story first, and then I change it to a trailer.

I choose the two girls because they are sisters and they look the same. Other tow boys are my friends and I know they are interest of act, and I think they are really good.

We went to Jelly Park for test shot before we start the film. And I changed a little treatment after it.

Lena is an actress and she also helped to do other actors make up. I asked everyone to bring their own clothes and of course I provide some clothes and wigs.

2. Production Meeting

We used two cameras, one is mine and another one is from my friend. I used two cameras because one is Samsung which for good at day time, and other one is Sony which good at night time. I have done some senses in the garage, so I have to use Sony because light in garage is not very bright.

I download three different to make the film; I used Virtual Dub, Windows movie maker and Corel Video Studio.

 I found music from internet.

3. Post Production Meeting

I speed up the scene when the detective’s girlfriend was beaten by the gun.

I make the black eye scene slow, and it shows the crying face longer.

I did lots thing to make the movie perfect. In all garage scenes, I used darkroom effects to make it looks scary.

I used out of focus effect for the last scenes which is the green eyes. It‘s because we look at the green eyes from the detective’s view.

I used flash lighting for coming soon because I think it’s really cool.

The music is from internet and I choose this music because it is speeding up and up. It could make the audiences nervous.

The first time I editing the movie, it is five minutes. Then I delete more to make the movie less boring. But in fact, I want to make a movie trailer, not a shot film, so I cut more and finally my movie is about three minutes.

Checklist for Production: 2.6

1.       Pre-Production work

Concept

A suspense movie trailer, which is including love story, abduction and conspiracy.

Research

The inspiration of my movie was come from a famous Japanese cartoon--<Detective Conan>. We watched some short film examples in class and we discussed about music, shot and effects. And I got some ideas from horrors movies that we have watched this year.  I ask my friends to be the actors and I will use music and soundtrack from internet.

Crew/Talent list

Detective                                                                         Yuanzhen Zhang

Detective’s girlfriend                                 Catherine Huang (Black eyes)

Mystery girl                                                       Lena Huang (Green eyes)

Challenger                                                                           Timothy Chen

Cameo roles                                                  Nicole Jiang & Jessica Chen

Locations/Permissions

I made tow web pages that similar like The Press website. It is copyright for education. I did some scenes in cafe shop, of course I asked them can I do some film in there, and they said yes.

2 & 3. Production & Post-production work

Black screen and white hand writing font, which is the title of my movie—Abduction. (The music starts)

[Black and white is simple but depress]

The movie start in a dark room, a poor girl has been tied and sit on the newspaper, and there are other three girls stand beside girl.

One girl used a gun knocked the poor girl’s head.

[Speed up]

A photo frame, a happy couple in the photo.  (Extreme close shot)

[The girl in this photo is the poor girl in the dark room.]

A boy is using a computer.

[He is the same boy in the photo]

The boy is reading news, and the news shows he is a famous teenage detective. (POV shot)

Then he checked the e-mail, he suddenly gets nervous and he tries to call someone but nobody answers. (High angle shot)

He runs out.

Let’s see the computer again; we can see the boy’s girlfriend photo on the computer. (Side way move)

[She has been kidnapped; this is why he is so worried.]

The detective walked in a cafe shop, and he looks around. Then he found a table already has a cup of cafe on it, and there is also a letter for him.

He sited down and read it, and then he looks surprise.

 The boy, who sited behind the detective, gave us an evil smile. (Low angle shot)

The detective’s girlfriend frightens face.

Detective walk on a street, he runs into a girl, who looks as same as his girlfriend. (Over shoulder shot)

Detective’s real girlfriend’s face.

[The girlfriend and the mystery girl are really similar]

The mystery girl that the detective just met, she is doing some computer staff for him.

The computers showed that she and he are looking for someone. (Music start again)

The mystery girl has green eyes. (Extreme close shot)

Detective’s girlfriend had black eyes. (Extreme close shot)

Detective is walking on the street alone, a boy walked past him very fast.

Detective stopped and turned back to see the boy, but the boy disappeared.

A girl is licking knife that has blood on it, but we can’t really see her face so we don't know who she is.

Detective received a called. The challenger told him:” Time’s up!” Detective asked:” Wait! Where are you?!”

Then the detective has a scared look on his face, we could see a girl across up of his shoulder.

The mystery girl waked detective’s girlfriend up.

The mystery girl stands behind the detective and point a gun to him when he received the call.

The mystery girl’s green eyes. (Extreme close shot)

[Out of focus]

Black screen and white hand writing font again—Coming soon… with flashing lightning.

Balck screen and white font for the cast.