Practice With Titling

In today's lesson we practised making titles using Adobe After Effects. I learnt how to blur titles in and out of the screen, I found this a very useful skill. I might use this effect in my main task.

Finished Preliminary Task

This is my finished Preliminary Task.

Post-Production : Utopia Case Study

Post-Production (Case Study: Utopia)

In the article, written by Stephan Kelly, we learn that post production is the act of editing shots and clips after they've all been put together to create an episode/film. Post production is normally used to edit or adjust colours on a programme in order to make it  bolder, brighter and more visually appealing to the viewers of said programme. An example of where post-production is used is in the programme 'Utopia'. The creators of Utopia aimed to give the show a 'comic book look' and to make it look quite vintage, In order to achieve this goal two comic book artists, Marc Munden ( also the director of 'Utopia') and colourist Aidan Farrell, spent time precisely colour correcting each shot/clip in post-production using a grading software called Nucoda Film Master instead of a brush or pen. They did this to make skies look bluer and more vibrant and to make the grass appear greener and lush. Vibrant colours are used in post-production to create a more non literal feel to the show, perhaps this is to remind the audience that the storyline of 'Utopia' is based on a comic book and whatever happens within the show shouldn't be taken so seriously. 

Here is an example of a shot in 'Utopia' that has been edited in post-production.

Completed Storyboards

This is the story board for our groups preliminary task, since making the storyboard we have made a few changes to our film from the ideas that we've presented on the storyboard. However we made sure to use the same camera shots as we originally planned, as well as a few others.