Back to the Future

Writer and producer Bob Gale conceived the idea after he visited his parents in St. Louis, Missouri after the release of Used Cars. Searching their basement, Gale found his father's high school yearbook and discovered he was president of his graduating class. Gale thought about the president of his own graduating class, who was someone he had nothing to do with. Gale wondered whether he would have been friends with his father if they went to high school together.

Evaluation!

I enjoyed this project although i am glad that its over! I enjoyed collaborating with another member of the same pathway as i thought it was good to bounce ideas to and from eachother and learn new techniques and practises. I think me a Craig worked well together but we deffinatly had our different strenghts and weaknesses! Craig is very technical and alot better at using the software than me although i wish we had spent more time together editing the final peice because i would of liked to learn more about the software from Craig to improve my editing skills. I thought our final peice was successful! I wasn't too sure about the idea of it at first because it is very similar to a peice of work i created in the first year ... however i think this final peice is a vast improvement and i think thats due to working with somebody else ... there were more ideas, more brain power, more motivation to complete something because you didn't want to let the other member of the group down. Similar to that i also tried harded to create better work as i thought if i handed something rubbish to Craig he would probably think 'WHY THE HELL AM I WORKING WITH HER!!!'.

Paranormal Activity ... Echos ... Over exaggeration

Me and Craig wanted to use very over exaggerated sound to really build tension within our final piece ... this is a great example ... in this clip around 2 minutes and 21 seconds in you can hear the 'demon' walking up the stairs but it is very echoed ... and if you walked up the stairs it wouldn't sound like that .... it connotes the supernatural, the unknown ... great for the effect we want to create in our final film.

Sound ... TV static

We also wanted to use a noise along these lines of a TV static ... just because its slightly creepy and it is a noise that is nearly almost stereotypically linked to a horror movie. 

Sound ... Native American Music

We wanted to look at different possibilities for sound to use over our final piece ... we wanted to stick with the native american theme to stay on track with the story and illustration! So we had a look at some examples then Craig went away and used Logic to create some of his own sound. 

Editing Film Test

Me and Craig decided to go away and film all of the footage by ourselves and compare them when we next met up to see what we had done differently to the same shot and give us some more variety when i came to filming the final piece. The quality of this test is not great and also it is very short but it was to get an idea of pace and timing. The lighting is also terrible although we need very dark, creepy footage if we shoot it with bright lighting at least we have the option to tone it down in preproduction.

Finally some success!!!! Alot more successful but im still not entirely happy with them! I have some time to tweek them so i am going to use this as my base and see if i can improve it ... i will get there!