I wanted to animate my own title screen because there were no inbuilt title screens that I wanted to use in iMovie. I animated it so the title is shown in a dark space before doors close in front of it making it 'Trapped'. This is what I wanted due to the film being called trapped. I wanted the door to look similar to a school door so I added two posters. One advertising a school dance, immediately giving the location of the film, and the other having the title and the director (Me). A key slides in and locks the door before falling off of the screen. This further provokes the thought of being tapped.
To animate this, I used similar techniques to before where I changed things bit by bit in each frame manually and I also used motion tweening. This is when you give the computer the start and the end location of a symbol and the amount of frames that you want the motion to take place, and it automatically fills the frames with the motion wanted.
I animated my introduction to my short film because all film productions have been animated. I wanted to have my production company at the start, followed by the title of my film. I want my production company to resemble school or a media lesson so I decided to have my production company drawn onto the screen using a pencil. The background is a piece of lined paper that has been doodled on. I wanted this because it is a piece of media created within school and I wanted the production to resemble that. My production company is called Amazal because this is a mix of my name (being the head of the production) and the word amazing. It is also a short and snappy title that can easily be remembered by the audience who watch it.
To do this, I drew Amazal on a layer and every time I created a new frame, I deleted a part of the text and then reversed all of the frames when I was done so it would draw. I drew the background on a separate layer and made a pencil symbol which I moved to the correct position for each frame to make it look like it is being drawn by the pencil. I changed the opacity on the doodles to make then remain in the background without standing out too much and taking the attention away from the production name.
To edit the shot, I needed to make a green screen with black banners either side. This is for the footage would sit in the middle but the black will remain at the edges. I wanted this effect to make it look like this part was shot on a phone so it looked like the character was filming himself in the trapped situation he is in.
I imported the green screen background that I made and edited my footage to the length that I wanted and pieced them together.
Finally, I added white text over it with hashtags to make it look like it was uploaded to a social media like Snapchat. The hashtags are a stereotypical thing that teenagers do and so it the use of social media which is why I want to include it.
I wanted a shot where the actor holds the camera towards himself to parody 127 hours. I thought this would be funny because the students have only been stuck for about an hour but they are making a really dramatic situation out of it. Once I had filmed it, I thought that it would be good to make the screen look as if it was shot using a phone which is what the character would be using to film himself in this situation. This was also harder to edit because iMovie doesn't have a setting to make the screen look narrow.
I decided to practice some of the shots for my scenes so that I could test what it looks like and also so I can have a practice editing the footage. I only filmed small amounts of my script and I didn't get all of the shots that I wanted to practice with so I just had to make do with what I got. I replaced some shots that I want to use as a temporary transition between my main footage. During the time that Aaron is talking (the person who is off screen), I will have a shot of him separately. This section only needed some basic editing.
After looking around London, I have realised that there is nowhere down there that I would like to use for my magazine or poster. This is because the area seems to have similar buildings to Liverpool which is much closer and also, the area was way too busy for me to able to take a clear shot of anywhere but in Liverpool, I know of quieter locations where I am able to take shots of locations or actors, if need be, without being disturbed by other people.
