Eoin's Productions

Filming Log, stardate 70792.3 Due to time constraints, I won't be able to make the 3D titles that were originally planned for the film. For this reason, I will be moving all further editing to Adobe Premiere Pro alone. Previously, all clips that were made in After Effects would have been put into a Premiere Pro project, however now that we don't need the fancy 3D effects, every tool that I need to edit the film is already inside Premiere Pro and therefore After Effects won't be necessary. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it won't impact on our film and will allow more time to ensure that everything is perfected before the final due date. The titles will be overlayed as simple text titles, which is perfectly fine.

Making the Music For the first part of the film, I wanted to create something that would create an ambiance/atmosphere of tension but nothing too serious. I decided that it would be easier to make this sort of music electronically as it would be better with synthesised instruments and effects. I took a lot of inspiration from the ambient music that plays when flying in Grand Theft Auto V. This music is quite soft but creates a good aura of tension. This is the kind of effect that I was trying to achieve so I took the punchy bass line and the smooth, flowing melody and adapted it to suit our film.  I then used FL Studio 12, Nexus and Sylenth to make the music. I added a drum beat at the end to add to the tension as the tension builds in the music. For the next part of the film, we needed something much more upbeat as the film comes to the tipping point. I was inspired by the first song from Scott Pilgrim VS The World, "We Are Sex Bob-Omb". I decided that it...

Filming log, stardate 70737.8 We were able to reshoot the indoor scenes and the camera performed much better in the brighter lighting conditions. The footage turned out much better and we are able to use this footage in the editing process. The camera was able to focus on the characters much easier in the brighter light and there wasn't so much glare coming off the computer monitor.

Red Five Filming Log, stardate 70725.9 At the beginning of the project I originally intended to edit the project in Sony Vegas Pro 12 as it was the software that I was most used to using for more basic projects. However, now that I have used it in practice I have found that it may not be the best way to edit the project. For the titles of our film intro, we wanted the titles to track the motion of certain elements on screen. Vegas Pro 12 has such a capability built in however it doesn't work well. If I were to use it I would be wasting a lot of time on keyframing and we probably would not be able to get the project edited in time. For this reason, I have decided to change the editing suite to Adobe After Effects. I have done this because it has more advanced motion tracking features that allow you to select a point of motion for the object to track. This feature saves me a lot of time. After Effects also has a lot of other features that I can use, such as the ability to mak...