Thursday, 1 April 2010
Legal & Copyright Issues
There are many legal issues involved when producing film. PRS (Performing Right Society Ltd.) for music tries to explain how these legal requirements work. To put it simply, it someone wants to use a piece of music produced by someone else or a music artist, they have to pay for a license that lasts for a limited time. For example, if you want to use a piece of music in a YouTube video produced by Sony, you would have to pay a fee that allows you to use that music up to a certain amount of views.
DVD Menu Analysis - Kill Bill Vol. 1
It has a very simple layout with all 4 buttons on the right hand side & 3 clips from the film on the left. It also overlays it with a song from the soundtrack & loops every 30 seconds.
What I like about this DVD Menu, is that it is very simple, easy to navigate & the styling of the menu adds to visual effect.
When you play the film, a bullet is loaded into a gun and fired into the viewers directions, which makes it look more interactive with the audience.
It has got all the basic button features of a DVD menu.
Play Movie
Set Up
Scene Selection
Special Features
When you press the ‘Special Features ‘ button, it goes to a Sub Menu with a list of extra content including Trailers of the film & the Teaser trailer to Vol. 2 Kill Bill film. It also has a 20 minute ‘Making of’ feature showing the audience how it was made. There is also 2 live performances of The 5 6 7 8’s, a band that featured in the film & also credited on Vol. 1’s soundtrack.
The clips shown in the main menu, are only the Japanese Animation Sequences from the film. I think that this adds the excitement of the film & urges the viewer to ‘Play Movie’
What I like about this DVD Menu, is that it is very simple, easy to navigate & the styling of the menu adds to visual effect.
When you play the film, a bullet is loaded into a gun and fired into the viewers directions, which makes it look more interactive with the audience.
It has got all the basic button features of a DVD menu.
Play Movie
Set Up
Scene Selection
Special Features
When you press the ‘Special Features ‘ button, it goes to a Sub Menu with a list of extra content including Trailers of the film & the Teaser trailer to Vol. 2 Kill Bill film. It also has a 20 minute ‘Making of’ feature showing the audience how it was made. There is also 2 live performances of The 5 6 7 8’s, a band that featured in the film & also credited on Vol. 1’s soundtrack.
The clips shown in the main menu, are only the Japanese Animation Sequences from the film. I think that this adds the excitement of the film & urges the viewer to ‘Play Movie’
Showreel Evaluation
I am really proud of my show-reel and have put a huge amount of effort into making it look good & go well with the soundtrack.
It was tricky to pick the right clips from each of my films and fit them with the music. I chose an upbeat music track because it fitted well with some of the shots I included in the final edit.
I thought it would be nice to include some footage that I haven't produce yet & still in the post production stage. This included a small cameo of Nicolas Cage turning on the Bath Christmas Lights last November. The beginning of my show-reel including most of my opening titles & continued to jump between different films.
Surprisingly, the music went really well with my music video that I produced in Year One, mostly because it is by the same artist & it has a similar pace & beat.
The length was a big issue for me as I wanted to show as much good content as I possibly could, but without it dragging & boring. Even though the final edit is just under 3 minutes longs, I feel that it could be a lot shorter in length.
I have had a plethora of issues when it came to building my DVD to put my show reel on, along with other films I have produced. I have had to re-export my movies again to PAL, and then convert them to the right size for SD. This has been a big hindrance when publishing my final show reel DVD and waiting for films to render & export has watered down the time taken to complete my final DVD.
I have also decide to include another project I have produced outside of college on my show reel DVD. I think that this shows that it is not just a college based DVD, but a collection of film projects.
I have had great feedback from my final show reel. When it came to showing it at an interview, they were a bit concerned that it was too long & dragged on. I think looking back, I could have made it a bit a little bit shorter, to make it seem I was giving the audience just a taste of my films.
It actually took a few edits to make it look, feel & sound good. More planning is something that I need to work on in the future and getting a wider range of feedback is another thing that I appreciate & widely acknowledge.
As this is a film made for educational purposes, I did not need to look into license fees for the music.
To conclude, when it comes to making another showreel & more show reels further down the line, I can draw upon this first experience of producing a film showing a piece or many piece of my own work.
I can also draw upon the experience I had producing a DVD in DVD Studio Pro. I now know how to build & produce a DVD with menus, graphics, sub menus etc
Below, you can look at my Show reel & see what you think. I will appreciate any feedback, good or bad, and take it onboard.
It was tricky to pick the right clips from each of my films and fit them with the music. I chose an upbeat music track because it fitted well with some of the shots I included in the final edit.
I thought it would be nice to include some footage that I haven't produce yet & still in the post production stage. This included a small cameo of Nicolas Cage turning on the Bath Christmas Lights last November. The beginning of my show-reel including most of my opening titles & continued to jump between different films.
Surprisingly, the music went really well with my music video that I produced in Year One, mostly because it is by the same artist & it has a similar pace & beat.
The length was a big issue for me as I wanted to show as much good content as I possibly could, but without it dragging & boring. Even though the final edit is just under 3 minutes longs, I feel that it could be a lot shorter in length.
I have had a plethora of issues when it came to building my DVD to put my show reel on, along with other films I have produced. I have had to re-export my movies again to PAL, and then convert them to the right size for SD. This has been a big hindrance when publishing my final show reel DVD and waiting for films to render & export has watered down the time taken to complete my final DVD.
I have also decide to include another project I have produced outside of college on my show reel DVD. I think that this shows that it is not just a college based DVD, but a collection of film projects.
I have had great feedback from my final show reel. When it came to showing it at an interview, they were a bit concerned that it was too long & dragged on. I think looking back, I could have made it a bit a little bit shorter, to make it seem I was giving the audience just a taste of my films.
It actually took a few edits to make it look, feel & sound good. More planning is something that I need to work on in the future and getting a wider range of feedback is another thing that I appreciate & widely acknowledge.
As this is a film made for educational purposes, I did not need to look into license fees for the music.
To conclude, when it comes to making another showreel & more show reels further down the line, I can draw upon this first experience of producing a film showing a piece or many piece of my own work.
I can also draw upon the experience I had producing a DVD in DVD Studio Pro. I now know how to build & produce a DVD with menus, graphics, sub menus etc
Below, you can look at my Show reel & see what you think. I will appreciate any feedback, good or bad, and take it onboard.
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Showreel Research
I have managed to look at a couple of examples of showreels & have decided to go for a simple montage theme along with a fast tempo music track. It will feature all my complete projects I have done at college over the last 18 months and will also include some project that are still in production.
I looked at this showreel on Youtube & thought like the kind of style that I wanted to make
I looked at this showreel on Youtube & thought like the kind of style that I wanted to make
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