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Caught in the Web

Synopsis

"Caught in the Web" is a psychological horror/thriller following the investigations of a series of teen suicides. What the detective soon learns, is that they are not suicides, but homicides. The killers use the internet as a weapon, trapping the girls in a "suicide support" website and gaining the trust under the alias "Julie". They rape and murder their victims, making it look like suicide using evidence on the website of depression, and forged suicide notes. The case becomes personal for the detective when his daughter becomes their next victim, but will he stop them in time? Or will he also get caught in the web?

Preliminary Task

Monday, January 26, 2009

Technology I've used to make my film

Our hardware:

  • A brand new Cannon HV30 HD mini DV camcorder (with touch-screen controls!) + mains power supply + batteries
  • A massive tripod that is used to film school productions
  • A boom pole + microphone + Sennheiser headphones
  • An on-board microphone (on top of the camera)
  • A mini-whiteboard that we used as a clapper board
  • Mini DV tapes
  • A PC (windows XP) and a Mac (for titles)
  • Spot lights (not PAG lights, as we didn’t need the “barn doors”)

Our software:

  • Adobe Premiere Pro (CS3)
  • Adobe After Effects (CS3)
  • Adobe Photoshop (CS3)
  • i-Movie (Apple Mac)
  • Soundtrack control
  • Livetype (Apple Mac) - created titles witha flickering effect on them

Post-production:

  • Viewing clips
  • Capturing – in clips (using the fire-wire)
  • Ghosting
  • Making titles
  • Moving between timelines and creating new ones (5 in total) – we created different versions on separate timelines, and separated out different shots (by location) and within timelines, grouped clips by which line they were saying
  • Transitions – fades, cross-dissolves, dips to black
  • Razoring – very useful and easy
  • Brightness/contrast
  • Saturation – some of our shots of the computer screen turned out very blue, and sometimes our lighting meant some shots were colder than others
  • Linking/unlinking clips (audio/video)
  • Adding and manipulating audio – diegetic sound (printer), non-diegetic sound (music, drone)
  • Speed/duration
  • Volume
  • Re-ordering clips
  • Parallel editing on different tracks, and layering
  • Importing clips/audio
  • Zooming in/out of the timeline to see more/fewer frames
  • Previewing title fonts on the Mac with the technician – this was new to me, and something I wish to explore further in the future
  • Transferring files between the Mac and the PC, and from PC to PC
  • A “typing” effect – we didn’t use this, but thought it would be good for our titles

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