LO4: Implementation of Effects
Exporting Footage Into Planned Format
I exported my film file as an MP4 (as planned) as it allows for the film to be easily distributed and shared across social media channels such as YouTube for uploading in the highest possible quality.
Evaluation and Final Product
Final Video (With Planned Effects)
Evaluation
Overall, the production was changed from the original production plans to some minor extents: the primary examples being the change of scene 2 from a trip to a supermarket into the protagonist making a cocktail in a similar montage sequence. Reasoning for this followed filming permissions in a public place and the representations of strangers within the final product however, this change still allowed the story to progress in the same way. This also didn't alter any major special effects in the scene as they were limited to text/title-cards: the way the title card is presented has changed from an on screen effect which would appear alongside the rest of the footage, into a hard, panning cut in sync with the music. However, practical effects like props of whiskey bottles (and the cocktail) furthered the characterization of the scene in comparison to the previous plan in depicting the protagonist as an 'unemployed bum'.
A major change from the original planning documents was the inclusion of a handgun within the first and last scenes of the film as a practical effect. However, undergoing legal consideration, I decided against bringing a (realistic) prop firearm to a public establishment. Otherwise, any other special or practical effects such as adjustment layers for artificially intense lighting, on screen text, title-cards, credits, drug bag, car and vignettes were included in the relevant scenes as planned in storyboard and special effect planning documents.
Planning Documents Against Final Special/Practical Effect Footage
Waiter Delivering Drinks (Practical)
Gunpoint (Practical)
Car (Practical)
Drug Bag (Practical)
Cigarette (Practical)
Title Sequence (Special)
