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Evaluation

Camera Set Up Diagrams

Sorry for the poor drawing.

Wide Shots at the beginning

POV of Lokir running

Lokir and enemy collision snap

Wide angle of Lokir travelling

Over head shot of Lokir returning home

Use of Social Media

I used various platforms of social media to advertise my film to my followers and receive feedback.
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Here I have received feedback on You Tube:

Resolving Issues

One big issue I had was poor weather affecting my shots out in the open fields where the sky is visible. In these establishing shots it was important to have good weather so I had to travel to Oxfordshire on many weekends in order to get good weather with a days filming. A lot of the time the weather would change in the middle of filming so I managed to hide this by adding the stylisations to the shots. For example in the shot where Lokir has a match on action shot of Rorikstead, the weather was quite overcast by then but it is not as visible in the final piece.

Another problem I had was my actors laughing in the middle of shots. The main part where I had this badly was in the quick shot of Lokir killing the enemy soldier. As an un-edited shot the impact was very poor and slow because the actors were trying not to stab each other. However by speeding up the editing and having just a half second shot of it made it look a lot faster and explosive.

Soundtrack-Research and Choice

When researching the soundtrack of historical and fantasy, the music is almost always from an orchestra with acoustic instruments and not from modern musical culture; it is always classical with violins and trumpets etc.

Some of the best composers for historical and fantasy films are Hans Zimmer and Howard Shaw with Gladiator and Lord of the Rings, therefore I will look at those films and borrow one of their scores because I don't have the resources to make my own original score of the classical genre.

Gladiator soundtracks are more simple and have more of an ancient world theme to it where as Lord of the Rings sounds more Medieval and more intricate. Furthermore Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings soundtrack has more of a Quest theme to it which is more appropriate for Lokir.



The soundtrack for the text at the beginning is "Isengard Unleashed" by Howard Shore. It is a woman singing with a choir in the background and their are no instruments playing apart from a deep foreboding note from a cello this creates tension much like the opening of Gladiator however I didn't want to completely copy that film so I went for Lord of the Rings which fitted my theme anyway.



The second soundtrack heard, "The Treason of Isengard" is also from Lord of the Rings and is used to show Lokir looking at Erynathol and then travelling back to his home of Rorikstead. The first part of the score is good because again it is choir with a deep note while the sword is being studied which creates tension and gives the sword some significance. The second part is while Lokir is travelling through the English countryside and definitely gives off the idea of travelling, in fact it is also used i Lord of the Rings to show Frodo and Sam travelling through the Shire (A region of Middle Earth which is based on the british countryside, Oxfordshire in particular, which is where Lokir was filmed.) Therefore the scenes are identical in both looks and sounds and show a clear passage of time and shows how they are travelling long distances foot. Lastly when Lokir reaches his castle in Rorikstead the music slightly changes from travelling to a more tranquil peace which implies Lokir is back home and safe and ends the films prologue with defining music.

Construction of Lokir

I used many different techniques on the editing programme Final Cut which helped me create my Opening Sequence. The techniques can range from audio enhancing or inserting text.

Here I have inserted text with a black fill in the background to create focus on what is being said to set the scene and create tension with the soundtrack in the background.

Here I have used many sound effects and audio to create verisimilitude. Some I had to record myself and some were provided by Final Cut Pro.

Here I have used many visual effects to amplify and stylise my opening sequence. I used the effect "Combat" to give my opening sequence a more medieval style. In the pictures below we can see the original footage and the effect I gave to it.

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Lokir, final product.

My complete opening sequence. Be sure to leave comments and feedback. Special thanks to my actors Kasim, Sully and Joseph.