My Nana's 90th Birthday

I went back home during this weekend for my Nana's Birthday. During this I made a short film on my camera that I will edit and then put onto a DVD so she can remember it, due to her extreme memory loss in her old age!

(I haven't had time to edit it yet but shall post it up when I have.)

"Leaving Home" Short Clips "Bleeping" 2nd edits

I sent the first drafts to the actors, and they then emailed back and said: "I am not sure if the music should be taken off because of copyright. This is really something I should of thought about and so was a bit dissapointed in my self but re-did the edits and tried to make the bleeps slightly better also.

Scene One - 2nd Edit

Harry's Speaking - 2nd Edit

Pickpocketing Scene - 2nd Edit

"Leaving Home" Actors Request "Beeping" first edits

One of my actors from Leaving Home asked if I could make a short edit of some of his speaking parts to be put up on StarNow.co.uk, and also to send the first scene and the pickpocketing scene. StarNow.co.uk does not allow explicit language and so I needed to edit out the swearing. I wasn't too sure how to do this so i went on google and found a video on YouTube.com:



After watching this I was able to do it and here is the first scene with the beeped out swear words:

Scene One - 1st Edit



Harry's Speaking - 1st Edit

Pickpocketing Scene - 1st Edit

"The Fish Soceity Cooks Halibut" Second Edit

"The Fish Society Fillets a Halibut" Third edit

Both Films Feedback

After uploading the two new films I sent the fish society an email to let them know they were up and to tell me know if they wanted anything to be changed in them. I got an email back a few days later with the following points:

The Filleting Film

• Change the title to "The Fish Society Fillets a Halibut"

The Cooking Film

• Delete from 01:34 to 01:41
• Delete From 02:26 to 03:10 (a bit rambling)
• Where Mark is talking about working at The Savoy (around 02:15) put text on the screen saying "Mark trained at The Savoy Hotel"
• Make the URL throughout white instead of black

"The Fish Society Does Halibut" Second Edit

I changed the film to have the changes given in the feedback:

Cooking Halibut First Edit

Cooking Halibut editing

Whilst waiting for the Fish Society to get back to me about the feedback I started editing the "Cooking Halibut" film. Straight away the biggest problem with this film was it was much less formally shot and there were 4 people sitting around a table just off screen eating some mussels that had been cooked just before. This meant that there was voices through alot of it and meant I couldn't use that footage. Another problem was where I moved in for close ups whilst it was on the side meant that the sound from the oven would disappear in a few shots but this didn't seem to matter too much! The third major issue was Mark (the chef) has a quite voice and is very hard to understand in the film at certain points. I put together a first draft and posted it up on youtube.

Fish Film Feed Back

After finishing the first edit i then put it up on YouTube and emailed The Fish Society to say it was up. They got back to me and said they wanted to call and go through the adjustments they wanted me to make. To do this we both hit start on the film at the same time and sat through it and stopped at the points that they wanted me to change, they were as follows:

• 0.16 Min's Delete part of the audio as he says "billings gate market" twice in about 5 seconds
• 0.40 Min's Take out the first fin flap being taken off
• 1.26 Min's Take out shot from behind and put in sequence after the first fillet has gone into the box (make it about 10 secs long)
• 3.00 Min's Take out 2nd fin Flap and put in 10 secs of dark side filleting
• 4.02 Min's Take out membrane being trimmed
• make the section on the off cuts half as long. keep from "they will end up as ..."
• 5.03 Min's Cut Filleting to where fillets are cut in half
• Put a black screen at the end with a link to "Cooking Halibut"

"The Fish Society Does Halibut" First Edit

Music

First of all i would like to say that i know the music i have used is copyrighted and that if i was going to send this film to a competition i would have to change the music, or get rights for the music by contacting the person that owns the rights. I did originally look for un-copyrighted music but i couldn't find any that suited my film.
After deciding that i was going to use copyrighted music I looked through my ITunes and on YouTube for music that carried the right sort of feel and also had a similar narrative to that part of my film. This took a lot longer than i had originally thought it would take!

Evaluation Of Film

Overall i am very happy with the success of my first ever film! Obviously there are things i am not completely happy with and if i were to do it again i would change. Firstly I put a radio sound throughout the first scene to try and add atmosphere to it but i am not sure how much it sounds like a radio, that is actually in the room. I have shown a few people and they have said it does but i am not convinced!
The next problem i had was also in the first scene, which was the fact that at certain points the continuity is not exactly right and so it makes a certain part of it very jumpy. If I had of had more time and costs to get my actors to me more often i would have like to of re-shot this scene.
The next problem came from the quick shots of the boys practicing pickpocketing as i said earlier people didn't get that this was meant to be them practicing. I tried to do a voice-over Garry using my voice (for the same reason as before about getting the actors back over to me), as my lecturer Jules said that if you show Garry and put a voice over the audience will most likely presume it is the actors voice. I tired this and i couldn't make my voice anything like the actors and so it sounded awful!!

Press Release

Dubock Productions
274 Alfreton Road,
Nottingham,
NG7 5LS,
07786064126
christopher_dubock@hotmail.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Find Your Self “Leaving Home”

Nottingham, UK – 22 May 2009-04-24

Await the opening of the heart warming story Leaving Home. Dave and Garry are brothers forced to leave home after constant domestic violence. Their eyes are opened into the criminal lifestyle of living on the street and what must be done. Until one event happens that changes their life forever and reunites a failing family. To be released after 6 months in the making, at Nottingham Trent Uni. on the 22nd May 2009. This film is aimed to raise awareness about the harshness of living on the street and the serious problems brought from alcohol.

I am Chris Dubock the director, to get any further information contact me on: +44 (0) 7786 064 126 or at Christopher_dubock@hotmail.com

Directed, produced and edited by the young and upcoming Nottingham Trent University Student Chris Dubock.

Chris Dubock has travelled around a lot for his young age, taking in a lot of inspiration from different cultures. Such as part of the inspiration for this film from visiting a street kid home in Tanzania. After living in Switzerland for 6 years he moved back to England to go to University in Nottingham. After deciding computer game design (what he originally had planned to do) wasn’t what he wanted to do and undertook Audiovisual which got him to where he is now.

This is Dubock Productions first film and Chris Dubock has only part taken in one other piece of audiovisual work which was a four minute documentary on whether graffiti is an art form or a crime from the perspective of a graffiti artist in which he took the editors role.

Final Film

Here is the final film, i couldn't sort out everything everyone said about but tried my best to make it a coherent, interesting and easy to follow film, i hope you like it!

Promotional Stills

I did something very stupid and didn't take any specific promotional stills this meant i had to use photos i had already got and export stills from premier pro and so this didn't turn out very well! (i then put them in a small slideshow to put on my DVD)

Class Feedback

We showed our films and what we had so far in class and i got the following feedback:

• The cuts in the opening sequence didn't completly work
• What is the mum journey
• I asked if they understood what was happening during the scene where the kids were meant to be practicing pickpocketing, and they didn't so i had to try and change this around some how.

Trailer 4

Here is the most uptodate version of the trailer:

Trailer 3

Here is a slightly tweeked and slightly changed version of the trailer:

I am not sure which one i prefer yet as they both need work done to them and i may end up doing a slightly differnt idea that i have been thinking about.

Trailer 2

Here is the first edit of my trailer:



I am quite happy with it as a first edit but i think some of the timings are slightly wrong.