MILLIE LEVINE 1997
I worked with Ollie Hill (1942), Olivia Davies (1921) and Grace Clare (1976). Our brief was to make a film opening of a new fiction film which lasts a maximum of two minutes. We made a thrilling, psychological film opening entitled Extraction.
I took on the role of the main actress, acting as the female victim.
I took responsibility for directing scenes such as the outdoor action shots, along side Ollie. I came up with ideas and different shots and acts we could use to make our opening better.
I took responsibility for the set design, designing and setting up the pin board to present the stalker images and evidence pieces, a key prop in our production.
I helped suggest ideas with Ollie when he edited the shots and put together sound tracks and effects to produce a high quality, effective opening.
I designed a company logo at the start of the opening which presented my company, Levine Loops, and helped create a small animation for the logo with Ollie. We used Adobe Illustrator then edited the image in Premiere.
I edited and filmed the Continuity Exercise, using the app iMovie.
My Film Opening:
This feedback is necessary to explain how and why changes were made for improvements, and which edits were done. For example, I wrote about why we changed the initial titles, and explained it was due to constructive criticism from our peers. Getting advice from an outside perspective was necessary as it enabled us to understand what other viewers thought about our work and helped to produce a successful opening. Not only was this helpful for others to understand, but also showed ourselves what improvements we made and why, showing progression throughout.
Using a target audience's feedback is also a helpful when editing and looking back on clips as to make our production successful and popular, we would be able to gain a better understanding of what was wanted by audiences and how we could manage to do that.
