Utopia Homework - Post Prodcution

The channel 4 sci-fi series Utopia shows a group of adults going against a conspiracy that they've found in a comic book. The TV program is mainly set around the use of colour and films shots done to create the appearance of a comic book.

Post-production is the last stage in film making. In post production, the editing of the shots and any added sounds are put in to make a final piece and correct any minor mistakes. If the original footage isn't good enough/inadequate, then post production probably couldn't fix this. Post production mixes the audio, adds non diegetic sounds and sounds effects and shots are improved and the shot is established.

When I editing my own film pieces, I found this a difficult part to do as I had the look at the audience and create what I would want them, to see on screen and the effect it made. I used effects that went with the theme for a thriller opening.

 

Preliminary - Our Storyboard

For the planning of our preliminary test, we created a storyboard with all of our ideas. No one in our group is particularly good at drawing so it might be hard to tell what is going on, but we understand it. We've used a story board to show the thriller story that we are going to film. If we get to filming and we happen to change our storyline when it comes to filming, it wont matter.

Our storyboard gives us the incline on what shot is next or and where to go next. Our story board will give us the sense of direction and continuity to help us achieve a good short thriller. It is there to help us keep on track with what's next to film and will effectively help us out with time as we wont be wasting any. This storyboard is not final, we can still change ideas and camera shots that we think would be more suitable or appropriate for a scene.

We are aiming for the idea of two teenagers in a school setting and one holding one up as hostage. We have chosen to do it in the school setting as it would make sense for us to film in our lunch hours, also the two teenager characters could easily be played by someone in our group or media group, therefore no one else would needed to be involved in this.