COGNITION
ANCILLARY TASK EVALUATION
AUDIENCE EVALUATION
TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION
CONVENTIONS EVALUATION
POSTER
"Cognition" is about the warping of one man's reality and we wanted to portray this literally in our poster. Though we photographed our title character in a close up, he is masked in distortion and blinded by the film's title to connote his inability to see the truth.
The background layer of the poster features a headshot that is dissolved into an image of a diary - all of which is distorted by a mesh effect imported over the actors face, creating a ghostly, translucent image. The poster needed to establish the genre: a psychological thriller, therefore we created the translucent effect to infer we'd be inside the characters mind whilst also denoting that we'll eventually see through the façade that he's creating. We also opted to cross out the characters eyes as a metaphor to his lack of foresight. The inclusion of the page was blurred into the actors image - like he's being slowly devoured by his diary. The foreground credits were made simplistically - we found a bold modern font that we imported across the actors eyes creating a very clear focal point for the poster. The tagline "Some memories are best left forgotten" was used to infer the darkness of the film whilst also establishing the characters amnesia, an important trait in the film. Our poster was designed to establish genre and infer a sense of mystery reguarding story and character. |
RADIO TRAILER
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File Size: | 8557 kb |
File Type: | wmv |
EDITING
As we intended to create a highly nuanced film, we required an editing system that provided no limitations to our pre-conceptualised cut. Adobe After Effects was our system of choice due to it's high capabilities in film post-production. Ideally we would've used Final Cut Pro due to it's specialism in editing in comparison to After Effects; which is primarily for VFX compositions, however we were unable to acquire the software and instead opted for the Adobe software. The film was cut one layer at a time, we began with a rough draft and then added colour corrections, layered the score, added the titles before finally refining the cut.
Though we could only shoot with a one-camera set-up, we spent the time getting a massive amount of coverage from various angles so we would have more freedom when editing and wouldn't be confined into making a limited and forced cut. We overshot the film and cut much of the material in post as we only sought an edit that reduced as much unnecessary screen time as possible.
We utilized fades heavily in the editing of our film since it's relativity to amnesia; being the gradual losing of information. The murder sequence was constructed with sharp fades to create a strobe, blinking effect to show the violent images as they expose and fade back out like snapshots. We also used dissolves to transcend from reality into the warped construction of a memory; the crosscutting between memories and reality needed to be established and presented in a way that wasn't convoluted as it was never our intention to have the audience questioning what was real and what wasn't.
Though we could only shoot with a one-camera set-up, we spent the time getting a massive amount of coverage from various angles so we would have more freedom when editing and wouldn't be confined into making a limited and forced cut. We overshot the film and cut much of the material in post as we only sought an edit that reduced as much unnecessary screen time as possible.
We utilized fades heavily in the editing of our film since it's relativity to amnesia; being the gradual losing of information. The murder sequence was constructed with sharp fades to create a strobe, blinking effect to show the violent images as they expose and fade back out like snapshots. We also used dissolves to transcend from reality into the warped construction of a memory; the crosscutting between memories and reality needed to be established and presented in a way that wasn't convoluted as it was never our intention to have the audience questioning what was real and what wasn't.
EDITING LOG EXTRACT
FIRST DRAFT REVIEW
An email I sent to the editor after watching the first draft