Final Day Changes

So today I managed to submit my film and I am much happier with this version. Below are some of the mistakes that I managed to correct within my piece. I also improved some of the movements that I wasn’t happy with (including the letters flying off the page at the beginning and I removed […]

Submission Day

So today was submission day and we had to submit by 12am midnight. As has previously happened my time management has caused me problems throughout this process. Due to the rush I did not have time to do some final checks that I wanted to before submitting and I did not have time to add […]

Finding Music

As we had no budget for this project and any money that we had to spend came out of our own money, I decided to find royalty free money that would not cost me any money to use. My course-mate Jess suggested that I look on the YouTube music library (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?feature=blog) as they have a […]

Words Flying From The Letter

At the beginning of my piece, there is a shot of the letter up close where I always intended to have letters fly up from the letter and off the page. I did not do this at the beginning of the project as creating the font that I needed took quite a while (it had […]

Wooden Board with Writing

As mentioned in a previous post, I really struggled to know how to visualise the board that the soldiers held up with writing on it. This is why I only came back to this right at the end of the project as I knew that it was best to progress as much as I could […]

3D Box Creation

One of my ways to add some more variety to my piece was to create my second parcel in a different way to my first. As seen in a previous post, I spent some time creating and trying out different paper textures on Illustrator so I decided to create a 3D box out of these […]

Sourcing Images

There are some images that I included within my piece that I found whilst researching topics like trench conditions, cigarettes and the general life of soldiers during this time. Within this post I will state where I found these images as I will not be doing individual posts for every moment within my piece or […]

Bullet Holes in the Page

Today I found the perfect tutorial for creating an effect that looks as though my canvas is being shot at. I thought that this would be fantastic, and slightly ironic to use when the solider says that there has been barely any shooting from either sides. This was the tutorial that told me how to […]

Cigarettes

After I had created the smoke for my mug I moved on to the smoke for the cigarettes that I needed. As tobacco and cigarettes are a reoccurring mention throughout the letter I had filmed a few options that revolved around this against the green screen. I decided, then, to include two separate cigarette moments […]

The Mug

For the section of my letter where the solider references wanting some condensed milk so that he can make a chocolate drink that the soldiers all enjoy, I wanted to include a simple cup or mug with some moving steam coming off it. I found an image online for a mug that had the perfect […]