The Red Caller Final cut

Camera:

London shots - Sophie Bishop

Shots of man on the train and The London Underground shots - Sophie Gordon

Basic edit:

First half - Sophie Bishop

Second half - Sophie Gordn

Sound:

Sound track and Foley - Sophie Gordon

Effects and titles:

Sophie Bishop

The Red Caller Cut - not final

Camera:
London shots - Sophie Bishop
Shots of man on the train and The London Underground shots - Sophie Gordon

Basic edit:
First half - Sophie Bishop
Second half - Sophie Gordn

Sound:
Sound track and Foley - Sophie Gordon

Effects and titles:
Sophie Bishop

This is not the final cut, I need to remove some of the motion tracking titles, and Sophie is going to do another soundtrack.

Development of Titles and Effects

I am using an alternative way, to make the buses, telephone boxes and The Red Caller, Red. Rather than using final cut pro, I used after effects, because I have more control. I have taken screen shots, showing the process. I have duplicated the layer, making the bottom colour black and white using the Tint effect. I have them unharnessed the black and white further, by changing the contrast and brightness, and adding a solid layer, blue, and decreasing the opacity, to make it look slightly more of a cooler colour rather than warm, therefor more like a thriller.

I have then applied the leave colour effect to the top layer, selecting the red colour, most similar to the coat, using the pipette. I then increased the decolour option to 100, and the tolerance to 8. This then picks out the reds, but it does pick out any orange or other similar colour, in the shot. To exclude excess red, I made a mask around each red object. I then animated this, by moving each frame, and editing the path as accorded. I then added a vibrance effect, to make the red stand out even more. This took some time, but it has turned out really good. It makes the reds stand out, and The Red Caller is noticeably the antagonist. 

I have motion tracked the titles, and applied a mask, so the object above looks like it is obscuring the titles. This makes the title appear apart of the shot. I also want the titles to be obscured, by the bus, taxi and The Red Caller. In our research from our Target Audience, they said they do not like bold titles which stand out, so making it apart of the sequence, keeps them readable, but not as dull and noticeable than on top of the sequence. 

Update 12/02/14

Sophie is adding the Foley to our soundtrack. I have completed the pleasantville effect, change the saturation and colour graded slightly, so the black and white isn't so dull. I now need to complete the titles, motion tracking and fitting them into the sequence. 

Update

We have just finished our rough cut. Now we can move onto sound, titles and effects. 

Rough cut

This is our rough cut edit of The Red Caller, we have finished the basic edit (half each). This is without the titles, sound and effects. We decided not to have the victim woman character because it made more sense just to show one victim, so it didn't confuse the audience.