Colour Grading Research: Underworld Awakening

As we are currently starting to finish the basic edit and focus on the smaller details now, we have decided to do some research into colour grading.

We want to use the colour wheel on premiere to give the film a blue tint, to make it seem colder and therefore more menacing.

We found an example of an action film that has similar blue grading: Underworld Awakening. This film is similar to ours in genre (although it has horror and fantasy elements as well) and the fact that it has a female hero. As you can see in the image and clip below the blue colours makes her character seem harder, tougher and more sleek and professional.

However this clip is slightly too strong in it's colour grading in our opinion and we would be more subtle in our film, as we don't want it to be noticeable, just to influence the audience's impression of Lotus and the events taking place subconsciously.The snapshot below (from the same film) is more illustrative of the type of grading we might use.

Lotus the title

while researching fonts we came across this font:

We liked it as it looked pretty like the flower lotus but quite sharp with the pointed extensions.

while looking through Live type there wasn't a particular animation i liked with the font however i came with the idea of having the extensions (the end) growing . Our technician showed me how I could do it and I ended up making a successful title.

firstly i removed the extensions at the start of the time frame

I removed the tools to reveal the extensions at a different time frame so that the extensions are revealed slowly looking as if they are growing

Poster

We have designed a poster for our film! We have built on the theme of shadows in our film which creates enigma, however it is clear the figure is a female assassin our major selling point.

This poster's appeal will be put to the test when we host our opening sequence premiere in school.

Last Minute Name Change

After teacher feeedback sessions, we decided as a group it was best to change the name of our film, mainly because of the misleading oriental connatations of Lotus. Instead we have decided to name our film "Deadly Shadow." This is beacuse the main motif in our opening sequence is the use of shadows. For instance:
The first thing we see of Lotus is the shadow.
When the guy is killed we see his shadow on the wall.
Her shadow crosses his dead body to get the briefcase.
The shadow theme would also be used in our marketing campaign and the rest of the film.

Reply to Re-shoot post:

Hi Francis, it's Nico. I called Natasha and the re-shoot is fine for today :)

Re-shoot: FOR ATTENTION OF NICO AND NATASHA

Hi Guys it's Francis, we need to re-shoot the shot, as the gun shot does not look good without any make-up and we can't edit around it.
If possible can we do today during the media lesson. Chris (technician) can drive us down to mine.
Please reply on the blog. Thanks.

Behind the scenes- Real shoot 25/02/12

This is exclusive behind the scenes footage of our real shoot.  I talk through our setting, props and equipment, whilst also asking talking to group members Natasha and Francis!