Jade Moon A2 Media

Reaper - Final ending

The pictures on the right and below I have edited a glitchy effect to make the newspaper shots more interesting and have more of an impact on the audience.

To do this, I used:

- The newspaper free generator

- Word document

- Adobe Photoshop

- Adobe after effects

- Adobe Premiere

After creating the newspaper, we then transferred it to word to create a JPEG file. I then took this JPEG and uploaded it to photoshop in order to crop and adjust the images.

After this, I then used after effects to add the glitch effect in which I then moved the images back to the editing software and added the transitions between the different pictures.

Making the newspaper - Reaper ending

This is a newspaper generator that is a free online website where you can create your own newspaper. It is very easy software to use and on this, you can personalise the entire article with the titles, subheadings, dates and the story.

On the right is the final product the website as generated with the information we added.

One the left is a screenshot of another newspaper generator we could use in which all boxes must be filled out for it to work.

On the right is a picture of the newspaper it created which looks very professional as seems as though it could be real.

Overall, out of both newspapers that have been generated, we decided that we preferred the second products purely due to its professionalism and how realistic it looks. whereas, the first product seems to look unrealistic, making it obvious that it isn't a real article. Therefore, we will use this website to create the newspaper we will embed at the end of our film. We must also include pictures of the two children who have been killed as this is what a real newspaper would have.

On the right are the two pictures of Zola and Seb that we have decided to use.

UPDATE - Reaper ending

After showing the news report to our teacher and peers, we received some useful feedback.
Our teacher believed that due to the news report being a still image, it makes this part of the film look unrealistic and less professional.

A solution to this is that we create a newspaper instead of a news report which would have to be a rolling shot. By using a newspaper instead, it will make the film looking more realistic.
Another solution would be to create a voice over of a radio news report which would not need to use any additional actors.
The last solution would be to cast additional actors and create a live film report of our own.

After we had discussed this with peers and our teachers we found out that everyone thought the first solution would be the best due to the fact that if it would look the most natural and professional.

Reaper - creating the ending

In our previous edits of the short film, we had not included an ending which sums up the story so that the audience are not left on a cliff hanger. This is because if the ending was left on a cliff hanger, it can come across to the audience as being more like a trailer instead of a short film. Also, we wanted to imply a narrative theory which is Todorov's equilibrium.

We discussed many ideas for the ending, in which our main idea was to include a newspaper article stating that the two children have been killed. Therefore, it will prevent the audience from feeling confused as to what happened to the children.

The pictures on the left and right will be used as Zola and Seb's mugshots for the newspaper.

The picture on the left is the website where you are able to personalise your own news report for free. To create this, I have had to use a software called Adobe Photoshop CS6 (shown below). This is an editing software in which allows us to merge the background, news reporter and photographs together.