Practical: Creating a production company

To create my own production company I decided to use candles which I would then blow out. To set this up I wanted it to be all black so that only the candles could be seen in the shot. Therefore, I covered a tissue box in a black cloth and placed this behind the candles which I had put on some black paper.

In order to get the right angle for the shot I placed a book down which I would then put my camera on top of. I wanted the candles to be at the bottom of the frame so that I could place our production company, Kab Media Productions, at the top of the frame. I wasn't sure if I wanted to add the candles being lit up and blown out so I filmed it altogether and decided that I only wanted to show them being blown out.

To edit the video I used Windows Movie Maker. As my hand was in some of the shots in order for me to light the candles I had to cut them out. Also the shot of the candles lasted too long so I had to shorten it down.

In addition to this I made the lighting darker as I wanted the background to be as dark as possible. At the end of the video one of the candles relights itself so I also had to edit this to make it look like all the candles went out the first time I blew them out. I didn't add any sound as our production company would be placed a few seconds into our trailer instead of the very beginning so we wanted the music from the trailer to be layered over the top of the production company therefore no sound was needed.

I put the production company name at the top of the shot where there was some black space. The text is in white so that it can be seen against the black background and I also added effects so that it would fade in and fade out as the candles went out.

The final video looked like this:

Evaluation

• The production company can be seen clearly
• It doesn't last too long
• More effects could be added to the title for example one letter could appear at a time