Filming on schedule!

Wednesday:

On Wednesday, Averielle, Josh and I stayed behind to film the scenes of them together. We borrowed a red dress and black heels and then filmed in the art room. We managed to get most of this scene filmed even though we did not have the knives. We worked through our storyboard after looking at it that afternoon, and found the parts we could do and parts that we couldnt. We decided to film from many different angles so that it worked best when we put it onto the computer.

Thursday:

On Thursday, we had a double media lesson. In the first lesson, Alice removed everything from the media room whilst I uploaded Wednesday's footage onto the computer. Avey went to print off pictures of 'past victims' and created them as pictures from a polaroid camera. Alice and I then set up the 'red room' (pictures soon) and got 3 lamps - although we only used two - and then cut out the squares of red plastic to put over the lamps to get the red effect. We then got a line of string and taped it to the wall. Avey and I got 5 pegs from Art so that we could use them to hang up the pictures, then I went back down to the media room and helped alice to lay out pictures that we weren't using. We then tried the camera out to see if the red effect was picked up on camera. We decided that it looked red enough, even if we thought it had been better before.
When Avey came back down with the pictures, we all decided that the room looked fairly plain, so we got discarded newspapers and random scraps of paper, as well as tape, string, scissors and two trays containing water - which we decided would come across as developers. We then tried to put red crosses onto the pictures and realised you couldnt see them when we started to film, so Avey got some red 'poster paint' and a paint brush from art and we put crosses over the men in the pictures. This worked better and we placed the paint and the paintbrush onto the table so it looked more busy. After we placed these things on the table,  we decided to start filming. I started to film, first going over the stuff on the table, and then working up to the pictures. We found this took way to long, and so Alice had a go at filming from different angles.
We then put the footage onto the computer and it looked better than we thought. The red effect was picked up more on the computer than it was when we were filming, and we watched over past footage. Alice and avey then cleaned up the room, whilst i uploaded the rest of todays footage onto the computer.

Alice and I stayed through our next free period to put the footage together, and look over the footage that had been filmed the past few days. We tried to put the footage together with some of the effects and also tried to put some of the clips together. This proved more difficult than first thought of. After working on this for an hour, we discussed what still needed to be filmed and this is what we thought off.

• The knife shots to be put in as flashes
• Showing the map and picture at the end of the next victim.
• turning on the radio in the red room

Friday:

On friday, Alice and Avey and Josh are staying behind to film their parts of the film. Alice will be filming whilst avey and Josh acting. They will try and do the Knife shots from behind Avey, and then other ways that will help to create a scary effect. We will also have a shot of her opening the knives as this will help the audience to realise what is actually happening. We will then have her showing a picture of the next victim and the map, so that we know that the story is not ending yet but just beginning.

Monday:

On Monday we will film turning on the radio in the red room. This shouldn't take very long and therefore we will have all the footage ready for tuesday.

Lighting

In the little room we are using, we found that it was difficult to light it so that we could light up the male character whilst keeping the rest of the room dark and Dull. We found that if we used one lamp the room had just enough light, and this was the effect we wanted.

this is the dark room, with Josh tied up in the middle ready for the first time we shoot him in our film. We are also using this picture for the red room.

Deadlines.

We have been reminded of our deadline and we need to plan our filming and editing accordingly. Here is our deadlines:

February 29th: Filming to be completed: Ensure you have plenty of footage. Post-production should have started.
March 16th: Rough Cut in Full to be presented to FRD-Media 1 Lunchtime.
March 30th: Projects to be completed: Final Cuts This is the lastday before Easter holidays
April 16th: Blog completed with finished Evaluation ( ppt with visual aids) This is after Easter.

By knowing these deadlines, I will need to make sure that I can stick to them and get all the filming and editing done in time. This means that my group and I will need to work closely together in order to find if we have everything ready for filming.

Filming

Today we realized that we really needed to look over the footage that we already had filmed. We realized that we needed to re-film most things as the lighting was different in each shot. We got hold of both our actors, and they then said that they couldn't film - and they couldn't film on most days which we needed them. Therefore, we decided that we needed to change the actors we had. This was one of the hardest decisions we had made as a group as it meant we basically had to start again. Josh stepped in from another media group and said he was able to film, which made it easier for us as all we had to do was find another female character. This was difficult so we decided to get things as effective as possible and decided that we needed to film Averielle, as she was available when we needed to film.
After school, Alice & I stayed back to start filming Josh, and this meant we got the waking up scene and were able to get this started.
Tomorrow, Averielle and I will start to film the pair together, and this will enable us to get to the same place we were before if we work solidly for 2 hours. We may need 2 cameras so that we can capture both angles of the shot and this will also save us time. Before we film, we need to take a look back over our storyboard so we are able to see the couple together. We may also need to bring in knives, so we can film this effectively and within the right time period.
Thursday morning we will film the red scene with Avey in Media lessons. this will help us use our time effectively and will also mean that on Friday we can film the things we haven't finished with yet.
Friday, Alice and Avey will be filming Josh and her together.
Hopefully, we can get everything done within this time period. If we still have something to do before the filming deadline on Tuesday, we will finish up on Monday.
This therefore means we will get all our filming done, and we will be able to start editing as soon as possible.

Starting Filming

On Monday, Avey and I started filming Becca and Ben. We had a bit of trouble because Becca forgot her dress, so we had to improvise and film Ben's part on his own. This means that we could still do some filming and get it all on the way to finishing. Firstly, it took a while to get everything ready - such as the tape, string and outfits. We then managed to get the lighting in the right place because we decided that we were going to use a lamp behind Ben in order to get just enough light, but not to little or too much.
We managed to film all of the parts in which we needed too, so that Ben only needed to film with Becca.
I found it difficult to work with Ben as I was put in charge of filming, and both Becca And Averielle laughed each time Ben did facial reactions. This meant that it was difficult for Ben not to stop acting and so he laughed too.
I'm starting to realise it may be difficult to work with the pair, and maybe we didn't make the best choice choosing them both. I do feel however, that we are starting to get on track of what we need to do and i feel confident that we will finish our film in time.

Animatic

This is our animatic which is created from our storyboard. It helped us to know about the different transitions we needed to use when we actually edit our work, and also helps us to know about the places where we wanted to put our titles. This helps us because we now know how long each shot should be and this helps us to know when we're actually coming to filming and editing. This video gives us an idea of how long our video is going to be, and also helped us to realise that we needed to add extra things in in order to know the storyline and how its going to carry on.