Week before deadline!

On Monday, our group arranged to reshoot. Me and Alice had everything ready and then Averielle decided that she couldn’t film. This meant that our group had to think of another time to reshoot and we couldn’t do any other days with josh until Thursday, which was too late as that was our deadline.

On Tuesday, Alice and I worked on music and title sequence for our film. This was difficult as we didn’t know exactly what music we wanted to put in and we knew that we had to have music throughout the whole thing. 

We realised that we had to film on our Wednesday lesson. Alice and I filmed Averielle walking into the room. This proved a difficult task and took up our whole hour. We filmed from different angles, so that we had a variety to choose from when it came to editing.

Again, when we uploaded these we found it too dark. This meant that we couldn’t use the shots and was difficult because we had to find a way to edit in exactly what we already had but so that it worked for us.

On Thursday, we edited everything together with the new reshoots and music. We tried to make the film look the best we could. As we felt that we needed some feedback, we got Mr Ford to watch through our film, and he told us that it didn’t make sense, even though he had seen our storyboard and we had explained what we were trying to achieve. Therefore we ended up changing the whole sequence of our shots. This meant that every shot without a knife went first, and then the shots that Averielle did have a knife in came second. We also changed around where we were putting our title as we found out it couldn’t go where we wanted it to. This therefore meant that we had to find a new place for our title to go, and we worked this in just before the stabbing scene as we decided that we could hear the stabbing before we saw him dead.

Over the last few days

Over the last few days, Alice, Averielle and I have been trying to get our film finished for both Mr Ford and Mr Michie. We found that we have been filming during school hours and stayed after school last Thursday in order to try and get all our filming done and up to date. We had the list of things to film, and therefore worked through them as quickly and easily as possible.

Alice and I played around with the different shots we could get of the knife. This meant that we had a variety of angles and therefore when it came to choosing which shot to put in the final thing, we knew exactly what we had and which we could use.

We tried to do lots of angles from Joshes P.O.V. This was important because we wanted to change up our variety of shots as we feel that we didn’t have that many. This meant that we had to film sitting on the chair, which was not a good idea. This was because it blocked the light of the lamp which we normally use, which made all of our shots dark and we were unable to use many of them.

I uploaded all this footage on Friday, and watched through it & cut the bits which I thought we may be able to use. As I was the only one editing, I didn’t want to make any large alterations, but I felt that I had to do something to help our group on the way.

Reshoots

Music.

  Our group is finding it difficult to find music which fits into the end part of our film, and we also are finding it hard to explain why the music is like this at the beginning.
  We want the music at the beginning to be classical in the red room, so that the woman and her actions are juxtaposed with the music. We realise that we may have to get a radio to enable us to have some diegetic sounds and also to show that thats why we have this type of music on the website.
  On the end of our title sequence, we want a music soundtrack that shows the build up of the flashes, perhaps starting slowly then becoming faster as time moves on. This is proving difficult to find online, and without copyright. If we find a track we like, we find that it doesnt fit in with our film, or is to fast for what we are trying to show.
  I found a track which I thought may fit into our film, but as we played it with the actions we wanted it to fit in with we realised it made the opening sounds more like an ending, therefore making us unable to use it.

First draft filming finished.

We finished filming all the first draft films the other day. This meant we could start post production, and start editing everything we filmed together.
Although we had a lot of footage, it was nice to be able to look through it and be able to pick out which were better than the others.
I feel that now all the filming for the first draft is finished, we can go back and look at what needs to be re-shot and then edited so that we are able to complete our final draft by the deadline.