Wednesday 12th December 2012

Dan editing some shots.

Today myself and Dan edited the remaining shots from the house scene so all we have left to do now before the first cut is create and add in the film titles. Me and Dan sat and listened to the film opening after editing in all the shots and decided the background noise of the TV wasn’t essential so instead of getting rid of the shots we found a news report of the internet of the Suffolk murderers and just recorded the voice of the news reporter and added that into our film opening and it gives the opening a massive realistic boost and great affect. We also added in the same sound for when the camera reveals the mysterious man in the river scenes to the house scene as it shows consistency and lets the audience associate the sound with the mysterious man like the sound in the film 'Jaws' when the shark reappears numerous times.

New Ideas!!!

As we have decided to re-film some of the shots to make them look more professional I also looked at the film opening so far and decided that it goes straight into the storyline and characters too quickly that the audience don’t have a clue where the setting is or what sort of situation the girl is in and so I put forward to the group the idea of having a 'setting the scene' shot where we have awkward low angle shot of the house where we can see where the film opening is going to take place. Also we have decided to cut some of the river shots out of the film opening to give us more time to focus of the crucial part of the opening.

 

 

What's Going Wrong?

Example of one of our dodgy shots

Although we have some good shots from filming Monday night we also have looked over our work and been brutally honest with ourselves that some of the shots look dodgy and unprofessional. For example, the image shown above is an example of one of our worst shots taken from filming Monday night as you can see we have filmed the actress with backlighting so we cannot see any of her facial expressions. Therefore we have decided after editing for our first cut deadline that we are going to re-film some of our shots. Plus, we have decided that the film title's font that we initially decided to use for the title sequence is far too goory and that we have decided that we don’t want our film to be seen in a bloody and goory way and instead we want it to be viewed as more of a mystery and therefore we have decided to use another font that we found that’s more hard hitting and hostile.

11th December 2012

 

10th December 2012

Mollie filming Ellie.

On the 10th of December 2012 we filmed the remaining shots of the first girl victim in the house babysitting on her own, we used a student at our school called Ellie Hutchin who is currently doing AS Drama and therefore we got some really good shots however kept dialogue to a minimum to increase the chance of our film opening looking more professional.



Mollie preparing for an over the shoulder shot with Cristi preparing props.

 

Mollie filmed all of the shots as this was her allocated role whilst Myself, Cristi and Dan prepared props such as the phone receiving a message, mise en scene such as the television noise in the background being paused and rewound to keep the shots flowing and also helping Mollie out with the camera angles and shots making sure they all look appropriate.

Mollie filming the over the shoulder shot.

 

We used lights around the house to make certain parts of the film opening seem more scary then others, such as when the girl walks into the little girls room to check on her the room is quite bright and homely, however, for the shots for the mysterious man walking up the stairs we made the lights slightly dimmer for a sense of tension and danger.

 



Actors in action.

 

For some shots Dan had to be standing outside in the dark looking up at the little girls window and for these shots it was hard to get the lighting we wanted as you have the street lights and reflections off residents cars and windows which caused us to have to change the lighting in editing but only slightly as I thought the lighting looked quite natural and it's what you're likely to get if you stand outside someone's house anyway.

Dan in action being filmed in the dark street.

Whats Working Well?

At the moment we have filmed the majority of our shots and therefore have had time to look back on what they look like. Our first cut deadline is Thursday 13th of December and therefore me and Mollie spent our two hour lesson today (Tuesday 11th December) going through and editing as much as possible to get a decent first cut for Thursday. I will be spending more time tomorrow (Wednesday 12th December) in my own free time editing even more to get a better quality of editing and hopefully adding in some titles. Some of my favourite shots so far are the ones of the girl at her house babysitting as my role in the group is to edit all the shots. We got a good handheld shot of the mysterious man walking up the stairs and also a good shot focusing on the dead girl in the bath. Dan has done some really good research by himself finding sound effects and creepy music that will fit in with the shots and saved the to the hardrive ready to edit in. I have used some good editing effects to for the sound of the television as when we looked back at the shots the volume of the sound was drastically different in the living room compared to when she walks out.

6th of December 2012

Me and Mollie editing.

Cristi and Dan recording sounds.

On the 6th of December 2012 Me and Mollie spent two hours during lesson time editing our first batch of shots that we preciously shot by the river. We chose which of the shots we liked the most and left out the ones that weren’t so good. At the end of putting the shots together we did have to change a couple of shots as they were the same sort of shot and this didn’t show the variety of shots that we took and also made our film opening look a bit repetitive and boring.

Meanwhile, Dan and Cristi were out of the classroom recording the diegetic sounds that we wanted to be clearer in our film opening such as breathing, music from earphones and the sound of feet running on the floor. They did this by using a microphone which they connect to the camera and recorded it and changing it to an mp4 format. After they had done this Me and Mollie had finished editing and they fitted the sounds (diegetic and non-diegetic) to the shots and then we had completed the first cut of the second part of our film opening.

 

Dan editing in sounds.