Final Filming (2)

Today our filming lesson did not go to plan, we did not do any good camera angles so we decided to start again. we went to our second location which is the graveyard and decided to film the scene were the characters are walking through the graveyard, we used some overshoulder shots and close ups.We decided to add another camera shot to our film where the camera is placed behind the bush so that it looks like someone is watching the characters. We thought this will have an big effect on our film as it is a horror.

Filming for real (1)

Today we started filming for real. We did scene 1, this was the scene outside our college, we filmed th characters coming out of college and havng conversation. we also filmed a bit of scene 2, we filmed the characters walking through the graveyard we also had still shots such as the gates and sign of the graveyard to show the audience where the characters are. Today one our group members was absent so that was a bad start for us. Today I helped in ensuring everything went well and also helping with the filming. I think that today went well but could have been better, due to the weather our actors were not too enthusiastic as it was cold, this will hopefully change by Wednesday which is our next lesson.

Practise filming (2)

Today we went to our second location which was the cemetery. Today we didn't do alot of filming we just practised camera shots and looked at different parts of our location to ensure that we are ready for filming on Monday.

Practise filming

Today we didn't have a media lesson, we just went to the media department to get a camera and tripod to start filming. As soon as we got in our groups we went over our story boards and script. we had a bit of diffuculties because one of our actors were in his lesson at the time so we had to find another actor, lucky for us we found one. Once we explained his part to him we went to our first location which was outside our college.We started with an establishing shot which shows the colleges logo, the camera then goes onto the three characters and they begin to act out the script. Today I helped with filming.We did not get to go to our second location which was the cemetary as we would not make it back in time. Once we finished filming we watched over the film to see what we could have done better. when watching the film we saw that after the establishing shot the characters started talking to fast, to improve this we are going to make the characters wait a few seconds before they start talking.

Editing Pleliminary film

Today in media our technician showed us how to edit our film on an application call final cut. After I understood how to edit the film we got into our groups and edited our task together. We found a few problems while editing. In the begining of the film you see oscar walking through a door and the cut there runs smoothly, but between the 2nd and 3rd cut, the cut was too short and needs to be extended. We he goes to sit down there is a black transition which doesn't make sense, that needs to be cut out and also we filmed an over the shoulder shot, and we realised that we should have more of the head in it because it doesn't look like the kind of shot we were going for. When making my real film I am going to try to ensure that we do not make any mistakes such as the onces we made in our pleliminary task.

Pre-Production written work

Writing a script wernt as hard as I thought it would be. To write my script I used sources such as the internet to help me.One of the websites I used was http://www.imsdb.com/. I learnt that I had to include every detail of what happens in the scene. when something is about to happen for example one of the characters should leave the room we learnt that we should set it out in brackets and in slaugnted writing so I could tell the difference between the characters talking and when the character has to do something.

We split the story boards up in our groups we had to do 2 each.When designing story ideas my group considered everyones ideas and put them together.To design ideas we used films we have watched and past experiences.

My groups genre is horror we chose this as everyone liked it the most and we thought that we would enjoy it more than the others also we thought that it would be less diffucult in others genres such as comedy you need a special skill for example in comedy it would be hard to make the audience laugh.

In a group we watched the blair witch project which really helped us when designing our film as we made it similar to this, as it was an horror documentry it helped us as that is what we also decided to do.One thing from the blair witch project that helped us was the opening sequence.

Blair witch project

Change of Plan

There has been another change of plans, I just went through my story line with the rest of my group it looks like it does not match the script, so we think it would be easier for me to also write the script as I wrote the storyline and I know what should be included.