Thriller film rough draft 19/03/10

Here is the final rough draft of our film clip:

Thriller Task- Editing 15/03/10

For todays session myself and the rest of the group finished editing our footage. We added the title of our film to the clip of the character walking past the wall. We made the font s bold white colour so that it stood out and added the transition 'roll' so that it looked as if it was following the character up the driveway. We also went back and watched the whole clip to find that the titles were still not big enough. So we increased the size of the font to sixty so that it was more clearer against the backgrounds of each clip. We also added the music reference to the clip as well just before the main title appears on screen.

Thriller Task- Editing 12/03/10

In todays session myself and the rest of the group started to listen to the music that Charlotte had found to be played in the background of our footage. We uploaded the music on to my memory stick and then listened to each one indivisually so that we could each give an opinion on which one we thought would be more suitable. There were a total of five tracks for us to listen to and we eventually narrowed it down to two. We eventually agreed upon the track 'Shunned' by Derrek R Audette and placed it into our footage. We also didn't have to edit much because the music and the clips already seemed to flow well together.

Thriller Task-Editing 08/03/10

In todays session myself and the rest of the group used our duplicate file of our work to experiment with using transitions. We were shown by our teacher where to find the transition effects and how to use them. We tried using different effects at different scenes to see the impact that it had on the audience. However we decided not to use any transitions in the end because we couldn't find any that were appropriate for our scenes. We also thought that they made the film disjointed because they did not help the clips to flow properly. Eventually we watched what we had made so far and decided that the opening titles needed to be larger and bolder because they weren't that noticeable. So, we increased the font size to make them more noticeable against the clips.

Thriller task- Editing 05/3/10

During this session myself and the rest of the group uploaded all of the new footage, that we had recorded on Wednesday, onto our T-drives so that we were ready to edit on premier pro. Just like the last time we uploaded new footage, we labeled each of the clips good or bad to know whether or not they were usable. We also didn't delete any of the unwanted clips in case we needed to make changes to our favored clips.
We opened up our edited footage from the previous lesson so that we could begin to add in the new scenes to see how they looked together. We referred to our storyboard so that we knew what order the clips were meant to flow in and also so we knew what scenes we were going to edit first. We selected each clip accordingly by watching each one through and deciding what adaptions would be the most appropriate to go with our edited footage. We then cut off any of the unwanted footage at the beginning and the end of each of the clips and put them all together to see whether or not they flowed well. We muted all of the newly added clips so that there was no ambient sound just like the first two clips, and then we created a duplicate file of our work so that we could begin to experiment with transitions in our next lesson.

Thriller Task- Filming 03/03/10

Today myself and the rest of the group decided that we were going to record the rest of our footage of our film at Alex and Natasha's houses. We borrowed the appropriate equipment so that we had everything we needed for filming in both dark and light enviroments. We took with us one Sony camera, one tripod, one light, our storyboard so that we knew what scenes we needed to film and a piece of plain white paper to set the white balance before filming.

We started off by going to Alex's house first so that we could begin filming our scenes there and also so we could meet up with Natasha to travel to her house later on. We started off with filming the shots located outside of Alex's house. The first shot we filmed was outisde of Alex's house along side the stone wall using a simple panning shot on the tripod for stability. This was filmed by Charlotte whilst Alex accompanied her.

We then moved onto filming the shots of myself walking up Alex's driveway towards the house. These shots were filmed by Alex while she was accompanied by Charlotte so that she could give her input. Alex filmed a long shot of me walking towards the house while she was in front of me so that it looked like I was approaching the camera. We then moved onto filming me entering the house from the outside using a panning shot. We then swapped to filming in the inside of the house on the staircase to see me walking through the house towards the living room. Charlotte filmed this part and used a panning shot to follow me into the living room whilst using a tripod so the footage was stable.

After filming all of our footage at Alex's house, we travelled to Natasha's house to begin fiming the end of our clip. I filmed the parts of Natasha and started off by using a simple tilt shot so that we are shown Natasha for the first time in her rocking chair. I used a tripod so that the footage wasn't unstable and so the tilt would be easier to film. I then filmed the hand held part from my characters point of view as he enters the room where the cloaked figure is wating for him.

Thriller task- Editing 01/3/10

In today's session, myself and the rest of the group decided to edit the footage that we had recorded on Friday in the previous lesson. We had the beginning to our clip now,and we were going to record the rest of our footage on the following Wednesday for our Friday session. We started off by uploading our footage off of the camera and onto our T-drives so that we had access to it when using premier pro. We decided which clips would be the most appropriate to use and which would not and labeled them accordingly so we knew which clip was which. We decided not to delete the unnecessary clips in case we ever decided to go back and see whether or not we could use a small amount of decent footage from them if needed. After labeling the clips, we moved on to deciding which of the clips we could use and edit to create the beginning of our scene. We chose carefully by watching each clip through individually with headphones to see what adaptions we would have to be make with each one. We selected two of our favored clips and began to edit them so that they flowed nicely together. We deleted any unwanted footage from the beginning and end of the clips, such as the sound of someone saying action or cut during filming, and then put the two clips together to see how they look.
Satisfied with the clips, we moved on to listening to the sound in each of them to decide what would be the most appropriate adaption to make. We already knew from our questionnaire and planning that we were going to have a soundtrack in our clip which was going to play throughout all of the scenes. This in mind, we agreed to mute all of the clips so that none of the ambient sound was audible when watching the footage.
With the formation and sound of the clips sorted, we moved on to adding in the opening credits to our footage. We selected an appropriate font for our clips and chose a color that would help them to stand out against the backgrounds of each clip. We had to change the color of the font for different scenes so that we could still see the credits against the background of each clip. We decided then to create a small survey of names that we could give to our film for the main title, and asked a few of our classmates for their opinions before the session ended.