Editing

Due to me coming form a different school I couldn't take part in much of the editing side of our production. It was disappointing but couldn't be helped, so it was left in the very capable hands of my fellow groups members, Carla and Shaunica. I know they will do it brilliantly so i have nothing to worry about.

Finish filming..

Today my group finished the filming for the start of a thriller. I was unfortunately unable to attend due to extremem toothache... I know sad but true... Hopefully the filming all went well and I look forward to seeing the finished product.

Production

During the production we used a variety of camera shots, angles and distances. We used mid shots (MS), long shots (LS), close ups (CU), extreme close ups (ECU), over-the-shoulder-shots (OSS). We used shots with camera movement which was mainly pan shots. I found the production a fun experience and enjoyed being behind the camera much more than being infront of the camera.

Filming AGAIN!

Today we re-filmed our film. It went really well, yet again and this time round I starred within along with Shaunica. Many of the actors that were orginally going to take place couldn't make it. We once again filmed over a local park and the shots we got went really well.

New Storyboard...

We witness the encounter of two people, who had shared a friendship which no loner exists, which we will see in a black and white flashback. After the flashback we will see him with a photo of the girl h just walked passed. Next we will see him arranging photos with one with an X on it, and his next victim.

"I knew everything was going to well!"

This title of this blog entry is exactly what i am thinking at this precise time... We had a wonderful filming session on monday and today upon having troubles with our editing we was speaking to our media teacher and upon me and carla saying the word "Trailer" he told us that infact we was making the first 2 minutes of the thriller not a trailer!!! Me and carla was gobsmacked and couldn't work out where we had got this idea from and the filming we had done was actually worthless... We sat and reworked the idea we had and tried to make it work and the stress levels started to rise. We have to the end of next week to have all the coursework done and we are now starting to panic. But carla has reasurred me that it will all be fine and i'm keeping my faith with her... We are now filming tomorrow and hopefully this should be ok.

Filming..

So today we actually did some filming and it went exceptionally well. We had 3 of the 5 actors there today and we (me and carla) gave them a chance to get to know each other and then took photographs of everyone becuase these shot would be used within the filming taking place later. Then we went and got the photos developed and then went and did the actual filming. We found a brilliant location in a local park and managed to film a number of good shots depicting the situation where 2 'friends' walk past each other. The shots came out really well and hoepfully everything will go to plan. We will start editing on wednesday..

Its a date....

Our group are actually starting filming! We are due to start filming this coming Thursday..
When we have doen it i will get back to you and let you know how it went....

Animatic

This is the animatic of our storyboard. An animatic is a series of pictures from our storyboard. This is what we hope our film will turn out like.

Our Preliminary exercise: COMPLETED

This is our preliminary exercise video.... Hope you enjoy it!