On Wednesday’s lesson, The weather was dreadful. We were supposed to go to the library to start filming however, we realised after reaching there, that it was closed. How irritating. So whilst we were outside in the pouring rain, we decided to skip the library scene and shoot the killing scene were the victim is being followed by the killer (the son of the mother).
The shots we had taken went well, even though we had to keep shooting the same shots repetitively to get the filming more accurate as possible. The setting of this scene (outside) looked very disturbing as we walked through a park. The fact that it was raining, created more of a chilling effect, even I was scared of the area. What was even worse was that we had to step into so much mud in order to create a precise shot and generate suspense for the audiences. It had taken us two and a half hours to film, but it was worthwhile plus the shooting went well.
Friday, 30 January 2009
Monday’s Lesson
During throughout the whole of Monday’s lesson we were planning how and when we were going to shoot the thriller, who will be looking out for locations and which ones to recommend, plus who will be the main character in the film. The storyline to our film is about a girl (played by Aiko) whose searching for the person who was responsible for her mother’s death to get revenge. However what this person does not know is that the blameworthy man is in prison, so whilst she’s looking for the killer, she is killing the ones closest to him which includes his wife (played by Dominique).
Last Wednesday’s Lesson - 21.01.2009
On Wednesday’s lesson, we continued planning our thriller from the last lesson then, unexpectedly as groups, we were given five minutes to present our work to the class and judges Mickey, Marisa, Andrew and Tony.
It was our turn. We explained to the judges on how we would shoot our thriller, use the lighting, and what locations we would possibly use, also how we would produce the music to create a chilling effect, etc to see whether we would receive the camera from them or not. The judges commented in what they thought about our presentation and gave us positive feedback. They all agreed and so we were given the camera by them.
It was our turn. We explained to the judges on how we would shoot our thriller, use the lighting, and what locations we would possibly use, also how we would produce the music to create a chilling effect, etc to see whether we would receive the camera from them or not. The judges commented in what they thought about our presentation and gave us positive feedback. They all agreed and so we were given the camera by them.
Last Monday’s Lesson - 19.01.2009
At the start of Monday’s lesson with Tony, we watched a few examples of thriller clips made by the previous AS’s. As a class, we commented on the differences between the high graded clips and the low graded ones along with why we thought it was interesting and created atmosphere or boring and dull.
After that we were told as a group to do a brainstorm for our real thriller, giving some ideas of what storyline we would create, what title to give, the effects, etc in order to generate atmosphere and did it throughout the rest of the lesson.
After that we were told as a group to do a brainstorm for our real thriller, giving some ideas of what storyline we would create, what title to give, the effects, etc in order to generate atmosphere and did it throughout the rest of the lesson.
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Final Idea ?
This lesson we decided to move on to actualy thinking of a final idea for our thriller, this wasent as easy as the last lesson were we had to do the random brian storm. This was because, this time we had to stick to one idea that had a proper ending and a proper start. I spent alot of time thinking about what kind of story would be good to use, at the same time i was looking at the different types of ideas that where on the brainstorm. After spending a conciderably long amount of time thinking about a idea i realised that the brainstorm that we had made wasent as usefull as i had hoped it would have been. All it looked like to me now was a load of words and locations that we could use but no definate or good ideas that we could develop on. Which was a bit dissapointing concidering that we had spent all lesson doing this brain storm and i had thought it was going to be usefull. some one my group members looked like they had given up thinking for a while untill i asked them what they had in mind or what they was thinking about our situation at the time.
Despite us not being able to think of an idea in the first half of the lesson. We was able to at least think of two basic ideas that we could use ... proper ideas that were like stories with characters in them. later on we figured out that the idea that we started to like and develop wasent any use because we dident have a proper location that we could use as a setting for the story. which was pretty annoying to find out just before the end of the lesson. So then we had to think of another idea ( third idea) to try and use for our thriller. This new idea wasent all that good but i figured that if we had got in intresting shots in and good framing in it would get a good over all mark. Also just incase we all decided to find another idea at home as a back up idea.
Despite us not being able to think of an idea in the first half of the lesson. We was able to at least think of two basic ideas that we could use ... proper ideas that were like stories with characters in them. later on we figured out that the idea that we started to like and develop wasent any use because we dident have a proper location that we could use as a setting for the story. which was pretty annoying to find out just before the end of the lesson. So then we had to think of another idea ( third idea) to try and use for our thriller. This new idea wasent all that good but i figured that if we had got in intresting shots in and good framing in it would get a good over all mark. Also just incase we all decided to find another idea at home as a back up idea.
Ideas
Today we had to think of ideas for our short thriller film, we got into our groups and started to brain storm what kind of ideas we could make our thriller film from. I think that this was helpful because it allowed us to look at different kinds of ideas for our thriller.
On our brain storm we had the word thriller in the middle, then we had all the basic ideas that stemed from this word. Location as one which we had written on some random locations that we could use. Theme as another and so on these kinds of words allowed us to think about more ideas that we could use as a final idea.
Later on in the lesson our teacher Andrew came around to check our progress. he said that, the way we had brainstormed our ideas all together was a good way of doing it for this stage. Overall i think that the time that we was given in this lesson to think of ideas was well spent and that the brianstorm that we had come up with was really usefull to get our heads working and thinking of actual ideas that we could use as the final idea.
On our brain storm we had the word thriller in the middle, then we had all the basic ideas that stemed from this word. Location as one which we had written on some random locations that we could use. Theme as another and so on these kinds of words allowed us to think about more ideas that we could use as a final idea.
Later on in the lesson our teacher Andrew came around to check our progress. he said that, the way we had brainstormed our ideas all together was a good way of doing it for this stage. Overall i think that the time that we was given in this lesson to think of ideas was well spent and that the brianstorm that we had come up with was really usefull to get our heads working and thinking of actual ideas that we could use as the final idea.
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Editing.
Last lesson we saw our finished footage and was able to cut it in to use able clips and start editing, we sat down in our groups and watched it through a few times to make sure we could see what we could match cut then we started to use final cut pro for the proper editing.
We used the camera outside and inside but with match cut pro we used them both together which looked more dramatic and created tension because it looked like the character was walking towards something dangerous. We used the handheld technique to capture the two meeting and panning to show them meeting too.
We didn't want to use the shots of just the characters eyes at first because we didn't think it look serious enough but when we put the wound track to the film and made it a sort of comedy and it made the film really funny.
We only used one effect which was cross dissolve, we didn't want to make it look to cheesy with lots of effects so we kept them minimal.
When it came to us putting music to it we wanted the music to make the story line of our film clear so we put serious music over the top of the the beginning part of the film then when the people turned around we put light hearted music over it to show we went being to serious,
Because we ran out of time to carry on filming we left the film on a cliffhanger so the audience wouldn't know who won and we put a funny scream over the end for a final light hearted take on the film.
We used the camera outside and inside but with match cut pro we used them both together which looked more dramatic and created tension because it looked like the character was walking towards something dangerous. We used the handheld technique to capture the two meeting and panning to show them meeting too.
We didn't want to use the shots of just the characters eyes at first because we didn't think it look serious enough but when we put the wound track to the film and made it a sort of comedy and it made the film really funny.
We only used one effect which was cross dissolve, we didn't want to make it look to cheesy with lots of effects so we kept them minimal.
When it came to us putting music to it we wanted the music to make the story line of our film clear so we put serious music over the top of the the beginning part of the film then when the people turned around we put light hearted music over it to show we went being to serious,
Because we ran out of time to carry on filming we left the film on a cliffhanger so the audience wouldn't know who won and we put a funny scream over the end for a final light hearted take on the film.
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