5th february

Cut and log and editing

in this session we began initially by cutting and logging our footage, this was a long and tedious 

job but it was obviously a necessity. As we cut our footage we came to realise we had more than enough and we thought this a good thing as it would mean we would have a lot of footage to play with.

eventually when we came to edit our pieces together i had organised the clips in folders, categorising them between the angles they were at and special events etc. By doing so it made creating match cuts easier- however, we came to realise that because our opening was very simple we had to make certain that there was a sense of progressive continuation. For example, during one clip it portrays me running towards a camera but for the sake of building suspense we had interrupted this every so often with other clips of me running but at different angles, we had to make certain that where we had interrupted this clip, it would smoothely follow where it had left off.

After criticising and redrafting what i had edited over and over, we eventually came to  a point where we were satisfied with what we had, however, there is always room for improvement.

9th february

music editing and credits

in this session because we had scarcely finished our editing, though we would like to review this again, niquita and riahna began creating and developing upon a sound track suitable for our thriller. They achieved a more than competent sound track as they did not use actual instruments for the soundtrack but rather scratching sounds. This gave a very surreal and thrilling effect and layered upon our thriller it produced a very noticeable good effect.

As they were doing this i finished, rendered and placed the credits, though i did not put the credits in an actual place i had just wanted to see how long our thriller opening would be if they were in it. For the credits we understood that it did not matter what they said who did what so we simply just wanted names under directed by etc, for example although i had starred in, directed and also had significant input in the camera work i did not put my name under all these titles. My other group members also played these roles however small or otherwise.

At the end of the lesson i came to realise that perhaps the font of the credits were not suitable as they moved in a floating like way and in too slow a pace, which spans away from the fast beat involving pace of our thriller- i would need to change this at a later time.

31st january 09

Filming part 1

As our first thriller idea did not come as planned, we were slightly behind schedule with our filming compared to other groups. So to make up for this we decided as a group to meet up on a Saturday and start filming our new thriller in queen’s woods. This forest was very spectacular because it was very dense which we wanted it to be, because it is important to have the correct environment for this type of clip. Before we started, any filming Wing who is the main character had to put his injury makeup on to make the filming a bit more effective. He puts scares on his face, arms and he even manages to make scabs on his on his arms which look really realistic at least in the film having these injuries would make the audience assume that this character has been struggling for some time. When we were all ready niquita and reahna went to look for a good place to film. Once this has been found we then started to film. Wing would be running through the forest and we have to take different shots and angles of him. When the filming was completed these are the types of shots we managed to do, handheld, low angle, close up’s, tracking, static shots, and some high angled shots. In this particular day, we managed to do a lot of filming which was very useful when coming to do the editing. In a couple of days we are going to return back to queens woods to do a couple more match cuts which is needed in our thriller apart from that we are on schedule.

Saturday 31st january -Filming session

Over the past two weeks we have been trying to think of a right location to film our thriller opening. our thriller location needed to be very dense with wood land and not a lot of buildings around either. We had several choices of parks/woods.

• Epping forest


• Queens wood


• High gate woods

We ruled out Epping Forest due how far it was and we also considerd that it may be too dense. so we decided to film in queens woods.

when we got into the woods it was about 3pm so the natural light was starting to dim. we searched around for rigth setting as wing (main actor) would need a running path. wing make up was done on the bus ,by him and looked rather professional. he had fake blood on his face, cuts and buries all over his arms.

while wing was getting ready me and Rhianna went looking around our surroundings as we have never been to this forest before. we also looked a what areas were worth our filming time.

we took several shot of wing ruining though the woodland and we took this shot from alot of different angles. At one point i actually had to climb a tree with the camera in my hand , and film it from that angle. we also manged to get some shots from floor level, tracking and static.

We even developed our storyline as we went along. instead of wing ruining from nothing, it is later developed that a man will appear when wing falls down.

match Cut Practice

12/1/09

Today i was unwell so i could not participate in the lesson, unfortunately this would mean i would be behind on the thriller project, however, i believed i could rely on my other group members for the time being, thus i would be able to catch up on what they had done.

I had thought about what my thriller should go like if i had it my way; i wanted to begin with a small establishing shot from the top floor of a building. This shot will track a man as he makes his way to the front door. As he does so a thrillingly dressed girl watches him as she is alone in a grim dark room. For this idea i had also produced a storyboard; i had also desired to put the nursery rhyme ring a ring a roses in the background- so far this was my idea.

Editing and creating A sound Score For our thriller

Lesson:9/2/09

In todays lesson the main focus for our group was to finish editing our footage taken from our filming session on 31/1/09 and to start on creating a sound score for our thriller opening.

Filming 31/1/09

in the lesson befor wwe had drawn up a new story board and shot list to guid us during the filming this also gave us some structure into how we would shoot and the type of camera shots and angles we would use.This was a new synopsis as we found that when we were filiming our intial idea that it didnt work so well.

Here is a Breif plan into what we where aiming for in this filimning session

PLAN

Synopsis: character A is running through a forest being chased character B but we do not see the mistery charcter B until character A falls over the end of the opening sequence

Location:Queenswood forest, Highgate (along the 43 bus route)

Props:Steel cap boots

Examples from shot list:

Shot type-Long shot, Description of sound and action -character a running through the forest sounds:footsteps

Shot type-Low angle shot,Description of sound and action -Character A falling over

soubds:stumbling

Shot type -point of view shot/tilt,Description of sound and astion-Charecter A lookin up at Character B

we had all agreed to meet up on the saturday at angel tube station so we could travel to Queenswood forest together.once we had reached our location the first we had to do was explore the forest and find an ideal place to shoot for our sequence ,wher there would be minimal distraction and an area that was almost isolated so there was less of a chance that passers by could not intervene with our filming as this was a public park.once we had found the area were we