7 Titles 8

this is a list of titles that have to be included into our work.

• A TR.ACK production presents
  
• Josh Howlett
  
• Kathryn McAleer
  
• Josh O'Connor
• Chloe Vant
• Film editing by Josh Howlett & Kathryn McAleer
  
• Cinematography by
  
• Original music by Kathryn McAleer
  
• Directed by Chloe Vant
  

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7 The Plan of Action 8

• main aim is to cut down length of footage!
• edit effects e.g camera filters
  
• sort out problem with the wide screen setting
  

7 Response 8

Editing:

• This is still a rough cut so if it does go on for too long, we will cut out the bits that do not make sense and make it long. We will smooth over other parts that do not fit together properly. We will also try to use an effect to blur out the cars.

Camera-work

• The shots are meant to be shaky and unfocused, due to the stalker running after the girls and to find a hiding place.

Mise En Scene:

• We liked the effect of the lighting, because of the different times of day, different areas of the forest and different amounts of light being let into the forest. Dead leaves are always in the forest at this time of year, adding more would be less realistic. The stalker is a 'normal' person, so having any kind of 'special' outfits would make it less realistic.

7 The Review 8

Rough Cut and feedback




Editing:

• Beginning sequence goes on for too long and we began to get bored. Liked the camera views increasing tension where he was watching them.

Camera-work:

• Camera-work is good - clearly supposed to be shaky but would be more effective if had some steady camera work in contrast.

Sound:

• Silence & high pitch at the beginning is really effective, footsteps are also good and so is the breathing.

Mise en scene:

• First shot had a good misé en scene. Second; the lighting didn't work, didn't look very thrilleresque. The lighting of several shots were not very good.

• Foot shots with leaves were good = more dead leaves would have been more effective.

• Cars in background weren't very good. Looked a bit out of place. Costume of "Killer" not the most effective.

• Good headlessness!

7 The Review 8

• We didn't deviate from our shot-list too much. We used some of the same closeups and the pictures Josh drew on the storyboard are similar to some of the shots we have made. We have used the storyboards outline the whole way throughout the introduction.
• We had many issues during filming the scenes we seemed to resolve many of them rather easily though. We had a problem with the location we couldnty all get to the chosen area on the same days so we chose to use a closer location for filming. The second location we chose was still a forest like area with a 'creepy' look about it due to the hidden tree's and odd shapes in the tree's.
• As we decided to do a lot of our filming in lesson time we made sure the whole of our group were with us at all times so we could get all parts of our filming done within each time slot we had.
• many of rhe actors had a problem with our costumes as we would were different things each lesson after doing this once and having to change and delete half of the footage we did not make this mistake again. We just used footage when the audience could barely see what we wee wearing things, due to different angles.
• If we could do things differently i would make sure we could all get to the same location at the same time as planned so we could get more filming done.

7 Update 8

After filming all our footage last term, we now have all the editing to carry on with. We started some of the editing last term, this included learning and trying out different ideas with the day to night effects on final cut express. We are now going to Try out different idea's wit other areas of final cut express and experiment with other effects.

The things we have left to do are:

• The editing on 'final cut express'
• We have to add the soundtrack into our introduction and check it still fits well with the filming.
• We have to add our credits into our introduction.

7 The Change of Location 8

• This is our new location for filming.
  
• We changed our location of filming because of logistical difficulties and the availability of or previous filming venture. This is the Long Road wooded area
  

7 The Problems 8

• for today, Wednesday the 6th we took the camera out to try some more shots, we faced the problem that our characters were not wearing the same outfits as the last me we gathered footage, because of this we are using the footage that we have previously recorded. we are trying to edit y using day for night editing tool, this gives the footage a different colour we are using a kind of sepia color, this is the most effective color we thought this is because, we have a lot of footage which is blurred, adding this color gives the footage an even more blurred affect.

7 The Footage 8

• we booked time with the camera to take home with us, unfortunately due to reasons with other group members we did not gt the time that we needed to record more footage. although having this extra footage it would have been useful, we are going to work around this problem by using some of the test footage that we have recorded. once we right our final piece of writing we can write how not all plans to smoothly and that we faced some problems with our filming.

7 Update 8

• The group started to put together a soundtrack for the thriller introduction, that will be our non-diagetic sounding as it will be created for the audience to think whats going to happen next. It will create suspense and get the audience holding onto there seat intrigued in what would happen next. The diagetic sounding we will have is the scream as the young girls run away and the giggling of the girls when they are messing around.

7 Update 8

• On Monday 4th February we took the camera out and started filming some starting point of our thriller introduction. This included the main outline of what we would do throughout the thriller introduction so we had a main starting point for the introduction. This meant we could just edit, fix up and change parts of the filming we had done.

Teacher Feedback

Your blog is looking good. Make sure that once you have finished testing out some effects on your test footage that you upload it and explain what you were trying to achieve.
It is really important that your blog effectively communicates what you intend to accomplish in your thriller.
You need to ensure that you get organised and plan in your filming so that you get the footage you need, I am a little concerned that you don't have any camera time in outside of lessons.