consideration of topic

during our discussions as a group over the last few weeks we thought about the topic of our film. as it is to do with a paedophile and rape etc we realised it is quite a sensitive topic and we have to make sure what we include in our opening sequence is suitable. we have to consider that this topic could be quite upsetting for some people therefore we decided to make very clean cuts and only to hint at the themes we are trying to portray rather than being to explicit.

week 6

this week we have continued to cut our footage down and we also have started to order it. we decided to edit the footage as we put it in order rather than order it and then edit it as a lot of shots had to be fragmeted for our montages therefore this would make it easier. we have also been thinking about music for our opening sequence and what sort of music we will use and if we will make it or not.

week 5

during week 5 we focused on the credits and started to edit our film. we had to first upload all of our filming on to the computer and then we opened it on final cut express which is the program we are using to edit our footage. this week we have also spent a lot of time on our independent blogs and making sure we are all up to date. we started to choose the shots we wanted to use and cut them down as we had a lot more footage than needed as we experienced with different types of shot and angles for each scene.

Making the credits

  To make the credits we decided to use stop motion so we could animate objects using photographs to add something interesting to our opening sequence. we came up with the idea of using magnetic scrabble on a fridge as it was easy to move around and therefore animate. We used a different path for the letters coming together for each name so it was varied. It was a challenging task in some aspects as it had to fit together well and flow properly for it to work but the outcome was successful. One problem we faced was after we took the images we realised there was a change in shadows between some of the images which didn't look as professional as it could of. We decided that if we have time at a later date we could re-do this but as we were all pleased overall we thought it was not a big problem for the moment.

Filming Our Foundation Project

Above are some  photographs of us filming some of our foundation task (at one of our shoot loactions) . We tried capturing each piece from as many different angles as possible, as we intended to  allow ourselves extensive versatility when it came to editing the clips together, to create a continous effect. We also wanted to develop a wide range of shots for our montage sequences aswell, to make them alot more dramatic and have a much larger impact on our audience. With heinsight we realised that our ‘Feed The Fish’ preliminary task, perhaps lacked a varied and creative range of different angled shots, for example : high, low,canted,point of veiw,reverse  and so on. So we wanted to learn from our previous mistake, and try to take a more challenging approach to our filming.

Our filming schedule

Because we needed to book cameras and organize filming our actresses at several different locations, it was vital we had a legible, clear filming schedule as above.

Our Pitch

This is the basic plot line to the opening sequence of our thriller film. Set in the 21st century, where the real horror and chills are drawn from behind the doors of suburban normality, the safe havens and places children feel secure and at home. Our protagonist, a sixteen year old girl, occupied by running her everyday stresses away with a relaxing soak, idiotically allows an intruder, posing as a 'helpfull' handy man, into her house. Rushing to turn off the taps and shut out her problems, she leaves the suspicious stranger downstairs. After hanging back for a few minutes and eerily inspecting her childhood photographs, he ascends the staircase, getting closer and closer to something he is far too familar with...