Change of plan

Due to one member of our group, the main actress not being able to always show up we have decided to change the plan. In order to do this, we changed our main character to someone not in our original group and also changed the two friends to myself and another person also not in our group. As we have had to change the main actor we need to re film the footage we already have, however the individual we had picked for our stalker could no longer by the stalker and therefore we changed the stalker to a member of our group.We are hoping to get more done this way and get it completed quicker. 

'Kiss the girls' - 1997

I have just finished watching the thriller; 'Kiss the girls' made in 1997 by Gary Fieder, starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and Cary Elwes. The story is of a Washington DC. detective who travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece. Aided by the escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernana he cross hunts down the tow kidnappers, one operating under the name of 'Casanova', competing against each other to outdo each other as they seize and destroy their trophy captives. As with most mysteries, this one has the usual red herrings, false leads and dead ends. Freeman is excellent as Alex Cross and heroine Judd is a study in grit and survival and is very effective in a finely nuanced role. The opening credits to the film were very effective as the music was very creepy sounding and it contained some extremely disturbing images, creating the atmosphere of tension to the film right from the beginning. The North Carolina location lensing, music score and cinematography are all very good. 

Our finished viual mind map

Today during lesson, me and Sarah edited the footage for our visual mind map, in order to pick the best one we shot. Once the footage was put onto final cut express, we realised our original problem of the writing not being able to seen was not in fact a problem. This was because we realised the writing could infact be seen on the computer, the camera just didn't seem to pick it up clearly. Although the first footage had been ruined as we believed we could not see the writing and so had spoken over the top of it, we couldn't use this. However, we did manage to get a deccent capture of the visual mind map. This is shown below;

Editing

Today in class, Me and Connor put all of our footage we have so far on to final cut express and began to edit it. Whilst we were watching the footage over, we realised we had made quite a few mistakes and wrote a list of some shots we will or may need to retake in order to improve them. It took us quite some time to get the camera to connect to final cut express, so didn't have much time to edit. We will carry on editing next lesson.  

Filming at the weekend

This weekend me and my group carried on filming our thriller opening. We believe this went well and we feel we got quite a lot of filming completed overall. However, on saturday we did not get a lot done as our main actress failed to show on time again, but we got a lot of filming completed on sunday. Looking back over the footage, we did see a few peices we need to re-film and improve and will deffinately make sure our main actress shows up on time in order to increase the ammount of filming taking place.  

filming our visual mind map

Today during lesson, myself and the rest of my group decided to carry out a visual mind map about what comes to mind when the word 'thriller' is mentioned. We has to re-shoot this quite a few times as the writing could not be seen on the camera. We will upload our edited and finished product soon.

Garageband experiment

The other day in her spare time, a member of our group created an experiment for the ident for the opening of our thriller. It took some time for her to understand and grasp the concept of how the garageband application works but once it was recorded and shown to the rest of the group, we believed it went well with our ident. We haven't yet been able to put the music over the top of our ident and test if it fits, but will be hoping to soon once itunes is installed onto the imac we are using. 

However, when seeing how long the music lasted for, it appeared to last 8 seconds whereas our ident only lasts 5. therefore, a member of our group is going to edit the ident and lenghen it in order for the ident and the music to fit togethere without any complications.