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. 

Research into theartofthetitle.com

Today i visited the website, http://www.artofthetitle.com/. 

I done so in order to gain some ideas of how to set out the title sequence for our two minute thriller. Whilst I was on the website I watched the title sequence to a few different types of films in order to get a wider range of ideas and perceptions. These included, 'Days of Heaven', 'Scott pilgrim vs the world' and others.


One of the title sequences I found interesting was the title sequence to 'Dawn of the Dead';   

I thought the opening to this film was interesting as the use of the music in the background, the speech from the news reporter and the screeching noises (sound as though someone is screaming) fit perfectly with the images shown on the screen. Also the credits have a good effect as they flash on the screen in red and then seem to run off the screen as if they are bleeding. The images and the credits seem to take turns to flash on and off the screen, they create a sense of confusion, chaos and panic which suites the story line of the film.

More filming

Today we planned to carry on filming. We thought we would have a long time to film and therefore get a lot done because it's a sunday. However, our plan was not carried out effectively as our main actress failed to show. Therefore, we couldn't film so got nothing done. Next time, we will make sure that our actress shows and that she knows the time in which she needs to turn up.

List of characters and titles for the opening credits

As a group we discussed in what order we would place the characters in the opening credits of our thriller and what else we would like to include. The following is what we have come up with;

1: Panoptic Productions present

2: A film by Connor Murray
                 Sarah Warnock
                 And Ashleigh Hay

3: Starring Hollie Tuvey

4: Gera Zaharov

5: Also starring Georgia Wigley
                      Harley Mason

6: Music by Connor Murray

7: Edited by Ashleigh Hay
                 Connor Murray
                 Hollie Tuvey
                 Sarah Warnock

8: Directed by Connor Murray
                    Sarah Warnock
                    Ashleigh Hay

9: Assistant Director Hollie Tuvey

10: LOST SIGNAL