Thursday, 30 December 2010

Re-re-Filming

Heya.
Well finally I think we've done enough filming to come up with a good final piece. We came into school at eleven o clock and once we'd all woken up we started filming. The first scene was a shot of Taylan, hood up, looking dark and intimidating, outside school. Then we strapped the camera to the bike for a smooth, creature like effect and got a few point of view shots of the evil... not quite sure what it is snaking around the school and shrinking up the stairs. But a difficulty we kept facing was space on the camera. Throughout the day we had to take three trips to the media suit to download the footage and delete it off the camera. So after doing this for the second time we filmed our last shot in a classroom. We used a range of shots and I think once we edit them together we will create a scary, heart-racing thriller opening. I think that there were not set roles that we kept to. I think that each participant in the group did a bit of filming, editing and directing. I think that maybe in the future, something that could be improved is assigning set roles for everyone. I think that this would make it fairer as some people end up doing more work than others. I think that the whole experience has been frustrating, annoying and time-consuming. But I think that once we are faced with the end result, we will feel content, confident and collected. Well... I hope so anyway. I think I have learned that team work and relationships is very important when making a film sequence. Without strong relationships we have nothing to build our films on. Overall I think we had a poor group dynamic, but after this experience I think it has grown and we had learned we can work well together.
Kitty

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Re-filming

Well finally after a week of fighting, we have decided to start again. We decided on a mix between the original and the second one we started. Today we have come in to re-film (yes in the Christmas holidays) dedication? I think so! So far its going quite well. I woke up my group and we got here on time... almost. And we've started filming. I'll blog later to ket you know how it went

Kitty

Sunday, 5 December 2010

Rough Cut/Editing

Two lessons ago we showed the class our rough cut and got feedback. Everybody seemed to think it was good and if we carried on editing, we could achieve a high level We are still in the process of editing and have been adding in pieces of film that we filmed later. When we watched the rough cut we decided that it was not completely for filling the genre. We sat down together as a group and brainstormed and decided to film a the teacher getting killed. This way, the audience would understand the storyline more, without giving away the whole plot. We have not yet got to the title's and have not discussed what we will do to create them but I believe that this is what we will be doing next lesson.

Kit