My Editing is Complete

I finally finished editing our production, and i'm very impressed how well it turned out; the shots are snappy and elaborate, i really think i have the hang of editing, i'm glad i chose to take on this part. It took a long time and i hope the group appreciates how imperative it was to make sure all the shots were coherent. I hope they finally agree with the editing choices i made.

New Time Line

All of these tasks have now been completed, the editing process took longer than was expected as the colourization process and the lighting took a lot of effort to get correct. However it does look good. We had all the filming complete by the end of March which was longer than we expected however the film looks excellent.


(This is they new version of events which actually took place, the original draft was what we desired to happen however complications and time meant that we had to rearrange the time table)

Completed By November 30th 2014

• Initial ideas for the two minute clip
• Story Boards
• Mood Board

Completed By December 16th 2014

• Actors Chosen
• Choose A Date For Filming
• Name Chosen

Completed By December 31st 2014

• Script Complete
• Costume and prop scouting
• Filming begins

Completed By January 16th

• Most of the filming complete
• Location Scouting

Completed By February 28th 2015

• All Filming Complete
• All media uploaded to a laptop
• Clip placement and organisation
• Editing process Begins

Completed By March 28th 2015

• Editing Complete
• New Filming to display the phycology behind the film
• Sound inputed on film
• New

Completed By April 20th 2015

• 2 minute clip exported
• Clip embeded onto Blogger.com

Last Day of Filming!!!

Today we filmed for the last time which was a great achievement because we have all worked really hard. We had some trouble as the batteries ran out therefore i made a quick trip to the local shop and we were back on track. All I need to do is edit now!!!

Beverages on Set!!!

None of the actors are older than 17 years of age therefore we had to remove the alcohol from their drinks and wash the beer bottles out vigorously and then filled it up with Appleaid as this was the closest to the original beer colour.

From Royden to Ashton

We are going to film additional shots in Royden park in Irby, it has the same environment and themes which we need to compliment our movie. Moreover it conveniently offers parking facilities, it is a popular park however it does boast the space we need to shoot our car stunts. The vast amounts of space are ridden with trees therefore reducing the light which imperative to our theme and movie. Despite it being a public place we think this is the best option.

New Prop

We have a new prop in the movie! My car we thought that we could use it because I have a driving license so could use the car and a shot of Doug/Ben getting to it. We are picturing Doug struggling to open it due to him being drunk. Once he gets in the car we would need a shot of him driving so we decided I would wear Bens coat and glasses whilst driving. I needed a large area to recklessly drive as if i was drunk, so the right location for these shots is very important.

Location! Location! Location!

Macadana Drive West Kirby

We have been location scouting using google maps to find the perfect location for our flashbacks to happen. We're looking for a place with a lack of natural light, unfortunately this setting in the image is to open and prone to a lot of wind therefore filming here would reduce the sound quality as well as disrupting the actors, moreover it is a very public place and as our two actors are quite shy when in the company of strangers amongst the set. Also as we are going to be using beer bottles as props there may be some confusion with the public as both of our actors are under the age limit.

                                                                                    

Location 2: Kings Drive West Kirby

 This is Kings Drive on the left as you can see it would be the perfect place for a couple of friends to hang out as there is a picnic bench a place to park your car and a nice view, however it is to light for a horror story to take place in, it juxtaposes the whole theme of our film, despite its locality and surreality it will not work in our film. We have finally come up with an answer... we are going to film in Royden park, it has the same atmosphere and features as Ashton park except it actually has a car park, moreover it isn't open and it is covered with trees therefore reducing the light exposure. Despite it being a public place we think this is the best option.

Filming Re-shoots

Yesterday we went out filming our re-shoots for our new plot. Here are some photographs displaying our shooting techniques. First we scouted some areas where we wanted to film in which was 



Inside the Car

Trying to keep the natural light at a minimum



New Ideas for Phycology of Clip

Ben and I have been brainstorming this morning in our free period to find a solution to our storyline. We needed to produce more of a psychological element to our film.

Finished Filming (Or so we thought)

Yesterday we finished all of the separate shots of Kirsty which we have been waiting to do for numerous weeks. I edited all the shots and merged them into the pre edited storyline and watched as our previous three months of work unravelled, as a two minute clip, on screen. On reflection we all agreed that there wasn't enough physcology there was too much physicality involved in our story line, therefore we now need to re-mould our storyline and create an actual plot (Instead of a continuous chase scene) We have a few ideas at the moment but hopefully once we sit down and brainstorm we should have a great story.

Genre Box Office results 2012

This is the box office results of 2012 displaying that Horror has a high number of releases and grosses about £62,000,000

Fake Injuries and Specialised Wound Kits

We spent time before filming ensuring that we were equipped in the skill of make up, fortunately on of our group took really well to it; Luke, therefore he received the title of make up artist. Its a really tricky skill to create the correct gradient which matches with the skin and Luke did it really well taking into account that the tools we were using were very basic: Vaseline, Make-up and Thinned Clay.

Kirsty Wardrobe and Make up

We decided to go with the classic white ghost like gown, and splatter with fake blood which was red food dye and Tomato Ketchup, it looked very effective, the only problem was because it was liquid we were dealing with it wouldn't have dried for about 10 minute so we had to use a hairdryer. this looked all well and good however for Kirsty is wasn't very comfortable as it was quite cold out and the costume wasn't very warm. She looked really creepy as we purposely put her hair in strewed side pony tails. She also put eye liner and a dark foundation around her eyes to give a demonic topping to her costume.

Film Postponed Again

Unfortunately we are unable to film today as Kirsty is unwell, I tried to motivate her to go into school so that we could film later as other groups are beginning to build up steam in their filming and we keep stumbling. Unfortunately my mum overruled as it would be unfair to here to film and wait in the cold while she is ill. I have spoken to here and she thinks she will be well enough to film in Thursday.  

Equipment Used in Filming: Dolly

 

The Dolly 



Dolly systems are very expensive. Which is why we had to borrow one from the school, unfortunately we did not have the track you see in the picture meaning our film was shaky in some takes. The idea of the dolly is to accommodate all DV & HDV cameras, tripod and rigs. The swift dolly is skilfully made and the set up is quick and easy. Our swift dolly track can also work with other dolly systems because the outer diameter of this track is the same as of the standard.



The dolly provided dynamic shots and aided in tracking shots as we were able to move the camera mounted on the tripod. This helped as it made our filming diverse as were not just using match on action.








Unused footage!

This is footage from our final task which was filmed on my iPhone 6 as our cameras were unable to zoom when in the video preset! This caused a major problem as the continuity was less fluid. However to keep the quality of the film it is sensible to leave this footage out at it would be visible in the difference between quality on screen. 

Decisions with Editing

The Professional Software 

Yesterday our cameraman Liam took our first shots just with me on screen, although when we were out shooting, we realised that we were speaking about ways in which we could portray the macabre theme we were going for e.g manipulating the lighting or desaturation of the clips, when editing. So we decided that i would edit as we took the shots. I have already started editing our most of the shots that we have taken, this was helped by the use of two cameras giving different angles to increase the professionalism feel which we are trying to replicate from the actual industry, At the moment it is looking great, and we are already looking for copyright free audio soundtracks to include in it. To edit we are using a software called ' Final Cut Pro' on an Apple Macbook Pro.

Editing progresses

Im really enjoying the editing on Final Cut Pro, it didnt take me long to pick up the skill set which allowed me to make some good cuts, i think i have definatly improved from our last extract which we all made. There are some problems that others in the group didnt like the title card animation as it seemed out of place which in hindsight i agree with. Unfortunately the amount of clips we took means that our screenplay is too long reaching limits of 1 minute 45 seconds; the problem is that we havent embeded kirstys shots yet leaving us with 15 seconds to work with. I may have to make a descision to remove the head turn section as it is a bit out of place and comical. Unfortunately others in the groupd dont understand the value of a couple of seconds. However i am very happy with how it is looking so far. 

Third Day of Filming! Weather Warning!

We were all prepared to complete our last day of filming; we made sure we had the: props, warm clothing, batteries etc but today unfortunately the weather is forecast to rain and it has been raining all day, to keep with the continuity of our film opening; we made a group agreement that it wouldn't be right to continue today also the actors and rest of the crew would be wet through!! Better luck next time.

Second day of filming final task!

This afternoon we were given time to do more filming, it started in disaster as we had left some major props at home and we had cameras loosing battery quickly, luckily I managed to retrieve these and we made some good progress as our male actor began to understand his role in the film and how serious the film was; we had some good takes and bad takes however it all worked out in the end, one more day of filming to go!