Improvements and changes

Although our work had some good points in it for instance our opeing minute and ten seconds is very good we still have a long way to go. After speaking to Mr Michey we decided with his help what we need to change to make a great thriller opening. We decided that:

We need to record Maizy, our actress sining the full version of the twinkle twinkle song so that we can play it over our titles at the start and build a bit more suspense.

Our transitions between places need to be slowed down to give a clear indication that the location has chnaged.

Close up shots of Maizies character need to be shown more frequently so that the audience can interact with her and her emotions a lot more.

When Maizy looks around in the woods we should do some point of view shots showing what Maizy can see.

Our diagetic sound needs to take a bigger role in the second minute of the film in the woods. We need to consider getting rid of some of the music or blening the two together to keep to the verisimilitude of a scene in the woods.

Also we are considering changing a film quite dramticly. We are considering cutting out the barn and alley scenes and instead make our in the house scenes longer and cut at some point in the woods.

Our Thriller opening so far

So far in our coursework we have produced a ruff cut of our thriller opening and can now see what point we are at and what progress we have made. Overall our group achieved 35 out of 60 for the first piece which isn't too bad however there is a lot of improvements that need to be made to achieve A and B grades. In the next few days I will be posting the ruff version of our thriller so that i can use it in my evaluation to compare how much progression me and my group have made between now and the finishing point of our thriller opening.

Progress we have made

As a group we have made a significant amount of progress to make our film and we our very pleased with our finished piece. It took us a while to really get into making the film but when we did we came together as a group and worked really hard. I feel i learnt how to use the camera a lot better, something i hadn't done before and I also feel that my editing skills our a lot better than they used to be. With each of us in the group being better than others at different things it showed us how much must go on in films behind the scenes in order to make a great thriller!

Sound's and music

Throught the editing we needed to use many different sounds and music. We need to find copy right free music which we managed to do after a long time of looking as we needed three different types of music for our film

We also wanted a noise of an owl and a telephone at one point which again we needed to find copyright free.We used sites such as google to search engine places where we could find this type of music.

Sound's and music

Throught the film we needed to use many different sounds and music. We need to find copy right free music which we managed to do after a long time of looking as we needed three different types of music for our film

We also wanted a noise of an owl and a telephone at one point which again we needed to find copyright free.We used sites such as google to search engine places where we could find this type of music.Using google we found many copyright free music websites which we got our three pieces of music from.

Editing

The editing proved to be a bit more difficult than the filming. None of us being brilliant on computers ment that all four of us had to work very hard in order to edit our piece. We used premiere to store and edit our footage and we added many sounds and noises to our piece to increases it's verisimilitude.

Feedback

Ever sicne we started filming we would always take our footage to school the next day and get Mr Michey's feedback on it. He always told us what was good and bad about it making it easier for us to make our film better.

We were forced to change the plot as he told us that our little girl scene did not follow the verisimlitude of our piece. It looked out of place as the girl didn't look old enbough.

To keep to the verisimlitude we also filmed a shot of the little girl holding a teddy bear establishing her age.

05/02 more filming

On this date we went back, from the advice of our teacher, to the woods where we took our new story board with some different shots. Our teacher told us to take more point of view shots to get in touch with our characters emotions more.

We also improved our piece by giving our actress the dialogue she needed rather than making her think of it of the top of her head.

However we did have some drawbacks as the snow fall that we had had made it difficult to create the right type of scene that we wanted.

Third filming

Third filming- On this occasion we went to the woods, our main filming location to shoot some new shots and also re-shoot some of the ones we had done before to improve them. On the day it was raining which made it difficult to film and get the correct shots we wanted however it also helped make the mese en scene better as the clouds made it a lot darker. We were beginning to find the benefits of filming more than once as we all realised how much easier we were finding filming however it still wasn’t that easy!

We then went back to Amber’s house where our actor Tad and actress Lia were ready for shooting in the child’s bedroom.

The video camera ran out however we used a camera that could video to do the shots and they quite surprisingly came out looking really good.

By the end of the third filming it was clear to see that we as a group were making progress and film material at a good quality was becoming more frequent.

Media coursework second filming

Second filming- The group focused on location shots as two of us were not able to attend filming due to sickness. However with the location shots now done we were beginning to get started.