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.