Editing Continued

This is our fourth lesson on our preliminary task. Today our group continued to edit our clip. So far we have added some music and a slow heart beat as sound effects throughout the clip to create the thriller type mood. As for the footage we have got all the clips we want and in the correct place but we have yet to edit and cut some of it so that we can get the length of the clip down to a minimal size. The footage that we were going to convert did not get converted in the end as we decided it was needed for our clip as it would just lengthen the clip and the quality of the footage was not adequate. We plan to finish the clip in our own time.

Editing

Today we have started our editing process on our thriller. Unfortunately we have not been able to get a lot of the editing process done. When we filmed we filmed our footage on to different cameras. We have managed to import one camera's footage but the other footage needs converting. This means we will have to wait to complete the editing for when the footage has been converted.
So far we have chosen specific footage we want to use edited that and then added a heart beat sound effect to add to the overall mood of the film. We will finish the editing as a group in our own time.

Filming

This is our third lesson. Today we filmed our thriller. When we started out we already found a problem and that was that during the week we had asked the P.E. department in our school if we could borrow their storage cupboard for our thriller as it had the right visual aspects for the setting of our thriller. We needed a fairly dark room that at least looked cold. However, the P.E department did not allow us to film in their storage cupboard. Fortunately, we found another storage cupboard within the school that was just right for the setting of our thriller. There were a few minor changes made to the dialogue by Dougie who played our antagonist. It was originally planned that dougie would say "Tell me or I'll kill you!". However it was changed to "Say it!" as he hands James a piece of paper and points a video camera to his face. There is then no replie and Dougie shouts his line again, whilst shoving James. Jame's line was also changed from just screams to "I'm a hostage!". I think that these changes to the dialogue will improve the whole outcome of the video as I believe that this dialogue is better than the original.
The filming mostly went smoothly. There are a couple of outtakes but they will be edited out in the edditing stage which will happen in our next lesson.

Starting the Preliminary Task

This is our second lesson on the preliminary task. Last week as a group we created a basic idea that we were going to do a 30 second thriller. For homework we developed those ideas and today, we have used those ideas to create our main idea which we have story boarded. We have also created the dialogue for the characters in our scene.
Unfortunately there are only 2 of us present to story board our idea due to exams. This means that the ideas we have come up with might be changed if the other two people who are missing do not like the idea.

Our idea is to have a hostage situation. There are only two people in the scene, the victim and the antagonist. It will be mainly shot in a dark store cupboard. To set the mood mostly high angled shots will be used to make it seem like the footage was taken from a security camera. It will also be mainly filmed in black and white to give authenticity to the security camera feel.