Thriller Editing Day 2

Today was the deadline for our films!! When i came in at lunch the media rooms were packed out and everyone looked stressed as there was only 2 and a half hours left to edit!

My group were no were to be seen but when i spoke to Annie i discovered that Efosa had come in on thursday and made a soundtrack we could use however it was unfinished. 

So when i came back from lunch it was still very hectic in the media department however it was quite calm in my group because we were positive about finishing which was good because rushed work isn't very good! 

We listened to Efosa's soundtrack and we thought it was really good but could use a few extra bits, so as a group we added a few things into it and then were happy with it!

Now all that was left was to add in the soundtrack and then the credits which we were able to do pretty quickly! We pretty much managed to stick to the 3pm deadline for all media students even though my class had till 4.30pm because it was our 3 hour lesson.

I was relieved when it was finished and was really happy with our finished piece as it had a good range of shots and it all fitted in nicely!

Apart from a few little hick-ups over the weeks i think our group worked well together and we got on with the task well and i'm very pleased with how our work has turned out....... Hopefully the audience will like it when it comes to veiwing it in the cinema and more importantly i hope it gets us good marks!

Thriller Editing Day 1

Today was a really good editing day. When i came in my group showed me what they edited when i wasn't there. I was really impressed at what they'd got done and the footage and the editing cuts were really impressive, which made me quite proud! In the lesson we finished editing the film and the ending which was good that we have got that done as most of the other groups havent and the deadline is friday! We began to look at the soundtrack but we was just looking at what different sounds we might be able to use. Me and Annie decided to go and start to do the credits that we can put in on friday.

Hopefully we will be able to finish by friday which i'm sure we will because we are going to meet earlier before the lesson on friday!

Thriller Filming Day 5

Sadly i was unable to come in this day in half term as i had a funeral. I did feel bad on my group, however i spoke to them and they understood and agreed to do it without me. 

When i spoke to them about it, they told me they thought the day went well as they were able to finish the filming and start some of the editing. Obviously in the next lesson i will have to do a lot of the work to make up for the time i missed.

Thriller Filming Day 4

This was our short lesson of the week, so we didnt have much time and what made it worse was that after we checked over our errors last week, we didnt make a note of them so Efosa had to go upstairs and check what we had to re-film again. We were hoping to re-film the bad shots aswell as the last two scenes today and get it all out of the way, however we did not end up doing the last scenes as we didnt have time and have not yet decided what they are actually going to be. We have a few ideas that we havent decided on yet but i think we are just going to experiment when we begin filming next lesson. We need to get the last scenes film so that we can get on with the editing!! As our time for filming is limited, half term is next week and we dont have a lesson on friday, we have to come in on monday for an extra filming day. Hopefully we should be able to start some of the editing on monday aswell :) 

Thriller Filming Day 2&3

Day 2: On tuesday college was closed due to the bad weather conditions. The heavy snow caused pubic transport to be suspended therefore no one could get in to college. No filming or editing could be done today unfortunately!

Day 3: Another unsuccessful day. The room we were using was booked up with another class so we were unable to film. We used the lesson to log our previous filming and watch it over to see if there were any errors we need to correct next time. Hopefully we can get some more filming in next week!!

Thriller Filming Day 1

Today was the first day of filming and it didnt go as we expected, however it wasn't a bad days work. Initially we intended to get a non-media student to be our main character however the person we had in mind was unable to do it for us. At such short notice and because we couldnt afford to loose filming time, we thought the best solution would be to use Antionette - a member of our group. Our second dilema was the room we were meant to be using. on n earlier lesson we asked our teacher to book a room in the library for us to film in but he was unable to get it. We had to improvise using another computer room in college that has a similar layout. The only thing we had to change was a few shots with book shelfs and desks, however i think that the computer room will work better. 

On a better note, the filming that we did get one was quiet good. We experimented with alot of shot types and everyone helped to think of the best ways to film. Efosa has been our main camera-man so far but i believe this works well as he is tallest etc. We were unable to film the scene where the girl recieves the email, as we thought it would be simpler to send it annoynomously, but thats okay because it gives us more practise time and more time to research what we need to do.

All in all i think it was quite sucessful.

Thriller Filming Day 5

Today we didn’t have a full group because Ava couldn’t make it; she had to attend a funeral. Well the really wasn’t much too do today but just fix up all of the continuity errors I found. It actually to a while to film everything, because we couldn’t figure out what to do for the last scene, it took a while but we got it done in the end, and it actually came out good. What also slowed us down was trying to reproduced the scenes which had continuity errors, the actor Annie was getting frustrated by having to repeat the same thing over and over again.

In the end, we got everything that we needed done, done so we completed all of the filming today, that’s our millstone. So I guess you’ll have to stay tuned for what’s next up: Thriller Editing Day 1