Over the course of the Easter holidays, myself, Jess, and Tara have been filming!!
We decided to use the church shown in my blog as the location and we also used a park near where Jessica lives.
Our actors involved a girl called Grace as our murderer, a girl called Paris as our dead girl, and myself and Tara were extras for the fun scene.
Now we are going to start editing when we get back to school Monday. We all really enjoyed filming and I hope you enjoy our film when its complete!!
We have experienced a couple of problems however with our location. There is not much of a gap between the bench and the road, therefore our mid-shots are hard to film because we could of got run over!!!
We managed to change a few of the shots which compromised the storyboard! (UH-OH!) However we think it looks better this way. The only big change in the filming was the mid-shot of Grace on the bench where we had to instead film her at a diagonal angle. Also, we decided not to film the sky but to film the cross at the top of the church, representing of course the lovely classic DEATH.
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009
Location!
Here are our pictures of the church we will be using in our thriller. We are using a church to symbolise the death of the girl. It also gives an eery effect. It also represents mourning.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Tuesday 31st March 2009
On Tuesday we practiced some different shots and angles that we could use for our Thriller. We experienced some problems whilst panning and tilting the camera as it does not stay very smooth.
We are also experiencing some problems with the times as normally when one of us are free during the week the other has lessons! Therefore we are going to take the camera out during the Easter holidays giving us 2 weeks to complete our filming.
We have now also found somebody else to play our dead girl ... Stacey Reading!
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Preparation
We are now ready to start filming when we can. First of all we are going to film the middle section of the Thriller, due to the fact we need a picture of this to put in the frame for the beginning and ending. After this we are going to film the church scene, which is near Jessica's house in Collier Row.
After this we will have finished our filming hopefully...and then we can start to edit!
We have made a schedule of our free times, lessons, e.t.c. and we now all know when we are free. We should be filming sometime this week :)
Here are some props we will need ... these are just an idea. We'll get similar items.
After this we will have finished our filming hopefully...and then we can start to edit!
We have made a schedule of our free times, lessons, e.t.c. and we now all know when we are free. We should be filming sometime this week :)
Here are some props we will need ... these are just an idea. We'll get similar items.
This is an idea of a dress our victim can wear.
Black make-up for the victim to wear...
The photo frame showing the past and memories...
A heart necklace also for our victim to wear.
Monday, 23 March 2009
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Our StoryBoard
Last Monday, we drew out a rough copy of our storyboard, and then Tuesday we drew out a neat copy. Using my phone I took pictures of the images and bluetoothed them onto the computer. All there is to do now is made a slideshow of these pictures to create our storyboard. We all hope to achieve this tommorow...
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Our Preliminary Task.
This is our preliminlary task starring me and Tara.
It was filmed by Jake Harding, and edited by myself, Tara, and Jess.
It's very short and simple but quite funny!
Our excerise had to include continuity, match on action, shot/reverse shot, and the 180 degree rule. Our preliminary task involves all of these things.
We started off with our titles. We created our own music using GarageBand and used cool synth effects. This gave us good practise for when we have to make our own music for our thriller.
After the titles we started with our establishing shot of Tara walking towards the building. We used a pan as well to follow her action. We then see a mid-shot of her walking in but see this inside the building which is the 180 degree rule. Then it is a long shot of Tara walking towards me. Then we see a close-up/over shoulder shot of me talking to show Tara is still there, so it looks like a conversation. We then see a close up of the bag so you can see the action. After that, we see a very short clip of Tara handing me the homework.
At this point we experienced some problems with the continuity. For the next shot we had moved places so we had to use a dissolve effect to show time passing. This has helped us gain experience for continuity so we won't make the same mistake twice!
Then me and Tara skip off into happiness and the shot closes in on us. The music also starts to play, indicating quite obviously the end.
We had great fun filming and editing this preliminary task and we have now come up with even more ideas for our soundtrack and filming ideas!
It was filmed by Jake Harding, and edited by myself, Tara, and Jess.
It's very short and simple but quite funny!
Our excerise had to include continuity, match on action, shot/reverse shot, and the 180 degree rule. Our preliminary task involves all of these things.
We started off with our titles. We created our own music using GarageBand and used cool synth effects. This gave us good practise for when we have to make our own music for our thriller.
After the titles we started with our establishing shot of Tara walking towards the building. We used a pan as well to follow her action. We then see a mid-shot of her walking in but see this inside the building which is the 180 degree rule. Then it is a long shot of Tara walking towards me. Then we see a close-up/over shoulder shot of me talking to show Tara is still there, so it looks like a conversation. We then see a close up of the bag so you can see the action. After that, we see a very short clip of Tara handing me the homework.
At this point we experienced some problems with the continuity. For the next shot we had moved places so we had to use a dissolve effect to show time passing. This has helped us gain experience for continuity so we won't make the same mistake twice!
Then me and Tara skip off into happiness and the shot closes in on us. The music also starts to play, indicating quite obviously the end.
We had great fun filming and editing this preliminary task and we have now come up with even more ideas for our soundtrack and filming ideas!
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