continuation of editting

We have now added our titles to the piece and we are in the process of adding osund effects in order to give the effect of a horror but also using school bells in order to conform to the conventions of a teen movie. We experimented with a red colouring for our font but it did not work very well because the red did not stand out against the scenery and white only stood out a little better. We changed the shots that the titles were om so that it was possible to read what was being noted down on the screen because on one of the scenes that we were using, it was difficult to read the subtitles underneath because of the scenery because of the leaves in the foreground.

evaluation of our 2nd shoot

We have now done our in class shoot and we are relatively pleased with what we have as we are now able to place together what we have because we have all the footage that we require for our opening sequence. Now we have to create a title sequence to go with the footage and we also have to add the audio track, along with the song that we have decided to use. This will allow us to complete our edit and we are sure that we will meet our aim to have the edit completed within our two week deadline. With the script for our second shoot, we decided to use the media technician as our teacher as our regular teacher decided that she preferred being behind the camera than being captured on camera.
We tried to create a script for our acting teacher, but we required a little bit of improvisational work as we struggled to think of ideas for the script and we also did not want to make the teacher seem too strict and only wanted him to seem as dull as students often see some teachers.

Editing

We shot our footage, not only in reverse order of location, but also in jumbled up frame sequence, IE. We shot all footage in each area and condition together so that our edit flowed. We made sure each frame was clearly marked which made it easier to find what shots go where. We also doubled all takes so that we had more than one to chose from.

Shoot #2 - "Classroom"

We shot our in class shoot last week. This was the only part of the footage that we wanted to keep the natural sound of. So we found the appropriate looking classroom that did not have computers buzzing in the background.
Our teacher decided that she'd rather not be in our shot, as it was unfair to have skilled actors in one shot but not all the others.
As such, our media technician was the acting teacher and was given directions on how we wanted his performance, but we asked him to talk naturally to make the sound flow. We got the class to act as we wanted them to, but had to retake shoots as we all laughed at the unexpected topic that he spoke about.
At the end of the shoot we captured the footage and were very pleased with what we got. We now have all of our footage and have almost finished our rough cut. So now we can piece together what we have, Scott and I are very happy with out footage and we feel positive at the prospect of our two week deadline.

Beginning of editing for the finished piece

We have begun to edit our work and we have managed to experiment with a blue wash to give the effect of the sequence being set in a dream. This allows us to use our idea of being unable to tell the difference between dreams and reality. We did encounter a problem when we realised that we had left the camera running without realising, which added extra time to our shoot. We editted the shots we were using and personally I thought one of our shots of blood looked like rhubarb crumble so we decided that we could not use the shot because it did not look right. We also realised that there we some scenes that we were unable to use because they looked as if the actors were not ready and also scenes where we left the camera on and we were speaking randomly and what we were saying was picked up by the camera resulting in us having to remove the scenes.

The shoot

We were pleased with how the shoot went, we learnt a lot on the day about surroundings and techniques that can be used with the camera.
I was pleased with the performance from our cameraman and director as a dead person. Our makeup artist did her best to make scott look dead but to be honest, we all agreed a brick would have given a better appearance.
We used fake blood and natural scenery to give the affects that we wanted. Rain made my hair look appropriate and being as it was a damp day, shoes and trousers etc became muddy naturally.

The weekend Shoot

We did our shoot at the weekend, of frames 4-12 of our storyboard. Leaving just the first three frames to be shot in school this week.
We shot the footage at the locations we had planned to do, but there was some variation from the storyboard, mainly in the mise-en-scene region.
We were pleased with what we got on the day for a number of reasons:
I as the main actor had very little sleep the night before, so looked appropriately worn.
We started filming in the afternoon, and the rain gradually got a little bit worse, but as it got worse, we were in a section where we shot scenes back to back, so hopefully in the edit you wont notice any jumps in weather.
We managed to get shots that we wanted, and the outtakes we have, mostly can be used as filler shots as they are mostly appropriate to the filming that we needed.