P.s , i will be putting my bit about the director on here tomorrow, when i find it :)

BUZZZ x

Last weeeek

Hey again ladies and fellas :)

last week was a little bit stop/start, but we managed to get some decent editing done. We are well on our way to getting the film together with only a few more scenes to shoot which Emily and Rebecca are on top of :)

We also decided to use the much easier iMovie to edit our film, as Miss Hill advised us against using final cut because of the lack of time we have till the deadlines, thanks Miss :)

byesie x

Thriller Title

SO.
It seems that our title has been decided, and that my idea lost out!! :( :(

Congrats to Ella for coming up with Stolen Time as this is what we are calling our film.. that is until I think of one that is better than both of them ;)

:)

P.s! : i'm also going to take some photographs whilst myself and Becca are out filming to put on here to show that we are considering continuity! I'm very looking forward to taking her out, and it will be my first chance to play with the camera!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9h1nihExT0

Looking at other thriller films, I have found a film called Flightplan about a girl that goes missing on board an aeroplane. When her mother goes to look for her and asks the captain, she only discovers that they have no record of any girl on board. Therefore for all they know, her daughter doesn't exist. This is very similiar to the plot we have created in that Rebecca will go missing and Hannah finds out that her daughter died five years ago...
I have linked a trailer I have found on youtube.
I am currently beginning to look at music for our thriller. I have been looking at music from different thrillers such as flightplan itself, the da vinci code, seven and memento. All these thrillers have effective music but i haven't found one that really stands out to me.
I am also looking at some title sequences and like the idea of having a title followed by a shot in the film. Most films i have looked at use this style so I feel if we used it, it would go that extra mark in looking more professional.
Over the weekend, I am planning on taking my sister, Rebecca out to do some filming so hopefully by monday, all filming will be finished and I can concentrate on getting the music and title sequence sorted.

Wednesday 26th

SO. We have finally got ourselves into gear and we are making good progress!
Today we had only 3 group members, Me, Ella & Dave so we continued to edit and tried to use garage band (we were however not so great at it!) We have put together a basic first sequence. All we are waiting on is the filming of Rebecca that Emily has promised to do by Monday!
The basic sequencing has given us an idea of shots that we are not keen on and there is one scene that we would like to re-film all together, but as it involves my car, which today failed its MOT, that plan is on hold!
We have also today watched the film of another group in our class, which looks AMAZING :) and have decided that we need to make our film slightly more 'thrillerish', as what we thought would work hasn't quite. To do this we are thinking of adding some effects, for example putting the flash back in black and white.
This will be a job for Monday, So watch this space!
:)

what we did today...

We haven't had a very productive day in our lesson today as it was only me and dave here in our group as the others were away. So this obviously means we couldn't go out of school to do any last minute filming that we needed done as hannah wasn't there to drive us! But me and dave went on the website of the art of title sequence to find out some ideas on how our titles can be like in our film, and we found out from the film 'The Company' there was good titles on there showing very gloomy and myserious colours which was represent out film well.

Hopefully in our lesson tomorrow we get most of the editing done and emily can take home a camera and tripod to film the scenes with Rebecca in it, so we can have all the filming finally over and done with.

Tomorrows lesson...

In tomorrows media lesson, we are hoping to have got most of the filming done so we can all concentrate on the editing which we really need to get focused on as we have only done parts of it, and now falling behind from the rest of the class. We need to be looking up on you tube on what sounds we are going to be using as the majority of our thriller opening is muted with no dialogue except from mysterious sound effects in the background, we also need to be adding the transitions so all the shots and scenes can flow nicely.

We will be back to blogging tomorrow to tell you what we managed to get done in the lesson :) x x x

Some more filming...

It was only the three of us in our media lesson on wednesday so me and hannah thought it would be a good idea to go to Ixworth AGAIN and go and get some more filming done. We managed to get the scene where Hannah realises Rebecca had gone missing aqt the park....and where she phones Dave to 'inform' him of this. I managed to film this scene with just a handheld camera so i used my very 'steady' hand! So i think everyone should be proud of me! We thought we would film that scene using handheld camera because it created a kind of mystery, suspense effect so it was occasionally jaunty as if someone was following her....

Whilst we were doing this, Dave was in school carrying on with some editing and looking for some good titles we can add...

x x

stressy day!

still behind with the filming side but we're motivated enough to put the stress aside and do as much as we can! as soon as we get the filming done, we can start looking at title sequences and put the film into place.
Ella mentioned our very stressful media lesson today which annoyed all three of us. the weather was finally dry (which we needed for continuity) but we typically couldn't film.
I'm hoping that after such a huge disaster things can only get better!
we just need to keep this enthusiasm up and stay motivated!
Ella it wasn't your fault! :) xxx

:)

YO YO Granty again :)

pleeease keep voting for your favourite film title as it will really help us, plus we also need to make some titles, so every vote counts :)
Thanks bloggers! x

EDIT ;)

Heyyyyyyy,
sorry im a bit late, but as i remembered my password, i thought i'd blog. I started editing the footage that we have today while the rest of my amazing group were out filming the last few scenes. basically, i used final cut express to start to put together the film, it looks pretty dashing at the moment and it will be much better hopefully by tomorrow when we upload more footage and then edit that badboy. I'm enjoying editing as its a challenge and its lush.
So that was my lesson today :) x

Todays media lesson....

We had a very stressful media lesson today, which i can safely say was all my fault...

We had planned to go out of the lesson to do some filming in the park today but once we had got there i had realised that i forgot the tape for the camera, so we went back to get it and came all the way back to realise that we had a faulty camera so we couldnt get any filming done which you can tell was very frustrating for us all...

Dave is doing some of the editing though so we have some of that done now which is good, so tomorrow we should hopefully be getting some more done in our lesson as we are quite behind with our filming now.

Monday 17th January....

Sorry we haven't blogged in a while....

So now we have filmed Daves scene in the offfice, hannahs car at the park scene and the police woman/dectective (who Brogan is playing) at the house discussing what has happened.

We are having some problems with the continuity, as the weather is sometimes dry and other days mostly raining so we need to pick the right day where it isnt raining....thats why we wernt able to do any filming today as it wouldnt of been the same weather from when we had filmed last time.

We are hoping to do the scenes with Rebecca in tomorrow in our media lesson, so after that we should only have a few more shots/scenes to film then we can start with the editing :)

Monday 10th January

So. Today marked the official start of filming.

We decided to take the opportunity to film our office scene of Dave on the phone. We will edit this to fit in as a conversation that is being had with me whilst I'm at the park.

It took us along time to find the perfect setting for the office as we wanted it to include many components e.g. a computer, a phone, filing cabinet and general paperwork. As soon as we had decided on location the film ran very smoothly apart from the fact that we found it very hard not to laugh at each other for the first few tries but once we had had a few practice runs we didn't laugh and managed to get some excellent shots.

:)

Catch Up

Happy New Year To All :)

Over the christmas holidays we have not done any filming. This was a choice that we made and maybe will regret as we are seeming to be a little behind.
HOWEVER
Tomorrow we are back to 6th form and will be powering on. We plan to film straight away and as much as possible before we edit it all in one go.
:)