08/01/10
One of the main problems that we encountered for today is that the transfer of equipment to our filming location. This is because we had a variety of equipment such as the Cannon XM2 Camera, External, Boom Mic and Lighting Kits. This was time consuming because the car had to go back and forth twice, as the boot was fit to carry things. Therefore everything had to go in the back seat. Resultantly we started filming later than expected but managed to get all our shots recorded.
09/01/10
Toady’s main problem was the fact that the weather had an impact on our filming because it captured a lot of ambient sound from the heavy snow fall. Therefore we had to wait until the snow calmed before continuing. In addition, the house that we are filming at was occupied due to the Christmas period. This also effected the scheduled times for our filming.
10/01/10
filming for our third day became increasingly difficult as the weather affected transportation for the actors. However by the end of today, all the footage was finally captured. One of the difficulties that we encountered was trying to find a suitable film for the protagonist to watch because there were not many films with the genre of Horror available. As a result, we chose to use Harry Potter, as it contains some thriller elements such as The Dementors, which mirrors the clothing of the killer in the opening sequence.
Editing:
During the editing process, there was a variety of factors that had an impact on the time we had to edit. Firstly, we had to upload our captured footage to an IMac that should have easily uploaded our footage as it has 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processer and 4GB of RAM. However as our school has signed a contract with RM, the schools system has been effected in terms of certain privileges, which lengthened the amount of time it took to upload. In addition we asl had to look for Non Diegetic sound that would act as the music in the background, which would be suitable for our target audience.
Building upon experience from the previous year, we knew that many things is likely to go wrong during the editing process, therefore we created backups on several Iomega hard drives as we progressed in the editing. As we came to the end of our first edit, we showed our media teacher and she said that it was a big improvement on the previous year's coursework, however certain things would bring our grade up further. Below is a list of suggested improvements:
- Opening Title Sequence needed to be improved
- The lengths of some shots were too long and was rather 'boring', for a Horror genre opening sequence.
- Correcting the positing of the actors name.
As a result, this gave us a couple of days in which to make this improvement that would help us achieve our target grade. We took out most of the living room scene and parallel edited the killer’s scenes walking scene throughout. In addition we also removed the montage that showed the actions of the killer in one continuous sequence because it did not achieve the intended effect.
We added a title sequence made of a red blood type text which was created in Photoshop. Along with this text, we also created a misty animation to accompany the text, as it seemed to glide of the screen, at the same time with the sound of dripping blood being heard.
