Editing solved!

On Friday Susie and I spent our free editing!



We took major action and cut half the film!!! We chopped the whole of the section when Jess goes upstairs to check on the child for the first time!! (I hope it makes sense!!!)but am sure it does) But now its 1minuet 45seconds which will give us enough time for credits!!

I hope the other two like it!



Once we had radically chopped that part of the clip, Susie and I started some work on the credits! We played around with different effects and fonts to find the best for our film! There aren't really that many but its finding the right one for our genre. We've got one atm for our clip but don't remember what its called. I think it looks good but comes on and exits too suddenly. So we tried it out with some dissolves, which didn't really help much!

Editing!!

OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! our clip is 3minuets long + credits and the maximum it can be is about 2mins 10seconds. We have gone through and cut as much as we can off the beginning and end of the clips!!! This is going to call for drastic action!!!

Music

Music is part of the most important part of the film! With Mrs Fransis we watched a clip from 'Scream' the horror film. First of a clip with music, which built up suspense and anticipation. This scared most of the class. Then we watched the same clip with no music or sound. This clip made the class laugh as we saw their slow motion running and scared faces!



For our film we were only given a few ways to get music for legal reasons.



1.) Our first attempt was to search myspace for bands who made scary music. We only found one band and messaged them, but they never replied. So this was a fairly unsuccessful route



2.) Our second choice was to use ccMixer - But we didn't use this as it didn't relay have anything we were looking for on it!



3.) So our final choice was Garage Band. We all preyed we'd find something as this was our last hope! We tried lots of different clips and really exprimented with layering them over eachother etc. Searching through Leah found a fairly spooky clip which would fit perfectly with our clip, but we all thought it could do with a little more...something, so we carried on searching. Then i found another clip which i though would add to Leah's clip so dragged it up to overlay on Leah's clip. It sounded perfect! really spooky and atmospheric! ...Our bass music was complete !

Our first editing session

So, since our first Wednesday nights filming we have been able to start editing on the Thursday! which was quiet exciting because it was such a quick turnover!

On Thursday we started by setting up our own account on the corner computer and we tried to get most of our filming from the camera to the mac. This took a fair amount of time as we had to put in so many inputs and outputs on each clip so we would know which part is which!

The LAST night of filming!!!

So, this night it was just Vicki and me for the camera crew! We did the usual wait until its dark and then we started to film!

Most of the filming was done, so we just needed to get a few scenes which weren't perfect or we hadn't filmed yet. It was done quiet quickly and we were relieved that we'd completed the filming!

Second nights filming!

So once again we met in Tesco car park after games and bundles into the car. But this time the film crew was just Vicki, Susie and me!

So like usual we waited for it to get dark... but just as we were about to start filming my mum came to pick me up and i had to go to work :( . So i didn't end up getting to do any filming but it was left in the capable hands of Vicki and Susie who did some amazing filming, and got lots of it done!

They did all the upstairs filming, jess running up the stairs, in the childs room and the window scenes!

They did some crazy stuff to get the scenes we wanted...

Our first day of filming!

This week we had our first night of filming INTRUDER!

After games we all met in Tescos car park to be picked up by Vicki's grandad! We all bundles inside the car and were on our way to our 'filming location'. When we got there we had to wait for it to get dark as this darkness would add to our mis en scene and was in our planning stages. We contemplated using the darkening filters on the macs at editing stage but decided against it because it was nearly dark anyway so it would just be easier to wait as we would have run out of time trying to film in the light. So we sat around brainstorming our ideas further and planning where and how exactly to filming (e.g. the line/ where the camera must go) and had a general run through of our filming.

All of a sudden it was dark, and we commenced filming. With camera in hand we were off to a wonky start...

We corrected the camera legs and... ACTION (or 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Action as we were told - to allow the camera to fire up and make sure we had enough film either end of our clip in editing)

We filmed the outside beginning shots first. Which is were we had our first problem...well one and a half!

1.) We all thought we would rather have the camera gliding to the house. But as the driveway was gravel it was difficult for us to use wheels e.g. on a skateboard or office chair or anything like that. We contemplated using a car but the turnover from car to walking would just be too difficult for us to line it all up and have the car driving at the same speed etc every time! So we stuck to walking, which is were our second problem cropped up...

1a.) The sound of the footsteps was so loud on the gravel. But we knew in the editing stages we could turn the volume down, meaning it was only a minor blip.

We all had a few goes at walking up to the house so we would get a variety of different peoples shots and we would be able to choose the best version when we were in the editing stages. We had to make sure the camera man ended the shot perfectly in the center of the diamond on the door so it would be easy for us to join up the camera inside the door. This went well and we got the shots done quiet quickly.

So we moved inside to film the camera coming in the door and the babysitters first conversation. From the outside shots, we had to make sure the camera was aligned perfectly on the diamond,of the door which took a bit of time, but we got it perfect in the end!

Suddenly, on filming the corridor pan we came across a dilemmas which we needed to solve, and fast... In our storyboard we wanted the camera to float through the door and glide into the room where the babysitter was sitting watching TV and generally chilling. But when we were tried to put this into motion, we found it was more difficult than we were expecting. There was a massive blip on the floor where it turned from wood to carpet! So putting our thinking caps on, we played around with some ideas to solve the inconvenient bump. There were many ideas thrown in the pot like skateboard and just a person walking with the camera. But in the end we came up with a somewhat improvised idea...

We had Leah lying on the floor (out of view of the camera lens) she pulled the doormat along the wood up to the point of the carpet, were simultaneously, without slowing down or fastening the movement of the camera, Vicki and i would pull the mat all the way through the door and to the point where we could see Jess.

So, we were quick to solve this dilemma, but we went into filming knowing that it's not unusual to find flaws and problems when filming, which is what we found out during our continuity task!

Also we all completely forgot just how long it would take us to film. We thought we would whizz through and get it all filmed in one night! Well, we're not even half way after that nights filming...