Editing Session - Thursday Period 2 +3

Today I had an editing session alone which will become kind of normal for me as my private studies differ from the rest of the group. It felt awkward just making decisions without consolting my group but I just got on with it and managed to do/learn quite a few things.

-I practiced my key framing when using titles which I have become very good at and now understand completely how it all works. I impliented blurs/motion in to a title sequence and in my opinion it looked quite good, however, I dont know how the group thought it looked. I made the title blur on to screen, change to normal, as this was happening it was slowly brought forward on the screen and then simply faded out. I thought it looked quite stylish lol.

-I realised there wasn't too much I could do with the re-shoot footage and decided to tweak the sequence to a little better. I made the cut where the actor Jon sits down in his office a lot smoother.

-I made the flashback shot of the note longer as our feedback said that they couldn't read what was on it in time.

-I noticed that as the villain walks through the wooden door he slams it and that sound doesn't carry on to the next shot, and therefore I split the video from audio and extened the audio creating a sound bridge, which worked very well.

-I looked at different fonts and familiarised myself with the title creation process and learn't all the options it gives you when creating font.

Matt

Our New Idea

The new idea is based on a detective who works himself to death trying to catch a serial killer. Although I think the idea is not as good as our last it should work quite well with the locations we have chosen. I think the dark garages behind Nicks house should be our primary location as they look very dank and authentic at night. Also, with the studio lighting kit we should be able to create an amazing scene which needs to be taken full advantage of in order to make this opening work well.

Shooting Week 1

The weekend of filming didn't go as planned and on saturday we found out we couldn't use are location which was quite vital for our story. Things seemed a bit more hopeful when Nick said he knew a friend who had woods behind his garden and that it would be a good location for our story and easy to adapt to. However, when we got to the guys house we found out that there was no way to get to the woods as the fence had barbed wire on it. We sat a discussed our options and threw ideas back and forth but there was nothing concrete being said. We decided that it was a bit pointless carrying on and it was getting quite late, so we went home and started to blog a few ideas for the location.
On Sunday we decided to change the whole story so we could use a more easy and workable location which later turned out to be Nicks house as he had some garages round the back of his house which looked good in the dark. We arrived at Nicks house put some relaxing metalcore music on and started to work on our new idea. We blogged, made storyboards and wrote general story synopsis's. We then started to work on one of our props which is a detectives crime board and that took awhile. After we had taken some pictures of our actor in character we did a reccy of our locations, taking pictures as we went.
Although we didn't get any filming done we did make massive strides in our new idea which was really important in ensuring that the next weekend of filming runs very smoothly with little or hopefully no problems.