Friday, 6 March 2009

Rough cut

After finishing all our filming we edited the footage to produce a rough cut of the final product using final cut editing software.

We then uploaded the rough cut to youtube.

Our rough cut includes most of the footage but hasn't got the shot of 'Karen' sniffing 'Matt's' hoodie.

Our next step is to begin our proper editing, produce a soundtrack and put the titles in the sequence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uapWqtDz7c

Re-shoot/ Additional shot

After discussions with Brian, we decided the jump of Zoe's character Karen was too hectic and needed to be implied more.

We decided to put a clip in of 'Karen' sniffing a hoodie that belonged to Matt. Taking inspiration from the opening sequence of Natural Born Killers, Stone uses a prefigurative image of Micky the killer's blood drenched face to flag up potential narrative development.

We decided to place it further back in the film perhaps between the dialogue between Rosie and Karen where Karen tells Rosie she's not good enough for Matt (Which she later backtracks upon saying she meant that Rosie deserves better)

By using this shot it implies more about Karen's character and allows for a smoother build up to the the discovery that would take place if the film were to continue instead of the sudden change from 'geeky' friend to boyfriend kidnapping psycho.

Scream By The Book

We decided to call our film Scream By The Book.

We decided on that name because the premise of our film is that everything happens When Rosie (played by Elly) returns to her locker to pick up a forgotten book.

After our opening sequence the film would continue on to see how Rosie would figure out what has happened to her missing boyfriend Matt (Matt) with the help and hindrance of concerned friend Karen (Zoe)

Filming.

Our filming didn't require many props and it was done on college grounds. We tried to use a range of shots and angles including:

Close ups;
Shot reverse shots;
Long shots;
Match on action;
Following 180 degree rule;
Mid shots;
High angle and low angle shots.

Props
Various books;
Bags;
Two mobile phones;
And a boy's hoodie


One of the issues we had post filming was jump cuts. This was because we hadn't moved the camera more than 30 degrees whilst changing shots.

Fortunately we didn't need to re-shoot and we were able to get rid of the jump cuts in the editing stage.

Another problem we had was changing weather on the different days we were filming. Most of it was filmed on an overcast day but when we needed to re-shoot a small part it was very sunny out on the grounds. We decided to film under a tree which gave us enough shade to keep the continuity of our film.

Overall our filming took about 2 days (mostly done within lesson time) to do using an extra lesson to do minor re-shoots.