Re-filming

As I've previously said, we filmed over some footage that was quite crucial to our narrative. This was extremely annoying but we've managed to re-film it so it's fine.

We re-filmed our dying scenes in a different room to the one we used previously which was actually better than what we thought it would be. Initially we should have used this room before because it's a better layout for what we wanted; there's nothing in it apart from a few tables but they're not in our shot so the whole shot looks desolate which reflects his lonelines when he's dying.




Re-filming in the new room


Because we re-filmed, there was obviously the problem of continuity. Continuity errors are the bane of our fiming, seriously! But we've now got all our filming done apart from one little bit which is a shot of our teacher's eye because we're doing a graphic match from his watch face to his eye.

A graphic match is an editing technique which is when an object is shown and then it fades into a similar object. For example if there was a mug and then it slowly faded into the sun then that would be a graphic match. Here's an example:

Audience Research

We had to do some audience research on our genre of film which is thriller and we created some relevant questions which we handed out to all age groups.

Our questionnaire

 In total I think we printed out 20 - 25 copies but here are our questions with the answer choices we gave:

1. Do you like knowing who the killer is?

Yes/No

2. Do you like it when a film plays with time?

Yes/No

3. Which aspect of a thriller do you prefer?

• The outcome,
• The build up,
• The suspense or
• The clues coming together.

4. Do you find it important when a specific object has significance to the character of the story?

Yes/No

5. Do you think it’s interesting when a weapon used to kill someone isn’t generic (knife/ gun) ?

Yes/No

6. At what age do you think most watch thrillers?

• Under 20,
• 21 - 34 or
• 35 +

8. Who would you prefer the killer to be?

Man/Woman

9. Who would you prefer the victim to be?

Man/Woman

10. Would you prefer the ending of a thriller to be fulfilling?

Yes/No

Question 7 was a personal response question so we couldn't measure how many said what one because there wasn't a multiple choice, it was an open question.

We got everyone who answered a questionaire to put their age at the top of the sheet but we didn't think for them to put their gender. This was silly because we should have done this because questions 8 and 9 are about gender and it would have been interesting to see what gender was preferred for the killer/victim by the gender of the people answering. This is something we've learnt for next time so hopefully we won't forget that again!

Here are the results from our questionnaire:

Filming continues...

So we finished all our filming in two and a half days and guess what? We filmed over some footage! That probably wasn't the best thing we've ever done; especially as we were so close to starting the editing.

Me and Beth (Ellie and Alex were in lessons) finished filming and decided to upload everything to the Apple Macs on iMovie.

We had one main tape with our names on it which we were filming on and the continuity exercise tapes. We uploaded our main tape and two of the continuity tapes (which we used for our match on action), which we also used if we wanted a second camera on the same shot. Using more than one tape was brilliant as we could film a match on action because it would make our opening sequence more interesting.

The only confusing thing with using three tapes is that you can't remember which ones you've loaded onto the Macs and which ones you haven't. We realised this the hard way and kept getting confused as to which ones had been uploaded because me and Beth had uploaded all but one of the continuity tapes we had used. This is why we weren't sure if we had uploaded everything as the tapes weren't marked.

When we had uploaded everything from all the tapes we realised something was missing so we checked again and realised that we must have filmed over some footage. Luckily it was shots/scenes we could re-film easily so it wasn't too bad but it was just annoying about the fact that we had finished and then we realised we hadn't.

Our shooting schedule!

WEEK 2	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
PERIOD 1		Stalking and office (Ellie and Beth)		Look through filmed work (Ellie, Rosie, Beth)
PERIOD 2			Wallet Flash back (Ellie, Rosie, and Beth)	Any reshooting or filming what we've missed (Ellie, Beth, Rosie).
PERIOD 3				Any reshooting or filming what we've missed (Ellie, Beth, Rosie).
PERIOD 4	Continuity editting (All)	SDA lesson-Match on action (All)	Hole punch flash back (Alex and Rosie)
PERIOD 5		REV lesson-Watch flashback – graphic match (All)	Hole punch flash back (Alex and Rosie)

Half term

We discovered that two members of our group are away over half term which means we couldn't film or discuss any issues or problems that we have with our storyboard. After our initial panic we came up with the idea of a filming schedule.

The schedule is a timetable of the week after half term with all our individual and combined free lessons that we had in that week. We also scheduled in Mr. Evans' frees that week and our media lessons so we could work out which bit to film and when.

So, our schedule has been created and we are going to stick to it no matter what because we are behind in filming so we really need to stick to it!

Preliminary filming

Our group decided to do a bit of preliminary filming to get a taste of what the actual thing would be like. We chose to film one of our most basic scenes which was the main male character dead on the floor with their killer standing over them.

We recruited two of our friends to do it and at last minute the main male character dropped out. This obviously caused us a lot of panic as we really needed to get this bit of filming done before half term and our media teacher came up with the idea that we use our other teacher, Mr. Evans. This actually was a better idea than ours as our story would look more realistic with him as a man than a seventeen year old.

We did this bit of filming and are using it as a tester to see how we should frame shots and the light and the distance of each shot etc.

Continuity exercise...Finished?

Our continuity exercise has been edited! This is really good as it gives us the chance to be able to film more of our opening sequence without worrying about our continuity exercise.

It was decided in our group that the person with the most  experience of editing should edit our continuity piece as it would be quicker and they knew what they would be doing. So Alex editd it and we are all grateful to him for doing it!



Editing the preliminary task

One thing that needs to be re-edited is our match on action. Seeing as this is a requirement of our exercise it's pretty important that it's in there; our match on action only consists of two different angles instead of three. We filmed three but only two angles were put in to the final edit so this is something we need to go back to which should hopefully only take about two seconds!