Editing - Day 2

On our second day of editing we continued to add to our time line in final cut express. We also used the help of final cut to reverse a section of our footage. This turned out very well and has turned out the was we first planned.
Towards the end of the lesson we began to worry that our film was too long for the time lim it given. So we started to cut our shots back, and use shorter clips. We managed to cut a lot of time, without losing essential shots.

Editing - Day 1

Day one of editing was successful. We all uploaded our footage from saturday, and we all began putting our time line of shots together, in Final Cut Express.
We managed to add our production logo at the beginning of the film, by converting it to a JPEG image. However, we hope to work on our production logo towards the end of the task once all the editing is done, as we think we can make the logo look more interesting by adding animation later on.
Once putting together a section of our story board we added the soundtrack, to see if the film and the music complemented each other, and we were happy with the results.
unfortunately, we were unsure if we were able to use the soundtrack we wanted to have, but we are hoping to find out next lesson if we can for definite or not.
We also managed to create our titles and put them in the film. We really liked our titles and the editing we did to put them in.

Filming day

We started filming at 12am on Saturday 12th of February. Me and Fergus arrived at cameron's house in cambridge and began filming straight away. We began filming in Cameron's room with the shot of the alarm clock and opening the curtains. We then moved on to shooting the other shots in the house. We had no problems with all these shots and everything else went smoothly.

We began filming the shots of Fergus on the bike. This created some difficulties as the dolly did not run smooth along the road. However we be think we will be able to still use it. We shot are final bit of footage at around 2pm. After this we shot are stills in the perspective of the stalker in around 10 minutes and they came out really well.

Fortunately, everything else went according to plan. We managed to film all of our shots successfully, we had good weather conditions and we all worked very efficiently together. I think next time we could improve on following our storyboard as we did make some slight modifications to the shot list. Overall, we think the filming went really well, and we are happy with the amount of editing time we have received from filming so early.

Thriller - Storyboard and Shot List

Click on the pictures to see the full versions, because it has cut them down a bit.

Strengths and Improvements

Strengths

• One strength of mine is punctuality. I normally arrive to the lesson on time, and am rarely late or absent.
• Another strength of mine is my abiltiy to take notes and transfer them onto our blog. I manage to type up all of the groups notes and am able to write them up into proper sentences. This shows my organisation within the group is good.
• I feel that i am able to handle the camera and filming well, without much difficutly. 

Improvements

• One thing i hope to improve on during the thriller task is my ability to use garage band and final cut. I am not comfortable to use these programs without assistance. 
• I also want to improve on focusing more on the task, in the lessons.
• Lastly, i think i could improve on my input in class discussions.

Strengths and Improvements - Fergus

Strengths

• I feel that i am comfortable and also have a good understanding of how to use both garageband, final cut and photoshop.
• Another strength of mine is my punctuality, it is a rare that I am very late for a lesson.
• I feel that i have a good eye for cinematography and hopefully i will be able to use interesting and exciting shots in the thriller project.

Improvements

• I think i can improve on being more focused on the task while in class.
• Another area i could improve would be would be to keep on top of blog posts and also add more detail to my blog posts.
• One other area i think i need to improve on is creating efficient and clear storyboards.

Strengths and improvements - Cameron

Strengths

• Editing is a strong point of mine as i am comfortable with final cut.
• Sound - I have a good idea of what music will fit well with images and i am comfortable with the Garage Band software.
• Creating a storyline - I seem to find my ideas have contributed to creating our groups story lines

Things to improve on

• Adding more detail to blogs - possibly by using more media terminology.
• Cinematography - When filming make sure to frame shots correctly.
• Punctuality - Make sure i am on time to all lessons.

Our Top Two List

The two things we are wanting to improve on are:

• Our use of props could defiantly be improved. 
• We all agree that our titles could be more experimental. 

The two things we like about our film:

• Our variation of shot types.
• Our appropriate and good use of effects. 

Sam Miners - Children's Film Analysis

The Demo




Positive:

• Good use of soundtrack/sound effects to create a safe but interesting atmosphere for the audience
• Varied use of shot distances, eg. close ups, extreme close ups, mid shots.
• Good use of effects to transition the boy from reality into the video game - made it clear what was happening and was very effective

Negative:

• There could've been a more sophisticated use of mise-en-scene to make it clearer that he has fallen into the video game, eg. a prop for a gun, different costume etc.
• The titles were appropriate but could have been more creative
• The framing could have also been more sophisticated to really show the mise-en-scene of the game. 

Intended Film Dates

The dates that we would be able to film is the 12th of february, the estimated time it will take to film will be up to 3 hours.

We will need a Video Camera, also we are going to use a mixture of a tripod, a dolly, and some hand held shots.