Week Commencing 17/11/14

This week we had to film sound for our film because during the filming process we spoke over a lot of our clips and there was also loud background noise. So we have recreated the noises around the sixth form. Firstly we filmed a wild track which we are going to put over the tops of our clips because in parts where there is no voiceovers or other sounds we don't want the clips to be silent because in a police station it wouldn't be completely silent. We asked one of our friends if we could film him walking down the corridor because his shoes were quite clumpy and loud which is how the antagonists shoes would sound. For the victim we just filmed Kate walking down the corridor as her shoes would sound how the victims did. We also filmed ourselves finger tapping and foot tapping as this time the antagonists shoes wouldn't be very loud as that part was filmed on carpet so the sound would of been less and we recreated that ourselves.

We then had the idea of wanting to add sounds of screams, trees shaking, heavy breathing etc because it we want the audience to understand the whole film more and we thought we would be able to do this by having sounds as if the girl is having flashbacks to when it all happened. Outside sixth form there is trees and bushes so we recorded us shaking them to make it sound like the girl running through them. Furthermore we recorded noises of us heavy breathing and panting because the victim would have been out of breath. In the music department they have recording studios where we filmed Kate saying things like "Get off me!' which is what the girl would have been saying to the man. We also filmed her saying "It wasn't my fault", "why did this happen to me?" etc because that would be the thoughts going through her head after it happened. To create the noise of a heartbeat we used a drum.

We filmed our teacher doing the voiceover of the police officer as we needed an adults voice as it was an adult who played the role. She said what the police say when arresting someone: "John we arresting you on suspicion of abduction and rape.You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if youdo not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.Anything you do say may be given in evidence" as this is what the police would say when they arrested him.

First Cut- Week Commencing 10/11/14

First Cut


This is our first cut for our film. All we have done so far is put the clips that we are going to use in order and edited them to the speed and cut we want them. We still need to change the effects and lighting as we want the scene to have low key lighting as that is a typical convention of a thriller. Also we need to add sound. When we filmed there was noises in the background of us talking etc so we are going to add noises such as loud footsteps to when the villain is walking down the corridor. Furthermore we are going to record sounds of trees rustling and the victim screaming and shouting to go over the top of the action as if the victim is having flashbacks of what happened. We may use some music but we do not want the scene to look like a trailer. We are going to use transitions too, to make the film run more smoothly.



Feedback from Miss Spencer:

• add logo to the beginning
• add interesting flash transitions
• sort of the sound: add an indoor wildtrack, footsteps on hard floor, finger tapping, screams, trees, heartbeat, voiceover, police interview and rights
• colour correction- make it richer
• cut out slow mo of girl
• water cut needs fixing
• cut the window shot, make it shorter or add a voice over there
• add an end title

Feedback from peer:

• good us of camera movement shots (close ups and panning)
• good choice of setting, made it believeable to where it is
• the makeup is really well done
• slow motion at the beginning was great
• add sound
• dont make shots too long or too short



Film Progress Post

We have been using Premier Pro throughout the editing process and we have learnt how to use everything needed for editing our film including different tools and other techniques.

Tools:

 Razor Tool- This tool is used for cutting a clis, or multiple clips, into two seperate ones.


Track Select Tool- This moves all the clips to any place all at the same time so that you dont have to move them individually.

Rate Stretch Tool- Changes the duration of a clip, stretches it out and speeds it up.


I have also learnt how to render on Premier Pro. To do this you highlight the part you want to render and click on 'Sequence' and then 'render effects in work area.' If you want to render the whole scene then you press 'render entire work area.'  You have to render your timeline when a part of it is red because it makes the scene run fluently and smooth and not look jumpy. Once you have rendered a part it will go green, so then you know you don't have to render it again.

Problems we have faced:

During our editing process we have had to record sounds around Sixth Form due to us not being able to use the sound in the background of the clips as we talked over most of the clips and one of our actors left being we filmed their sound. This proved to be difficult as the voice recorder was very sensitive and picked up extra background noises, so a lot of the clips we couldnt use. We however solved this issue by using the camera mic to record the sounds as it isn't as sensitive. 

Production schedule

Date Week commencing	task	Completed yes/no
3/11/14	Blogging Uploading footage Start editing	Yes
10/11/14	Edit Create logo on after effect Finish first cut	Yes
17/11/14	Film sound Start adding sound	Created the sound but haven't added it all to the film
24/11/14	add sound to film put the sound clips in the right places add titles	I wasn't here in the lesson but Kate added the sound clips and put a few of them in the right places. Also she made some of the titles including the end title that says the name of the film
1/11/14	finish putting the sound clips in the right places and the titles	Sound mostly finished and all titles are done
8/11/14	Finish the editing continue blogging upload final film to blog	yes
15/11/14	all posts uploaded to blog

Feedback - Miss Spencer

Representation feedback

you have covered the basics of representation - looking at the main area of gender, there is also some excellent detailed research into the history of the genre. You have linked this well to the representation of gender.
In order to improve you should look at how this will influence your own film.
Level 3

Target audience feedback - you have done some good secondary research - don't forget to always credit your sources. There is some break down into target groups but this needs to be more detailed. We are going to look at this in class to help everyone improve. Level 2

Genre research feedback - Excellent and detaile dresearch. I would just like to see some discussion of iconography, characterisation and setting to improve this further.
Level 3 (Low) adding the above would take this much higher.