30/03/11

Today, we managed to add an ending to our opening and we started to think about what the title of our horror opening would be. We also thought about where we would add our title and what effects we could use.

Once we had edited our ending together we exported our rough edit onto a quicktime movie and saved it on to a memory card. We then produced a questionnaire about our opening so far. We went round and asked 8 of the fellow sixth form students if they would take time out to watch our opening and fill out the questionnaire. By doing this we were able to look at improving our opening.

Evaluation of questionnaire

From looking at the responses from our filled out questionnaires we were able to see that all 8 of our respondents thought our opening was a horror film opening and 6 of our respondents thought that it was the opening of a film whilst the remaining 2 thought it was either the middle of a film or ending of a film. We also found out that 6 out of 8 respondents said that the clip they saw makes them want to watch the remainder of the film. We also took great notice at the things the respondents liked about our clip and what they thought needed to be improved. 6 of the respondents said that they liked the music and sound effects of our opening which is extremely positive. When talking about improving our footage, 4 of our 8 respondents said that they thought the text message could be displayed for longer so the audience have a chance to read it properly, this is extremely helpful as we can go back to final cut and extend the clip of the text message. The remaining respondents thought that the weather was a bit bright for 6.45 in the morning.

29/03/11

Today we uploaded our footage that we recorded after school yesterday and managed to upload a further 1 minute 11 seconds of footage made up off 12 clips.

Once this footage was uploaded onto the Macs we played around with the clips and began to edit them onto our rough opening.

28/03/11

After school today we went back to Taylor's to begin filming our ending. We were meant o be having a male actor in this part however, the person that we had organised wasn't able to turn up due to personal reasons. We therefore had to attempt to make Chloe, our actress, look like a man. To do this we gave her male trousers, shoes and jacket and we made her have her hood up. We filmed a variety of different shots including long shots and extreme close ups.

24/03/11

Today we discussed ways to end our opening to our horror film and we came up with a few ideas..

After discussing each opening, we came to a decision that we were going to have the ending where somebody walks into Chloe's house and the opening ends on the mans hand on her bedroom door.

We continued to edit our filming and now our footage is coming together nicely. After learning how to add the credits onto our footage we began adding more credits over the top of our footage. On our opening we now have credits for the distribution and production companies, the casting, the screenplay, music, costume desgin and executive producers.

23/03/11

Today we discussed that we also needed to start thinking about adding our credits onto our footage so we wrote a list of the credits we needed to include on our opening. We came up with; The production companies, actors and actresses, executive producers, casting, screenplay, music by, costume design, director and finally the name of the film.

After doing this list, we managed to add the production companies at the start of the film. One before our establishing shot and one after, for the first 3 credits we decided to have them on a black background in white text.

22/03/11

Today we went onto BBC iPlayer and then onto Radio 1 and began to listen to the breakfast show. We opened up garageband and started to record around 10 minutes of the breakfast show. It was extremly lucky and convienient that when we listened back to the recording of the breakfast show and noticed that it mentioned the time we had recorded on a clock in our footage and also we noticed that a student had sent a text into the radio show saying that they were only just coming home after a wicked night out.

We then began to edit our footage by added a variety of clips to see which ones fitted together and which didnt. Today we managed to add an establishing shot of the street, the clock, our actres, Chloe, walking up the street and into the door. We remembered to add a variety of different camera angles to make it more interesting.

As a group we decided that the recording of Radio 1's breakfast show would be brilliant for our footage and we chose to add this onto final cut exress to use as the backgroud music of our establishing shot of street and the clock.

21/03/11

Today during 1st period today we went out to do some more filming, however this time Mr Henton came with us and helped us to film as he had a few ideas for us that would make our footage look better.

When we returned we uploaded the footage we have just taken and managed to pload a further 4 minutes and 11 seconds.

As we had more free time after uploading the footage, we went onto a website called 'freesound.org' suggested by Mr Henton, this website is designed for people that want sound effects or music. We visited this website and browsed through searching for various music pieces and sound effects.

We managed to find 4 relevant sound effects and music, these were called; Urban Morning Noise, Spooky Ambience With Heartbeat, Bang Bang and Text Message. By downloading these sounds we are now able to put them into final cut express and use them in our opening to our horror film.

15/03/11

Today we uploaded our footage that we filmed the day before onto the Macs and managed to get around 6 minutes 46 seconds from 56 clips. The filming we uploaded was checked and Mr Henton said that we had alot better footage than before.

However from looking at the footage we uploaded we realised that we needed to get a few more shots that we had forgotten so we went back to Taylor's after school and filmed the last few bits.

14/03/11

My group and I got permission to leave school at 2pm today and went back to Taylor's to do some more filming. We were able to get lots more shots with a wider range of angles and shots, we managed to get some filming done outside too as it was very quiet on the street and no one got in our way.

09/03/11

During todays lesson, we had to show our footage that we had recorded to Mr Henton. He told us that we had enough footage but alot of it was of the same angles and we didnt have enough variety. Therefore we knew that we needed to get some more footage making sure that we got each clip from a variety of angles.

07/03/11

In todays lesson we were told that the class was going to be divided into two groups and that our groups lessons would now be on a wedsnesday instead of a wednesday and a monday. We were told this was because we were a big group and that we wouldnt be able to get anything done if there was all of us in one class.