planning continued :)

these are some pictures of our contiued planning the top left picture is an image of our storyboard which broadly outlines, with the camera angles, our plan for the opening scene of our thriller, at first it shows a scientist experimenting at a table with a microscope with a certain date and time in the bottom corner, then it blur to another shot with a red flashing light and an alarm going off at a later time and date it then shows some sort of team turning up with weapons or something close and surrounding the building, between this happening it cuts forward and backward in time showing headlines from earlier and later times and dates as a final shot its shows the camera falling to the floor and a body falling in front of the lens bleeding. we havent really decided much of the transitions yet but these will be decided soon.

the other 2 images are of some headlines that me and dougie created for our opening scene as it requires several different headlines saying different things from different times in the opening scene. we created them using the top logos of different newspapers and edited them in word.

Thriller Planning :)

we recently started our thriller task in which we need to create 2 minutes of opening sequences for a thriller movie, below is a picture of a brainstorm we made it has different sub-genres, possible plots, props, locations, sounds and characters that are found in the thriller genre we used this to throw around ideas that we could do for our thriller task, I am working in a group with Dougie musson and we have decide after the brainstorming we did that we are going to do an action/horror (sub-genre) thriller movie. Tomorrow we will continue doing more planning and start storyboarding in which will plan what is going to happen in our opening sequence and start deciding what item, props locations and chartacters we may need for our task.

Final edited clip :)

This is our final, finished piece. we finished editing it so that the transitions between clips are smoother rather then just straight cuts we also put the video in black and white to give the film more of an atmosphere and also put some eerie backing music to also create suspense. the software we used to edit our footage was Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, at first I found it quite complicated but got used to the software after a little help from a friend. we worked well in our group to give our opinions on how we should edit our clip and what does and doesnt work to give our film more of an atmosphere.

Editing stage :)

These are some images of the editing stage, this took us a little longer then we expected but after we finished the video looked better. we changed it from colour to black and white and we also put in some fades to make the transitions much more smooth rather then being straight jump cuts and also added a backing track which my friend, Alex Wright, helped us with and made for us quickly in his spare time which helped create more of a tense atmosphere that a silent scene wouldnt. It took us a while to figure out how to get the backing music onto the video itself, but eventually we worked it out with a little help from our friend. we all worked quite well to show what we thought worked and didnt work. :)

This is the backing soundtrack that we are using in our media preliminary task, rachel and sam wanted to have an eerie backing track in the background of the video to give some of the scenes more of and eerie atmosphere rather then just being silent in the background. so I asked a friend of mine who is very good at making music to make me a quick backing track, but i couldnt get it into college on the first editing lesson so we had to wait until the next lesson to put it in. I think the impact of having a backing track helps with the atmosphere and makes the antagonist seem more evil.

contiued planning and development :) - 20/01/2011

we finished doing storyboards but as our storyboard needed me and rachel had to have pictures taken of us tied up like hostages, we used rachels camera and some rope her mum leant us and went into a spare room. We used the chairs and tables to create an atmosphere and took the pictures we needed for the task which rachel went home and edited to make it more scary. (the finished story board is below, the pictures we took and edited are above with the finished product on the left) the pictures help give some backbone to the storyline as without them it wouldnt have looked quite so good and wouldn't have let us see how evil the antagonist was.

planning the preliminary task - 18/01/2011

there were only three of us in today as kit had an exam, so today we are planning our preliminary task and we will update kit on it in the next lesson. today we will plan our storyboards and prop lists.