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Filming: 21st January

On 21st Saturday our group got together to film our thriller. Before we started doing this however, we had to make sure the room was set up exactly how we wanted it. This including things like: lighting- making sure we could see the actress but have low key lighting at the same time, props- making sure we could use the handcuffs and deciding where abouts we could use them on the bed, costume- getting the dress ready to make sure it fits the stereotypical conventions and make up- to make sure the actress had life-like bruises and blood stains/cuts on her skin. This meant that we also had to take pictures of everything to make sure next time we filmed we got the continuity right.

When we started filming we took many shots of the opening scene to make sure we got it perfectly. This is because we either made the camera jumpy or made it pan too slow or fast. We found this happened to many of our other shots throughout the day so each time we had to repeat it to make sure it was good. Due to Charlie leaving early, we filmed her and Luke's parts separately- so we couldn't film them together.

When we put our videos onto the computer we found that most of our shots didn't look good as they were either too fast or too jumpy. This means that next time we film we have to make sure that we film accurately; we can see now that filming is a hard task so we must practise to enable good results.

Things to consider next time:

• getting mise-en-scene perfect to enable good continuity
• keeping shot steady and accurate

Planning for props

Today I tested out red food colouring on my skin to act as blood in our thriller. I did this by adding the dye and cornflower in a bowl then rubbing this on my skin. It produced a good result and this is why I think we should use this technique in our thriller.

Filming Schdule

21st January Saturday- all day
10:30 arrive, 11:00 onwards shooting Chari's scenes until 3:00, 2:00 Luke arrives: shot his scenes onwards
Link to blog post


28th January Saturday
This date was cancelled due to actors being busy.


5th Sunday
This date was cancelled due to unexpected snow.


20th Monday
4:00- 7:00 pm  Charli and Luke


21st Tuesday
4:00- 7:00 pm Luke


22nd Wednesday
4:00- 7:00 pm Charli and Luke


23rd Thursday
4:00- 7:00 pm Charli and Luke


24th Friday
4:00- 7:00 pm possibly Charli and Luke

25th Saturday
9:00 arrival with Charli- Luke arrives at 3:00


26th Sunday
 9:00 arrival with Luke- Charli arrives at 12:30

Lesson summary and checklist

In today's lesson, we listened to Josh talk through his presentation which was about how to use Premier Pro. It discussed issues such as format, layout, importing, timeline and editing, transitions and texts and effects. This presentation has helped me understand more about the works of Premier Pro, which has made me feel more confident when editing. I now understand how to make viewing of a clip during editing less jumpy and how to add text successfully. Therefore, this has helped me progress in the filming process (editing) which shows movement.

At the end of the presentation, my group got together and decided what we needed such as props and clothes for our first filming next Saturday. We came up with this checklist:

• Dress
• Appearance
  -wavy hair for Charli, subtle dark eye make-up for Luke
• Make-up
  -brown eye shadow for bruises, brown mascara, pale foundation
• Charli's and Luke's clothes
  -white dress, black trousers/track suits, dark jumper or shirt

My presentation on mise-en-scene

This is my presentation that I did in class about mise-en-scene. It shows the slideshows and information, but not my actual speaking notes. Below the presentation shows the notes that I spoke while presenting:

Mise-en-scene

Mark scheme

I have gone through the mark scheme and looked at what we need to achieve to get a level 4 in...

Video
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

• holding a shot steady
• framing a shot
• using a variety of shot distances
• selecting mise-en-scene- colour, figure, lighting and setting
• using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately
• using sound with images and editing appropriately
• using titles appropriately

Audio

There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

• recording voice(s) clearly in studio or confined setting
• recording voice(s) clearly in a location/outdoor presentations
• accurately using language and register
• integrating recorded material where appropriate
• editing and mixing sounds properly

By going through what we need to include helps me and my group decide exactly what we need to design in the story boarding process to visualize our film. This also helps us set targets- for example using varied shots.

Audience feedback to storyboard

In order to see whether our storyboard is going in the right direction, I asked a few questions to my target audience on what they think so far. The first question was asking if they could see this film working (through reading the storyboard), the second question asked about the positives and the third question asked about the negatives. Below shows the feedback from each person that I asked:

Audience 1:

1. Do you see this opening working through looking at the storyboard?
   Yes.
2. What do you think is good about it?
   The opening is quite confusing as you don't know anything about the characters- why they are there, why they have been drugged and why there is a killer. This makes me curious as to why this is happening, so it makes me want to see the rest of it.
3. What do you think is bad about it?Even though it's a good thing knowing nothing about the plot (making you want to know what is happening and why), it makes the opening quite confusing. You should make a point as to why this is happening.

Audience 2:

1. Do you see this opening working through looking at the storyboard?Yes.
2. What do you think is good about it?I like the cutting back each time to the black screen to show the titles- I think it's really effective as it adds a dark tone to the film.
3. What do you think is bad about it?Perhaps add some music when they are alive- when they are killed take it away to add drama.

Audience 3:

1. Do you see this opening working through looking at the storyboard?
   Yes- could do.
2. What do you think is good about it?I think a positive would be good thriller content- murder and drug use.
3. What do you think is bad about it?Maybe there is too many black screens. That cutting away from each scene could be annoying- however text against a black background would show the titles more clearly.

How has our research informed our planning?

As we are designing/finishing our storyboard, we have been reflecting on the research that has informed our planning. Our planning has been majorly influenced through our audience research as we based our findings on what we should create. People generally wanted a psychological thriller that was set in realistic locations. This gave us an idea to create a spooky and twisted story that was based around the sub-genre of a crime thriller. This is because it includes suspense and tension and our audience wanted something new and exiting. They also quoted: " We want a film hat unravels and has a gripping story". This made us go back to the genres of thriller and we decided that crime best suited our audience research. As we looked into the genre crime thriller we were influenced to base our opening around a murder or kidnapping, which has now evolved into our storyboard of a girl being trapped in a man's house.