ROUGH CUT

The filming has now all been completed, and was very succesfull. Connor and Liam have been making sound effects using fuit and vegtables, These will be added into our opening to create better sound effects.
Me and ryan have been working on the effects for the titles which are going to be quite basic, so it doesnt take attention away from the opening.
We have now began revising for the exams.

Our filming did not take place on the date we had intended to start, this is due to actors not being able to make it, All our filming took place over arround 4 weeks and was filmed at night between the hours of 6-10pm. Becaue of health and safety we had to had a adult avaliable to drive the car, this was Connors dad, who was present at all filming.
I beleive the filming has gone well overall, the lighting is good and the continuity is mostly corect. Final touches are now being added to the film, e.g. slight continuity errors. The sound is good, but we are aware that some slight changes are needed to be done for example, on the ipod scene the sound of the ipod hitting the floor is slighty to loud. I think that our film has some very good points. e.g. some of the close up shots like of the boot, and the girl crying. These are here to create more emotion and to make the audince feel more involved.
Here is the rough cut of our film, shown below:

UPDATE

This post is just to say that throughout the past moths the group and myself have been working on the project, this has resulted in myself not posting in a while. however in this time frame we have done a lot of work that we shall be sharing with you shortly. for example we have:

• had a meeting with the Werrington police
• selected our set
• check the lighting
• organized everyone
• over came many problems
• filmed our movie
• edited our clips together
• and discussed many ideas for our title sequence

I will post more entries over the coming weeks where i will go in to more detail about the above.

StoryBoard Remake

Me and Connor met up on Monday the 6th, this was to turn the ruff draft of our storyboard into a finalized and presentable format. We did this by: first of all reprinting the templates on A3 paper, then we went over the draft shot by shot. Ryan then drew out the shots as they were described and shown; we strongly thought about shading to show the lighting techniques. 
 Once we we happy with how it looked we showed it to our group, after getting the go ahead, we handed it over to liam. he then turned this storyboard into the shooting script, this will then be used whilst filming.

Creating the Titles

Creating the Titles was one of the most difficult challenges i had to overcome in our production
the titles contained two differn't area's
 - Font
 - Movement

Font

The font we used was Chaparral Pro
deciding on the Font was a simple task we went for something what was quite simple
and easy to read









Creating Movement.

Creating movement was a difficult task as I was new to "Adobe After Effects"
the software i used.

I got help from Connor and also VideoCopilot.
http://www.videocopilot.net/

The Texts faded in from Black and slowly moved to a position on screen.
this was a difficult task at the 0.00 i had to set the oppacity to 0% and set a keyframe
then where the text stops set it to 100% this means from 0 seconds to 4 seconds the full action will
be completed.

Making Movement was practically the same but putting a keyframe when i wanted the text to start
then skipping to the end and setting the text where i wanted it to finish.

We did not Input any sound onto our titles as we wanted to make the text fit the tempo of the music nicely
so it flows correctly

Red = This is where the text starts to move
Blue = This is where the movements end
Orange = This is where the opacity starts to fade in
Purple = this is where the opacity finished
and the text is at its brightest

Health and Safety

we have had to consider our health and safety for our project, this because we are using realistic weapons in a public place. we have considered members of the public being scared or worried about the goings on in our horror (e.g. the kill scene). to combat this problem we will have a member of crew,l wearing a high visability jacket with a dedicated phone line on the back (a mobile number, where they can call for a brief description of what we are doing); along with that the in tire crew will be wearing a high visibility jackets that say crew on the back. we will also ask Scott if he will over see our shooting as a responsible adult. we may also consider having a trained first aider on set.

we have also got in contact with the local police dept. and are awaiting for a response to our phone call to set up a recording meeting to explain our project and our intentions. we have also written a letter to inform them of our goings on. this is shown below

9^th December 2010

To Whom It May Concern

I am writing to inform you that we will be shooting a horror film sequence for our AS Media Studies Project.  This will include the use of realistic looking weapons (e.g. knife). This will be shot around dusk/ night near Olympus house. We will inform you of the dates nearer the time of shooting this. We will also inform Olympus House of these events.

This is part of our Media Studies course and it involves filming an opening scene for our chosen genre. We have selected the Horror genre. We have planned out our script and costumes for this over the last few weeks. All members of our group will be wearing high visibility jackets during filming.  Group members include: Connor Page, Francesca Williams, Ryan Newson and Liam Oliver. Also Sophie Stokes will be involved as an actress on this day.

We will have a dedicated help line displayed around the set where any member of the public can call to be informed of the current events in place.  A risk assessment will be carried out prior filming.  We kindly request your Consent to these events; if you have any queries please contact Connor Page on  07807 070458 or contact Roberto DeVita at Ken Stimpson Community School.

Yours sincerely

StandHardProductions                      R De Vita

                                                          Media Studies Teacher (KSCS)