freeplaymusic.com

Although we did get music from mobygratis, it was not used. We used another website called freeplaymusic.com, which is a license site with music that we could use. Shaunica chose the song, in which i found called Darkstar, and it works really well with the project. We decide against diegetic sounds, because this would take away the effect of tension and suspense. Therefore, the music from freeplaymusic.com is the only sound, which is non-diegetic, that will be used. This is because we feel that music creates more of the suspense feeling to bring out the emotions. Otherwise we would have had to create a script, which would have been time consuming, and may ruin the opening film.

Editing...again

Myself and Shaunica done more editing today. Our project islooking great and im feeling extremely impressed with what we have created. It's really coming together. From advice from our teacher we made the protagonist part longer, and incoperated the present filming in the flashback, which really works well with the end effect of the flashback in which red colour. Shaunica always remeber to save, so that we dont encounter any problems, like with did with the preliminary, when we forgot toe save and ended up losing our work and having to start again. We have learnt so much.

Editing (more information)

So a lot of editing has been done today. Myself and Shaunica had arranged our shots in order and used different techniques. throughout the flashbacks, which we made appear in black and white, and used dissolved for the transactions. I then wanted to make the antagonists appear angry, due to the events in the flashback and the colour of red to show this. We also added a flash before the flashback to add effect.

More editing needs to be done, and verified.

Filming 2

We filmed again today, however Hannah was unable to make it due to the fact she was suffering from a tooth ache and had to go to the dentist. So me and Shaunica done it instead, and done some great filming. I feel rather excited now and believe we will get everything done for the due date which is extremely soon. It's been rough, however, its a bridge we have crossed now. There is a lot that is to be done, but i feel more confident now. Editing will be done throughout this week and mostly on Wednesday, as i have free lessons, so all day i am just going to do media coursework.

Editing

Done some editing today of the filming we done on Monday. Shaunica also came in and we worked together. Majority of it is actually done, so we had time do complete this section and do filming today for editing on Wednesday, which i aim to complete on the 29th April. We didnt face any technical problems with editing, which was good and we manage to do an efficent job.

Production

During production we shot in various angles and distances. We used mid shots, long shots as well as close up and extreme close ups. We filmed over the shoulder shots, panning and a variety of camera movements. Directing was fun and i enjoyed filming and positioning the camera to achieve good shots that can be used for editing to produce a good thriller. Using the tripod we shot steady shots and positioned our actors in frame so that the shot was understood.

Filming

So, we did filming today, friday, of the part of the thriller, which is a flashback. It was fun and we managed to work well together to get this part done. It was also a lovely day which was a plus; a shame that this filming will be in black and white in the editing process. We also took pictures of the filming and of the group which will be incoperated into our thriller. I will get them printed on Saturday, as they will need to be used in the filming on monday.