My progress

I have made a lot of progress from the start of the year, my blogs have improved and i now know what to write on my blogs and i actually blog compared to the start of the year where as i didn't know what to write and also not doing it. I have done a lot of independent blogs about editing and lighting and what we should include for our film based on the different thriller openings like Final destination and Shutter island which has helped me and my group include different things in our film and what not to include. Also as we decided to go with black and white before we made the final decision to do this i done a blogpost and researched if it would be ideal for our film, then we decided to go for it. Without these blogposts we wouldn't be 100 percent about the decision. Also i did not know how to edit the film and wasn't sure about using adobe premiere but Priyanka taught me how to use adobe premiere which allowed me to edit the film while my group done other things. Me and priyanka have come in for 5 free periods a week to edit and film for our movie and Luke and chelsea have also been coming in frequently.

As a group i believe we have come very far because due to the continunity task wasn't as good as we hoped because as a group we weren't talking much to each other and just done our work. But we knew as a group we needed to come along to get the best grade possible and starting talking to each other more and started to come in the free periods. me and Priyanka are editing and re shooting everything that isn't 100 percent and chelsea is also editing. Luke is using his time to make the opening title sequence and chelsea is also helping him with this. We are coming along very good as a group and i believe we will meet the deadlines and get a good grade.

Lighting for our opening

The type of lighting we will go for  would be dim light and we will edit our movie to make it darker than it appears to get more of a thriller look and feel.

I have done research on thriller films and there lights like "Shutter island" and i noticed that throughout the film even though the lighting outside is normal sunlight they have edited it to make it seem darker than it is. This was very effective as it is one of the best thrillers rated and one that i have seen as i was not bored of it.

Changing the opening sequence to Black and White

We decided to change our opening sequence to black and white to help our production as, as a group we decided that it looks better for our sequence and it is very different from other groups as not many people are doing black and white so it is original.

There are a lot off famous black and white thrillers like the stranger, as it is an opening the audience will question about why it is black and white and i believe it will add a lot more tension for the audience if it is black and white as it looks plain and boring in colour.


A modern film using black and white would be Tabu which was done in 2012.

It was done by a famous director Miguel gomes who is mostly famous for the silent movies he has done, this movie is in the old days and therefore they done this in black and white and at the start it starts in full sound and then goes to silent. Black and white allows us to change our story completely as it looks different in colour compared to black and white. 

In the famous film kill bill the colour switches from black and white to colour, they used this to mainly get the film as a rated R due to so much gore they had to change the colour to not have that much blood. this is what they done in the old films to not scare our audience but in modern day with the gore films there is a lot more more gore in colour like Saw.

Colour films started to come in 1930 but it costed a lot of money for the production companies so they only realesed 1 or 2 every year. The black and white film era didn't end quickly and still now we have black and white films as they are cheaper and are very different from normal colour films we have today.

I believe our black and white decision will pay off for the group as it will get originality as our opening sequence and plot is very different from other groups which allows us more room to change and edit our sequence.

Editing progression -Aman Priyanka week beginning 16th March

Blog still in progression 

Shooting schedule

16th march -  Me and Priyanka filming Alley way scene

17th and 18th march- Me and priyanka filming re shoot of Luke's motorbike scene front on shot of Aman's scene, and a low angle back shot of Luke's feet walking away from the camera

17th- kitchen scene with mum 

By the end off this week 22nd of friday all the footage should be done and starting to get edited with the title sequences

New filming in school

Last week we filmed every free period we all had and this allowed us to get a range of different footage to edit which is good as we are not constantly filming every time after edits.

The filming is nearly done but me and priyanka will be filming one shot off me walking straight head on to the camera and also Luke is adding a motorbike scene to allow better opening and draws the audiences tension more.

Footage of mine and Lukes scene uploading soon

Problems with filming in uxbridge

On the 4th of march weekend me luke and priyanka went to uxbridge but realised they wouldn't let us film on the train station we did improvise and film outside the train station but then got told we were causing an obstruction and wasn't allowed to film there again. We then realised we needed a new idea for mine and Lukes scene so made a quick plan of what our new plan was and started to film in school.

The 2nd shot which is the one below was better than the first as you do notice the camera shaking like the first one, but when we looked again in detail me and Priyanka noticed it does the slightest movement, so we did need to reshoot it but then changed the idea completely to make our opening better so did not need to reshoot.

Priyanka tried the pan shot of me coming out off the train station but did not go expected as best as we would of hoped due to not being in the middle of the camera as supposed to be for a perfect clear pan. we did keep trying and got some good ones but none that were perfect.


(Footage uploading soon)

Shot List

This is our shot list (will upload clearer version soon) this will help us with filming the scenes and what angles to use and which ones work best. it will also keep us organised so we can get filming done fast and posible 

Final Typography

These titles need to be made into gif's so they are able to move on and off the screen and also stay on the screen for the same amount of time for all of the titles. Rather than putting all of the titles at the end, we are going to cut them into the clip. This is because we do not want the audience to get drawn into the opening and be excited to watch the rest of the 'film' but they then become bored after staring at titles for around 20/30 seconds - the last thing we want to do as a group is to lose the audience.

The titles will appear in white background with black writing as this will create a bold meaning and the audience will be able to clearly to see this. we have looked at more thrillers and decided to change ours to fit the other thrillers to draw audiences that have seen these different films, we have researched the times and how they come onto the screen and go off the screen. Will upload the times soon

Typography

This is what the title sequences are going to look like (as in white writing on a black background) however Luke has not yet changed the font to out 'harting' choice of font and has not yet placed the text  in the correct place and made them into gif's and edited how they will enter and exit the screen.

We are hoping that these titles will be finished by the end of the week as we need to see how they will fall into place with the footage that we have. It has been a struggle to try and get the title sequence done as Luke is also playing one of the characters in our opening sequence to he is making time for filming. 

(done by chelsea)

progress so far:
 
As chelsea couldn't film the ally way scene as the lighting was too much on the camera as the ally way was wide, so priyanka went on the weekend as her ally way is thinner and not much light and filmed there. 

We have finished my scene of walking outside of the school and watching luke smoke, but today 17th march priyanka is going to reshoot the motorbike scene of Luke as it needs more shots.

Tomorrow 18th of march me and priyanka will add in a front view shot of me walking out to make that part better.

Evaluation Questions

• Marking Criteria for the Evaluation
  
  Candidates will evaluate their work electronically. This MUST contain an element of audience feedback and may be either integrated with the presentation of the research and planning material or may be presented separately. Where candidates have worked in a group, the evaluation may be presented individually or collectively but the teacher must allocate a mark according the contribution/level of understanding demonstrated by the individual candidate.
  The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:
  

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
  
  
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
  
  
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
  
  
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
  
  
• How did you attract/address your audience?
  
  
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
  
  
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
  Ideas for the format for the presentation of the evaluation can be found in the Guidance Notes. 
  

Filming in uxbridge

On sunday when me priyanka and Luke went to Uxbridge to film, we only had 1 problem with the filming which was the train station as they were being funny to film in there as we need permission. But we used our resources which was to film outside the train station and going to re-film during next week when we get permission from the train station. We have got our footage and will be putting it together with editing it now and Luke will start to put title sequence in. Another problem was when i was walking from the train station people were getting in the way of the camera and as an audience you might get distracted looking at other people, a way which we can sort this problem out would be too go in a less busier timing. The smoking scene with Luke went well as he was sitting in a cafe while no one was there smoking which created a eery and mysterious atmosphere. During our next shoot we will make sure we can get permission from london underground so we can film me coming out of the train looking around so the audience knows where each different character comes from. (Footage will be uploaded soon