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)