Week before half term

The week before half term we showed our first draft to Shaun in his lesson. The class had to fill out a feedback sheet on their thoughts on our film title sequence. They had to say what was good, what needs improving and what does not work at all. Most of our feedback we had got from other people was good and appropriate feedback. There were a few things that we had change and we will do our best in changing them. One of characters were not right for the role so we will have to change them and we are changing the character to Alan Rickman. We are happy as a group for what we have produced after the things that we have changed. 

final cut pro

This is the booklet that we were given in media. We were shown a demonstration on how to use the software but we had also been given this books just incase we forget or missed something. This book was used as guidence and it was a good thing to do becasue if anyone was stuck thent they can just look in the book and it will tell them what to do it is basically a manual.

Job roles

We all had roles within our groups and we had all agreed with eachother with the job roles that were set. In our first shoot james was our actor, but when we filmed in our re-shoot Aaron had to be our actor as james was not able to make it. So aaron was originally our director but he had to also take on the role of acting. We had to film our title sequence three times because the first time it was too dark. The second shoot was okay but we needed more shots so in the third shoot we made sure we had enough shots to cover all areas. So Aaron was the actor and the director. James did help me with about two camera shots and he also helped with abit of the editing. My role was to be the camera man and edit the video. I did take on most of the editing but people within my group did also contribute. James had made the song but it did not go well with our title sequence so me and Aaron had created one. I had put the beats in and we both made the decision if it worked well enough.

blogging

We had to get some permission from Aaron Vanders parents, saying that we were allowed to film in their garden and to have a bonfire. We had filmed our film on Friday, 20th, January and on the camera the footage had looked clear enough. So in todays lesson we had uploaded the shots to the mac, but as we started to use Final cut the shots were not clear enough and the picture was dark. So we have decided to film our film again and we will film it tomorrow. To make the shot look clear we will need to have more light and maybe do it at an earlier time.

What we have done so far

In this post I will be informing you about what we have done within our group to get where we are now. We have shot our title sequence, so know we will have to start editing the shots to the best of our ability and see what outcome we get from it. We will start to edit it on tuesday and try to complete the editing by the end of Fridays lesson. We are nearlly finished in creating our songs, so when we have finished we will have to also edit that and make sure the shots and the voice over fit with the song. We have not done the voice over yet we hope to complete that during this week. We have sorted out the typeography there is only a few things to edit such as the colour, then we will have to find a way how to make the typeography float out of the bin. We have also found a company that will be creating our film, and we have also got our company name as well, which is called HARJ. We have also got a logo for the company. So all that is left to do is to start editing and then put everything together and see what we can create.

Filming day

Today we are going to film our film at 4.00pm. In todays lesson it was a catch up lesson for blogging. We have been advised to update our blogs. We are near enough finished with our song, we only have to add a few more beats then we will be finished. We have to now film our film, edit it, put it into the music add the voice note and put it all together. We will want to start editing our film next week so we will have to film our film today.

The voice over Script

This is going to be the voice over script for our title sequence. We have included tense and dark words and the reason for this is because our film is horror. We have included the word fire because our film is normally based around fire.
Fire is destructive… Fire destroys… Fire burns the flesh… and the soul… it takes away everything you hold dear… it can’t be controlled… it can never be stopped…  A monster born from the flames… The flames around may long have perished… but the fire still burns deep within… And it can’t be stopped… until it has consumed everything in its path.