Editing and Music

In today's lesson we continued editing our film piece. Our film is supposed to be a starting, under 2 minute, film. What one of the teachers feedback (Mr Wroe) was that it looked like an ending to a film. To rectify this we looked through our filming and found an extra scene where we show someone waking up after the titles. This was there just because we needed something to tell the audience that this is the start of a film and not the end.

For Matty to put in the titles we needed to agree on a places where the credits and title should be put so we went through the film to see which parts to put in the titles.

The plan is Matty will put in the titles tonight so the only thing we will have to do tomorrow is to put the music on. We have chosen the music, which is copy right free, but we will have to see if that will work with the chase. With the music we have found a heart beat noice which will play through the whole chase even when the music has stopped which we feel will build the tension to the climax perfectly.

If everything goes to plan we would have finished our editing tomorrow and show off our finsihed video to our teacher and maybe, if we have time, show this off to our fellow peers.

DVD menu

This is something that Matty had done a few weeks ago where we may use this as our DVD Menu. This was a pratice video that we were thinking of using but as we have had a few changes so this DVD menu may change.

Editing continued

I said in my last post that we were planning to do more editing tomorrow we have now altered that a bit as we don't have a lesson tomorrow and our free periods don't match. So what we decided to do was do more editing after school today. What we did is that we made sure that the film was under 2 minutes and edited out all the parts which we didn't need. While Patrick and I were doing the editing Matty was looking for music to go with the chase. Matty found 2 tracks which go together which we blended in to go with our chase. That is as far as we got today after school.

What Matty is going to do over the next few days is to put in the titles. He will be playing around seeing how the best way in putting the titles in.

Overall I am happy that we are on track to getting this done before the deadline passes. We hope that the the editing will be done by the end of this week so we are only left with the evulation and burning our film to a DVD.

Todays work

Today we have continued with our editing for our final piece. We haven't quite finished the editing but we are on track to get the editing done by the end of this week. We still need to put on the music and the titles. We hope to continue this some time tomorrow. My plan is to start the draft version of my evaluation this weekend but this it will purely depend on if we can finish the editing by the end of this week.

Update

We have finished our filming but not to the plan we had attended at the start because of our main character (Matty) being ill in hospital. Another character didnt turn up so we all had to switch roles. Our main character was played by Senan Simmons (playing Rory). Our chasers became Patrick Greeberg and Sam Webb. The camera man became me (Piyal).

Because our timetable has changed, we have already started to do our editing. We hope to finish our editing by the end of the week. We will then show this to our teacher and maybe even our fellow peers. But we will see how this will pan out during the week.

Filming schedule

This is our filming timetable. We hope to have the filming done by the end of the holidays.

Saturday 10th April
Film bits where Just Matty needed.
Waking up.
Walking to shop
Texting girl friend?

Sunday 11th April
Start filming parts of the chase scene...
Being spotted
Running through the different locations we found.
(use multiple shots for each scene)
We May also need to incorporate the flashback triggers, but this chase could take along time so we may need another day.. (Wednesday)

Monday 12th April
AM- Flash backs
-Head being pushed under water
- Being shut in a car boot
PM- go through all shots done to see if we've missed anything and take note of what we're missing.

Wednesday 14th April
do any bits what are missing and/or need to redo (flashback triggers if not done already)

Saturday 17th April
Esther (Girl) shots
-Tied up
- Screaming (first scene)
- Maybe have her reading the text/picking up the phone?

Main Task Storyboard

This is the storyboard for our main task. Although the pictures are not great it outlines the story behind our main task: