Final Sequence

Production Work Self Assessment

Shooting Schedule

We have decided to put together a shooting schedule to help us with choosing the correct days to film with editing sessions inbetween (which unfortututly hasn't been shown).

Planning Opening Sequence

To make sure we are all on the same track, and know what our storyline is going to be, we decided to complete a plan of our opening sequence which involved myself, Ella, Harry and Alex filling out a few questions on our planned opening sequence.

Group Brainstorm

To get ourselves going, we completed a group brainstorm, although we already had an idea of what we were going to be doing for our horror opening sequence.

Evaluation

Here is mine and Ella's evaluation!

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First & Second - Storyboards

Story Boards

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Tenth Day Editing / Class Critic!

For this 2 hour session, the first hour consisted of having a class critic to which our class mates and two teachers would tell us what they thought was good about our film so far, and what needed improving / changing.

By watching other group’s videos before ours, we didn’t really have the confidence to get up in front of the class and show them our video as we thought our one wasn’t very good compared to theirs. In the end I’m glad we had to do this because we did get some really good comments back. We got told that our camera work was good, and some of the shots worked very well, especially the inside fridge shot and the feet shot of Liza and the stalker walking down the alleyway. They also really liked the use of the pan technique we used down the alleyway when shooting back to the stalker. We then got told what we needed to improve on to achieve a better grade which was to speed up the shot when Liza walks down the stairs of the alleyway, to put our credits in between the point of view shots (possibly) and to show all of the credits before Liza reaches her house, also cut up some of the house scenes to make it look tighter and more chilling and thriller, and to finally add in matching music (daunting music). I took a note of all of this so that we could begin work on it straight away.

After the critic, the next hour we planned on doing some more editing. Harry finished off the heart beat track while myself and Ella decided on adding in the soundtrack with the suspense on the alleyway shot where the camera pans round. This took me and Ella a while to do because we needed to transfer a 4ma to an mp3. We ended up asking for help and used an online converter on a website. We then managed to add in the soundtrack to the alleyway scene, but decided it didn’t really fit well to which we then ran out of time and decided to carry on the next session and get Harrys and Alex’s opinion.

Overall, tenth day editing and the critic went reasonably well, could of gone better, but it really did make myself and Ella think that we need to hurry up and get the editing done to make it better than what it already is!

Ninth Day Editing

Ninth day editing we got most of the editing done. Myself and Ella took control of the mouse and using Final Cut we got all of the shots together and in the right order! Harry and Alex were also with us, helping out to which we worked very well as a group again.

We started off by adding in the final shots into the house scene to which we had completed adding all the scenes in except for one. The one shot we didn’t have properly done was the one with the camera over Liza’s shoulder texting. While Ella and Harry carried on editing, myself and Alex shot this scene to make it better than what it already was, to which this only took us about 10 minutes. As soon as we finished we came back and added in this shot to which we thought it didn’t work very well, but we had no choice really to use it due to the deadline being very close!

Once we started getting to work on editing all the shots in together and making them fit perfectly, we started transferring the music onto our working Mac, to which we then ran out of time.

The plan for next session would be to have a group critic on all our films, and for some of our class mates to tell us what was good and what we could improve on, as well as the teachers.

Sixth & Seventh Day Editing

For the sixth day of editing, we all worked together for two hours taking it in turns controlling the mouse on Final Cut. We got a lot done this session as we all worked hard and were honest if we didn’t like something / didn’t think something was quite right. I believe this is good because we have started communicating a lot more and working together as a group more.

Seventh day editing went well as well, we all worked on the credits together deciding what should go where etc. Although we didn’t manage to put the credits in on the same session, we will hopefully put them in soon. Harry finished the soundtrack which turned out to be really good, but due to changing some shots and sequences, we still hope it will fit in with the alleyway shots.

Fifth Day Editing

Fifth day editing went well, but we didn’t edit much as we all decided to work on bits and pieces each. I updated the group blog, while Ella worked on the beginning of the credits with Alex and Harry finished the soundtrack.

Fourth Day Editing

For the fourth day editing we had 2 hours to do some editing. We decided on Harry carrying on with the soundtrack to which we all kept getting updated by listening to it every half hour. Alex did some editing by putting more of the shots together while me and Ella worked on the group blog for an hour. For the second hour, Ella and myself did some editing on Final Cut to which we started cutting the shots / scenes and putting them together from  the beginning while Harry worked on the soundtrack and Alex worked on the production logo.