Final

We have finished our thriller opening. In fact we'd finished it last friday but as the bell went when we finished and I had to go home, we left checking it over until today, and everything is fine. We have our mirror clone, sped up and slow motion sequences, jump cuts, and effects, and the music worked out tremendously. Tommorow we are putting it onto disk, as Miss Mapp wasn't in today, so after that we move onto evaluating.

So far

Ok, we have uploaded all of our footage, and are currently progressing through the editing stages. So far we have:

1. Cut all of the bad shots from the existing footage
2. Arranged our clips into the running order
3. Added some flashes into a walking sequence

so far,
At the current moment, we have spent the past 2 hours trying to fix the mirror clone effect. The first stage went well, however due to a transition in lighting in the second clip which we are superimposing in the mirror. We have tried every avenue, including cropping, opacity, brightness editing, however it seems that we cannot make it work, due to several reasons. Firstly, playing with the opacity of the second clip, due to the superimposition and cropping, the second clip itself becomes opaque (obvious to you, not us) so we can't play with the light like that. We are considering placing a title over the obvious transition, at the bottom right of the screen, however I am skeptical how well that will work, still we're going to try it.

After this we are going to be adjusting the peed of a few clips, which will require some time, and then implementing music.

Expect updates.

Change of plans

Ollie here

sadly we could not go ahead with filming today due to transport problems. hopefully we will finish filming in the next couple of days to make up for the lost time.
we only need to film one section of scene 1 and some small peripheral shots in order to tie the intro together nicely.

Lesson summary

Ollie and I have been uploading and editing the footage we have so far, some of it needs redo-ing due to terrible lighting. However we have got a few scenes sorted, and we have managed to edit the day/night sequence successfully. We are filming the rest next weekend, as all of us are occupied at inopportune times, so we will finish filming next saturday. Yay half-term

title sequence update

We had a meeting about the title sequence earlier today and i have redrafted it with the changes there are still a few bits that we need to work out but as far as the title sequence goes

it will begin outside the garage with chris walking through he places the shovel down in the garage which will be dimly lit.
When chris places the spade down we will see a newspaper that will have the first of the names in the title it will say 'Chris Harding and carry on to read something along the lines of starring and co producing the next big thriller' he will then carry on walking through the garage until the utility door at the end which leads into the kitchen all of this will be point of view shot.
Once in the kitchen he will carry on walking through he looks at the fridge which will have the 2nd of the names Ollie Cracknell spelt out in fridge magnets.
after this he will carry on walking through the kitchen and across the hall to the living area which will then show the 3rd name Nicola Mooney although we are unsure where this name will appear.

As we walk through the the door ways we will have flashes of images the first will be of a knife. the second of this bible with the symbol in side on the piano next to a candle maybe, the third of a child by a lake with a balloon a happier childhood memory maybe, the next will be of that same lake with the same balloon but the child will be gone and the balloon will pop ( this will be done by us behind the camera out of shot shooting it with a bb gun or a spud gun so they cant see how it pops) and one of just the symbol maybe if we can fit it in if not the symbol will be in the bible which will hold significant value to the story later.

Chris will then perhaps fall asleep on the couch an the camera will point out the window an we will see the night fade away into day and chris will get up and leave the house via the front door which will reveal our title if the film this will then lead onto Chris's idea of watching him leave the house after.

Intro outline

Hey guys All of us here

Scene One is essentially set in stone for us now we have a detailed understanding for what we want to do for it. a few minor details such as specific location still need to be addressed but other than that we are sure of what we are going to do.

Sound - will be diagetic and will be a piano scale by In Fear & Faith (used with permission)
Weather - most probably overcast as we are filming in Jan/Feb time
Time - Twilight/ Dusk possibly slightly later depending on lighting availability
Location - still a bit hazy...either ind. estate, private road or bridleway.

Main plotline will be Chris coming out of a ditch and walking along a road towards a camera whilst dragging a dirty spade that will be slightly out of focus. the camera will track him until a certain point and will then stop tracking to allow chris' image to fill the screen at which point he will bring the shovel around into full view, the lighting should show mud and blood on the spade. we could then have the next scene coming in from a fade to black.

We were thinking of mixing the title sequence in with a montage of quick cuts showing small clips of possible progression of the killers resolution to commit the alluded murder, we were then thinking of possibly incorporating some minor credits into scenery e.g, like on cartoons when a character opens a fridge and a producer's name is spelled on the fridge magnets. we may not do the exact same thing but that is a fair example of what we were thinking of doing.

We've got a vague idea of what we want to do in the next scene the opening shot will be of a family happily sitting down to a meal most probably breakfast a complete contrast to the scene we previously saw of chris with the shovel. we were thinking of having diagetic music coming from a radio. We will elaborate on this idea later when we are all together .

We have Photobucket

Ollie Here :D

Chris & Nikki just so you know I set up a Photobucket account for us the login details are:
username = nfgsJupiter (no dot between the s & J) password is the same as the blogs :D