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.

Filming update

Ollie here

on a very late note, we (me and chris) got the last of our filming done last night (24th feb) i feel that this went incredibly smoothly with no problems or lighitng issues (like before) to speak of. As it is complete we can focus on editing as stated in my previous post.

Start of editing

Ollie here

Today we began the editing process in our media lesson. So far we are deleting clips we will not use + any bloopers that are lingering on the tape. We are also beginning to arrange the clips into their vague order as according to the storyboard. So far though i think we are using final cut express and other resources to a good standard and i think that the thriller will definatley benefit from this if we can keep it up.

Name ideas

Ollie here

I've just realised that our group hasn't put any thoguht into a name for our thriller introduction yet. This is obviously a group decision so these are only my own ideas

-The Occult
-The Cult
-The Listener
-Influence

These names also work without the "the" prefix.

Fonts & appearances

ollie here :D

As editing is looming on the Horizon (provided our filming gets done) i think now would be a good time to think about fonts for our titles and production credits etc.
Firstly i think it is important that our style of font conforms to the thriller genre because if it subverts from this genre it can make the whole introduction seem confusing to an audience, or it will just not be as effective as it could be. the font should look sinister and possibly be quite bold so that it is eye-catching and engaging to the audience. This would complement the conventions of our thriller introduction whilst also supporting the sinister content.



I really like Droeming and Impact label, i think they really keep the tone of the movie plot and the genre whilst also looking quite good and being very clear and bold. The others were more aesthetic choices as they look eye-catching and/or nice to the audience. however they are not striclty in keeping with the conventions of the thriller genre, so I personally think we should use one of the other two. I'll see how Chris and Nikki feel next lesson. If we cannot agree on one of these fonts then im sure a standard microsoft font will suffice, perhaps Verdana or Arial. as they are clear and readable however not very sinister.

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