sound/camera

During the first start of our film we are going to use a varied different sounds and effects to make more of an atmosphere and to make the listener more alert to what is going on. The sounds we are going to use primarily are screams of people in the distance and when the man is being chased. Sirens of ambulances and fire engines but these sounds will be faint but still easily to hear so the sounds are in the distance. A main sound to add panic is the church bells ringing constantly throughout the flash back scenes and sounds of a heart beat when it goes quiet
But that effect has not been decided by the group. in the final editing we will choose what fits best.
However if we decide to change the plot of the film we will not uses these sounds as it wouldn't fit in

With the camera work we will try a various shots and angles like:

• Long shots
• medium shots
• POV shots
• Close ups
• Tracking shots
• High angle shots
• low angle shots
• extreme close ups
• aerial shots

These are the majority we will do but we might do some more if its needed

main story

Our opening would be a black screen and screams and sirens will be going off. Quickly a shot of a man running he will scared as someone is chasing him, this will only last a few seconds then the screen will return black with one last scream.
This scream will seem to wake the man up. A close up of his eyes opening and the shot will pan out to show a man lying on the ground with blood on his face. The man will look confused as he won't be able to remember anything. He slowly gets up looks around here we will do some point of view shots. As he walks he stumbles over the uneven floor. Possibly with a close up of him tripping up.
When he is walking he will have some flash back to what happened
. This would be in a black and white filter, The man would be leaning over a grave stone and a creepy figure is behind him. A scream in the distances breaks his flash back and he looks scared. He gets up and paces through the trees. We will do many different angle shots of this as it will make it seem quicker and make it more interesting. When he breaks through the trees. He gets to a street which seems abandoned as no one is around. We would do a long shot and he would shout out 'Hello'. By doing a long shot it will show the empty street and shows he is alone.

Due to some circumstances might have had to change our story to work with the filming we have been able to shoot due to reasons like the weather and cast not being able to go and availability of them.

Locations

On Tuesday, we took a train down to Glossop as that is where we decided to do the main task. we went to a park which would be a good place to do filming as there are some parts to it that were surrounded by trees and there was a little island that was surrounded by water. This would be where the main character would wake up. We took several pictures of the area and we would decided later which area was better to film. Then we went down to a nearby church and we would also use that in our task. Here we would do a flash back sequences that will only last a few seconds. Then when we were at the church we all had a discussion to what we were actually going to film. We had a idea of a man having amnesia and wondering around not knowing where he is.

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This is a location to where we are going to do our filming we are going to be filming in mannor park this is where the majority of the filming will take place. Also we will be filming at the near by church on church street

Final editing

During the final edit of the task we noticed that we had broken the 180 degree rule. This happened when we had a shot of the two people running through the door and then we had a shot of them coming through the same door. To cover up this we used a dissolve to show that some time had passed. We also used a dissolve when the girl being chased was waiting in the cafeteria for her friend to come to show that she had been waiting for a while. There was also a dissolve at the beginning when the boy was banging on the door and then walking through it, we used this to show that he had spent some time banging on the door trying to get in.

Preliminary task

a detailed, specific example of how we achieved match cuts during the editing process.

For us to achieve matched cuts we filmed different parts of the same scene, so when Rebecca and Connor was running we had a high angle and a low shot of them and we also filmed a close up shot of there feet going up the stairs. And when in editing we put these 2 clips together. By doing this it makes the scene look more interesting and it helped emphasised a chase and more importantly it helped us achieve a matched cut.

Give a detailed, specific example of we you have used a shot/ reverse shot combination in our film.

With the shot reverse shot we filmed a conversation between Rebecca and Sophie in the canteen. The shot was difficult to line up as someone head was in the way of the other. Even though it didn’t work out as accurately as we wanted it to we still used the clip, but when we are doing our main task we will make sure it is done right.
We put the camera behind Rebecca first, trying to get part of the back of her head in the shot and the full shot of Sophie. Once going through the whole part. Connor who was doing the filming switched side so the camera was over Sophie shoulder.
When editing to do the shot reverse shot when Sophie was talking the shot is on her then when Rebecca started talking the shot was on her. In editing we cropped the clip so this could be done.

In the filming and editing of our project, what worked well and what could have been improved?

There was some things that worked well like doing close ups of feet running up the stairs.
But there were also some things that didn’t work out well and what could have been improved was the continuity, as it took several days to film different clothes were worn so to improve the main task we should wear the same clothes to keep the continuity to a minimum.Also that didn’t work well was filming the conversation, trying to get 2 people in the shot was difficult as 1 persons head was in the way of the other so the shot reversed shot was not as good as it could be. For this to be improves when we do the main task we should move the camera to a more appropriate angle or sit in a different position.

What did we learn about the cameras and editing software during the preliminary task?

We learnt how to use the cameras, by turning on/off the camera putting in the tape and how to play back what just been filmed. We learnt how to do different shots like high angle , medium shots, ect. Also we learnt what shots worked and what didn’t and what shot looked better than others.
The editing software we used was final cut pro and with this it helped us put together the shots together so they look effective to do this we first connected the camera to the Mac and we created a folder in Final cut pro so what was loaded on the computer would always be there so we wouldn’t have to plug in the camera and start again each time. We were all unsure how use the software until Mr. Fordom explained it to us. He told us how to crop and slice the clip. We leant that how to crop the shots so they fitted with the previous scene.

Edit of Preliminary task

We decided not use music in the film as we felt that it wouldn't be effective and would drown out the sound of feet running. We felt that using no music creates tension as all you can hear is the pounding of feet as Rebecca and Connor are running and the dialogue where Rebecca explains she is being followed.

Editing

Today, Connor was editing the preliminary task. And Rebecca wrote the evaluation. We had to film extra scenes as we didn't have a speaking part in the film which was compulsory. Rebecca and i did the speaking part while Connor filmed. Here we used a shot reverse shot and a close up of sophie opening the door to the cafeteria( also opening the door was compulsory) and walking towards Rebecca. The editing of the film took a while as we had to refilm certain parts and it took a while to get the film onto the computer.

Editing

To edit the film we used final cut pro. We had trouble getting the film off the camera onto the computer as it kept freezing and it was taking a really long time loading onto the computer. We decided to do each scene separately so it didn’t take too much time to get the film onto the computer and we could decide which scenes we wanted to use. Mr Fordom showed us how to cut the scenes down further to the parts we wanted to have in the film and how to put them on the timeline.

Filming

We started to film Rebecca being chased up the stairs by connor. We used different camera angles including; low angle, high angle, long shots and close ups. We had to refilm shots of running up the stairs as they were all the same and seemed boring. We decided to have Rebecca and Connor running over the camera as they ran up the stairs to give a close up of their shoes as they ran past. I think this gave the film more excitement and the shots dont look repetative.

First day

Today we decided what genre and theme we were going to base our preliminary task on. We decided to do a thriller kind of genre with someone being chased. Rebecca is going to be the one that is being chased and Conner is going to be the one chasing her. i will be filming .