Media Lesson - 31st Jan

In today's lesson we focused on the music for our thriller film. We found it difficult to make the music play in time with the film clips as you couldn't use GarageBand at the same time as iMovie. However, Miss Hill showed us how to upload our film to GarageBand so we could listen/watch them at the same time. This made it a lot easier to play our music in time with the film.
We have 11 days left to complete our editing so we hope we will get the music finished in the next few lessons :)
From Holly & Kathy

Re-filming

Looking back at the shots we filmed we realised that there were a few we needed to re-film and some we just hadn't filmed at all. For example, although we had filmed a few extreme close ups of the killer, we were not happy with them and they are quite important shots for the thriller. We were also unhappy with the shot of the swing. So, we will be re-filming these on Friday ready to upload to the computer on Monday.
In that time we also need to film the killer scribbling out the children's faces on the photo. This is a shot we never got to film as we had not taken the photo in time for the filming week.
It will be fairly easy to put these new shots into the correct places of our thriller even though we have already ordered the clips.

Media Lesson 26th January

In today's lesson we continued editing our thriller. Although two days ago we were concerned about how long our film was, it is now down to 1:37 with a few more clips to add in. This means we will probably not exceed the 2 minute limit.
We also used GarageBand to construct a good opening piece of music which would hopefully build tension for the audience. After a few changes of mind we are now happy with the music and next lesson we will be adding it to the film and making it play in time with the different shots. Overall, we feel we are still on track and are confident we will meet the deadline.

Media Lesson - 24th January

In media today, we did some more editing on iMovie but the more we do, obviously the longer it gets and now we are onto around 2mins and we are no-where near finished! The time limit is 2:20 so we are going to struggle to keep to that, this means that we will have to do a lot of cutting which is unfortunate but we have to keep to the limit!!! There is time yet, so hopefully we will sort it out before we go too overboard.

Media Lesson - 19th January

Holly wasn't in today and that meant that I had to work on the Thriller by myself, however I didn't want to do any editing because we both like to have an input and I didn't want to make any major changes without her say-so! Instead, I decided to do something useful and listen through all the tracks and sound effects that are on the Mac to see if there was anything we could use and listed all the contenders. Then I went on Garageband which I have used before in GCSE music and tried out a few tunes and basically started putting together a little spooky song that we might be able to use in our Thriller film but obviously if we do, it will need a lot of work because it didn't take me long.

Park Scene

Today we filmed our final scene which was set in the children's park. Unlike our previous filming days we filmed this at about 4pm when it was just beginning to get dark, rather than already being pitch black. The scene included the young boy on the swing with the murderer getting closer and closer. As there were only a few shots to film, the whole process was relatively quick. Overall, we were pleased with the final shots and we are going to begin editing tomorrow (:

Filming Continued...

We went out again tonight to film our scenes in the alleyway where the man follows the girl and then kills her. We weren't as pleased with our work as the footage we got the other day but looking back at the clips, they aren't as bad as we thought. Basically, the main problem we faced was the lack of lighting, because of this we really struggled to film our 'follow' scene where the girl walks home with the man closely behind. However, on a computer screen the lighting is clearer than it was when we actually filmed it. But it wasn't all bad because the limited lighting created shadows which were effective at hiding characters and showing silhouettes.

Filming

Tonight we went out and filmed our church scene, the inside of the church was much better than we had remembered which we were pleased about because this meant we had more to work with! The filming went really well, we think we have at least one decent shot for each part which is good and the only problem we had was the lighting because being a church at night, it did get quite dark but we tried to use this to our advantage with shadows and things! We have had a change of plan about what days we are going to film now because we went down to the park where we are planning to film one of the killings and it was far too dark for the camera so we had to rethink that and now want to film that particular scene on Saturday afternoon when its twilight. :)

Back To Work

We know we haven't blogged in a while since it was Christmas and everything but now we are back on task and are planning to get all our filming done for our Thriller Opening this week commencing. Since we are filming a couple of scenes in the church we thought it would be a good idea to get the Vicar's permission incase it was an issue which thankfully it isn't as he is OK with it. Last month when we went around taking pictures of our various locations, we discovered that the church was locked from a certain time which is why we didn't get any pictures of inside it, so we also had to call up the person who looks after the key and are arranging to meet her on Tuesday so she can let us in.

Our schedule...

Monday - no filming, my dad will be at a meeting and we need him in every scene.

Tuesday - we film in the church, this is the only day we have the key so it's important we get it all done then.

Wednesday - we film the killing of Miles (not literally!)

Thursday - we film the killing of Megan (also, not literally...)

Friday - nothing planned after school, but could be useful as we aren't 100% finished on our filming.