Our Finished Film!!

'Repentance'

Repentance is a change of thought and action to correct a wrong and gain forgiveness from a person who is wronged. In religious contexts it usually refers to confession to God and ceasing sin against God.
We thought this name as our thriller title was extremely relevant to our film. This is because the main plot features the killer repenting his sins and feeling deep remorse for his actions. At the beginning, he is in a church, praying and having flashbacks of the murders. However, the question raised in the opening two minutes is whether there will be any further murders and obviously- will he get caught?

Update

Last lesson we 'burned' our film to disc after deciding it was finished. (We will upload it onto here shortly!). Since we have now finished the production work of our Thriller Opening, we have started work on our evaluation. We have around 5 questions about our work which need in depth answers, we need to make this into a video which should be around 7-10 minutes long. We made a start on this last lesson by going off to a classroom with a camera and trying to find an interesting way to show the questions, so we decided to write the words one by one on a whiteboard and take a shot of about 2 seconds after each word. We didn't really think this through in terms of time it would take, so about a boring hour later we had FINALLY got just the one question written, we did think about scrapping it half way through but then we would have just wasted a load of time so we carried on til the end and got it done! It does look pretty cool though, so it was worth it :) We took an easier approach to the next question, and we wrote the words out in bold on mini whiteboards and then asked Ella, Harry and Dave to hold them, this didn't take long which was a bonus. So at the moment, we have 2 questions written (or filmed) and then we have drafted the answers to a few of the questions, but they are quite tricky and we need to go into a lot of detail so that's our next challenge! :D

Film Complete!

We have finally finished the editing of our thriller film!
In today's lesson we made some small changes - like the name of our film. It is now 'Repentance' rather than 'The Sinner'. We just felt it was a better name and suited the storyline of the thriller well. When we were completely satsified with the whole film and couldn't make any other changes we burnt it to a disk.
In the following lessons we will concentrate on the evaluation and in particular, how we are going to present it on film. One possibility is that we might answer the questions in an interview style (answer questions together as our film is playing in the background) :)

The End Is In Sight!

In today's lesson, we have been finishing off our film. We were pretty pleased with our arrangements of the clips, and the size and transitioning of them so today and yesterday we have been finishing the music, and then adding titles (meaning we had to make a quick decision on what to call it... "The Sinner"). The music was a right pain because we composed it ourselves on GarageBand and we didn't want it to just run, we wanted it to come in and out and apt. points and in time with the clips, this took multiple attempts but thankfully we got it done in the end. Oh, and the titling was also rather annoying because the selection of fonts and animations for the titles on iMovie is poor so we tried using this other program called something which I can't remember and we tried to persevere with it but it was really difficult to use and time consuming (we need to hit this deadline!) so instead we chose a nice font, found out that you can use most of the standard fonts in iMovie and then did that. And then we got Miss Hill to watch it and she suggested we changed the colour effects of a couple of our clips which represent a flashback, so we have done that now and we agree that it makes more sense that way. So basically, we are more or less finished! All we need to do now is a couple last checks before we burn it onto a disc... good work!

Media Lesson- 8th Feb

We have until Friday to complete our thriller film, so today we worked really hard to finish the soundtrack. We only had the opening piece of music but using the same tune it was quite easy to put it where needed in the rest of the film. The music plays during all of the killer's flashbacks where he murders the two people. This is because these are the parts of the thriller where we want to build the most tension for the audience. Once this was finished we began to work on the titles. We experimented with different fonts and effects and we will hopefully complete this in tomorrow's lesson :)

Filming -1st Feb

Yesterday was our last day of filming. We only needed to take a few pick-up shots that we had missed out or wanted to replace. Firstly, we went to the park to film the shot of the swing. However, it was too dark by the time we got there so we were unable to get a good shot. This is not an issue though because we already have a fairly good shot of the swing (we weren't 100% happy with it at first and that is why we wanted to replace it).
We then printed off the family photo and filmed the killer scribbling out each face. The shots we got were good and we think they will look very effective in our thriller. Lastly, we attempted to film some extreme close-ups of Katie's dad but the lighting wasn't the same as it had been in the church so we may have to use the ones we already have.
Thankfully, we have now finished the filming and can now concentrate on the editing of the thriller :)

Audience Review

Today we were working on the music to go along with our film and it went better than we thought, because yesterday we couldn't get the timing right with the shots so we had to change the length of each individual shot. However, today we solved that problem and now have a little sequence which we are both happy with. We asked Leigh to listen and watch what we have so far because other peoples opinions are important to us, and he said that he was really impressed and couldn't think of any criticism. So, we are doing some extra filming tonight to fill in the dodgy/missing shots in our work and then we will carry on working to the deadline. All is fine and dandy :)