30/3/11

We started to look through the footage and began editing the start of our opening. We wanted to create the feel of the happy relationship that Jamie and Scalett have to the audience so we edited some of the photos that are in Scarlett's room and continued the showing kf photos  at the start of the opening which created the sense that it is teen horror movie. We then took the different shots of Scarlett making and sending the text and edited together to show to the audience of what maybe is the end of their relationship. But, when looking through the footage filmed, we noticed that the footage showed Jamie's phone saying Scarlett and not Ellie. We couldnt use these clips as it wouldnt make sense to the audience, this is where we decided to rename her to Scarlett. We then edited the scenes of Jamie ripping up photos of him and Scarlett. We started to add opening titles to our horror opening, following the sequence from the film 'Mirror Mask.' When deciding on the detail of the opening titles, we decided to use lower case small lettering, to give the feel of a teen film, as grammar and capitals is not important to most teenagers. We added the different titles, in different corners of our framing, depending on where it would be appropriate where it could be seen.
We then decided to look at some copyright free music on the internet, but up to now, we do not have any music that we feel is right for our opening. 

Update on casting..

In a previous post, i posted..

On Monday 15th November, we discussed and thought about the cast of our film, deciding who will be playing which characters. We also thought about the personalities of the characters so in the end, we decided that we'd cast people who related to their characters personalities.

Scarlett Colson - Ellie (Bubbly, Confident and Heartless)
Connor Hobbs - Ben (Short-tempered, Mysterious and Twisted)
Jamie Reed - Matt (Funny, Friendly and Smart)
Hayley Bell - Friend #1 (Happy, Sociable and Bubbly)
Natasha Weldon - Friend #2 (Loud, Sociable and Bubbly)
Ellie Markie - Friend #3 (Trustworthy, Honest and Caring)

From 28th March, we have changed Matts name to Jamie as it would work out better and we have changed some of the characters.

Scarlett Colson - Ellie
Jamie Reed - Jamie
Hayley Bell - Friend #1
Natasha Weldon - Friend #2
Ellie Markie - Friend #3

29/3/11

Yesterday, Me and Scarlett went to her house to start filming our new shots.
Also, we are changing Matt's name to Jamie as some of the shots we took does not make sense with the mise-en-scene. 

Our new idea -

We are going to start with the same kind of idea but with a different element to it..
Scarlett and Jamie are a happy couple.
Scarlett breaks up with Jamie in the park
and then we will go with the original idea.

We believe this will make our horror film opening much more effective.

27/3/11

Today we were having a look through our filming and we had a conversation with our teacher, and we came to the decision that we will refilm our horror film opening to make the detail of the shots better, and we will have a better and more scary opening.

15/03/11

Now that we have finished the production of our task, we have now moved into the post-production side of the task. Altogether, now we have roughly 11 minutes of material to work with. To make our post-production side of the task good, we have to learn the basics of how to edit using Final Cut Express and how to add titles and sound effects.

My group filmed some of our opening of our horror film but as the weather conditions was not good and because we filmed on a sunday in town, and we didnt have enough amount of filming so we decided we will start again, so on Wednesday, we filmed the second part of our opening and we will be filming the first part next week

Filming..

My group and I, have decided that we are going to start filming for our prelim task on Sunday.
We decided this because of the weather issues of the last month.