19.01.11

And.... Action!

Today was quite exciting as we filmed the rest of our title sequence. We filmed the main scene - the stalk/chase. It took a lot of thinking through as we had to think about all the continuity if we stopped recording and it took a lot of concentration and planning. We had a couple of run throughs following out the path we were going to film and it went quite smoothly so we had time to get back to the mac room and upload it and we even had enough time to film the last bit of our title sequence in the cupboard where the girl has a bag ripped off her head which went really well, it only took about ten minutes as we had to turn the light on and rip the bag off at the same time. We also had heavy breathing in the pitch black before the light came on which we thought made a great effect to the tension after the street scene. I think all of our filming went really well and considering we've only done it in the space of about three media lessons. I'm really proud of what we've managed to create so far.... Now for the editing.

Preparing to film.

17.01.11

Today we decided to do some more filming of the book. We were planning to put these different shots in various places in our title sequence. We thought it would be a good idea to do different angles and shots of the book and slowly panning across it slowly so we can insert the credits onto it when we're in the editing process. As we only had an hour to do this we only had time to upload it to the macs and update our blogs. But I think we are going to leave all the editing once we have finished filming so we know what it looks like all together.

Recently, the weather hasn't been too great so we are hoping the weather is decent on Wednesday because we going trying to stick to our film schedule and don't want it to be raining as we want to film outside the school within our double lesson on wednesday.

14.01.11

In today's lesson we all went to the library and made sure our blogs were up to date and looked at the tick list and made sure all of our blog posts were satisfactory. For the second lesson we started to film our desk scene - we needed a male character to fulfill the opening scene for our title sequence so we asked if our teacher would like to do it for us. We tried to make our filming as sucessful as possible and tried to keep to our storyboard. The identity of the character remained unknown so we had the lighting from in front of him focusing on the desk and on the book he was looking at. We filmed from behind him and higher than him and slowly zoomed in so the viewers can see what he is actually looking at. By the end of the lesson we had managed to finish all of our filming and just got it uploaded it before the bell.


Next lesson we plan to film more and if we have time do some more editing.

The Book.

 The Book full of CCTV images.

 Pages of CCTV images.

 Pages of CCTV images.

 Pages of CCTV images.

 Pages of CCTV images.

Pages of CCTV images.

12.01.11

Unfortunately I missed today's lesson due to a Media and Film trip that I went on, learning about the american and British film industry. It was a very useful experience as i learnt a lot from it and it was a brilliant day.


However, without my the girls in my group printed off our CCTV images and decided to make them look like they had been roughly cut out and stuck in the book for the opening scene of our title sequence, they also added the photos to their blogs which I have caught up with.

10.01.11

In today's lesson we updated our blogs, adding whatever we thought we needed, photos, journal etc.
According to our film schedule we were meant to start our filming for our title sequence today but we realised that we didn't have the book we are using as the kidnapper's journal/ scrapbook, so we have had to postpone the start of the filming to Wednesday 12th Jan, which is our next double lesson which should work out better for us as it is a double lesson. However, I personally won't be in that double lesson as I'm attending the media and film trip so i won't be able to partake in the start of the filming but, we have discussed that the girls are only going to film the start of the title sequence which is journal on the desk. This is quite easy to do in school time because we have a choice of classrooms that we can film this bit in.


After school, myself and Daisy stayed behind and took photos of recce, this is photos of the location(s) you are hoping to film in. So, myself and Daisy took photos of the classrooms we are considering to film our opening of our title sequence in. Then, we left the school and photographed the street and garages that are shown in our storyboard. All these photos will be shown on all of our blogs over the next few days.

Photos of the settings we are planning to use.

These photos are ones we have just taken of the locations that we are considering using within our title sequence. Also, we have photographed other possible locations that we could use if others aren't available at the time we plan to film. 

Location for desk scene:

The following images are where we have planned to shoot our filming for the stalking scene.

Location for stalking scene:

Finally, these images are where the stalking scene comes to a height of tension and action and where there is a struggle between the man and girl then the camera will fall to a tilt.

Location for struggle scene: