Problems and Successes

3.7 & 3.8

January February and March 2010 Problems and Successes

08/01/10
The major problem today was transporting the equipment from school to the films address. We had to transport the camera, tripod, sound mic and tapes to the address via car, which lost us time we came to film later on that night. Filming started later than we planned but we were able to film all of the shots that we had planned for that day.
09/01/10
Today’s problems were that we were unable to film until quite late as the house we were filming in was in use. We postponed most of the filming to later in the evening which meant that the snow would affect the outdoor scenes when filming from outside the house. Also as the weather affected the sound quality from the camera and we had to wait for the snow to calm before filming again quite a bit later.
10/01/10
Filming for the third day was a struggle as the weather affected transport to and from the house. We were able to finish filming the whole of the production by the end, however acquiring certain things for the filming were hard. For example finding a film that the protagonist could watch was a struggle as there were not many to choose from, and also the battery life of the camera was always a worry. Along with this the tape we had brought to record had very little space left for the amount of work we needed to do and so we were careful in choosing what certain parts to film.

Late January/February and March- Editing

During the editing stages we acquired a number of problems and successes, which affected us in a variety of ways. Firstly we had to upload the footage from the tape onto the Macs which took a long period of time and we also had to choose the specific music we would be putting in with the production to make it more suitable for our target audience. As we knew from our first production task, we began editing really early as we knew that time would pass by quickly before the due date was here. We were able to edit the living room scene, bathroom scene and bedroom scene within these months, along with also improving may of the scenes to suit our target audience.

Secondly the first edit that we created was shown to our teacher, whom stated that quite a few areas could be in need of improving such as shortening the whole piece and only choosing specific parts and getting rid of all of the unnecessary parts. This was a blow to us as we thought that we had done the best we could to achieve our target marks, however we got on with the work and took out a number of specific parts from our production. For example we added a montage to the end of the production showing the hooded characters view of what happened whilst he was walking around the side of the house and garden, which was sped up to create suspense amongst the audience. We were also able to add a title sequence made of a red blood type text which was created in Photoshop. Along with this text, we also created a misty animation to accompany the text, as it seemed to glide of the screen, at the same time with the sound of dripping blood being heard.


10/01/10Today we began the final parts of the filming as we did not capture the original footage properly. We decided to change some parts of the production, but not too much.

09/10/10Today we began our filming as we filmed the whole film during the night. However when uploading the film to Final Cut Pro, the tape did not record properly so we were unable to upload some of the film.

08/01/10 Today we took the equipment to Mohammeds uncles house where we would be filming tomorrow.