Editing Issues

When editing our first scene we discovered that we had a problem. The first time we shot the scene of walking across the car park, Charlotte and Kirsten were eating crisps. We shot them eating crisps three times. We later went to shoot the continuation of this scene and neither Charlotte or Kirsten were eating crisps. When editing we discovered that as the 2 scenes flow continuously, in half the shot we are eating, in the other half the crisps have disappeared. Unless we can find a way with editing to make it not look like it changes, we will be having to re-shoot one of these clips.

The Scenes We Shot On The First Shooting Lesson

The filming we completed today was of Charlotte and Kirsten walking across the college car park talking and stopping to talk to their friend Sam. We tried to make it as if it was from the eye of the kidnapper so it seems as though he is watching Charlotte before he takes her hostage.
When the 3 girls leave, Sam and Kirsten leave together and Charlotte leaves by herself, making her more vulnerable. The camera then follows her walking off, and you can see a bush close to the camera, giving the impression the kidnapper is hidden in the bush watching. We filmed a few versions so that we have plenty of footage for editing to see which one looks the best. We have uploaded this to Final Cut Express, and are editing to make our first scene flow well. We are also checking the sound is in sync with our images and that our clips follow on from one to the other.

Problems With First Shooting Lesson

Today we attempted to film some scenes of our opening. A lot of our opening was going to be filmed behind the back of the stage, as this is where we were going to have the hostage kept. However, we did not realise that going behind the stage is not allowed due to health and safety so we got stopped before any filming could take place here. Because of this we now have to re-plan where our thriller is going to be set and change the story line to fit the new location.

We have a possible new idea for filming, in the photography studio, but we will have to wait to ask for permission to see if that can be done.

In this we did manage to film 2 outside scenes of our kidnapper watching the girl before he takes her hostage. We may re-shoot these later depending on how they fit with the new location.

Shot List

This is a blog of what shots we will be using tomorrow.
We will be using an establishing shot to give the viewer an understanding of where our film is set.
We will use close up shots to show the emotions of the characters clearly.
We will be using a long shot of the hostage to create isolation.

Costumes and Setting

The Attacker will be wearing black to make him seem mysterious and dark/hidden.

Charlotte will be wearing her day to day clothes , as will Kirsten as they would be going about their day normally if this hadn't have happened.

planning

Tomorrow we are going to shoot our first scene within college , charlotte is playing the hostage , Ryan is the attacker and Kirsten Charlottes friend.

We are bringing in the appropriate props for tomorrow, such as fake blood, a rope and masking tape. We re all wearing our clothing we need for filming to college.

We are going to try and shoot as much as possible in tomorrows lesson so we have plenty of time for editing and have as much footage as possible .

In the Thriller we are going to have no speaking for half.

Our Thriller Titles

We have thought about some possible titles for our thriller. These are:

- Trapped
- Deadlock
- Hidden
- Backstage
- wrapped up
- struck

we chose mainly one word titles for a powerful effect.