The editing so far is going well, however we have faced some challenges especially with zooming in in. In our opening scene we have a shot of a dead murder victim, in the filming process the only clear shot of this we managed to get of him in it he blinked. To deal with this we made a picture from some of the footage by capturing a screen shot and tried to zoom in on that but failed in the process of cross cut zooming.
Otherwise the filming is going well so far, we still have yet to record the voice over and edit it in.
Sunday, 5 February 2017
Thursday, 2 February 2017
Wednesday, 1 February 2017
The Filming
I had a few issues with the people in the filming as 2 didn't turn up, one as he was ill and the other for unknown reasons. This caused a problem as the movie was called eight and there were only six; to address this problem we have decided to call the movie prediction. We have called it this to link to the fortune cards and also as it memorable and it looks good with multiple fonts.
Fortunately we had a breakthrough as the sound on my camera from home worked, as last time it didn't, so we did not need to use the massive amount of sound recorded on the boom microphone. I think it would have been nice if we could have been more organise with the actors, as we needed a lot of people to get involved we didn't have to cast as only six people agreed to do it (this doesn't include me and Morgan). This was a problem as some were not familiar with acting and so the quality of footage in terms of acting wasn't as good as we initially hoped. In an effort to fix this we are adding a voice over like initially planned and we are having music in the background which we are hoping will distract the viewer from some of the acting. However we are truly grateful that the people who did come, came.
Although we didn't follow the planned story board we got a lot of the types of shots from it that we wanted, like dutch tilts and high angle shots. One of the most effective I think may have been the over the shoulder shot as it makes one of the characters look suspicious.
Fortunately we had a breakthrough as the sound on my camera from home worked, as last time it didn't, so we did not need to use the massive amount of sound recorded on the boom microphone. I think it would have been nice if we could have been more organise with the actors, as we needed a lot of people to get involved we didn't have to cast as only six people agreed to do it (this doesn't include me and Morgan). This was a problem as some were not familiar with acting and so the quality of footage in terms of acting wasn't as good as we initially hoped. In an effort to fix this we are adding a voice over like initially planned and we are having music in the background which we are hoping will distract the viewer from some of the acting. However we are truly grateful that the people who did come, came.
Although we didn't follow the planned story board we got a lot of the types of shots from it that we wanted, like dutch tilts and high angle shots. One of the most effective I think may have been the over the shoulder shot as it makes one of the characters look suspicious.
Saturday, 14 January 2017
Risk assessment
Location
- One main risk about the location is weather people will be able to make it there, we will have to advise them to drive safely as our location is on a country road and you can't always see the cars coming round the corner.
- Another risk is that there is hardly any parking so we will have to make sure we get everyone is to be dropped off.
People
- We will have to make sure that anyone with a condition like asthma, epilepsy or anything that requires them to take medication, to bring what they need is necessary to cope with it and for anyone with something like epilepsy we would have to take into account not to use any flashing lights.
- The same goes for anyone with allergies as I have a dog, also we will have food at the table so we must make sure that any of our cast tells us about anything like that before we start filming, and if its something we can't help for them to bring an Epipen.
-We must make sure that no one trips up any wires as there will be a lot of people in the room and if we need to plug any lights in or the camera we must make sure that no one trips over the wires.
Costume
- We must make sure that if anyone in the cast reacts badly to certain material and we ask them to wear a specific item of clothing, for them to tell us that they cant wear it and then we can find a replacement.
- If we are going to light any candles to make are video more atmospheric we must make sure that we take extra caution that none of us are close enough to the flame to catch any of the clothing on fire, or anything like that for that matter.
- One main risk about the location is weather people will be able to make it there, we will have to advise them to drive safely as our location is on a country road and you can't always see the cars coming round the corner.
- Another risk is that there is hardly any parking so we will have to make sure we get everyone is to be dropped off.
People
- We will have to make sure that anyone with a condition like asthma, epilepsy or anything that requires them to take medication, to bring what they need is necessary to cope with it and for anyone with something like epilepsy we would have to take into account not to use any flashing lights.
- The same goes for anyone with allergies as I have a dog, also we will have food at the table so we must make sure that any of our cast tells us about anything like that before we start filming, and if its something we can't help for them to bring an Epipen.
-We must make sure that no one trips up any wires as there will be a lot of people in the room and if we need to plug any lights in or the camera we must make sure that no one trips over the wires.
Costume
- We must make sure that if anyone in the cast reacts badly to certain material and we ask them to wear a specific item of clothing, for them to tell us that they cant wear it and then we can find a replacement.
- If we are going to light any candles to make are video more atmospheric we must make sure that we take extra caution that none of us are close enough to the flame to catch any of the clothing on fire, or anything like that for that matter.
Props and makeup
Make up
The make up will be plain on most of the characters but for those who have more secrets they will wear more make-up (mainly the women). This will represent that they have a lot of secrets and hidden truths that they are covering up.
Props
For props we will have food around the table and general things you would typically find in a dinning room. Where the chairs are placed and how high or grand they are will show superiority, class and importance.
The clock will be of the most importance as the whole movie is based around time, how it's running out and that someone dies at 8 o'clock (the are also 8 people at the dinner party). The clock will be zoomed in on and shot in time lapse to give the idea of time going forwards and the idea of flashbacks and things as such.
The make up will be plain on most of the characters but for those who have more secrets they will wear more make-up (mainly the women). This will represent that they have a lot of secrets and hidden truths that they are covering up.
Props
For props we will have food around the table and general things you would typically find in a dinning room. Where the chairs are placed and how high or grand they are will show superiority, class and importance.
The clock will be of the most importance as the whole movie is based around time, how it's running out and that someone dies at 8 o'clock (the are also 8 people at the dinner party). The clock will be zoomed in on and shot in time lapse to give the idea of time going forwards and the idea of flashbacks and things as such.
Genre
The genre of the movie will be a psychological thriller/ murder mystery. We will show this in our opening scene by putting the camera in high places or in awkward positions so that the audience will think something is odd. This will also be shown by the quick jump cuts and how a lot of the shots, from shot to shot, will go from close up to long shot for dramatic effect. The difference in lighting in the shots will further add to the off-putting atmosphere the opening scene should give off.
The murder and the confusion around it should further prove the genre.
The murder and the confusion around it should further prove the genre.
Sunday, 8 January 2017
Audition video
In this we auditions a select few people for the relatively important roles and audition them for our movies opening scene we chose some more people after this and didn't include some. We decided to include myself as the protagonist as I knew the script and how we wanted to have the voice over sound. We were grateful for the people who did decide to help that they did.
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