Construction 7 (Re-shoots and Re-edits)

After listening to our peer's feedback we obviously decided to change our film according to most of the changes they said. Our peers acted like our target audience, some members were and some poeple said they would go and see it if the film was really out in the cinema etc.
We made changes to the actual film and to our soundtrack, the changes that we made are on the last post.
The re-shoots and re-edits were successful each time that we did them.

Construction - 6 (Evaluation of Peer Feedback)

Changes 29 seconds - fade through black from news report to the titles. cut the length of the titles down - too long. 53 seconds - cut the first part of the shot, the pan is jerky. add some reaction shots. Atmosphere noise isn't needed in the soundtrack - too overdone 1 min 16 secs - continuity error with Charlotte and her phone. Add a clock in before and after to show the passing of time and break shots up, too long. 1 min 50 secs - start of shot is jerky, cut out jerks. A bit too long - shorten it down. 2 min 9 secs - pause as Charlotte opens the fridge - Cut it out. Change the soundtrack, make it sound more romantic so we can't guess what's about to happen, add spine chilling 'stingers' every time Gregg appears. Shorten the scene where Gregg appears behind the tree. Cut scene of Charlotte and dog going into the woods. When Charlotte gets killed add camera noise as she takes pic of werewolf. News titles on each news report Add ident at the start of film. Good Idea's good framing in the woods Nice camera sounds when Charlotte is taking pics of casper Flicker shots of Charlotte looking around the woods Nice green screen

Rough Cut Feedback

Obviously peer feedback is really good especially if your peers are the same age as your intended audience which is what has happened for us.

Construction 4 - Rough Cut

Editing - Problem

We wanted to add a picture of a moon to show the passing of day in our film and it was to also follow the conventions of werewolves coming out at night and turning in the full moon. The big problem with it though is that our media teacher explained to us that to photograph or film the moon would be really hard as you need really expensive equipment to get a photo that will be clear enough. Our teacher tried to take a picture for us with his expensive equipment but even then it wasn't good enough for the effect we wanted in our film so we ended up buying a stock footage moon and just putting that in instead.

Editing

Our editing process is going well, we are using

• Final Cut AV - to edit our film


• Soundtrack Pro - to create and edit our soundtrack


• LiveType - to create our tiltles, to create the background of our news report (the movie comes out of this program)


• Youtube - to host our final film.

Construction - Shooting on location (day 3)

Today was the woods shoot! We got so much filming done today, we had to make some changes to the animatic as some of the chances we came across were too good to miss. For example Lucy's dog Casper started barking because he had heard another dog and we thought that it would be a really good shot in the film. We also had the idea to do some really quick pan shots around the woods which increases the tension and atmosphere in our narrative. We had some trouble with keeping up with the filming along with casper, he kept trying to run after Gregg who was running away in the shots (Gregg was meant to be running away) but after a few takes we managed to get the effects and shots we wanted. As long as we don't need to re-film any more scenes we have finished shooting!!

Construction - Shooting on location (day 3)

Good day today! We have successfully filmed our living room and bedroom scene. They are exactly how we wanted them, the lighting is really good. We are on schedule which is good and we are really happy with how everything is going. We need to be really prepared for our big shoot in the woods.

Construction - shooting on location (day 2)

Day 2 - We have got so much filming done today, we re-filmed the cafe scenes and the News report scene. We made sure that our camera was on auto focus instead of manual focus which made a massive improvement. Here are the results: Here is the old (on the left) and new (on the right) cafe scenes. Here are the old (on the left) and new (on the right) News report scenes. As you can see both look considerably more proffessional and believable.

We had to refilm the kitchen scene again aswell due to the focus problem.

Construction 1 - Shooting on location

Today was very unsuccessful! We started filming and didn't realise that the camera was on manual focus which meant that all our shots were really really unfocused. We didn't realise until we got back to school and started uploading our footage onto the mac. It's a slight hurdle in our progress but we are going to re-film on our next shooting day. We know what we have to do now so it shouldn't take too long. We will have to remember to put the focus on auto!! We had been filming our cafe scene, we have made the set ourselves out of a grey free standing board, some hand made signs and a table and chair in front. We showed the footage to our media teacher and he made us aware that it didn't look proffessional or convincing enough. Lucy has asked her boss for permission to film at her cafe where she works so we have a cafe location. Our teacher has also gave us the idea of doing a green screen for our news report which will be brilliant. We are going to follow a tutorial as we havn't got a clue how to chroma key.