Change in our concept - Group

When filming for this project, we have numerous problems with our footage which has lead to multiple shoots having to be re done:

• Poor lighting - By the time we got to our location after school, it was starting to get dark so by the time we got to the final shots, the cameras were unable to pick up what we wanted them too. However, we did not realise this as the footage looked good on the camera, but when we exported the clips to the computer and viewed them back, we were unable to see what we were hoping for.

• Location - Our location, the bomb shelters was a good idea. We still believe that it is a good idea, however, the poor lighting has made it impossible for us to film there. We tried using torches and our phones to light up the bomb shelter, but this was unsuccessful. As well as this, Anthony took 100 tea light candles and laid them around the edges of the bomb shelter in hope that it would make it lighter and would allow us to film, however, this also proved to be unsuccessful when we did the shoot.

• Title - Our title which was originally Nyctophobia (the fear of darkness) meant that we had to film in the dark. We liked the title and the idea of filming in the dark attracted us as we thought that for our concept, this would be a good for our film. Also darkness is a convention of horror movies.

The shoot we did at Christy's house was successful, we put it together for our rough cut and the rest of the class liked what they had seen. This made us want to carry on trying to film in the dark because our audience liked it. We did another shoot on the 27th January before school, at this time of the morning, it was getting light and we thought that we would just forget filming in the dark because it was too hard. The external shots in the woods were good, however, the internal shots in the bomb shelter were still too dark because there is no source of light. We came into school and started putting it all together and we realised that it was not going to work.

After all of this, we have now decided to change our idea but keeping the idea of the rope. We are now going to be filming at Christy's house in his garden. In his garden he has a vegetable patch which we are going to use. He also has a shed at the back of the garden which we will use to keep someone 'hostage' whilst his death is being planned out. As we are now filming during the day, we have decided to change our name from Nyctophobia to forget me knot. We are going to be shooting this on Saturday 31st January and we are hoping this will be the final shoot as we have  carefully planned it out and Christy has also completed a location RECCE of his garden.

Location RECCE

GROUP - Filming review-28th Jauary 2015

We re-filmed the footage we did on the 26th but this time at the crack of dawn, which was much more efficient due to the much improved lighting. The pictures were much clearer and you could see much more of the actor, expressing the mise-en-scene through the actors costume, his non verbal body language and the location in much more detail, which is vital in horror movies. The camera work was much better as we could see the pans better and the different angles of filming were much more visible. In terms of sound there was some very effective diegetic sound we filmed such as birds chirping and the closing of the metal gate. We explored many movements using the track and dolly, and different angles including a high angle from on top of the bomb shelter showing ant entering the bomb shelter.

GROUP - Lesson-27th January 2015

One of the main focuses for todays lesson was cutting in the usable shots from our latest shoot and making them flow with the shots from our rough cut, and cutting down the longer shots and removing those that we found were not vital, and making the unnecessarily long ones shorter. we are still discussing if there's any better options than filming at the bomb shelters as there may be places that have more light.

GROUP - Filming reveiw-26th January 2015

Yesterday was supposed to be our final filming session, it was a repeat of our first shoot and included Anthony entering the woods past two of his former victims and into the bomb shelters to conduct the murder of his final victim, this part of the shoot was fine as the bomb shelter was illuminated with candles, as we though this would help improve the mise-en-scene of our production and making it seem more like Ants lair. The scenes outside the wood were good due to the lighting of the street and the blurry cars in the background, however when we entered the woods the torch we were using ran out, despite being fully charged, so it was not possible to film these scenes as the lighting was poor, we are going to redo these shots on Thursday morning and edit them to look like night time.
 

Ant Pitts	Actor-main character Filming assistant Co-Editor
Christy O’Shea	Actor-Role cancelled due to poor lighting Main cameraman/Director Co-Editor
Josh Platt	Actor-Role cancelled due to poor lighting Chief Editor
Ed Roebuck	Actor-Final murder victim

Rough Cut - Group

Here is the rough cut of what we have so far. We still have to do more filming in the woods which show the people who are being murdered in the bomb shelters as Anthony has now left the house and is on route to the location of the murders.

Feedback, what went well: 

- Good continuity editing. 

- Composition of shots 

- Light of external location, outside Christy's house. 

- Credits on the wall. 

What could be improved?

- Too many shots on the stairs so we will need to cut that down. 

- More sound needed in certain places, which we were planning to do but didn't have time to put in the rough cut. 

Sequencing - Anthony Pitts

Today I have been doing sequencing for the project. I have been putting all of the shots in the order and cutting them down to ensure the scene is continuous. As well as doing the sequencing, I have been using freesound.org to get sound for our project. So far, I have sequenced all of the footage which we have so far.