Thriller Opening Draft

Editing

We spent the day editing our draft in Adobe Premiere Project, we realised that using our storyboard the opening wasn't long enough. Unfortunately we don't really have enough footage at the minute to make it the correct length but we will use this as a lesson and make sure we get a lot more footage for our final film. We also didn't have enough time to find music to put over it so we had to leave it with just the video. I will upload the draft in my next post.

Filming and Uploading

We went to Emmas house and did lots of different shots there and then went to Attenborough in the graveyard and the church. The filming at Emmas went really well and we made sure we did at least 2 of each shot we did incase some didn't look as good. In Attenborough the filming looked very overexposed on the camera screen so we were worried that it would look bad when we uploaded it to the computer but we did our filming anyway to see what it looked like and we hoped that it would be okay.

Me and Kristina have now uploaded all of the filming onto the computers and changed them all into MPG files in order to import them into Adobe Premier Pro. Some of the videos do look over exposed but we are hoping that we will be able to balance the light on the computer in order to make it look better.

Title Ideas

During todays lesson we also discussed some ideas for our thriller title, some ideas we came up with were 'Posessed', 'Haunted', 'Supernatural' and 'The Haunting'. We decided that these all foreshadow different storylines, for example 'Posessed' would suggest that someone gets posessed while 'Haunted or 'The Haunting' just suggests that they stay in the haunted place shown at the beginning and 'Supernatural' doesn't give away a lot.

We finally decided that the title will be 'The Haunting' and we have come up with some different title images, the images are below.

Change of plans

Our group have properly looked at the footage that Emma and Lizzie got from Tutbury Castle. We have decided that it isn't very good quality as it it quite shaky and there isn't enough footage because the camera battery ran out and they were unable to charge it. We have decided that we are going to start again with the filming by filming an old church that is near where we live in Attenborough, this is good for me and Kristina anyway poo as it means we are able to help with the filming, we are also going to go to Emma's house to film a ouija board and a table being lifted for our opening. Unfortunately this doesn't give us a lot of time to film but we are going to do everything we can to get the filming done tonight (17/03/11) and as me and Kristina have most of the day off college tomorrow we are going to spend the day doing editing and Lizzie and Emma have a few hours off so they will be able to help us. We are hoping that bumhole we will be able to get everything done and therefore get everything done on time, below is a picture of the church that is in Attenborough nature reserve that we will be going to tonight to film.

Location

We are doing our filming at Tutbury Castle. These are pictures of the castle, it is a place which often holds ghost walks and events and it is also quite 'spooky' looking at night which will help our opening to create suspence and mystery and so we thought it would be an appropriate location to do our filming.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard, we all contributed to drawing this and used the mind map to come up with some ideas for shots and put them into the storyboard. We would like to do filming at Tutbury Castle, I will upload some images of the castle in my next post.

Mind Map

Our group sat down and discussed some different ideas, his is the mind map that we made using these ideas. We included shots, mis en scen, sound, editing and ideas of who we would use to act for us. This helped a lot with our storyboard and the actual planning of our opening.