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Last Post !

This is my last post. I have throughly enjoyed every aspect of the filming and editing for our thhriller genre film opening. I hope to continue Media at A2 and I am looking forward to embarking on the music video project.This blog is now closed.

Film is finished !

Yesterday, we were allocated the whole of our morning media lesson for our final editing session to finish our film opening before the deadline at 11:45. We only had a few finishing touches to make but it was quite pressurising.

At first, it was all rather nerve racking and we felt quite pressured, especially with Ms Foster shouting '2 hours remaining!' But, we actually surprised ourselves as everything just fell into place and we managed to finish and upload our film into high definition onto youtube before the deadline time !

Filming and Editing coming towards an end

After our recent editing sessions, Miss Foster and me and my group thought that it would be a good idea if we filmed a final part to end our film. So during Wednesday's lunchtime we went to Elle's house and filmed the final scene.

Seeing as we added the new ending of "24 hours earlier" in white writing on a plain black screen with an alarm clock sound we used from imovie playing over it, we thought it would make the noise more significant and the idea more authentic if the audience actually saw an alarm clock.

So we went to Elle's, she got changed in her pyjama's and got into bed and we started filming.We set the alarm for 7:30 and filmed a close up shot of her turning it off while missing it. We then filmed loads of different shots; an ariel shot of her waking up,canted angles and long shots of her in her bed.We also filmed a shot of her stretching and taking off her sleep mask and waking up then moving to the side of the bed, and putting her head in her hands which is where we hope to end the film opening with the aim to leave the audience wanting to know what is going to happen next.

When we editted this scene, we used the sound of the alarm clock going off and dragged it so that it started when the black screen-"24 hours earlier" appears on the screen so that it created a sound bridge to the next scene of Elle missing the alarm clock and then stopping it, which is when the sound stops. Then, we used the original sound from the pan shot across to Elle in her bed where she wakes up and then gets out of bed and the scene fades to white.

We also changed the video style into 'dream' because the effect reflects her innocence and we also used the same effect in her dancing scenes, so we included it to reinforce this idea so that it runs throughout the film opening.

However, after uploading and editing these scenes we decided not to include it in our film opening as it gave it too much of an ending. We also realised that it allowed the audience to calm down after the fast paced chase which is what we did not want to happen. So, to leave the audience hanging we deleted all them clips and ended it on "The Music Box" with the overlapped clip of Elle.

Adding a professional look

To make our film stand out and to make it look like a professional film after researching other films, we have seen that before the film starts there is a green screen with writing on it to say that the film as been approved for certain audiences.

We decided to imitate this, but although this green screen appears on American films, we had to reword it to make it suitable for the United Kingdom. We also created a website at the bottom to make it sound believable.

The Music Box Evaluation

The music box evaluation [autosaved] [autosaved]

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Completely changing the beginning

Yesterday, me, Elle, Emma and Soph all went to Ms Foster's office to borrow a netbook and as we were there me and Emma wanted to show her what we had edited recently on Monday.

She liked the black screens we entered at the start spelling, 'MURDER IS LIKE MUSIC TO MY EARS', and particularly liked the overlapped clip at the end. She also agreed with the fact that we decided to delete the blood scene as she had told us to this a long time ago but we never listened.

However, from watching it several times she thought that the montage at the beginning consisting of fast clips made our '2 minute film opening' appear more like a 'film trailer'. This would be going against the specification and could lower our grade.

The five of us disagreed on whether we should delete the whole montage or not as me and Emma felt that this was the most effective part of the film opening whereas Miss, Soph and Elle all thought it looked more like a trailer.

From this split decision, Ms Foster tried to convince us to agree with her and played our film opening with her hand covering up the montage and telling us to imagine black screens instead with text about the production etc. and the film starting with the shot of the music box spinning and then zooming out onto Elle spinning.

After this, I was convinced that the montage did look too much like a film trailer and so we headed up to the media room to edit the beginning.

The montage itself lasted about 20 seconds so we had to make up this time and fill up the spaces where the montage was with black screens lasting the exact same time so that it did not affect the music.

So from ideas from other films, we inserted about 3 screens reading;
1. A S.E.E.N Production- The name 'seen' being an acronym-the first letters of the four of our names. I also spotted this as being quite ironic as the word 'seen' is associated with films because we watch films.

2. Jackel Presents-Initially we had 'Fox Presents' but we thought that Jackel would look less copyrighted.
3.We also decided to have the title at the beginning.
All these clips lasted about 6-7 seconds each to fit in with the music perfectly.

Also on Wednesday, we wanted to hook our audience at the end and keep them 'hanging off the edge of their seats' as one would say, so we inserted a quick flash of a shot of Billy appearing behind Elle in the car park so they would want to know what is going to happen next so will continue to watch the film.