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.