Editing

Now our group had finished all the shots needed we progressed onto editing our shots. We needed to find appropriate music and sound effects for the genre.

Each member of our group attempted to find appropriate music on the various copyright free music sites. Eventually we found some suitable music.

We then pieced together our shots and used various fades to make the shots appear more atmospheric. We also used the tools in premier to manipulate the music in order to make it flow with the editing.

Filming 23/02

Our group had found that we needed to use a larger variety of shots as we had before relied on the actors to move the plot forward rather than the camera angles. With this in mind we used significantally more POV shots, close ups etc.

Once the shots were finished we uploaded them onto adobe premier and began to edit them.

Filming 05/02

As we needed to incorporate a new plot we had to make some significant re shoots.

We experimented with low and high angle shots and POV shots to help capture the emotion of the actors. We also had to write a script for the character dialogue which improved the overall effect of the scene.

Weather was again a problem as we had to hide the snow that had fallen recently in order to preserve continuity.

Feedback from filming 25/01

We recived some very important feedback from our teacher which will cause us to alter our film.

The shots with the actress portraying the younger version of another actress will have to be changed du to lack of realism. This is as the actresses have little resembelence to each other and this would obviously confuse the audience.

We have decided to alter the plot slightly in order to overcome this problem.

Other feedback included adding extra shots to increase continuity.

Filming 25/01

Our group re shot several shots that we felt were not up to standard and completed the shots we had been unbale to do so before. The weather was a slight problem however we were still able to get the shots needed. Our increased experience in camera work allowed us to re shoot the shots that were previously too shaky and to overall improve the quality of shots.

Later in the evening we filmed in a different location (house) with different actors. A significant problem arose when our camera ran out of power. However we were able to use a digital camera which hopefully will not affect the quality of the shots.

I feel that this filming session was very successful as we were able to improve our previous shots and to create an appropriate environment for the opening.

Filming 15/01

Our group filmed in all of our locations (Woods, Abandoned Barn). We filmed a large number of shots and found some easier to do than others. Some shots required other equipment such as a ladder.

However the weather and the light conditions stoppped us from filming any more and some of our shots were unusable due to the darkness.

Feedback

Good Mise-en-scene
Shaky camera work
Improve continuity