Wednesdays lesson

Today, Alice isnt here, so i thought this would be a good chance to updatemy blog as Alice has the story boards so we are not able to complete our story board. I think we still need to talk about our main task as a group as i dont think everybody is quite sure on what, when and where we will be shooting our main task. We were plannning on filming later on today but alice isnt here this is impossible. Which leaves us to meet up over the christmas holidays which may be a problem as we are all busy on certain days.

Mondays lesson

On monday we began storyboarding our idea, we thought off the type pff shots we could use and what sort of setting we want to create. We didnt get much work done whihc was dissapionting, but we now need to copy up our storyboard in neat so we have something to work with when shooting our main task.

Main task final idea

We have now deffinatly decided on what idea we will be using. We will be creating a slasher film based on teenagers going on a camping trip in the forest. The teenagers will be drinking smoking, doing drugs which is all the type of things we may expect from a teenage slasher film.

We needed to think off the tyopes of shots we want to film we thought off some ideas:
- Making a picnic or packing a bag for the camping trip.
- Meeting up with each other.
- Loading the car with the camping gear.
- The Killer's normal daily life, like shopping, or their boring job.

We dont want to make our slasher too obvious in the first two minutes so we thought we could represent him by heavy breathing or a siloette.

Idea for main task

On Wednesdays lesson we were all present so we thought it would be a good time to discuss what idea we could use for our main task. We decided on a completly different idea from what we had originally thought of. As our task was to produce a 2 minute clip for the beggininging of a horror or thriller film, we thought we could base our task on teenagers going on a camping trip, and there happens to be a slasher in the forest as well. This way we could all act in the film which would be much more convinient as we would not have to really on other people. We liked the idea of the film 'shrooms' so we will use this film to help produce the same effect for ours.

Lainey Tim and alice thought of the idea of a film based on child abuse/ pedophilia. We discused this idea and i gave some input into what i thought about the idea. At first i thought it was really good as there are some great ideas that were being discused. I then realised that this idea may be more difficult than we first thought as we would have to film young children. At first alice said we could use her sisters as they are 8 and 10, but i think because of the nature of our film it weould have been inappropreate so we decides to think of another idea that could be just as affective.

On mondays lesson we were introduced to the main task.
This is our brief;
The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

As me and tim were not in lesson alice and lainey thought of some ideas that we could use for our main task;
-An old house being haunted by a ghost.
- A child being abused by her step-dad.
- A school bus fatally crashing, the driver is haunted by the ghosts of the children.

End of preliminary task.

We have now finished our preliminary task, our deadline was friday so any unfinished work must be finished in out own time. We will now be focusing on our main task.

Me and alice were not in lesson on friday, so this meant the reat of the footage was left for lainey and tim. I think this may have been better as there is usually more focus and more work can be done if there is only two people working on the computer rather than four.

filming our preliminary task.

We now have finished our preliminary task idea. We firstly shot our preliminary task, Alice wasnt here on the day so i stepped in and took her place as being the student in our film, we the showed reno the footage and he thought it was a good idea to re shoot because some of the shots were not up to standerd. We tyhen acted on this and re shot all the footage, this time alice was in so shre was able to help lainey with the shots and filming. Once we had got our footage, Lainey, tim and alice logged the shots as i was not here to help. They then captured the shots onto the computer which according to them didnt take long at all as they really focused so we could finish our task.