Weekly updates 12

During this week: 28/11/11 -  02/12/11
We have completed:

Final Product, Production Team, Uploading the Video, Edit Decision List and News Radio Sound.

Overall, we have completed all work, finally in time to continue with our Evaluation.

In the next week we hope to complete:

• 3 Dvd's  - Ruheet will complete this as he is the Editor, he will create three copies of our Final Product.

What went well:
All work was completed.

Meetings

All this week we had 2 meetings in which we just did our paper work. We discussed what we would do after the Film had been finished, it was to upload it onto Youtube and the Blog.

Video Upload on Youtube and Facebook

 

 

Edit decision list

Edit Decision List

Final Product

Meeting Minutes 10

Meeting min 10

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The Production Team

The production team

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News Radio Sound

Six o'Clock News by Mariam Nawab

This is the sound for the Radio in which we play the News for Percy (Carl).

We have used this specific sound to in our film because we want the audience to understand the the mystery within the film. This is, the fact that people are disappearing out of thin air. When the Boss (Raman) enters the film, it creates suspense and the audiences heart races as it was not unexpected as to how he had got there without a sound. Then this created a relief from the audience as they know that the Boss may be harmless. The reason why the Boss appears out of nowhere is because it follows the News of people disappearing, the audience would suddenly expect that Percy is in danger of disappearing, then out of the blue, the Boss appears, this slows down the fast pacing hearbeats of the audience.

The Radio is played before the Boss enters, we have made the film like this to make the atmosphere very intense. The  News, when played, foreshadows what might happen to Percy (Carl), which could be his death or disappearance.

The News is also made and added to the film to create Enigmas from the audience; Why are people disappearing? Will Percy disappear? Why has he not paid attention to the News?

Weekly updates 11

During this week:  21/11/11 - 25/11/11
We have completed and added:
Fonts Used, Possible Logo's and Call Sheet.

What we hope to do in the next week:

• Finish Paperwork: We will try and complete all our paperwork alongside our Final Product.
• Final Product: This will be completed by Ruheet after using the News Radio, adding to it.
• Edit Decision List: This will be done by Ruheet.
• News Radio Sound: This will be done by Chloe and Mariam, they will talk about why they have that specific sound on the Film.
• The Production Team: This will be done by the Director, Mariam, who will talk about the team and the significance of each member.
• Video Upload: This will be done by Ruheet who will post the Video on Youtube, the blog and Facebook to publicise it.

What went well:
This was the fonts used, possible logos and call sheet.

We could improve:
By speeding up our paperwork and get feedback by the audience on our Final Product after posting on YouTube.

Meeting Minutes 9

Meeting min 9

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Fonts used

Fonts Used

Call Sheet for Production

Call Sheet

Possible Logo's

Possible Logos

Weekly Update 10

During this week: 14/11/11 to 18/11/11 
We have complete:
Shot List, Log Rushes, Journals.

In the next week we hope to complete:

• Call Sheet: This will be done by Mariam who will make a template showing that we asked for permission from the department teacher to use the camera for filming.
• Fonts Used: Ruheet will look at the film and check what fonts have been used in the titles.
• Possible Logos: Mariam will do this by checking the different logos that were looked at and comparing them to the one's used, and why we didn't use the others.

What went well:
The Journals and Shot List.


We could improve:
By adding as much information to the blog as possible, get on with paperwork and editing so we do not have to do last minute work.

Meeting Minutes 8

Meeting min 8

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Shot List

Shot List

Sound's Person Journal (Chloe Wakeling)

Sound's Person Journal

What I had to do: In our film we had a radio news presenter, talking about a missing girl - this story that i made up ties up with out story in our opening scene of our film.

I did the recording first, but found when playing it back that it would not be good enough for the film, so i origanized todo it again.

I found someone else to do it, his name was Raman, and his voice sounded just like a DJ , which was what I was trying to achieve for the radio. When playing back, the voice suited well, and the editer incorporated it well into the film.

I enjoyed making the voice for the radio, as it showed more of a rangeof technology that I used in our film.
I was happy working with the people who was involved in making the news voice.

The only thing that went wrong was when i did my first try, of which my voice was not good enough - by this i mean it did not have the news type voice i was trying to achieve.

I would happily do it again , to improve our movie or if i made another movie which needed a voice recording.

Editors Journal

Editors Journal

Log Rushes

This is a picture of me, Editor, typing up the different shots from the film we shot.

Camera Person Journal

My name is Chloe Wakeling and I was the Camera-women when the group filmed the opening scene of the supernatural thriller.

My role: My role as the camera women (cinematography) was to make a wide range of camera angles, to make sure the lighting of the film set was adequate. Hands on with the camera, for example using the buttons and making the angles. To help the directer in decision making, such as where the actors will be best standing.

Using the camera
Using the camera, I found not that difficult to use, because the basics were not that hard to master as there was only three functions of the camera that i actually really needed to master which was the recording button and moving the camera around on the tripod. I also learned how to zoom in and out on the camera, this was used to make our actors face show the confusion on his face, to make the audience react. I enjoyed using the camera as I learn the 3 main functions to a camera that make a film.


The tripod
Using the tripod was not that difficult, I made it different lengths to make different camera shots, to make a wide range of camera shots so when we are editing the editor would have lots of shots to choose from and to choose the right one that will make it creepy.  

Lighting
The lighting of the set was adequate to make the effects that we desired. The lighting was very slightly dim, but this was good as this is a good element to have, as our film is a supernatural thriller and this makes the atmosphere creepy.

Working with the Director
Working with the director, we both had good ideas to make the film good. We worked well together as a team.

Overall i enjoyed the role as camera women and would happily do it again for any future movies i make.

Sound's Person Journal (Ruheet Hasnath)

Throughout this project I have been researching and looking for sounds that I thought would be suitable for our movie and throughout my research I have found some good and some bad sounds but I had to be accurate and precise with the sounds I used in the final movie.

The reason why I had to be 100% sure in which sound i use is because the sound is a very big thing in the movie because without the right sound the film will be out of place and will not make sense. I used a programme called Soundtrack pro to find my sounds and I think that this software was good software in terms of finding sounds because it had several different sounds and most of them fit our movie so it was hard to choose from but me and my group took this into consideration and chose the sounds together. 

Overall I think that finding sounds was a long term process because there are thousands of sounds out and we had to make sure we chose the right ones but in the future if I do edit and need to pick sounds I will make sure I find sound from before which is suitable and this will enable me to save a lot of time however it was a good experience and I would like to do this again and it has also made me gain some experience in sounds and I would not mind being the sound person in another project because I think that it is a good role to take on.