Got our music at last!

In todays media lesson we finally found our music and imported it into our film clip.
We looked on a copy right free music website (http://audio.lgfl.org.uk/) and searched for thriller music. There were 10 choices of thriller music clips, and our favourite two were 'In Memoriam' and 'Hidden Threat'. These two stood out to us as they went well with our stalker theme, built up suspense and gave it an eerie feel. We didn't take long to choose what music we wanted, and after listening to both clips a few times we decided that 'In Memoriam' would be the more suitable music for our clip. We think it gives our film opening a mysterious feel and builds up the suspense and tension that we want to get across to the audience. We've imported the music into our sequence and thinks it goes very well with our film opening. In scene 10 (the conversation scene) we need to change the volume, as even though the audience can hear myself and Lucy speaking, the musics volume is still quite loud and goes over the conversation. We need to find a way to make the music volume in this clip quieter so that the audience will be able to hear the full conversation but so that the music can still be heard in the background.

Conversation Scene Editing Stuff...

So in Wednesdays media lesson we edited the new shot of the conversation scene into our film opening. We'd filmed it three times to make sure that we got a good shot of it, incase the tape corrupted again and just to give us a choice of which shot we preferred. Both myself and Lucy were able to remember what clothes we wore on the original day of filming, and we used the same umbrella again so as not to ruin the continuity. The umbrella was also used to disguise the background. This scene was shot in my back garden like before, and the umbrella helped disguise any signs that we were in my garden and not the woods where all of the other stalker shots were filmed.

New conversation scene...

So this morning we re-filmed the conversation scene between the stalkers victim & her friend. It went well and playing the scene back on the camera it seems to have not come out bright like it did last time, so thats a relief! We decided to film the scene three times, just incase the tape corrupted again or if something didn't come out right from the first shot we filmed of it. The weather was pretty much the same as it was the day we originally filmed the rest of our film opening, and both myself & Lucy were able to remember what we were wearing so our continuity will hopefully not be ruined. We also took some pictures of us filming, as we didn't take any when we filmed our whole film opening a few weeks ago. The pictures we took are below...



All that needs to be done now is myself & Shazna need to edit the conversation scene and add it into the rest of our film opening, go onto a copy-right free website and find music that will go well with the stalker theme of our film opening, add that into our film sequence and then everything should be completed!

Re-Shooting...

Myself and Lucy will be re-filming the conversation scene between the stalkers victim and her friend tomorrow (Saturday 7th February). We will be re-filming this scene in my back garden as this is where we filmed the conversation scene originally. We are having to re-shoot this scene due to when we uploaded our film onto iMovie, this particular scene for some reason came out very bright. Our teacher Nina thought that the brightness on this scene ruined the rest of our film opening, and advised us to re-shoot the conversation so that it wouldn't ruin the rest of our film opening. So hopefully this time the scene will come out well, and we will just need to edit it into the rest of our film opening.

Yet more editing stuff...

So we carried on our editing today in our media lesson. In the end, we decided to change the last shot of the blood covered pictures & knife to black and white. We did this as the titles that come up in this scene are in red, and if we were to have kept the shot in colour, the red titles would not have had as much as an effect as they would have coming up over a black & white shot.
We've also made the decision to re-shoot the conversation scenes between the stalkers victim (Lucy) and her friend (me). This is because for some reason these scenes came out very bright, so bright that our faces couldn't be made out. So I will have to check with Lucy to see if she can re-shoot these scenes over the weekend so we will have the footage ready to edit and put into our film in next Wednesdays lesson.
Once this scene has been re-shot and added into the film opening, we should have all of our scenes and we can finish editing it all.

More editing stuff...

Since my last blog myself and Shazna have done a lot more editing on our film opening. We've now edited out all the re-takes and scenes that we don't need and got all of the scenes that we do need in the order we want them to be in. We've also changed the scenes at the stalkers house to black & white, though we've decided to keep the final scene of the blood covered pictures and knife in colour. We've done this as in previous scenes of the same shot, we didn't think that the full effect of the blood on the pictures and writing of the word 'Die' in blood over some of the pictures would be got across to the audience if all shots of the scene were in black & white. So by leaving the last shot of the scene in colour, the effect of blood that we want to get across will hopefully be put across to the audience.

We've also started to add our titles and names onto each scene but still need to finish those during the week. For our titles we've decided to use a 'wipe' effect and have written the text in red. By using this colour font and the 'wipe' effect, we are trying to give the impression that the titles are written in blood, and that the blood writing is being wiped on and off of the screen. This goes well with our stalker and possible murder theme.