Bad weather lessons/unable to film

On Wednesday the 4th and Friday the 6th of February we were unable to film due to the bad weather conditions. This lead our plan to slightly change as we couldn’t film, although instead we started to log and capture some of the footage that we already had from previous filming sessions. This also gave us the chance to look through the footage we already have and see what things we still need to capture and improve. To edit the footage that we wanted to keep, we had to input (i) and output (o) the footage’s, and then drag them onto the timeline. To complete these tasks we used the program ‘Final cut pro’. Again on Friday the weather conditions were bad, although we still decided to go to Stoke Newington graveyard to see whether it could be possible to film or not. When we arrived there the weather conditions in the graveyard was extremely bad as there was a lot of snow, which meant that Nazmin would be unable to run and also it was very dangerous for us to film in case any equipment would slip and drop on the floor. This caused us to come back to college and we decided to continue with our editing as we could not do anything more due to the lack of footage’s.

Editing lesson - credits

In today's lesson our aim was to make sure that we put the credits we had done from the previous time lesson, onto our thriller sequence. This took time to get it all done as we also had a few problems that occured along the way. I imported the credits from the live type programme onto Final Cut Pro. Then we looked at each of the credits and planned out where we would place them on to the thriller sequence. This was done by selecting the footage that we already have done and moved it across the timeline so that it enabled us to put the credits in between the places where we thought would fit best, and then closing the gaps again, after we had put all the credits into place.

As we looked at our credits we had a problem which was as we played all the credits, it seemed to play the credits fast and so you was not able to tell properly who had made the thriller. But this was over come, as we modified with the speed which was reduced from 100 to 70. This then slowed the credits down so you were able to see it properly. But yet again there was another problem as the credits did not play as it was unrendered.

I figured out that we had forgotten to press command r after we had fixed the credits so it applied onto it.

There was also another problem, which was as we modified the speed of the credits to make it slower, it also made the credits longer at the end. Nevertheless, i had come up with an idea that there was a way out of this, and this was by putting the in and out points of the credits so it cut down the extras that we didn't need and then dragged it onto the timeline removing the other credits we had.

We were able to finish adding the credits onto our timeline and had thought to get onto doing the soundtrack for our thriller. Yet again another problem had occured as we were getting onto doing the soundtrack for our thriller, we had a difficulty in opening our thriller onto the soundtraack; so that as we played the sound, we were able to also view our thriller to match which sounds fix best for the footage.

Finally, this had been fixed together as we had to also keep Final Cut Pro open and export the thriller footage onto the soundtrack. And on the soundtrack programme we opened up the video drive and dragged the thriller onto the box where we were able to view it.

Credits/Sound

On Tuesday 24th February, Amina, Fahmida and I began adding the credits. We had to come up with names for our thriller. Fahmida came up with 'Vanished", Amina came up with 'Fear' and I came up with 'Predator'. It took us a while but we then decided on the name 'Vanished' as this suited best to the story line for our thriller. There was a variety of choice we had with fonts, size and styles. In the end we used the font 'Cracked' and combined the writing style 'Impression' and 'Cat Eyes'. By adding this kind of style it gave a feeling of a real thriller.

Today we added these credits onto our footage. This took some time we had to put it in order first and because the tittles were coming in too fast, we had to alter the speed of each credit. We then had to press control c to add it to our scene. We then started to work on the sound a bit but in tomorrow’s lesson we will develop this more by putting diagetic and non-diagtic sound.

Written By Shahida Choudhury

24th Tuesday

Today me, Shahida and Amina had decided to do the credits for our thriller. We also decided to come up with a name of our thriller and i had come up with "Vanished" whereas Shahida and Amina also thought of other titles such as 'fear' or ' predetor', but in the end we all decided to stick with the word "vanished" becuase it was related to our thriller so we all decide to go by it.

The credits were done by using a programme called 'Live type' on the computer. We decided to make the text font which is called ' cracked'. We also had added two effects for when the texts appear onto the screen. The first effect was called impression and the second one was called cat eyes. We combined both together for our title.

Editing/Sound

On Monday 16th February, Fahmida and I came into college during half term to start editing. We started logging and capturing the last remaining footage we had and then started putting the input and outputs on, then we roughly put the scenes in order. We realised we didn't have enough shots of the dark figure, so we did more shots of that in Owens Field, we also included close ups of a weapon (knife) to give it more of a thriller effect and we also did close ups of the dark figure's hands clenching and using the knife.

We then logged and captured this footage, and then finished putting all the inputs and outputs and had all our footage in order. We then added flashes of white light into the scenes and also made the shots a lot slower, to give more of a suspense so that the audience would feel its more like a thriller. We did all this using the Apple Macs.

We then started on the sound, but we hadn’t quite finished it because we wanted the other two members of the group to contribute towards. By next lesson we will start on the credits and finish off the sound, and we would then have completed our thriller entry.

Written By Shahida Choudhury

16th february

In the half term holiday, there was a work shop that took place on Monday for media students. I decided to take this into hand with Shahida who also helped by coming in and making sure that we were able to get our thriller film finished.

Today our task was to make sure we done all our editing and also have done a few parts of the sound which will go with our thriller film.

At some point we had few problems with our editing as we did not have a lot of footage on the dark figure therefore we had over comes this problem as i was the dark figure and as Shahida had filmed me playing my part. I used a knife as a weapon to show that our thriller looked scary. This had to be added as looking from our thriller there was more shots of Nazmin running therefore we had to make sure that the figure also got prepared to go after her.

We captured a few shots and had then gone back to our eiditing and had made a few changes which had a great impact on our thriller as it looked much better.

The shots of Nazmin running was done in slow motion to create the sense that she was scared to create the dramatic atmosphere. We also had put in flashes of other different shots like the statues and also the dark figure to show that there is a sense of danger which was coming towards her.

After editing our film we had moved on to looking at the different sound effects which we will add to go with our thriller we experimented with different types of sound and had finally come to a conclusion as to which sounds will fit in best with each shot. After today we managed to get our editing done also the first part of sound for the opening of our thriller.

Wednesday 11th Feb- end of filming

On Wednesday 11th of Febraury, this was our last hope to get our filming together and get all the shots finished. We all decided to get it finished that day so we would be able to edit in time before our final deadline.

We had a few problems during this last moment as to who would be in the film. But then it had got sorted as this was our only last chance to get it finished. Aminah and Shahida had taken shots of Nazmin and I, as Nazmin was running mostly in nearly all of the shots. I therefore, had to be the dark figure as shots of different angles of me was taken not showing who i was.

It had been a very successful day as the weather had also been positive and we were able to film the last parts of our whole thriller film. I was very pleased with all the effort everyone had put in that day as we were finished and only had to carry on eiditing from the previous lesson.