Pre Production: Call Sheet - 1

Filming: Day 1 - Rough Scenes

After our first day filming some of the scenes within our film, we edited together a rough cut of what the part would look like. The order of the shots may change when we do our final edit due to the dual narrative of the opening. 

When we put together the edit it allowed us to see what shots we would need to re-film. For example, due to the lighting being hard to use within the time of day we are shooting,  Another reason for re-filming this shot is due to the shakiness of the camera, when we film this next time we will use a gorilla pod to ensure that the filming will be steady. 

Another suggestion we were given by a few of our target audience who we showed this clip was to add a filter to the shots as they were filmed in the night and we wanted a more dark and sinister atmosphere to the opening as it would reflect the thriller genre. 

Pre Production Planning: Making The Opening Title

For making the opening of our movie intro, i looked at a couple of tutorials to really make an understanding of how to make a professional opening to our movie. We used the software of Adobe After Affects. Despite it being a complicated program to use, it still gave great quality for an opening title.




With this software, we first created text which would appeal to the title and the genre, despite the genre being thriller we used the colour of the text to be white as it went with the title and made sure it also fitted with the genre.






We used the item in the software called stop watch, to create a fade in the flame and really show the professional effect of the flame.mp4 and made sure it fitted well. Once we created all of this, we then exported it to the Adobe Media Encoder and made it into an .mp4 file to put into the start of our film for opening titles.

Pre - Production Planning : Making Titles For Our Movie

Making the titles will require using the titles option in content library on the left of the iMovie. This is for the scene of when Jack is walking down the road in the dark, and this adds effect by putting the time for the audience to think that the time in the film makes them more scared, because darkness and lateness in real life immediately adds tension.

23:48pm - This is the type of font we will be using for our time in our film and titles, as it looks quite an old film, and adds tension as its abrupt and blunt.

Software and Production: 2

For all of our editing we will be using iMovie software, this is a professional piece of software (used to make Hollywood films). It has the tools we need to edit our film including audio and visual effects.








I have used this software before on my Youtube video i made in the summer of 2015, so i am very familiar using this and therefore enjoyed using this software. 

We will be doing all of our editing on an Apple iMac 21.5 inch desktop. The large screen will create a better picture quality and performance allowing us to do better editing on our project.

For the titles we will be using the title feature on iMovie as this gives good and effective text, as well as this using time in the bottom corner to add a scary effect.

Software and Production : 1

For our filming we will be using a Nikon D3300 DSLR, the camera shoots in HD which gives a high quality picture which giving our film opening a professional look. In addition to this the camera has a zoom feature, which will help us emphasise some our shots. We enjoyed using this camera as it was easy to use and view our footage after filming.

The gorilla tripod, this will help us put the camera in positions where a normal tripod would make it impossible to normally and make it easier set up. There are a few shots in our filming that will track a character in which we need this equipment.

 We will be using the rode shotgun mic, as this makes it easier for sound to be reached forward and will ignore sound behind the background so its easier to hear.

Pre Production: Health and Safety Risks Of Our Film

During filming we're aware that we could face a few health and safety risks. So we precautions in order to be safe. 

1. Tripod - tripping hazard. We are aware of having the tripod out at most times and so this may get in our way at times and cause a tripping hazard and could break break the camera. We will therefore exercise caution when walking around the tripod. 
2. Wires - tripping hazard. We are also aware that there will be wires lying from the lighting and so we will be careful when walking around the wires to not cause an accident. 
3. Damage of equipment. Another thing that we must be aware of is damaging either the camera or tripod, as it is the schools equipment and if we break it, we will have to pay for it. Therefore we will be extremely careful using it and will be sure to have at least one person in control of them at a time. 
4. Dangerous props. In our scene we use a lot of dangerous props, such as knifes, in order to show that one character is the antagonist and to help aid the story line. Despite this, we are fully aware that using this equipment in filming is quite risky. So we will always make sure that we handle these in the correct and sensible way.
5. Weather conditions. Finally, a risk is the weather. For example, if it is wet or icy conditions, one of us could fall onto the ground. Also it could either rain or snow, possibly causing damage to the equipment. So we will make sure that we check the forecast based on days to film.