Problems

When editing we noticed that the camera appeared to be shaking this was down too automatic stabilisation on the camera.

Day 2 of recording

Today we recorded our opening scene at Frans house. Firstly we decorated the house by using plastic sheets and taped them on the living room door way with blue industrial tape, we did the same but on the ceiling of the stairs so it hung down on the stairway. We made the fake blood recipe and recored using the camera, whilst doing this we did a little lighting experiment which made the certain colours turn green this happened because we had put it into nightmode.

Before we started filming we sat down and discussed what we would like to film first and if anyone had any ideas to incorporate into our 2 minute opening. We came up with shots of a dead body on the stairs which kind of shows that the two girls do not keep their strange hobby a secret. Also we wanted to do a scene in the bath where there would be blood all over the walls and a dead body in the bath. 

We began filming about 3 o'clock and finished at 6.

Tapping the plastic sheets to the door ways and on the cieling of the stairs. 

This is the end product of what our doorways looked like when they had the bloody hand prints and the slits in them. Although you can see the blue tape here in the shots we did not use the camera high enough so these tapes could be seen.


After we had re-planned and organised shots we began shooting the previous scripted opening, we had trouble shooting this scene as we began filming in the day and while we got perfect lighting inside the house opening the front door and allowing natural light into the scene it create automatic exposure, we would try to fix this during editing. 

As we wanted this 'hidden camera' affect running throughout our film we had to stand up on high surfaces with the camera on the tripod holding the tripod up in the air to give the impression the camera's were hidden around the house, however we struggled to do these shots as shaking accured and we had to re-take the shots until the shaking was minimised and we got the best possible shots we could. 

Editing part 2

As we now have the static on imovie we can start editing properly. So we put the static at the beginning of the time line and then inserted all the clips we had cut in the previous editing lesson. Also adding to the static effect we added  walkie talkie sound effect as that created a static sound.  We added a raster effect to our hospital scenes to make it look like a security camera. Still photos were later added, which were from a non copyright website, in between the clips with a fade to white transition and a Camera shutter sound effect. This created a photo being taken effect. Some of the photos were on the screen for two long so we had to shorten the duration of the clip as we only have two minutes and we still have some filming left to do. The walkie talkie sound clip was loud compared to the hospital clips either side of it so we turned up the audio volume. Hard light effect was added to the still photo of the leg as it defined the photo and made the leg stand out more, also we change the saturation and brightness of the as it was overly exposed. Me and Fran came across a big problem when we accidentally deleted a clip and when we brought it back out the trash and into imovie it seemed to gain a crackly background noise, so we turned the clips volume down completely but this meant that we would have to do a voice recording of my scene as there is no longer any sound. Moving further into the editing process we added the raster effect to the scene where my character freaks out, we also sped up the clip to make it more effective. Finally we edited all that we could with the clips that we had so far and decided to make a start on the opening titles. Putting the title onto fireworks and then prints crening the scene where we would like the titles to go and the copying that also into fireworks. We merged the two pictures together.

Editing

We started our editing on Thursday but we could only change the speed and colour of the clips as we were waiting for our static clip from youtube to dowload on the macs. The download took up all three periods, so we had to do what we could without the static. Monday afternoon we carried on editing but found more difficulties when we couldnt import the static clip into imovie. By the end of the lesson we managed to get the static into imovie and will continue this Thursday.

Day 1 of recording

Today we planned on recording in the Medical Room at the Northwood Campus but there was an exam in the hall, this meant we were unable to record in our planned location. The Foxley Campus also have a Medical Room that was available for us to record in.

As we only had one costume we had to record all of our lines in one shot, which will later be cut and edited to make it look liked the two characters are having a conversation. We then recored short clips that we want to add in-between the conversation such as: laughing, close up shots of eyes and the characters acting strangely. For my laughing scene we had some difficulties as i couldn't laugh seriously, so we had to leave the camera running for a good 15mins whilst Fran tried to make me laugh.


We tried our best to use different shots so we didn't have the same static shot. Some of the shots were extremely difficult because we wanted to create a shot that looked a security camera. This meant that Fran had to hold the camera really high at an awkward angle and sometimes the shots were shaky. But Overall we had a really good 1st day of filming.

Script for opening interview scene

As stated in previous posts our script will be very minimal because it suits the mysterious theme. Kate and Sarah will seem to be having a conversation together when in actually fact they are being interviewed by a therapist. 



Kate : (Laughing)
Sarah: They deserved it
Kate: Plus it was fun.
Sarah: They weren't people, we made them better. (Smiles)
Kate: They needed to perish.
Sarah: (Laughing)
Sarah: (Laughing)


We will create a static effect on the macs to put before the interview to create video tape look. This is what we will aim to achieve.

Final opening titles designs

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