What others thought... of our previous project, DRAFT!

What others thought of our previous draft copy of our first project:

• Emma Ford: "Good original idea but needs more work to it, such as music and editing"
• Richard Kish: "Make the storyline more understandable"
• Steph Chawner: "Good storyline, camera angles to be sharper, but good variety of them"
• Frankie Burchill: "Love the original idea but needs a bit more work to it to make the rest of the opening sequence a bit more understandable"

From these comments, we realise that the best thing to do is re-film but not change the type of thriller we want to portray because from these comments it looks like they enjoy the story and unique genre we wanted to show just hasn't been showed to the best of our ability, so we will start working on an improved idea in the next two lessons before re-filming.

BIG CHANGE!- Deciding to re-shoot and start new project!

OUTBREAK

After a lesson where we sat down as a class to watch each others rough edits and got feed back from the class, me and Rachel weren't confident that our filming and editing would get us a decent grade we want. We think that this filming wouldn't achieve what we wanted because we didn't think about camera angles and positions were in enough detail to portray the story the way we wanted to in the first place. Due to this, we thought it would be better for us to re-film all of it as we have enough time and slightly change the story from getting infected from a cat scratch to getting infected from poisonous liquid. We decided to do this as we thought about how adventurous the previous idea was and how people may not understand what we were trying to achieve by being a bit different and unique with our story. However we are keeping to the lines of the same sub-genre of medical thriller as we think this is completely different to any other ideas but we think just changing some of the aspects such as the type of infection and different settings will appeal more the the target audience and helps the audience to understand more of the storyline we were trying to show.

New Idea:

The new idea is again still in the sub-genre of Medical thriller however we followed a slightly different route:

• Instead of cat scratch infection, it's a poisonous liquid infection. We thought this was more mature and professional also we beleive that audiences will understand the characters and storyline better.
• Instead of setting it in a 'student house' which we beleive wasn't obvious to the audience in the first place, we made it a school/forest setting. We want to do this to reach out to the target audience more and make the opening sequence more understandable than the previous one. We want the opening sequence to leave the audience with a few questions but we found that when we watched opening sequences from popular thriller films where hardly information was given to the audience, that we were a bit confused and we would of prefered a little bit more information for us to question such as 'what's going to happen next?' etc.
  
• Change of the main characters: Before we had 2 main female characters but we decided in this story line that a male and female of late teenage years would be more suitable as we wouldn't make the relationship between the 2 characters obvious so this would be another question for the audience to ask themselves making them want to know what happens in the 'rest of the film'.

We think that these changes will help us gain the grade we want because we think this story will be more mature in our unique ideas and will make the audience understand more.

Me and Rachel's Editing- Day 1!

We made the decision that me and Rachel should create an editing version of the film of our own in Thursday's lesson which was very late as the deadline for the rough edit to be complete was the next day (Friday 18th) so for our rough edit we were only able to re-load our filming into Premiere Pro, cut the parts we needed and added only a few titles, and this was just due to the time we had before it had to be on the blog.

When next week lesson comes, we plan to fix the cutting in the scenes, add effects onto the titles such as scratch marks etc to link in with the theme/topic and add a lot more effects though out the transitions and film. I think colour would work better with the filming we have done as it would work more with our topic and black and white would be a bit too harsh for the opening sequence I think.

Outbreak- very very very rough edit!

Changes in the Editing stage!

1. As me and Rachel aren't as experienced in editing or using the editing software well as James, he was the main editor, but this has caused James to nearly complete all of editing in his own time because he is able to use the software more effectively than us. Therefore meaning that me and Rachel did hardly any editing on our group project so Mr Turner suggested that me and Rachel have a go at doing our own editted version of the film we filmed together so that we can at least do some editing, learn and talk about it for our final mark. We thought this would be a good idea to give us more experience and also so we can get the best marks we possibly can.

2. We decided to change the name of the film to something like 'Infection' or 'Virus' as that is more relevant to our style and story of the film. We also decided this as we weren't happy with the last shot of the 'eyes' which were meant to symbolise the 'Bloodshot' title, so we deleted this scene and changed the name because we think this will make the genre and storyline more obvious and connect more.

Editing-Day 1 and Day 2!

Day 1:

Before we even started editing, we were having some trouble getting the film onto the computer and we couldnt figue out what went wrong but our teacher helped us, and now we know how this works properly. We started editing our film a little bit earlier than our timeline has told us to follow becauyse we had completed the filming in the half term. James is the expert of our group with editing but me and Rachel cut down the bits of film we didn't need to use and then renamed the film parts and then put them in order.

After doing this, James helped us cut down the scenes even more to try and take away unneeded seconds of film such as the part where the mobile phone was filmed, we put down originally on the storyboard that it was a 5-10 second clip but in the end we could eventually cut that down to about 3-4 seconds.

I have got the hang of using the software to cut pieces of film, saving them and putting them in order using the 'tools' but when it came to thinking about colour, transitions and adding text, I was a bit lost so James and Rachel helped and showed me how to use colours ect in the next lesson.

Day 2:

We all sat around one computer and started editing, but today we started on the colour and titles of the sequence. I think we have decided the font of our titles is going to be quite simplistic so the audience can easily read it but we want to find the perfect font that kind of represents our story in a subtle way.

We were deciding on the speed of the titles and the order so we looked up on the internet at what order titles are shown in films and we are going to follow that layout.