panic.

Well, during another stressful day of editing, it seems like I'm definitely the most stressed over the fact that our movie isn't that great, and that we only haev under 4 days to bloomin complete it!!

We have most of the footage edited to a fairly good standard and have thought of places and frames for the titles to go.
However, our music isn't as promising as I hoped it would be, the song that I had posted on my previous blog seems pretty perfect to me, as long as we don't use the track with vocals...
Right this moment, I am waiting to be contacted by the band members to see if they can organise and send me a instrumental track as soon as possible...

Fingers crossed!

Titles.

So, while we were waiting for our new footage to upload, we began to look for potential titles for our Movie....

We are also thinking of re-naming our film,
Potential names, (excluding our original idea) include;  Enigma and Paradox.  We believe these would create a sense of mystery and hopefully help build a little suspense.

However, it seems like we've encountered a small problem. The computer won't allow us to use downloaded fonts, so, our attempt at becoming a little more unique is failing.

Filming (Day 4)

Today is the last day of filming. We almost completely changed the plot of our movie. We have decided not to use the footage from our last shoot because it didn't make much sense and we don't want to confuse our audience in the first two minutes. Also the ghost idea would be more effective in a long run and not just the opening. We decided to film at the cemetery again but at a different grave and I will not be haunted anymore. We had an idea of using some mystery object and putting it on the grave but we were not sure what. WeWe had many ideas for that so we brought a range of props such as a pillow case (kidnapping), an envelope, a big coin (mystery item) and few pieces of paper (a message from the dead?).
We decided to use the coin and a letter in an envelope. At the end of the shoot I though it would be good if we film from someones perspective as if our main character was watched. This gave us a variety of shots and proved useful because later on we decided not to use the coin which was hidden in the envelope. Using shots from further away allowed us to create the illusion that I opened the letter and went straight to reading it and not looking for a coin.

Soundcheck: My attempt at adding music to blogger...

On this little window, if you click the play icon, you should be able to hear a potential track for our movie.
But, if we do use this song, it would be without the vocals, so it's not too much like a music video :-)

Filming, finally over....

Well, just like the title suggests, we have completed filming. The phrase better late than never comes to mind :-)
although, the storyline is still pretty awful, both the group and I believe that we can edit this to make it seem pretty kool.
Maybe backwards? hmm. That's not a bad idea actually, it could be like a less eventful version of 'momento'? lol

Konrad 'On Set'

Anyway, filming wasn't the most exciting thing in the world, I'm pretty sure that everyone had lost any scrap of enthusiast we had left. The fact that we were in a cemetery didn't help either, but on the positive side, we got our filming done, and we have just under 5 days to edit and make an opening to the best of our ability.
We had a slight disagreement as we were leaving, it was over the silliest thing and I really don't know why we made into such a big fuss but oh well. Noone wanted to take the camera to college the following morning.. so typical teenage laziness took over and we all went sour about the situation. But hopefully, tomorrow there will be noo awkwardness =/ lol

Filming: Part 4

Today was the day. At the beginning of this week, I posted a mini schedule for our week ahead, and now that the week has pretty much ended, I'll tell you about our final day of filming. Friday.We picked up the equipment. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.And today, we went to a graveyard in Tottenham to film. This was the one Goz and Konrad filmed at last time. I live pretty far from there so I was planning to take the train, only to realise that there was no train to go there. Because of train works. So I got a taxi (ahemmymum) to get there. We filmed alot (I think) and this time we definately got a lot more close ups and different angles (as we were told by our teacher was something that we needed) and a lot more variety to use in our opening. So the only thing left to do is to return our equipment. We stood at the cemetary for about 10 minutes deciding who was going to bring back the equipment on Monday, and then we came to the conclusion that we all should just come in. I thought it was unfair that I had to bring something in seeing as I bought both in last time, but I think all of us coming in is fair enough and only now do I realise this. Thats something I've learnt over this process. Everyone in our group thinks differently. We all have our own opinions and views on everything, which may not always agree with someone else's. But I think its a learning curve in a way. Making sacrifices for the group and meeting half way in decisions. All we have left to do is add in titles, add some sound and finish editing. Easier said than done.

Pictures to come.

Editing: Rough Cut

So. Wednesday was the rough cut deadline lesson. Our rough cut consists of....well alot of clips shoved together. Which is pretty much the definition of a rough cut. I think it was good we had this deadline because we then got a good idea about what we still needed to do. Here are some shots from our lesson. We used Final Cut Pro to edit (obviously) our rough cut and we'll obviously finalise the movie there too.

What we still need to do:

Re-film the graveyard scene (now completed)

Finish the opening!!!