Filming diary day 2

Filming diary: Day 2

Date: 18^th February 2017

Location: Stoneleigh station

Luckily on this day, all actors were available to shoot some more potential scenes. We set out at around 5 o clock to film the second male, victims parts plus some more dramatic/ tense scenes eg.  close up shot of the knife dropping, that we missed out filming the first time. However as we were making our way to our chosen location, we thought it would be best to film the end of our opening which is the beginning of our narrative. It involves the meeting of the three main characters before they set out on their night in London. We took a range of high angled, low angled, close up and tracking shots, which focused on the meeting of the three friends and their journey on the train. Due to it not being dark enough, the mood and setting wasn't as creepy as we would have liked so we steered towards filming the scenes which would have been used and seen as earlier in the day. This worked in our favour as it was sunny reflecting the mood of the characters.    

So many takes later and journeys to and from Stoneleigh to Ewell West, we had a good collection of clips to choose from, when adding them to our overall two minutes. The day was an overall success as we completed the filming in under 2 hours, with the weather staying on our side and all the shots we needed.

Unfortunately one of the female actors was unable to get hold of the same complete costume she wore when we filmed our first couple of scenes so we had to improvise and hope to add an additional scene which involved the murderer/ villain carrying the victims clothing and burning them alongside the second boys body. This will help give it a more realistic as it leave enigma codes like why did the villain take her clothes and why did he burn them. Also it makes the murder/ villain seem even more psycho. This filming will most likely take place on our last day of filming (week ending 26th February) as we only need to record some short sections just to help the final piece to be as successful as possible.    

Still to complete (Footage)

To Do Filming:

-Knife: We need to make sure that we include a clip of the knife dropping to the floor as this is a key part of our narrative and it also coheres to the codes and conventions of the horror genre.

-Connor and Murderer's Watch: This will be a key shot in our scene as we use a graphical match to link a shot of the boy victims watch with a shot of the murderers watch using a fade transition.

-Murderer carrying clothes: It is an essential part of our narrative that we see the murderer carrying a bundle of clothes down the station platform. This wasn't a part of our original plan but we had to include it due to one of our actors no longer having access to her original costume for our second day of filming. We decided to use this mistake as a positive, rather than dwelling upon it, and hence have decided to include this.

-Murderer setting alight clothes: This footage will continue on from the previous point and we thought that fire, as well as being a code and convention of horror genre, was a very aesthetic clip to include.

-Waiting Room: We still need to film the clip of one of our victims in the waiting room. We haven't done this yet due to their not being a convenient time for us to film it when the waiting room has been unlocked and their hasn't been a member of the general public in there.

-Match: This point links to the previous one - we need to include a video clip of the match falling to the floor in slow motion. Just before it hits the ground the shot will cut to build tension.

The Editing Process

The Editing Process

Having completed our day of filming, it was time to get to work on editing our footage to make our opening scene come to life. We had uploaded our footage and had begun assembling it all together. We, as a group, decided on a fast paced style of editing as this helps to build tension and create drama, which is one of the intentions and codes of our chosen horror genre. To do this, we inserted a mixture of long, establishing and close up shots in our opening which created a confusing effect on the audience. This technique – the kuleshov effect – allowed us to create a storyline with some arguably random footage. This could be classed as a cutaway shot as we see the victim panting but standing still during a lengthy shot of him running. This shows his reaction to the current situation with a short take.

On top of this, we have used a graphic match, where you cut from one shot to another that look visually the same. We used this when the murderer looks at his watch and it links to the victim then looking at his watch. This makes the audience aware that there is a link between the two scenes.

In some parts of our editing we decided to use the ‘continuity’ technique which allowed our footage to move in a natural way, which made our storyline appear more realistic. This is essential in the horror genre because the abstract storyline can sometimes appear unbelievable.

We also had an out of school visitor come in who taught us about how to effectively create a title sequence using adobe after effects. This can now be seen in our sequence of footage. Whilst he was here, he helped us when it came to the colour correction of our footage so that our footage that we had filmed earlier in the day looked like it was later in the afternoon.

  

<--Here is a screenshot of the editing that we have done so far.

  <--A useful video that taught us the basics of editing on premier pro.

09/02/17

TO DO LIST 09/02/17

Editing Post - DONE

Finish filming (nice bit on way to London, knife, watch 1 and watch 2)

Complete editing

Finish shot list once editing has finished

Evaluation