Diary-Editing 2

Today we started to add more clips to our film. We based most of the clips around our most important scenes, the falling and the car scene, we had to make sure that the clips all flow together as from my preliminary task I noticed that the shots were quite choppy so I really wanted to improve this skill. We started to enhance the pictures and add effects especially to make the scene darker because when we shot the footage, it was quite sunny, therefore it was important for us to create a darker scene to fit the conventions of a thriller. 

We also tried to experiment with sound effects, for example the ambience sound of the birds at the beginning to create the scene before the action. 

We also thought about music and what music could fit the action that we had.

Diary Post- Editing

We started to edit our film the other day and we used the iMac at school so that we could use iMovie. Me and Anna began to pick apart the footage we had and choose the most important bits as we wanted to get them into the film and then we could work around those scenes. The most important parts for us was, Anna falling over which will lead into the flashback (that we are yet to film) and the ending with the car. We used this session to work with iMovie and see what we could use in our film included transitions, sound effects and inter titles. This was a great opportunity to begin to figure out how to edit a film together as for some of us, it was our first time. During this session we also got our institution's logo (TriStar) to put at the beginning of our film, this will make it more like a real film.

Diary- Filming!

On Sunday we went out filming for our opening 2 minutes. We went to Nonsuch Park instead of Richmond Park because it was easier to access and also we knew that area better I found a really good area with lots of trees, dirt paths and leaves, this is what we envisioned for our setting. Although the weather wasn't what we planned as we wanted a cloudy day, but it was quite sunny, however we could edit this in the film.

 For costume, Anna wore a hoodie, leggings and converse which is what we planned, she also put mud on her face and clothes and leaves in her hair which set the scene.  Ellenia and I filmed Anna running through the forest, we both filmed on our phones which has a HD feature. We tried to get lots of different angles, on the ground, behind trees and still wide shots. From my preliminary task I learnt that I had to get a lot of footage so that we wouldn't be stuck in the editing room with not enough footage, I believe we got a very good and wide range of shots. 

We spent the majority of the day in the forest but we also went to a quiet road to film the car scenes. We found a really quiet, wide road which was great for filming as it wasn't dangerous and we could film without disruptions from other drivers or people. In this location, there were trees at the side so it was good to get shots from behind trees to vary our shots.