We used Ellis' house to film as she has other younger brothers and sisters so it seemed an appropriate area to film. We mainly filmed in Cescas room as she had the right surroundings and toys that we could use. Cesca wore her own clothes to make it seen stereotypically child, innocent like. Although we did go tot the charity shop in Stockton heath to buy our own toys for Cesca to destroy.
Myself, Becky I, Craig and Becky D took a share of producing the paperwork which we tried to follow as much as we could when filming which really helped although we did have to make a few adjustments making sure it was easy to follow the storyline. Making us able to reach our targets of getting it all filmed and finished.
If we could change anything it would of been to have Becky D there to help with the filming so we had her opinions as welll as her own. We may also have included more of the house instead of the room and the stairs. Also we would have included Cesca drawing pictures and scribbling them out, rather than us having to hire out the camera again and doing it on a different date. As it was hard to try and arrange another day of where we could use Cesca and have someone able to film it. In the end as we couldn't find another day in which we could hire the cameras and use Cesca, we had to record Becky I drawing and them scribbling out to use as credits in our film. On the other hand, it was very successful.
Tuesday 4th January,
This was our first time where we used the editing suite and we all logged all of our shots and decided which shot we were going to use but we kept the others for back-up if we needed them at a later date when editing. We placed them into an order of what we could edit giving it a steady flow of shot to shot. After doing that we played it back and had a a discussion of what effects that could be included.
Some suggestions were:
- Black and White half way through the introduction; which would show both sides of Cesca changing from innocent to evil.
In this lesson we decided to start putting scenes together to make it flow better, with out having breaks, although the continuity wasn't very good, so to overcome this we had to use different angle shots which didn't affect the film as we recorded each shot about 5 times, in case we had this problem. Another problem that occurred was the background sound as this put us off and caused interruptions within the mood of the film. So we completely cut the sound out, as we were adding music at a later date. In the end of the lesson, we managed to have edited around 40-50 seconds of the film.
Thursday 6th January,
We just carried on to edit leading on from the lesson before, and found it easier with out having the background sound and tested different sorts of effects to see what would go with what, we found that the black and white was good to use for the evil side of Cesca.
Friday 7th January,
Today we started to add affects to our scenes, we experimented from shot to shot of what was more effective. We decided to use a flash inbetween each violent scene to make it more dramatic. Also we decided to use the ghost effect when Cesca ripped the bears ear off.
Tuesday 11th January,
We managed to get up to just over the first minute adding affects to each scene, making sure they all flowed and the mood was easy to understand adding more affects as we went along. We also had to re-do some scenes on numerous times as it was unclear of what was happening. We also made a plan of what we were going to do next lesson of adding captions, and text especially the credits.
Wednesday 12th January,
We captured the shots of our names handwritten in pencil in a chronological order to use as our credits. However we had to change the speed and the zoom of our shots which made it look more dramatic and psycotic like the audience asked for. We used the zoom tool to change the angles of our shots for variety so some are zoomed out and others zoomed in closely to again show it being unusual and psychotic.To think of the desicion where to put the captions we had to experiment allot, we firstly tried to fit them at the start of our film, however we thought they took too long and dragged on and were quite repetitive so we thought the best way was to spread them out throughout the film. This was an advantage because this would really help with our continuity in some places.
Thursday 13th January,
We started by watching it from the beginning, making notes of what we needed to change, making sure the speed and the affect all fitted in and created the right atmosphere. We had to cut and copy to make sure every thing was in the correct place, so even the smallest bit of detail was important. Myself and Becky Ishaque also started to right a plan of what we had done in each lesson, to help with these diaries.
Friday 14th January,
We carried on with the edits, making sure that we had everything in a order, and again experimented with the different sorts of affects. Whilst Becky D started to do the questionnaire.
Tuesday 18th January,
We again adjusted any errors that needed to be fixed we just needed to put the film together and edit the gaps that were involved, this gave us a rough estimation of the estimated time of the film, it was around 2.10. We then began to continue to look through more music, research different genres but we couldn't find much that fitted in with our theme, because it is a psychological thriller we needed something creepy yet not horror like because we weren't making a horror however we still needed to make a disturbing atmosphere. We did find a piece of music that we thought could be a backup plan, it is an instrumental of "ring around the roses" and we decided that we could play around with the editing process and try and change the pitch and speed up the duration to create a weird unusual atmospehere, but we will do that in the next few lessons to come.
Wednesday 19th January,
In today's lesson we decided that Craig was going to carry on with any last edits that needed to be made on the film whilst Becky D carried on with the questionnaire and myself and Becky I searched YouTube for any music that we could use throughout our film. We then added text captions, because it was suggested we used a mixture of different ways to present our captions so these ways ware, by the film and the other by the text. We wrote our names on one slide, and on the other wrote "ring around a Rosie" in weird writing on a another. We experimented of what music should go where, and that all the daunting music went with the black and white affect making ring a ring a Rosie go last to build all suspense. We started off with the instrumental music normal speed. however when she begins to rip the Doll up it goes high pitched and fast, making it sound out of the ordinary showing our character going insane. A big challenge with editing the music this way, we had to make sure our shots of the film, went to the beat of the music, so we needed to change speed duration of some shots. For example when she is pointing at the doll, she should point on every beat of the music. We completed a few scenes into this.
Thursday 20th January,
Today we carried on editing the last bits, adding music to the correct places, watching it on numerous times to make sure everything was how we planned it but made the music steadily go faster and faster making it more effective. when the filmed caption is shown, because we had sped up the duration of the clips, when we see our character hand write our captions, it works well together and creates more of a mood, making it seem more weird and insane. Towards the end of the lesson we began to watch through and refine any last minute bits.In this lesson we completed the whole of our editing process, music and video editing.
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