Filming

Our first day of filming was on the 5th of December 2011. We were starting off filming scenes 1 to 9 on the first day, we where at harris house because that is where the main place we are going to be filming at. We wanted to have a party scene right at the start of the movie so it is quite happy to start with but, at the same time you knew something bad will happen eventually, because parties don't always go to plan. But to start with we didn't know how we could have a full on party in the middle of the week. But we had all been told there is a party on new years eve, then we thought we could film parts of the party and add it to the start of our movie, in the end we got about half an hours worth of footage to pick out and choose the best bits.

Props

All of the props really hold the meaning to the opening of our movie. It is mysterious, dark and bloody.

This is the mask we used for the murderer, it contrasts with his black clothing which and stand out on his black dark clothing. All of the main props are just for the murderer. 

This is the knife the killer used in the movie opening to kill Harri (Victim) along with the fake blood this created the final scene of the opening. This was a real knife so we had to be cautious with it.

This is the fake blood we used for the killing of the victim, the blood was really good and easy to work with and didn't stick to the skin of Harri, we used this and the knife to complete the last scene of our opening.

This is the coat that the murderer wore in the film, it is long and black which is mysterious and will make people feel on edge when they see the murderer hiding. As it is dark it will be easy to blend in with the dark which helps the murderer get around without getting noticed.

Editing

In our editing we use Final Cut Express, with our group I think that we used the editing material well and used it to almost its full potential, we used a lot of cuts and fades, and music overlapping. We used a Flip Camera to film our movie. We thought it was very good because of how much film it could save on the memory it had.

Firstly we had to insert all of the footage we had on the camera on to the Mac so we could edit the footage into our film.

The editing is by far the most important thing we had to do on our film. Because we couldn't just have all of the footage just bunged all together, so with inserting some transitions and cutting down the clips to make the movie shorter and look a lot better. Once you first start using Final Cut, it is quite hard to understand to start with, but once you keep using the editing software it gets much easier and you seem to have a flow to the work that you are doing. And then you will know where everything is and be able to be much more efficient in the editing process. We had a technician come in to our lesson and tell us the basics of Final Cut so he could get us started, it helped us to go and star and do the basics. But we where also given a booklet that was produced by a student from our school, this booklet went into much more detail, and helped us through the editing process, the whole booklet benefited us in the long run, because we all learnt something useful from it.

Filming.

We finished the filiming of our film on Wednesday the 4th of January. Previously with all the other things that we had filmed we had edited all the footage.

The parts we have filmed is the parts from where Harri wakes up from having a dream that she died/murdered by a crazed muderer with a knife on the way home from a party. She then realises it was a dream and goes back to sleep. But little does she know that the murderer is real and that hes in her house down the hall.

We had a New Year party at the end of the year and we filmed some of the party for a part in our film opening, this was for the part where it cuts from Harri walking out of her house to the party in the house that is going on.

Crazy Goat Films

This is just an idea for our company logo, when it's going to be a horror movie, but at the same time it's sort of humorous,

Schedule

First day of filming

We Started filming our movie opening on the 5th of December, we have probably filmed around 30 seconds of proper footage we will use.
The first thing we filmed was the part right at the end, because it was the easiest part and would be easy to do than start from the beginning.

Group change

I have moved groups in media studies, due to some problems with my former group, I am now in a group with Toby and Dom.
We started to film our film on the 5th of December 2011 we will need a couple more days to film the rest of the film opening.

Prelim Main Idea

The main idea for my preliminary task is called 'RUN!', it is a horror movie based on a murderer that got released from prison and once he sets out from being released he tries to find the officers that got him locked up. His plan is to take down the officers one by one and give them a horrible torturous death. In the movie trailer you will have a point of view (POV) shot all the way through, running through a small suburb and you will hear the loud heavy breathing of the murderer when you see through his eyes running. You will then see a faint silhouette of someone in front of him and you will see that person start running. This is how he got caught in the first place, because he is running from a place that he had just committed a murder and the person he is chasing is someone that witnessed it and is running away from the murderer as he has called the police. After a 20 second chase you will start hearing sirens, and the screen will go black and 'RUN!' will fade up on the screen while the sirens get louder and the murderer is caught.

The Hangover

The movie starts off by showing the 'Warner Brothers' logo and the 'Legendary Pictures' logo. During the 'Legendary Pictures' short clip the music for the film start, it seems a cheery song and a feel good song which can suggest that everything will be happy and everything will work out fine. It shows people setting up for some sort of event, which happens to be a wedding. While the music is on in the background there are some panning shots, low shots and establishing shots, then you here some non-dietetic sounds, this is someone ringing up the main characters in the movie and when this happens it goes to answer phone after the phone rings, which suggests the characters are in trouble or something bad has happened.
Phil (Bradley Cooper) then rings back because he is the only one with a phone, when he picks up you see him battered and bruised, he has scratches on his neck from some type of animal and dirt all on his clothes, in the background of Phil there is three other characters sitting on the car or standing next to it, you don't get to see who its is though. But the main focus is on Phil, the characters behind are blurred, which means he is going to be one of the main characters. When he says they had lost the groom the bride panics down the phone and you do not see the end of the conversation. Phil then looks up to the sky the camera follows and goes White, then flashes 'The Hangover' in bold red writing, to do with blood and passion to find their friend and get back in time for the wedding.
After this the titles role, and another song start which is a bit more serious, they then have lots of long shots, panning shots and establishing shots to show Las Vegas, all the sights you can see are in the titles, like the grand canyon, most of the big hotels, fountains and more wonders of Las Vegas.
In the titles it shows the actors, main casting crew, costume designers, music producers, co-producers, editors, production crew, executive directors, main producers, writers and the director.
The last thing in the titles is a high establishing shot looking over Las Vegas and seeing the sun set, and then Movie starts.

Director and Producer= Todd Phillips