Filming 3

This was the final day of filming we hoped because we only needed to do the last scene which was the killing scene. We were worried that we might have had to do it on two different days if it took to long to film. As we did it after school it was dark which made it very effective. When we have the shot of Harri walking up the stairs the tension builds so much more, this is due to the music we had playing in the background stopped as she went inside up the stairs, and all you can hear are her footsteps and her breathing, this builds the tension a lot. The killing proved to be quite hard but we had some ideas to make it look very effective. We didn't actually show it full on we filmed it from behind so you can hear a scream and you can see the murders arm move slowly across her neck to suggest that he has cut her throat. It then its to a shot of Harri on the floor dead with the fake blood over her neck which looked so effective and realistic.

Filming 2

The second day of filming was the 8th of december 2011. This day was basically filming the scenes from when harri walks out of the party to go back home. We filmed all the places from the graveyard to dark alleyways to make everything look scary and make the audience feel on edge about where she is walking and worrying when something bad is going to happen to her. There is one of the scenes where she is walking down an alleyway and she walks past a danger sign and when she does the camera slowly zooms in on the sign which tells the audience that she is almost clueless that something is going to happen to her. During her walk home there are many different shot types to make the audience a bit nervous, there are some high and low canted angle shots which where very effective when we used them. With the transitions between scenes they are very important, the shots are long and the transitions are very quick which is very effective in this part of the movie.

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.