Editing day 1

Today we began editing. We have discovered some jumps and discontinuous shots. We need to film a little more and reshoot 1 or 2 shots, which we will hopefully get done in Mondays 3 hour lesson. We have finished editing our establishing shots together and part of the entrance. 

Filming day 3

Today we finished filming! We re-filmed our our entering shot for continuity and filmed all of the dialogue and shots in the canteen.

Filming Day 2 - 13th Feb: Entrance

We didn't get much done today due to some technical difficulties we had at the beginning! This wasted half an hour of our time. Due to this, we only got a couple of shots of Fabio walking by the college. We didn't want to begin shooting the actual dialogue with our characters because we knew we wouldn't get it finished and this would create continuity issues when we eventually edited the footage all together.

After half term, we will finish up all of the inside shots in the canteen. We didn't want to split this scene into separate days of filming as the lighting would change and issues I mentioned before. (continuity)

Filming Day 1 - 10th Feb: The establishing shots

Today we filmed our establishing shots and all the ones without our characters in them. We got shots of the traffic lights, Angel station, various roads and crossings. We got a panning shot and a still one for each location so we can decide on which ones would look better when we edit. We also got shots of a telephone box as we thought it was typical London iconography and would be good to include.

We had a problem when going to Angel Square to film, as we did not know it was private property and security guards quickly (and meanly) put a stop to our filming, which was a problem. The weather was also horrible today - it was raining and cold. My group and managed to get our shots whilst the rain paused for a little while, so we overcame this problem.

On Thursday, we will be getting all of the shots with our characters in them. We just need to pop down to the canteen to film these shots as we have done all the shots we need to travel for today. This weekend we will work on a rough script, but we have already planned the shot types etc.

Behind the scenes: Filming day 1 - 10th Feb

Further Research: the emerging supernatural-teen genre.

Animatix Draft 1

Our Pitch!

Pitch: Further sound research

This is the beginning Twilight soundtrack! We want to find something similar to this - eerie and grey - very suited to our supernatural genre.

Pitch: The Treatment

Brief outline of the whole film:

Dylan is a vampire. He has been hiding this secret from everyone - his foster parents, his classmates, his teachers. Sick of his typical college with the same mundane cliches, he's sick of hiding his secret and wants to explore his vampire heritage - no matter what that may cost him. He researches his ancestors, trying to trace a relation. When he finally finds one - it's someone closer to him than he thinks.

Brief outline of the opening:

In our opening, we will see Dylan traveling and entering college. Here, we will get a typical insight into what cliche characters attend here - The Nerd, The 'It" Girl and the Token Black Guy  who is the only one who knows Dylan's secret. He then reveals that  he is sick of hiding his secret from everyone.

Pictures for our animatic

skills audit - Pitch

The skills we have learned so far in AS media are the following;

1. how to use flip cameras
2. how to use still cameras 
3. how to use the DV camera 
4. how to use final cut pro 
5. how to use Prezi 
6. how to use quick time player & quick time player 7 
7. how to use blogger 
8. how to post blogs 
9. how to embed videos onto our blogs 
10. how to import images onto our blogs  

With each of the three cameras we have learned: how to access there settings, how to film professionally, we have learned how to use different attachments for them (tripods, microphones and flash lights), we have learned how to insert the batteries and insert SD cards, we have also learned how to import videos from each camera into our Macs.

With our software we have learned: how to edit video and sound on final cut pro, we have learned how to create presentations on Prezi, we have learned how to play video on quick time and the import them into final cut and we have learned how to use blogger to present our work to the public

With Blogger we have learned: how to post our blogs, we have learned how to embed videos and sound onto our blogs/posts, we have also learned how to import images onto our blogs.

These our 10 of the general things we have learned to do since we have started As media. 

Pitch: Sub-genre

We have been inspired from teen films such as The Breakfast Club and the introductory of the characters, not so heavily on the plot. 

We also thought about romance ideas from 10 Things I Hate About You and John Tucker Must Die however we weren't really appealed to it.  

Our main supernatural ideas came from Chronicle and Twilight. We have a supernatural teen vampire in college who has to keep his secret from everyone. In our remake we will have the main character who is a teenage Vampire.

We wanted to create an opening scene of our movie and introduce our characters and take the idea from the opening scene of the Breakfast Club. We will have the typical nerd, 'it girl' and the token black guy. 

Pitch: Risk Assessment

This is to make sure that we are responsible when on location and have considered the safety of everyone involved in the filming from the contributor, the crew to the general public. Throughout the filming day we have to consider what the potential hazards are, what injury could result from this hazard and how the risk can be reduced or avoided.

Moreover we have a moral obligation to ensure the safety of everyone we are working with.

General safety:

• Hold the camera equipment upright and securely
• Look where we are walking - especially when we are crossing the road -  and try to take routes that are less packed
• We must make sure we all know where each other are
• We must make sure the tripod is on a balanced surface when we are using it and when not in use, out of the way to avoid tripping
• The weather may be typically British on the days we are filming so my group and I will ensure we are carrying a large umbrella to protect the filming equipment (and ourselves!)
  
  

Safety hazards at Angel Station: there are many people rushing about, so we must be careful to not drop the camera and equipment! We must also make sure we are not nuisances and get in peoples way.

Safety hazards at Angel Square: there a quite a few stairs in that area so we must make sure we watch our step!

Safety hazards at Owens Field: we need to ensure that we don't slip if the mud is wet as it is a grassy, muddy area!