Storyboard

DAY 1 Filming

So today me and my group organized to basically film during the half term. We had our location set, the equipment  (Which included the two cameras to film and take photographs, a tripod and extra lighting. We also had an umbrella with us) and our storyboards.

When we arrived we buzzed into the bloc of flats and asked if we could be let in to film. The problems that occurred on the day was probably the fact that no one arrived on time because of issues with London Transport and people kept walking in and out of our shots. We were very friendly to the residents in the flat and left our equipment out of the way.

We decided to explore the building, so we went to the top floor. We discovered that there was a balcony overlooking Hoxton and Islington, in the future this could be good for aerial shots. With all of that said i think that DAY1 of filming was successful we took over 100 takes.

Here is a photograph of the preparation

Pitch

Thriller Planning

Today in class me and my group began to plan for our thriller. We came up with a variety of ideas, brainstormed them and then consulted with our teacher just to get her opinion on what she thought would be a good idea. The idea that we came up with was basically a drug deal gone wrong, we are yet to develop this idea. Other ideas that came up were a group of friends are at a sleep over and one of the friends ends up murdering them all over night, I came up with this idea. I thought that it would be similar to 'The Stepfather' and we could of involved a lot on intertexual references but my group was not convinced about the idea. I think we are going to spend a couple more days finalizing our ideas , to make sure that they will be effective and work.

Preliminary Match Cut Exercise Animatic Storyboard

In class today we were given a task to create a prelim film so that we could get used to the camera equipment and get a sense of what it would be like when filming our thriller opening. Before we filmed we decided to create an animatic story board to help us when it comes to filming the real prelim film. We wanted to use jelly babies to represent the actors, I created a corridor using paper and Sellotape and then we took photographs.

Have a look at our animatic storyboard below !

Livetype and Soundtrack Pro

Livetype

Livetype is a program I will be using when creating my open Thriller sequence. This software allows you to create Texts with various fonts and background affects. We will create our Title sequence with this program and we learned the ways to use it and how to use most of its features. In Livetype you are creating a title sequence which will then be imported back into an editing program like Final Cut Pro where you can change eth length effects placed on it. 

Layout: The upper left window is called the canvas; this is where you view the text your working on. The words, effects and changes appear there. In the middle of the display shows the inspector window. This is where the basic type of text, colour and style are chosen. The window that appears in the upper right corner is the Media Browser; this controls all fonts, transition effects and animations. The lower part of the display is the timeline where the actual video clip is.

You can choose between a standard font and an animated font. If you click the texture tab you can add a background to the title sequence. Just select the texture you want then apply to track at the bottom of the media bar. On the canvas the background will appear behind the text.

Once finished go to file and Render movie, select a location for export and then you will have a quick time file you can then import into whatever editing program you are working on for example Final Cut Pro

Soundtrack pro

Soundtrack Pro is a program used to create audio, which can be used for another clip like our Thriller opening sequence. We will use this software in our work. Soundtrack Pro will enable us to use a range of beats and sounds to create the perfect audio for our Thriller Opening. We will have access to audios which use Drums, Trumpets and Violins which all can lead to a thrilling, suspenseful build up during our clip. You do this by selecting the ‘search’ tab then ‘instruments’ and you can choose from a range of instruments. 

Final Cut Pro:

Final Cut Pro is an editing program we will use when editing our footage and our final Thriller opening Sequence. All Films are edited as the footage which is filmed doesn’t always flow smoothly or appear as the Director wants it to. Editing allows you to remove parts of the footage where mistakes have been made or just take out unnecessary parts of the clip. If you want a successful film the editing process is vital.

Final Cut Pro can be used to add special effects like ‘fade’ and slowing down the clip to create ‘slow motion’.

Basic Skills:

When starting, drag your clip to the viewer window. To trim click mark in icon or ‘I’ and mark out or ‘O’ to trim the clip. Then drag the clip to viewer icon.

On the tool bar there is a ‘CUT’ icon which allows you t shorten parts of the clips on the timeline.

Uploading

When saving the edited clip you need to export the as a quick-time and upload it to our blog using handbrake. When uploading make a copy and resize the clip, export file clip for quick time movie click on the clip and take it to handbrake. Select the named clip, then your group (In our case group 5) and click ‘IPOD’ and start. Then the clip will have been uploaded to your group in blogger.