Final Cut Feedback

Positives:

• Good chase scene - camera control
• Good diegetic sound
• Ending credits - creative
• Darkroom shots - effective
• Good variety of shots types and distances
• Good choice of credits
• Good moving ident
• Effective slow motion
• Good tracking shots and match on action

Negatives:

• Long cuts
• Cheesy noises - scream
• Darkroom scenes - unclear
• Music doesn't flow and too upbeat

Final Cut

Feedback summary

We liked the shots of the characters surroundings although this wouldn't work for our current thriller opening, we can utilise this in a later project.

From the feedback we found out the editing worked well and was clear that two stories were happening, we also got complimented on our control of the camera although we should use varying shot types particularly with the dead body at the end. For the final cut we need to create the sound for the rest of the footage and slightly edit the current sound, we also need to film a bit more for the ending which will help the opening make sense and also help link the two scenes together. We agree with the feedback we were given and as such will change our opening in the specified ways.

Rough Cut

Our rough cut contains very little sound at the moment as there was some difficulty finding appropriate sound for the chase and ways to integrate them from one to the other.

We think people will say that it needs music and credits, we don't think people will understand what will be happening but this is better as it will create suspense and mystery keeping the audience intrigued and watching.

We also think that they will comment on our use of camera angles, our production logo, our chase scene both from a post and pre edit point of view. We are also happy that the shots from the darkroom came out with enough visibility to be able to see everything that is going on during it.

Deadlines

Monday 7th 9am - Filming Deadline

Wednesday 9th 12.20 - Rough cut Deadline

Thursday 10th - Watching each other's Rough cut offering advice, feedback etc.

Wednesday 16th 12.20 - Final cut Deadline

Monday 21st 9am - Daft Evaluation due in via E-mail

dark room

dark room

this is the shot we will use for devolping the photo.



 These 4 images are in the are we will be using in the opening scene.


 

We went to two dark rooms round collage to see which one was going to be the best for our thriller film. We decided to use the one shown in the photos above as the shots we took on the camera were much more visible than in the other dark room we vistited. This room is higher up which makes the shots on the camera more visible. 

Tips

Locations
location ideas, go to location, look for potential problems and look on how we can avoid them when it comes to filming, eg noises, traffic, people etc.

Script
Write a script to organise ideas and so we know what is happening in what order. Annotate the script with shot types and order to help us when we're doing our storyboard.

Filming
Plan the shots and order of shots completely, and when we will do each shot and in what order so we can effectively use all the time we have.

2 Minute breakdown

Production logo
Darkroom - Walking into the darkroom .. Close up of person at enlarger
Darkroom - Close up of hands working with film/ setting up enlarger
Chase -  (at night) point of view shot from murderer
Darkroom - developing a photo (don't see it yet)
Chase - Back to chase, closer to the victim
Darkroom - photo developing, moved to the water tank
Chase - dead end, guy is cornered gets killed
Darkroom - The photo placed in water tank, sinks to the bottom ..  photo of the murdered person
Chase - Zooming in on victim
Darkroom -  photo lifted out of the water tank
Darkroom - Scrapbook .. flip through past murders and the photo being stuck in (reversed) title at the
                    front

Mise-en-scene (Costume)

The murderer will wear dark clothes to enhance mystery and tension.
The victims will wear ripped up or dirty clothes to make it look like they've been chased we will also utilise fake blood to make the murders look realistic.

Test footage

For our test footage we ran through our storyboard and tested how well the point of view chase sequence looks without a steadycam or dolly. We will speed up some of our shots to increase tension.

• establishing shot - c block corridor
• establishing shot 2 - going into dark room
• behind shot of man working - dark room
• part 1 of chase - mill road
• photo devolping - dark room
• part 2 chase - mill road
• photo devolping - dark room
• part 3 chase - mill road
• picture devolping in water - dark room
• man traped - mill road
• photo sinking - dark room
• muder scene - mill road
• photo album - dark room

Evaluation of Childrens Film

Overall, I feel my Childrens Film was better than I first expected.
3 positives are:

• Sound with images, for example when to title came up it worked well with the soundtrack playing.
• Variety of shot distances, long shots, close ups, mid shots etc.
• Using varied shot transitions, as we used some before and after the title and with some credits.

Some negatives include.

• The editing may have not made the viewer realise immediately that 'Peter' was invisible.
• Using a vary of shot types, we could have used more shots and more varied.
• Holding a shot steady

Feedback from other group:

• Positives:
• Good choice of camera shot types
• well edited
• good choice of music

•  Negatives:
• Some shots badly positioned 
• Unsteady hand on same shots
• Dialogue quiet on some points   

 How we are going to achieve the improvements
To make our shots more steady we will use a tripod next time instead of holding the camera for a steady support.
To improve our editing we could have used techniques and effects on peter himself.

Storyboard of final filming

Call sheet - 16th Feb Wednesday

Where : C18 darkroom
When : 1.05 - 2.40
Filming : All the darkroom scenes

•  Establishing shot walking into the darkroom
• Close up of person working at the enlarger
• Close up of photo developing
• Tracking shot of photo being moved from developer to fix to rinse
• Close up of photo in water
• Tracking shot of photo being lifted out of the water
• Close up of photo being stuck into the scrapbook with the title on the front

               

Safety notes : Falling in the dark,
                      Chemistry spillage - Personal, Clothes and Camera,

Equipment : Camera - Pick Up & Drop Off - Ashley
                     Tripod - Pick Up & Drop Off - Ashley
                     Dolly - Pick Up & Drop Off - Ashley
                   

The Usual Suspects (Sound anaylsis)

Ambient sound
Oil/ Petrol dripping out of the barrels
Fire from lighters/ matches
Explosions

Music
Sinister when the murderer is introduced
Music stops during the actual murder then becomes slower and sadder
Sinister and tense throughout

Dialogue
Short
Slowed down
Not casual

Mise-en-scene (Props)

Weapons
The weapon we have decided to use is a knife. If we use weapon this is an easy and more realistic prop to get compared to something like a gun.

Photos
Our film is based on a photographer therefore we will need photos. We are going to take photos of people dressed up asif they have been murderd.

Camera
As well as needing photos we are going to include a shot of a camera. we are going to use an old fashoned camera to suit our character.

Scrap Book
we are going to include a scrap book full of the photos we have taken. we will use an old nackerd one, again to suit out character.

Mise-en-scene (Make-up)

Make-up.

Squibs/Blood.
We will need fake blood to use for the images in the photos that are going to be in the scrapbook at the end of the 2 minute sequence.. We can use normal fake blood or tomato sauce.

Make-up/Facepaint.
We will need face paints or make up to make the people in the image look dead. We will also use this to creat cuts and bruises on the victims. 
 

 

Cast & Crew ideas

Crew:
Filming - Charné (darkroom),  Alex and Ashley
Editing - Everyone
Sound - Everyone

Cast:
Photographer - Ashley or other depending on bob
Killer -  doesn't matter as from POV
Victim - family member / friend
Extras (dead people) - family members / friends

The classification for our film - 15

We have decided that if our film was made it would most likely be a 15 as it allows us to do what we want which is to have murders and slightly gory scenes and to keep the biggest audience available.
The BBFC classification restricts us to :

• No discriminatory language or acts
• No promoting the use of drugs
• No sadistic or sexual horror
• No focus on dangerous behaviour e.g. hanging, suicide
• No easily accessible weapons should be glamorised
• Frequent use of strong language is accepted but frequent use of the strongest language is not allowed
• Sexual content is allowed as long as it is not focused on in detail
• No prohibition on themes as long as it is suitable for 15 year olds
• Violence can be strong but must not dwell on the infliction of pain and injury

The uninvited (Psychological thriller).

The Uninvited.

The uninvited is a Horror/Psychological thriller. It follows a lot of the conventions that this sub genre carries. For example, all the way through it has a misleading storyline, with the plot changing as the film progresses. This is done by making the audience think that the fathers fiancee is the antagonist, when we find out at the end that the main character has a physcological problem and has murdered the 'stepmother' thinking it was her sister. The main character develops and obsession with proving that her stepmother murdered her mother to be with her dad. This becomes stronger as the film progresses and we find ourselves believing this too, this is a convention of thrillers. Extraordinary evens happen throughout the film to the main character, as she has visions of her mother and starts repetitively seeing three dead children, who she believes were killed by her stepmother. We then find out at the end that even though her older sister was with her during the film, she actually died in the same explosion her mother did, and shed been seeing things. The main character is shown to be one step ahead of the stepmother the whole way through the film, though suspense is created as the stepmother catches on to her research and becomes a threat, but not for the same reason we feel she is. Her time at the hospital isolates her as a character, though this isn't shown straight away as we think her sister is on her side until the very end. She is in danger on a mental level in the film, as the threat of being labelled crazy is over her head the whole time, and she is worried she will be sent back to the hospital. We as an audience don't know if what shes seeing is real or imaginary through the film.

Our ideas - Capture

It will be a psychological, crime thriller, called Capture, with a base storyline of there is a person who takes photographs of crime scenes and murder scenes as a hobby, then throughout the film he slowly progresses into creating the crime scenes then eventually the murder scenes for him to take photographs of.

Our mood board contains things vital to the plot which are the darkroom scenes seeing the photographer at work, the various crime scenes which the photographer visits and eventually creates, and various murder weapons which the photographer keeps with each relevant photo and uses to commit the crimes.

Possible locations:

• Darkroom on college site
• Mill road and roads coming off from Mill road