Outdoor scene draft

This is some of the footage from our outdoor scene, Khadija has edited it to save us some time. On Wednesday's lesson we just need to tweak the footage to make sure we're using the best parts of the filming session, cut the edited outdoor footage down so that we can put it with our indoor scene (40 seconds) so that it isn't too long! Oh, we also need to get the sound organised. I'm really pleased with this footage, even if I do look a bit gormless in most of it. It's such a relief to have finally managed to get it together. Commence stress of trying to film the actual title of the opening...

Stress Over!

Photos from the filming!

Clark, the first to be attacked by Khadija

From the left: Bradley, Ryan, Toby, me, Emily, Tara, Elena, Clark and Katherine 

Destroying the dress (I was crying inside!)

Tara looking delightful...

Clark's wounds :S

Bradley and Tara with their battle wounds

Ryan and Tara

Khadija's proud 'slit throat' on Clark

Finally on location!

Vlog on the filming of the outdoor scene

This is me when Elena and Khadija decide to fight over the camera angles...

Filming tomorrow

We've FINALLY organised everything for shooting the scene in the woods. We now have eleven of my friends that are willing to get slathered in liquid latex, bruise pallet and all sorts. We're all going to head over to Forty Hall dressed like dead people, hopefully we won't get carted off to a mad house... We are no longer using Elena's aunts house because Elena might not have been able to make it tomorrow so we thought it would just be easier to walk over to Forty Hall where there are loads of empty forests. I had a little adventure today walking up to the fancy dress shop, let's just say trekking up the hill made me feel as though I was climbing Mount Everest or something... I then had an intense conversation with the shop keeper, trying to find the right make up products *sigh*. I only ended up getting fake blood because the scar wax was £10.75 for a tiny little pot, how ridiculous! Anyway I'm going to stop rambling now, hopefully we'll have some vlogs and photos up tomorrow! 

What we are doing today...

Today we have decided to make the signs for out titles, we are covered in tea!

Weekend footage

So here's the footage we've decided to use from the weekend, overall we are very pleased with the outcome! We have decided to use different titles but we added the production company name anyway, I'm not really sure why :S

Quick update!

Here's a few quick updates on everything we've done and things that are in the process of being sorted out:

The filming:

• We've managed to get a list of people that are willing to get attacked by Elena's make up, heaven's knows why or how they are okay with this. Elena STILL needs to ring her aunt to make sure her house/field is okay to use this weekend, if it isn't there will be hyperventilating and tears involved, mostly on my part. 

The editing:

• We edited the footage from last weekend during our lunchtime today and we're finally satisfied with the outcome. Last time we shot the footage indoors quite a lot of it was shaky and we weren't very happy using it. We've decided to start the whispering sounds when the camera zooms in on my eyes because we feel it is as though you are really starting to feel what the character is experiencing.

The sound:

• It's all becoming very exciting! Not that it wasn't before... It was. Khadija is heading off to her youth centre again tonight to re-edit our sound. She's going to hopefully create something amazing with the whispering sound by adding wind noises quietly in the background. I'm very excited to hear it all later tonight! She also says that there are a few musicians at the centre that may be able to make some sort of eerie piano-y type sounds for the title sequence/beginning of the film opening because we don't think the whispering sounds very good when it starts straight away.

Titles:

• Being quite a creative group we weren't totally satisfied with the dull and boring title options on iMovie, so we wanted to come up with something a bit different and more interesting to look at. After much deliberating about our titles I finally came up with a good idea, well it sounds good in my head anyway... I thought that it would look quite cool to draw up our titles on pieces of paper that we will have sponged with teabags/partially set fire to, then pin them up on random trees during our outdoor scene filming this weekend. 

We've still got so much to do and I'm trying not to panic. To my great horror I went on our media fronter page to see that Miss Foster had decided to put up a MASSIVE countdown for our film deadline (see picture). I am not sure that I'm okay with this guys..

Just to be clear that this countdown is. To. The. Second.

This was my reaction

Ringing

We're also thinking of layering this into certain parts of our sound because if our character is hearing this noise we think it's a bit more believable that she's going a bit mad. We don't want to add it to the whole of the film opening because it's really annoying and I'm pretty sure no one would want to watch our opening!

Spooky wind

We're thinking about layering some of these sounds onto the people whispering because we thought it would give our sounds a bit more of a sinister feel.

Photos from yesterday's escapade

The field!

 

Back prancing around in the dress!

Another view of the field where we'll hopefully be shooting our outdoor scene

Elena and Khadija doing what they do best

Khadija being all technical and such

Update Vlog

You would not believe the hassle I go through to record a solo blog! 

My makeshift tripod...

Can't do a vlog without my trusty post-it note reminders