Final Post

So here is my absolute final post! It's quite sad to think that this year of media is finally over, I've had so much fun with not just the people in my group but with all of the the girls in the rest of the class too! We've had some good laughs, many involving small insects, singing old chart toppers to get us through the editing stress or just sitting back and watching a film to help us relax. It's starting to feel like we're a large family, of sorts, and it's sad when I realise that not everyone will choose to take media again next year. I want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Miss Foster for all of her help and guidance throughout the year, without her offering all of her 'constructive critisism' I don't think we'd be where we are today! As a group we've gone for a very bumpy ride to say the least. However, I don't think I'd change Khadija or Eleanor for the world, even through all of our creative differences we've still managed to come out as close as we were at the beginning of the course, if not closer! 

Deadlines

So this is what our deadline countdown looks like now, nobody panic! It's bank holiday Monday tomorrow and I'm going to the beach so fingers crossed it stays sunny. 

We all had a very eventful editing session on Wednesday when a wasp decided to join in all of the fun. Let's just say the majority of the class ran for their lives through the door! Me and Rachael decided to stay and try and waft the wasp back through the tiny media room windows and then we lost it... Everyone came back in and it was all well and good for about ten minutes. I then went home and on my way out heard a huge commotion, so I can only assume the wasp came back to exact its revenge.

Everybody was frantically still writing their evaluations or editing their evaluation videos during Friday lunchtime after our lesson. Hopefully everyone will be done in time! I still have four evaluation videos left to edit so hopefully I'll be okay if I stay after school on Tuesday!

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!

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

Final location choices

I think we've now all decided that our final locations will be:

-Elena's spare room for the scene inside, we hope to all go to Elena's and film the entire scene next week sometime. 

-Grovelands Park for the scene in the wood, we are hoping it wont be really busy and full of dog walkers! If it's too busy there we may have to move on to Hilly Fields and shoot the woods scene there ..

Ebay bidding war

I HAVE NEVER EVER BEEN SO HAPPY IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Okay. I won the bidding war I managed to get myself into on ebay and we now have a wedding dress to use in our film, praise the lord above! I will post some pictures of it and of the veil I bought when I get it through the post. The anticipation is a killer though, can't wait!