film opening

this is the elusive murder where dom and rob find the mysterious figure leaning over the victim in a menacing way. this is the scene that our film opening is based on :)

this is what our editing looks like so far, there are only a couple of tweaks left to add in. :)

Filnally all filming is complete exactly 1 day before the deadline. editing is now in progress and should be finished by tonight. the last thing we have to finish are the evaluation questions which are 3/4 complete. so everything is comming together and as media is comming to a close.

easter filming.

seeing as we did not finish the filminhg before the beggining of the holidays due to weather conditions we are all set to finish everything off tomorrow. as i have been on holiday for the best part of 11 days it has been almost impossible to do any form of filming. the deadline is tuesday but hop[efully we should be able to have it edited by the end of the day. all thtas left is to finish a few smaller shots and add more information the blogs. hopefully the next filming update post will be saying its all finished. :) im also pleased to say we are all working better together as a group :)

filming

yesterday we managed to get quite a lot of filming done. we pulled together as a group and we have now filmed over 3 quaters of final project. we headed back to school to edit it, we have the start titles and opening sceen ready to watch. :)

my media expierence so far.

For me personally i think media has been  harder than i first expected. that view has not been helped by the fact that as a group we don't seem to be able to communicate and co-ordinate very well. within the group there have been various days when we haven't been able to film because of other commitments like work on everyones behalf. i just feel that personally i can achieve much more but we cant because people are never available at any one time to film all together.I am concerned time for filming is running short and the deadline is approaching.The group have decided on a date and time next week and i have stressed the importance we all must be available.I find myself frustrated, we as a group are not working together as a team. we have a goal to achieve and we need to work hard as a group to achieve it.
:)

Filming update

We now have a few rough shots together which can be used to make a complete rough cut. We have successfully made a title screen that displays our logo and name. The next step is to get out and completely finish any filming we have left to do. We just need to find a day when everyone is available to get it finished. But so far we are not doing to badly. :)

Filming!!

On Saturday we had a plan to go out filming for the day. Unfortunately at last minute one of our members couldn't film due to work issues. This caused a debate with the other members. In the end we didn't film because there was "no point". So the next plan is to go out filming tomorrow and hopefully finish everything. As an added issues adobe premier pro isn't allowing me to upload any clips to even attempt any editing. Hopefully the it technicians will be able to resolve this problem so that we can get a cut ready to present ASAP
:)

half term filming.

unfortunately due to many set backs and various excuses we were not able to get any major filming done in the half term just gone. admittedly there was no communication within the group and as a result we have lost out on lots of time to get some filming done. we have made a definite plan to go out for the whole of next Tuesday to try and get as much done as possible with the time that we have left, i have made sure that as a group everyone is okay to film with no restrictions such as work or "other plans".
by this time next week we plan to have at least 3/4 of the filming complete to a draft standard.
:)

Filming part 3

Already I have decided to call off filming tomorrow due to the weather yet again. The sudden snow fall has left slush and ice everywhere. Last week we managed to completely finish out indoor shots and we even had a play with adobe premiere pro to test out the fast forwarding and slowing down clips. Hopefully the snow will have disappeared by half term so we can properly have chance to finish everything we need to.
So instead of filming tomorrow we plan to add extras to blogs and make sure they are perfect. Not much else we can do.
:)

Filming part 2

Yesterday we faced a number of problems when trying to film. Firstly there was the frost. The white layer didn't disappear until well after one o'clock. This meant we couldn't film outside so we decide to film the indoor sections while we had that chance. Secondly the weather was totally different to what is was last week, again another continuity error.we filmed our final mysterious scene. Hopefully next week we will be faced with better weather conditions and we can get even more done.
:)

filming!!

yesterday we began filming. we headed off around 9.20 to go and get ready. we eventually got costumes and everything else sorted and went to burleigh place to do some of the less mayjor shots. most of it was just getting used to using the camera properly and getting the words right. we still have alot more to do over the up and comming weeks including the big death scene and some other small parts
dom :)

preliminary exercise

This is our preliminary exercise,our task was to film someone walking and opening a door. this was then to be followed by two people exchanging a few sentences of dialogue to finish.

recce shots

these are our initial recce shots. from the beggining you can tell that we had no idea where to shoot but as it gets to the bottom we found a good place and took numerous photos of different angles and shot types.

We have decided to do a completely new idea which consists of a famous figure giving a speech to many people and a threat from a terrorist groups arises and the famous figure gets assinated, however we are not to sure on the nature of the famous person however we have found a good place to shoot and will be uploading the wrekki shots soon.

Here is the research we carried out into what sort of film our target audience would like.

preliminary exercise.

we have now almost finished our preliminary exercise, im only waiting for the video so i can officially upload it to here. ill upload it as soon as i can.

overall i think the filming went rather smoothly. i thought the editing was abit complicated but we are slowly getting to grips with it.