Even though we were very pleased with our film we did have a few minor problems when filming and editing. Firstly our first idea of our film didn't work so we had to change our idea to make it work better. Also it was hard filming it in a college environment because of the distruptions, for example when we was trying to do our corridor scene, people kept walking up and down so we had to stop filming. When we filmed in the canteen we had to take the noise into account because the noise was just a lot of people talking, we took this into account and when we was editing it we put tense music over our film instead of narrative.
When we was editing we did have a few minor problems at first but that was because we had never used the programme for real and we was getting use to it. However, after we was comfortable using it the editing seemed pretty simple. It was hard trying to make the editing continuous and cutting out things that weren't necessary but we did a good job and our film looked good. At first we couldn't find the right music to fit with our film but after a long hard search through lots of different soundtracks, we found the right one and it worked really well with our film.
Hayley!
8 March 2009
Comments on our Final Product
i think our film worked really well and i am very pleased with it. Our final product is different from our story board because on a neagtive note when we filmed our shots on our storyboard they didn't really work so we decided to change our idea. However, i like the idea of the pictures and the black and white effect worked really well although we could of cut some of the pictures out because we had quite alot. We stuck to the same end shot as we did on our story board of the stalker looking at the pictures and this shot worked really well, however i think we should of made this shot a bit longer because it ended very sudden. Overall our product worked well and it set up alot of enigma's and it had the conventions of a real media product and i think it was realistic.
Hayley!
Hayley!
4 March 2009
General comments on film
I am quite happy with this film. It wasn't what i pictured it to be like as we had to change alot from what we originally planned on doing. However I do like the uniqueness of it. I think that the black and white effect on the pictures was particularly effective. I also like the end scene. I made sure my dad was the charracter as he looks more threatening than if we used a more petite person.
On a more negative note, i do think that the pictures shots do get quite repetitive. If i could redo this film I would still use this but i think i would have extended the final shot rather than have lots of short picture shots as the sence of time and place could be quite confussing for an audience.
Amy :]
On a more negative note, i do think that the pictures shots do get quite repetitive. If i could redo this film I would still use this but i think i would have extended the final shot rather than have lots of short picture shots as the sence of time and place could be quite confussing for an audience.
Amy :]
Problems with editting and sound
Editting
We didn't have too many problems with this once we had got used to it. At the start however we hadn't used the programme before so it took us quite a while to do everything. Once we hads got the hang of it we didn't come across too many problems.
Music
We did have qute a few problems with finding appropriate music. There was so many disc's to look through it that it look a while before we found the perfect one. I think the music we choose is good and helps create a lot of tension.
AMY :]
We didn't have too many problems with this once we had got used to it. At the start however we hadn't used the programme before so it took us quite a while to do everything. Once we hads got the hang of it we didn't come across too many problems.
Music
We did have qute a few problems with finding appropriate music. There was so many disc's to look through it that it look a while before we found the perfect one. I think the music we choose is good and helps create a lot of tension.
AMY :]
Problems with story board
A few problems occured once we began filming. We discovered that our some of the shots we had set out to do were too hard to film in a college environment.
The Corridor shot
Idealy we would have done this again to improve it. It would have looked more effective if the girl would have walked directly down the center of the corridor. However we struggled filming this due to the amount of people walking up and down the corridors. It took us many attempts in order to get this shot.
The Canteen shot
We did attempt this shot many times and in different places in the canteen. We then decided that the lighting just wouldn't work and it was very hard as most people kept looking at the camera. We decided that we would get rid of this shot all together.
The Photographs
This worked very well for us. After I had gathered all our footage, during editting i decided that making this shot happen repeatedly was very effective and quite different from all the horror movies i had watched.
AMY :]
The Corridor shot
Idealy we would have done this again to improve it. It would have looked more effective if the girl would have walked directly down the center of the corridor. However we struggled filming this due to the amount of people walking up and down the corridors. It took us many attempts in order to get this shot.
The Canteen shot
We did attempt this shot many times and in different places in the canteen. We then decided that the lighting just wouldn't work and it was very hard as most people kept looking at the camera. We decided that we would get rid of this shot all together.
The Photographs
This worked very well for us. After I had gathered all our footage, during editting i decided that making this shot happen repeatedly was very effective and quite different from all the horror movies i had watched.
AMY :]
Feedback 3.3.09
Hi girls,
There's a lot missing from here! Where's your storyboard? You also haven't been blogging during production to show who's doing what - you need to add this retrospectively. You also need to post your finished product here. Please see Rachel or Nikki if you're struggling wiith this and ensure you bring in those DVD's (+R DVD). The one for the examiner is the most important! I also need to see evidence of audience testing! Show your film to members of your target audience and get their response - this wil help in your evaluation.
Mrs A
There's a lot missing from here! Where's your storyboard? You also haven't been blogging during production to show who's doing what - you need to add this retrospectively. You also need to post your finished product here. Please see Rachel or Nikki if you're struggling wiith this and ensure you bring in those DVD's (+R DVD). The one for the examiner is the most important! I also need to see evidence of audience testing! Show your film to members of your target audience and get their response - this wil help in your evaluation.
Mrs A
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