The music we used in our film was all from copyright free sources. The music from the start throughout the chase was "Killer" (www.freeplaymusic.com) then the heartbeat noise when Rory thinks he has escaped is called "Threatening Behaviour" (www.audio.lgfl.org.uk) and finally the "boom" sound at the end when the person opens his eyes is from iMovie.
We also downloaded "Philly Sans" (www.dafont.com) font a copyright free text.
Friday 7 May 2010
Thursday 6 May 2010
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Sunday 2 May 2010
The Original Plan
This was our original idea before we changed it. Piyal on the left, Matty on the right and myself in the middle. Sorry it has come on late but we had to wait for our teacher to download it.
Sunday 25 April 2010
Editing
Firstly we uploaded the clips we had taken, onto the school macs. We then selected the clips we wanted to use and merged them together so they looked right (this was made easier by us filming it in the correct order). Once we made our two minute piece we found suitable music to go with it. However we realised later on that we should add music last as otherwise it would be affected when we did editing for the titles.
The next stage was to add titles. Matty was feeling better at this point and had the software at his house to add the titles. We selected a graffiti style text to suit the crime genre of the film. Matty then added the titles making sure there was a constant pace between each name (every other clip). He also made it so the chasers ran in front of the names to look as if the names were written on the walls. I went to his house to see how the editing worked and I also had a go at making the names 3D.
Finally we uploaded the edited version of the film onto the macs and re-added the music. For the chase we had tense/fast paced music to get the audience straight into the pace of the chase. We then had a heartbeat sound start as he came to the phone box which carried on through the title of the film and onto the shot of someone opening their eyes. Finally we had a sharp explosion noise (similar to the "Lost" opening shown earlier on my blog) as he opened his eyes to end our piece. We added the final clip of someone waking up as we were told our piece may lose marks for looking too much like a short film rather than an opening, therefore we showed the beginning of the next scene.
The next stage was to add titles. Matty was feeling better at this point and had the software at his house to add the titles. We selected a graffiti style text to suit the crime genre of the film. Matty then added the titles making sure there was a constant pace between each name (every other clip). He also made it so the chasers ran in front of the names to look as if the names were written on the walls. I went to his house to see how the editing worked and I also had a go at making the names 3D.
Finally we uploaded the edited version of the film onto the macs and re-added the music. For the chase we had tense/fast paced music to get the audience straight into the pace of the chase. We then had a heartbeat sound start as he came to the phone box which carried on through the title of the film and onto the shot of someone opening their eyes. Finally we had a sharp explosion noise (similar to the "Lost" opening shown earlier on my blog) as he opened his eyes to end our piece. We added the final clip of someone waking up as we were told our piece may lose marks for looking too much like a short film rather than an opening, therefore we showed the beginning of the next scene.
Filming Plan
This was the plan I drew up the night before we filmed to help us film quicker in the limited time we had.
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Change to filming
During the holidays we have filmed the whole of our opening 2 minutes. Though not without difficulties.
Firstly we filmed as planned using the storyboard to get the clips of Matty waking up, the flashback triggers and also the chase involving Matty, Jonny and Sam (which was filmed at 7am in the morning so we wouldn't have as many problems with passers by being in the shots). We got a few good shots though there were plenty that needed re-filming as they didn't work together when we tried to connect them.
The day before the next agreed filming time I was called by Matty telling me that he was unlikely to be able to make the filming session as he was ill and may need to go into hospital. This meant I had to plan around his absence. Our actors said they would only be able to stay upto midday, which left us an extremely short amount of time to re-film what we had previously done and make the rest. Therefore I chose to make the decision (after consulting Piyal) to make the film predominantly a chase as this was the main part we had previously filmed so hopefully the actors would pick it up quickly. I also wrote out a plan of which shots we were going to have in the order we were going to take them to make sure we were as quick as possible to fit into our time frame.
The next morning one of our actors didn't arrive, meaning I had to step into the role of one of the chasers and give Piyal the job of being cameraman. Though before each shot I positioned the camera using the plan I had made the night before.
I am very happy with the clips we have come out with. I feel that re-filming the chase scenes helped us develop the clips we made before.
Firstly we filmed as planned using the storyboard to get the clips of Matty waking up, the flashback triggers and also the chase involving Matty, Jonny and Sam (which was filmed at 7am in the morning so we wouldn't have as many problems with passers by being in the shots). We got a few good shots though there were plenty that needed re-filming as they didn't work together when we tried to connect them.
The day before the next agreed filming time I was called by Matty telling me that he was unlikely to be able to make the filming session as he was ill and may need to go into hospital. This meant I had to plan around his absence. Our actors said they would only be able to stay upto midday, which left us an extremely short amount of time to re-film what we had previously done and make the rest. Therefore I chose to make the decision (after consulting Piyal) to make the film predominantly a chase as this was the main part we had previously filmed so hopefully the actors would pick it up quickly. I also wrote out a plan of which shots we were going to have in the order we were going to take them to make sure we were as quick as possible to fit into our time frame.
The next morning one of our actors didn't arrive, meaning I had to step into the role of one of the chasers and give Piyal the job of being cameraman. Though before each shot I positioned the camera using the plan I had made the night before.
I am very happy with the clips we have come out with. I feel that re-filming the chase scenes helped us develop the clips we made before.
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