Editing Update 3

Sam had worked on editing over the weekend and had done a great job of putting music into the film and also credits which we had not even writtern. He also came up with the title name "Blood Farmers" which I thought was a great idea. I was happy and content with the video which was just as good because we running out of time. We showed our film to miss Kasam who gave us some good advice on dialogue as in one scene cars are driving past as two characters are speaking making it hard for the audience to hear what they are saying. We fixed this by getting rid of the dialogue and placing music right over the top of it. We did this as we thought it wasn't nessecary to hear what they were saying as the story still made sence anyway.

Editing Update 2

Yesterday me and Sam continued editing. This mainly consisted of taking out more shots and fixing the mistakes people had spotted on the showcase. We were also trying to sync sound with actions such as the killer stepping out infront of the camera and a scary noise to go with it. We managed to cut down the film to about 3 minutes 15 seconds. This was a great success considering our video started as 9 minutes or so long.
Sam brought in his mac book and downloaded an editing programe to mac book so that he could work on the film over the weekend.

Showcase

Yesterday was our Showcase. Because we had to re-film all the shots we had already done with Ruba, we had not had much time to edit meaning our video was unfinnished so we were worried everyone would think it very poor. I found great insperation in watching the rest of the classes films. Some groups had edited very well with great music to match.
The comments we recieved for our video were very helpful and detailed. They mainly consisted of people liking our variety of shots, location and Costume. However people also spotted mistakes with dissapearing cars and cuts cutting too late. We took the feedback into great consideration. Tomorrow we will follow our advise given and fix our mistakes.

Editing Update 1

Me and Sam started editing today while Sepideh and Ruba worked on the group blog. At first I found it difficult to navigate Final Cut Express but when we got used to it I found it was simple enough. We managed to edit about three quarters of our footage. We were finding it hard because we had about 9 minutes of footage and had to cut it down to three. We went through the footage we had taking out all the unessecary or poor shots. After this our total time was still about five minutes with the end still not even edited and no music. Our showcase infront of the class was the day after. We had edited all we could so we decided to extract our film into the showcase folder. This was taking a very long time so we left and went home while the video uploaded.

Filming Update 4

Today we took time out of our double media lesson to travel to Repton Park and finnish filming our opening sequence. I brought my costume with me today so that we could film the final confrontaion of the killer. We finally finnished filming and returned to school to upload the footage. I think the session went very well and the footage was very good with a great variety of shots.

Filming Update 3

Last week we tried to finnish our film before we broke up for half term. However we had great difficulty doing so as our actress Ruba was off of school sick due to glandular fever. We heard that Ruba could be off school for at least 2 weeks. We did not have time to wait for rubas return as we would be running extremely low on time by then.
We decided our only option was to strat filming again with a different actress. Sepideh and Rubas friend stepped in to help us out.
We re-filmed most of the shots we had already had but still had much left to do. After about an hour of filming we packed up and returned to school as Sam had work to attend. we agreed we would meet Monday and resume filming.

Filming Update 2

Yesterday we continued filming our opening sequence. We returned to Repton Park and picked up from where we left off. Today was sunnier then the last day we were filming which created a problem for us as when we put our cuts together the forest would look allot brighter from one cut to the next. We decided we could edit this out on Final Cut Express.
We experimented with camera shots and angles. I even decided to climb a tree to create a crane shot. We thought this would add to the variety of shots nicely.
We didn't manage to film a great deal as the battery on our camera ran out after only 40 minutes. We decided to call it a day and to bring an extra battery next time we film. To finnish our film I will nedd to require a costume, fake blood and a weapon.