Evaluation

Media evaluation

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4th May - Uploading to youtube

We created a youtube account so that we could upload our video onto the internet and could get feedback from various people.
The link to our video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJUvKnTHqUc

3rd May

Today we are burning our preliminary task and our main task to DVD so it is ready to be sent of to the exam board. On this DVD we had to write our candidate names and numbers.

1st April - Editing

In our free lessons today we started to edit the shot of the television and Stephanie together to make it look like Stephanie was appearing on the television. We dragged the image of the ghostly girl onto the television screen and then added special effects to the screen to give the appearance of the television flickering on. We then needed to find a sound effect to go along with the image. We found this from a website called 'FreeSound' and we found the sound; "50500_Gaiamuse_TV_Static". We thought that this sounded good so we put this onto a memory stick and inserted it into our footage.

31st March - Additional Filming

Today we got a camera out, and filmed Stephanie in a white night-dress, with dark make-up running down her face, with hair on her face. We got a number of shots of her looking up at the camera. We then uploaded our footage of Stephanie onto the iMacs, and inserted it into FinalCut, ready to be edited tomorrow.

30th March - Sound

Today we added sound to our footage.

First we deleted all of the vocals that we already had in our footage and chose a sound clip that we thought went well with the footage we had.

Then we got a sound recording of a girl laughing, and edited it in GarageBand to make it sound eerie.

For the opening titles, we added in a voice recording of 'ring a ring of roses' and edited in the same way as the girl's giggling.

We then added in a mobile phone ring tone for when the girl received a message.

We are now going to go out to film the last shot of the TV, to put our footage of the girl onto the screen, and we will film the ghostly girl tomorrow.

We are still thinking of an alternative name for our horror opening that we can add onto our filming at the end. We have a few ideas but have not came to a conclusion yet.

29th March - Creating Titles

Today we carried on adding titles into our opening, putting them over different frames with names such as actors names, director and producer.

We spaced them out over different frames and by using two different colours (black & white) to create more of a sense of threat.

28th March - Creating Titles

Today as we was happy with the footage we had edited together already we decided to start creating our titles to go in our opening.

We decided on a production company name and made a title for it using the program LiveType, we experimented with different effects that made it look like a horror film title.

We then started to add actors names over the frames of our opening.

21st March - Editing

Today our group carried on putting a range of shots together in our opening, using a range of extreme close ups and long shots. These shots all go together in a way of showing our character getting ready to go meet her boyfriend, using close up shots showing her putting on make-up and long shots of her getting her jacket on.

We also used shots like low angled shots and high angled shots to show a sense of threat and that someone is watching her.

14th March - Editing

Today our group carried on with editing some of our footage together.

We used a range of shots and used some transitions to make the beginning of our opening flow better.

We also looked at a sound site to see what different types of sound would go with our opening, the site we looked at was FreeSound.

We looked at different sounds such as ghostly sounds and sounds that build up tension.

Editing

We uploaded our footage onto our Mac and decided to start to edit little bits to see if it flowed together right. We were happy with our footage and decided to add an establishing shot of the house to create a sense of location. We are also going to film some shots of a little girl to create a sense of danger.

9th March 2011- Filming

Today we went to film our opening again. The location we used was the inside of someone's house, in a bedroom. We used mise-en-scene to ensure that we created the image of a teenage girl's bedroom.

The character in our opening is getting ready to go out and meet her boyfriend. We ensured that we got a range of different angles and camera shots so we can experiment with them when editing our footage together. To get a sense of threat, we made sure that we got different angles of our character jumping when unexplainable noises are heard.

7th March 2011

Today we began to edit some of our footage together to see how it looked. We noticed that some of the shots didn't flow together very well, and that there was too much background noise from cars. So from looking at this we decided to change it to an inside location.

We also realised that there was no sense of where we were going and no sense of threat, that we were hoping to achieve. We bullet pointed some ideas for our opening. Then we came to the conclusion that we will need to completely re-film our opening.

Filming - 25th February

Today we had dry weather so we decided we would go out to film for our opening. Due to one of our members not being able to film for us we all took turns in filming different shots to use for our film. We used our props that we bought as they were needed in the main scences of our opening. Our shots were mainly close ups to show how well we used our props. We are now ready to upload our filming to the Macs ready for editing.

Filming - 16th February

Due to rainy weather recently we havent been able to film our final scenes, as soon as we have adry day we will film our last shots for our opening.

Props

For our teen horror opening we needed to get two props to carry out our opening. The props we used were a fake knife and fake blood. We got these from our local fancy dress shop and were only cheap as we didnt need to use them for long.

3O/O1/11

Today we went back out to film footage for our opening. We decided to change our time to the afternoon because it got too dark the last time we filmed and it didn't flow together.

We used a lot of different camera angles today and camera movements such as tracking and panning. We also decided to add on an extra scene at the start as we didn't think it would last for 2 minutes.

We will now go out next weekend to film the final scenes for our opening, which includes the props that we have bought. Then we will have finished our production stage of our opening.

17/O1/11

Today we decided to go out and film more footage for our horror opening as we don’t have at least half an hour of footage yet. When we got to our location we started to film more scenes using different camera angles.

As we were filming it started getting too dark, because of the time that we were filming. So we decided not too use some footage as you couldn’t see it clear enough.

We then decided we would change the time of our opening from evening time to the afternoon when it is light, so that it is easier to view all of our footage, and so it doesn’t get dark throughout filming.

12/O1/11

Today we uploaded our footage onto our iMac in the media room. We looked through all of it and noticed we needed to film more. This is because we only have about 3 minutes worth of filming. We now also need to re-film the start of it as it looks to light to the rest of our footage.

11/O1/11

Today we booked out the cameras so we could begin to film our teen horror film. We went to our chosen location after school before it started to get dark, as we wanted the lighting to be a little bit dark but a good lighting so we could still film. We stuck to our storyboards for the start of our opening but we also added in more scenes so the whole opening would flow together. It took us about an hour to get all the footage we needed, but because of the lighting we may need to go back and film the start of our opening again.

Filming

We originally planned to complete our filming in the Christmas holidays.
However due to the snow and the icy conditions, we plan to do it in the next couple of weeks after the Christmas break instead.
This will make sure that our footage has continuity and that it is safe for us to film, for example when we are running.