Monday 29 November 2010

Filming 2nd session wednesday 24th december

On wednesday the 24th december we completed our filming for our trailer, however due to the times we could all do this filming we had to do it during the day and not i fox's forest  which is our original location. But we filmed it at a location similar looking to our original location(trees, thick forest, leaf, bushes). As we filmed this during the day we will have to edit the footage in imovie to black and white to make it fit into our  previous footage and so it fits with the conventions of a horror.

Our next step is to look at our footage and edit what we have and see if we have enough footage to start to put together our trailer.

Monday 22 November 2010

Font ideas

Here are some font ideas for the name of our film all got from www.dafont.com
The one we have decided to use is the top one (action of the time new)

(Action of the time new)
(cold night)









Questionnaire for our name

We conducted a questionnaire to our class about the different choices for the name of our film and we intend to use the name that was voted most popular amongst the class.  

                                                    
As you can see from the results from the questionnaire the name 'the unknown' was the most popular therefore this seems like a ideal name to use for our film. As well this name was the favorite of the group and what we thought seemed most appropriate so we were glad when the results showed it was the most popular with our peers.

Monday 15 November 2010

Name ideas for our film

We had a production meeting today to discuss names for our film

These are the names we can up with
  • The woods
  • Alone
  • Haunted
  • Nowhere to hide
  • The unknown 
  • Hidden 
With these name ideas we will  make a questionnaire and ask people which name they prefer or if they have any other suggestions. 

Synopsis

Three friends decide to go on a camping trip to a woods that they have heard has strange things happening inside. They have been told it is haunted and that people disappear in there. The three friends, thinking that these tales are a load of rubbish decide to go and explore for themselves, having a laugh and not taking anything seriously.
They set up camp and then go off with their hand held camera to explore this supposedly haunted woods. However, whilst they are filming and making fun of the stories they hear noises and strange things in the woods and instantly start to worry, although they try to cover up their feelings and shake it off.
As night falls, more strange things start to happen and they begin to actually panic. Trying to dodge this 'thing' that is following and haunting them.

Monday 1 November 2010

Looking at our footage

Today we looked back at the footage which was about 7 minuets we got on wednesday to see if we could use any of it. After looking at it we found a few bits that we could use in our trailer. These included Alice walking up to a door and shaking the lock. A shot of Beccy's face looking worried. And all 3 of them walking in a subway.

We still need shots of...

  • panic in all the girls
  • shot of the location
  • realizing there is something lurking in the wood so possibly running and screaming
  • the ending shot of the camera falling on the floor and filming someone running away.


We also, watched a imovie tutorial on how to use imovie and give us basic understand on how to edit our trailer, and allows us to begin putting it together. Here is the hyperlink to the tutorial we watched.

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#intro
Here is a screen shot of the editing we have done so far on imovie


Our next step is to carry on filming for our trailer. We have planned to do our next filming session on  wednesday the 10th of november. We will do it after our media lesson and meet up with our actor at the location which is still fox's forest. We also, need to come up with a name for our film, to start this we will brain storm some ideas and relevant words for our film.

First filming session for our trailer

On the 27th of october we had our first filming session at fox's forest with Beccy Alice and Jenna who are our actors for our film. We turned up at our location at 6 o'clock and done as much filming as we could but we did not complete filming our footage as it go to dark and could not see what we were filming. Therefore, we will arrange another day to book out the camera and complete our filming for our trailer.