Four days till deadline

After a long process of research, filming, editing and more filming, the finish line is finally in sight. We have four days left until we have to present our horror film trailer and hope that it has the right effect on the audience. Showing our Trailer to the class will be perfect to see the response of our intended audience as there the exact age we think our film will appeal to.

So far today I have started reviewing our project and trying to spot any way that our trailer can be improved, I have spotted one shot that I would like to re-film, this is the shot that shows a torch shining towards the church and will and highlighting graffiti on the wall that says ‘Help’. This shot is framed perfectly however the text on the wall is not clear and too faint to see in the four second long shot. This will not be a problem to re-shot as the land is public so we can use it any time of the day.

For the rest of the day I plan to try and spot anymore errors in our production, I hope that there will be a minimal amount to correct. Also I hope that the group can meet some point in the day and we can arrange a day before the deadline to organise a day that we are all free to return to cold Christmas and obtain this last shot. I also hope that the group can come to a decision about fonts for the credits so that every element of our production can be complete. All of this can be easily completed by the end of today.

Font (Edit)

When we believed we had finally finished our trailer, we watched the trailer over and over again. Whilst we were doing this we noticed that there was something that we all clearly didn’t like. This was the title of the film, however it is not our opinion that matters and we wanted to ask our intended audience (Teenagers) what they thought of it. Some people where very positive and upbeat about it but the majority said they found it cheesy and irrelevant to the type of film we aim to promote by the horror trailer. We asked the people we asked to name a film trailer title font that really stuck in their mind and one which is instantly recognizable when they see it again. For example when they see the DVD we want our consumers to know straight away that it’s ‘The Recluse’. Eight of the twelve people we asked immediately said ‘Saw’ and the second most popular was 'Nightmare on Elm Street'. We have started to do some more research on fonts and I personally believe that a font like 'Nightmare on Elm Street' would be perfect for our trailer. Designing has begun and will be uploaded as soon as it is completed.

Feedback for trailer at this point in production

When we showed our rough cut to the class there where mixed reviews, there where lots of positives to take away from it, however the class did notice a few errors and room for improvement. We took on board all of the comments that we received, by editing the bad and highlighting the good. By showing this to the class at this point was very useful as the age of the class is the age that we believe the film trailer will most appeal to, so we really valued their opinion on our production so far. The list below is a review of the good and bad comments.

Positive

Music – One class member said that the slow music at the beginning helped to create tension, and that the faster music when the pace of the trailer changes was effective and matched the flow of the horror trailer.

Shots – It was said that the opening establishing shots helped to create tension and help give off an eeire atmosphere. This is what intended with our opening shots.

Sound – The sound was one of our best things according to our audience, they admired the fact that we went out and recorded the majority of our own sound, For example the gun shot and the sound that involved the scissors clicking between each transition.

Transitions – Most of the class agreed that we had a good variety of transitions and they were typical of what you would expect in a horror film trailer. We used transitions like cross dissolve, dip to black, dip to white, simple blackouts and many others. They also mentioned that we used quick snappy transitions between each shot; these are transitions that are associated with this type of production.

Negative

Music – Although our music had the right pace and tempo, some people believed that the music was not relevant to the trailer and that tune was not suited the horror film production.

Shots – Miss Grant Muller (Our teacher) said that in her opinion our killer was introduced way to early, we asked the class for a second opinion, some people agreed we listened to this feedback as the people evaluating our production are the age of our intended audience.

Sound – Remove any background sound, to this we will mute the production and any dialogue or sound will be added into it.

Transitions – some transitions where considered too long, to correct this we will just simply shorten them so that the transitions are much snappier and quicker.

Our Opening title animation

This is the  final design for our title, we have added in animation so that it doesn't slow down the pace of our horror trailer. However the design is still the same as our initial created title.

Our Production Company

This title will come up at the very beginning of our trailer, this logo will indicate to the audience which company has produced the film. Boris Films is the type of company that would come together to produce this sort of British horror film and after production never produce a film again. The title is very similar to other production titles, very plan and bold so its clear who has produced the film.

Inspiration

When was looking at ideas for our British horror/thriller film trailer, one film immediately come to mind and this was Shane Meadows Dead Man shoes, there are a number of techniques we will be taking away from this trailer.

1. Voice over: When we watched the Dead Man Shoes trailer we all believed that the voice over from Andy's Brother (The killer) was very effective, this was because it set the scene and gave us a subtle idea of what will occur throughout the film. In our trailer we will use a voice over from the killer explaining why he commits such crimes.

2. Snappy Transitions: In this trailer snappy transitions are used to create tension and build up speed, this is stereotypical to films of this genre. We are planning to use this in our trailer to give clear indication to the audience that it is a horror film.  It will also build up pace which is similar to how Dead Man Shoes created tension.

3. Sounds: In Dead Man Shoes the sounds used are noticable loud and sudden, this again is to build up tension and leave the audience anticipating the next jumpy moment, this is the exactly how we want our audience to feel when watching our teaser trailer.

Week 1 (Editing Timetable)

This is our first week of editing.The group members who will be working in the assigned slot have been put in brackets. The grey boxes indicate the periods when no one will be working in the media suite so we can still work, the black boxes mean when all the media computers are being used by another class, this means we can't go into work.

Editing schedule

We decided that as there is only three weeks till we need the final cut of our film trailer we need to have a structured timetable which displays when each group member needs to come into school and edit. Each displayed time slot will indicate what needs to be achieved inside that hour. This will give us a guideline of how well we are doing and how much we need to do before our film trailer is finally finished.

Re-filming

When we looked back at our footage we decided that maybe some shots needed to be filmed again. We also wanted to get some shots showing the panic of the killers victim. To obtain these shots we went to a private field, we had requested permission to do this we asked in advance so we where not breaking any rules by being there. It was a succesful trip and we got all the shots that we aimed to achieve. Fortunately we did not incounter any problems so we where able to get all the shots and still be in on time for our lessons at school. One of my favorite shots of the day was when we laid the camera on the floor and saw two smoking bullets that clearly had just been fired then the camera panned up and we saw the victim run.

Editing (Preparing for our rough cut)

When we where capturing our footage we occurred a number of problems, we tried on numerous occasions to upload our footage. But the same error appeared over and over the message said Media Offline. To try and resolve this we turned off the computer and restarted it. As this was unsuccessful we asked our teacher what the problem was, we played about with the setting and eventually we where able to fix the problem. However if this problem was to occur again we would not be able to fix it as we are unsure how we fixed it in the first place.

Although this problem happened we where still able to get some good editing done, we where able to create a tense atmosphere, by using snappy transitions which is usually used in horror trailers and we used blackouts and included a variety of shots involving the killer.However I do not feel like we had enough variety of shots that included the victims. Although we had a number of good shots, we had not allocated enough time for editing. Jamie was unable to help edit due to other commitments such as work and other school lessons. So it was up to myself and Lyle to put the shots together and create a respectable film trailer to show to the class. Although we have a rough cut prepared it still needs a lot of work before it is up to the standard that we want it to be at.

Filming day 3

Once we looked at the footage we had from Cold Christmas Church, we where not completely satisfied with the shots that we had and there where a number of problems with these shots. Firstly when we captured our footage to Adobe Premiere some shots where faded with a grainy effect. This was not how we intended these shots to look. However some of the shots where fine so we did not need to film them again.

It was a group decision to go back to the old church to film again. By going to the church we gained a lot more shots from inside the church and shots involving other characters not merely the killer and establishing shots. The time we spent at the church was very helpful to our production. We obtained a number of point of view shots from the killer looking upon his victim; this is a vital shot as our unique selling point is that the film is mainly through the killer eyes. Our group also obtained a number of shot within in the killer’s lair; these shots show how the killer acts within his habitat. One of my personnal favourite shots was a medium shot where you could see the entrance of the church and the killer standing looking through the door, I believe the lighting on this was inspirational as the we made it appear as if the small tea lights where lighting up the killers face when in fact it was a torch shining on the killers face. Unfortunately as we wanted to get some shots in a darker light we only had a limited time and filming was cut short when it became to dark to film anything.

Feedback notes

Jamie, Will, Lyle

To get a rough structure to the shots to create a narrative
Use the strongest shots and get rid of the weakest
Try to find shots that don’t reveal too much information about the subject straight way to keep the audience on the edge of their seats
Good use of fast edits, use more of this within reason
Use the existing music but add some sound effects to add atmosphere to it….. speak to James or AJ for advice.
Get some simple but effective titles

New Location

When we had recorded all the footage on the anamatic and extra shots just so that we had more choice, we decided that we did not have any footage that signalled that our killer hated family life. To correct this we have added a new location. This was one of our group members house, this was ideal because it is located in an isolated area and it has quite a tense, eerie atmosphere to it. As the house is owned by a group member we did not need to obtain any permission or pay to use the house and the surrounding land.

Font

This is the title for our film, it will be revealed at the the end of our trailer. when we show our final cut to our audience we hope to edit the font so it fades in stays for a couple of seconds then fades to black. We created this text using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks. to obtain the font, create the blood dripping effect and change the colour to a bloody red gradient. Then exported it to Fireworks to put the slash through the text.

Inspiration for our killer

The picture above is an image taken from 'Dead Man's Shoes', we watched this film when researching different killers in different films and how effective they are in terrifying there audience. Although our killer doesn’t look like the one in Dead Man’s shoes, it was still the starting point in creating a unique killer.

Filming Day 2

Our group decided that the second day of filming would be used to obtain the shots we needed from the pig farm, this is a short walk from one of the group member’s house. We did not need permission to film on this land as the once privately owned land is now free to use by the public. After some delay the suit that we had ordered was delivered the day before we set out to film, we were uncertain as to whether the costume would arrive in time. This meant we were able to gather all the shots we planned to get from this location including the shots that the killer was in.

We was able to obtain some interesting shots, one of my personal favourites was one of the killer looking towards its victim then turning his head slowly and looking past the camera. I particularly liked this shot as it made our killer look bigger and more powerful and this was what we intended. From this location we achieved several establishing shots, and some long shots of our killer in the location. These shots work well because they give the idea of an eerie atmosphere and surrounding. It was ideal because there were hanging vines and fallen debris around the area, this suggested that this location was isolated from the busy world around.

More Sound FX

To acquire some of the sound FXs we needed permission to use the land (a field on the outskirts of Ware), because the land we wanted to use is privately owned. We have now obtained permission to use the land and now aim to take full advantage of it. We want to use the field so we can tape gunshots. Two of the three members of our group have gun licences therefore we will be able to achieve the sound safely and appropriately.

Shot List

This is our shot list, everytime we go to a location we will take a copy. this is so we can check off each shot as we complete. this will help us keep on top of what shots we need and what shots we have already obtained

Sound FX

After discussing as a group what sound FX we would use and looking at a number of websites which allow you download copyright free material, we decided the best option was to record all of it on our own accord, meaning it was original and no other sounds on any other films are the same as ours. This gave us a window of opportunity to use our imagination and creativity to come up with the ideas. We knew that all effects would have to be created cheaply and quickly as we have neither time nor the funds. One sound immediately sprung to mind, this was the sound of the doors sliding open and shut in the Star War films. This was created merely by a piece of paper being pulled from an envelope, however we tried this idea for our opening shot which we would use it to show a quick transition between a jumping shot. This was ineffective and we decided against it, as we where have a group debate about more ideas i noticed a pair of metal scissors on the disk, I picked them up and open and closed them rapidly, we all agreed that we thought this would go well with one particular shot. When we added we still thought it was quite right for this shot. Lyle and i come up with the idea of adding an echoing effect so that each click was prolonged, we all agreed this sounded better and would be the sound FX we would use for this shot.

Lyrics for Music

‘Incy Wincy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain
Then Incy Wincy spider climbed up the spout again’

For our backing track in our movie trailer we decided to use a traditional kid’s nursery rhyme. This is mainly because our killer envies family life, and this is a song that is a associated with families. However it will not sound similar to the original version, we will be adapting it so it creates an eerie atmosphere which will go with the tempo of the trailer and resemble the thriller/ horror genre.

Filming: Day 1

The group went to cold Christmas so we could gather a variety of establishing shots; this was a very successful trip as we gathered a mixture of different and unique shots. By doing this we will hopefully get more marks as we have given ourselves a lot more shots to choose from and that we may want to use to set the scene. Unfortunately we where unable to obtain the shots that included the killer, the costume which we have ordered has taken longer than expected to arrive, although we now know that it is in the post and on its way. In future weeks we plan to visit the other location to get a number of shots with and without our killer. We had a number of technical difficulties when the group visited Cold Christmas. There were a few shots that we wanted to acquire that involved the camera being held manually and not placed on the tripod. When we did this we discovered that with every movement the images would come out distorted when playing back the footage. Fortunately we played around with the settings and we where able to sort this out.

Anamatic Feedback

When we showed our anamatic to our teacher she gave us feedback on most of the individual shots. We received mixed feedback all in all which we will bear in mind when filming our shots. One good point that she highlighted the first time we watched it through was that there was a big variety of unique and interesting shots.

One particular shot that our teacher thought was excellent was the under the arm shot of our killer looking at a family, this was relevant to our film as our killer envies family life. The shot contains the killer’s fist clinching when he sees a family through a window, partaking in what the stereotypical happy family would be doing at dinner time.

One shot that was considered weak was our panning shot across the fields. This shot was added into the trailer with the intention that it will create a foggy, spooky atmosphere. These were the fields that surround the church and what the church is built upon. To try and improve this shot we will think of original ways to make this shot a lot more interesting for example we could show our killer discreetly lurking in the shadows appearing behind the trees, but this is something that needs to be discussed within the group.

Other criticism that we received included that we had not added the titles into the anamatic, so we currently have no visual evidence of us knowing whereabout’s we will be adding in the text and where the title of the film will be revealed to the audience. We will be working on this feedback and will be working in the future to create a better anamatic that meets the needs of everyone involved with the project.

The Recluse (Animatic)

The video above is the animatic for our film trailer. The animatic shows each shot which we intend to use for our trailer and how long the shot will be. One of the transistions between two shots is a bright light this is to symbolise a bright camera flash that will go in between the two shots.

Risk Assessment

Our group decided that we would create a risk assessment to eliminate any danger to ourselves or anyone who would visit the location in the near future. As we were noting down any potential risks, we discovered that the most likely danger was that the weather would turn on us and we would be forced to abandon filming, this would harshly slow down our progress as we would need to rearrange a day that we were all free and then hope that the equipment that we need is free to be used. There was a more severe and serious risk, but we thought that as this was extremely unlikely to happen, as we have shown in the risk assessment table, we decided that we would attend the venue and carry on with the prodution.

Job Roles

Lyle Petts:

Editing
Acting
Filming
Sound & Music

Jamie Branston:

Editing
Acting
Filming
Location
Costume

Will Turner:

Editing
Acting
Filming
Script
Props

Main Props

-Scrap Book of victim’s clothes, photos of victim dead and alive, also a written profile next to each victim including name, gender and age. Scrap book must look tatty and ripped in order to create the illusion of a book that is used a lot and kept outside.


-Candles and other homely features to create an atmosphere which would normally be associated with a family home, this also shows that the killer spends the majority of his time in the church

-Suit for the killers costume to be worn over an all white morph suit, we aim to create a killer that is pleasantly dressed and looks approachable, although the killer will appear clean in his appearance he will actually have very poor hygiene which will be shown in our short trailer for the film. We will film him taking off his gloves and we will then show his hands that will be filthy and have dirt under his finger nails.

-Murder weapon for the killer to use when he takes out his victim, undecided if this will be a knife a gun or something else, we want to use a weapon that has never been used in another film, but we are still thinking up ideas for this prop.

-Morph suit to be worn under suit to hide the killers hands face and every part of his body, this also gives him blank features (his face won't be shown), there will be no clues to identify the killer before it has been revealed to the audience.

The picture above is an image of our production schedule, on this we have allocated a time slot for each part of the production, the pink squares are symbolising the time slots for pre-production, the yellow squares show the production tasks. However some yellow squares are shown in the dates which we have allocated to pre-production. This is due to the deadline for the first cut of our trailer being moved forward. The blue squares are symbolic of task that will be completed in the post-production stage of the project. The one red square represents when the final cut will be shown(6th of december) after we show this we will begin the ancillary task which we will create a new production schedule for it.

These images above where taken before we drew up our anamatic, this was so we could identify all of the possible shots that could be taken at all of the locations, we drew up a number of establishing shots that will highlight eerie atmosphere of all of the settings. The first image is evidence of us jotting up notes on the pig farm which is one of our three locations, the second is a picture of the fields and forest, the Third image is where the majority of the shots will be taken and where our killer lives,. We wanted to create these pages of images and text so we had many ideas of which shots we could add on to our anamatic as well as more interesting shots which shows both the killer and the victim. We wrote a small summary of each shot, saying what type of shot it was and what we wanted to create by using these shot.

The group pitch, Feedback

When we showed our pitch for our intended project (The Recluse) we received some mixed reviews, both good and bad. The audience we showed said that there was not enough visual evidence of what we wanted our killer to look like. This was because we had mainly only written descriptions of the killers features, props, and what other important elements looked like. We have decided to add in a slide for inspiration for our killer, and pictures that show the audience what we want our killer to look like and what films we have gained ideas from. These images include the mask used in ‘Dead Man Shoes’ which is one of our biggest inspirations in creating a British thriller, horror. We also added images of what we wanted our killers costume to look like, for example we obtained a picture of a smart suit and surgical clothes which are the main features of our killers costume. Another thing that we was criticised on was the lack of summary of the entire plot, this problem can be easily fixed and we will be adding a new slide entirely dedicated to the plot of our film.

We was told that we showed and presented our presentation on our movie very well, this lead to our audience being very engaged in the pitch and liking our ideas, they believed that a production company would be very interesting in buying our film and putting it onto there channel. We believe that a production company like Film4 or Warp would be engrossed inour film. Also they admired our dedication to go out to our locations which aren’t easy places to get to and are spread around Ware and surrounding villages.

After receiving our feedback we have decided we have to make a number of changes to our pitch in order for it to be to of an accepted standard by a production company like Warp, we mainly need to add in a plot summary and more images to illustrate the effects and atmosphere we want to create for our film.

Powerpoint pitch- The recluse

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Project Summary

Our group have decided to create a film trailer, we where given multiple options and we have decided that this is the production that would suit each member of the group and enable us to show of a range of our best techniques of editing and filming alike. After a group discussion that has been on going for almost a week we decided we would create a horror trailer as we believe that it will have a powerful impact on our audience and also. We discussed many ideas and thought back to horror films that we had watched and also gave a lasting reaction upon us. We decided that our biggest influence for this was ‘Dead mans shoes’ this was mainly because it is a British horror, it had a very similar effect that we aim to achieve with our production

We have not decided upon a name for our film yet but we have shortlisted a number of ideas.

Cold Christmas – This would be an appropriate name because the main location where we aim to film is at a place called cold Christmas church. A positive for this title is that it give’s a sense to the audience that the film has a dark, sinister edge, however the fact that the word Christmas in the title may be misleading and give the audience the idea that it was a Christmas film.

The Recluse – This is also a title that is relevant to the storyline and a spooky sounding name. This is a short snappy title that I personnal believe will stay with the audience. I have done some research and I have reason to believe that this is a unique title for our film.

Our story consists of a twisted, lonely man that lives on his own in an abandoned church, his identity is yet decided. The story will be a classic who is the killer and why is he doing it? This is a question we want our audience to be asking them selves throughout the film.  Our unique selling point is that the film will be portrayed through the killer’s eyes, we hope by this that our audience will know the story of the killer and even start feeling sorry for him.

Music Video Analysis

When the group was set to film footage for the music video at Knebworth house, unfortunately I was unable to attend due to other commitments. Therefore I was forced to work out of the group with Lyle and use footage that we could obtain in a 1 hour lesson. Also the footage we could get was unconvincing compared to other groups as we could not use the scenery associated with Knebworth house. My group made the decision to use footage from another group and use some of the shots we acquired at school.

Lip syncing could be considered a success, although we did stumble upon one problem. It was difficult to lip sync in time with the music and we found that we had to slow down some of the footage in order to match with the lyrics of the song. Because of this problem parts of the final music video looked surreal and didn’t look natural. Although this predicament arose the final film, considering it was our first film was a learning curve and in my opinion worked well with the song lyrics and beat. Due to the lack of shots which we had, we decided to do a mastershot of the whole song so we could take segments from the master shot in order to replace any footage which discarded or had to deleted due to the quality of shots.

Editing was the biggest dilemma within the project. Adobe Premiere was not on our side during editing, every so often it would crash or not capture the footage which slowed down progress and in result we were unable to complete the editing and had a lack of final footage to show. Despite the ups and downs of the project I’m glad we had the chance before our class makes the decision of which project they will attempt.

First question for our evaluation

When we published our evaluation we realised the answer to the first question was missing. This is what we said:

we only used narration at the end of the film when, lyle was playing tommy thatcher who was describe the roles of the characters in his gang. its in the scene where me and andrew are walking down an alleyway, it gave some good background infromation on the gang.

we didnt use any flash forward of flash backs instead we had the story from my view, getting ready, and Will and Andrew's view of walking to meet me. This helped to build up a clear picture of the events unfolding.
Our film is typical of its genre, the opening is similar to that of "Football Factory" or "Rise of The Footsoldier" where we are all gathering to go to football and cause trouble.

We decided that to make the film opening seem more realistic, we should dress the way football hooligans do, and use similar language, hence the reason we occasionally swear, of course this had to be moderated to a degree. The mise en scene is clear, we are all wearing jeans, generally looking fairly casual

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final cut evaluation

I think our opening two minutes for our created film was very successful. Despite all the problems we uncounted we sorted it out together with maximum effort and contribution, although we had these slight problem we didn’t allow the project to get out of hand and we decided to set deadlines for the stages of filming to be done within certain days. Our group also had many positives, we managed the assignment very well and we didn’t allow our self to be struggling for time

To avoid confusion we were all allocated an element of the project, my job was to play a part in the film and to create fonts for credits, and I also helped Andrew choose the music. Andrew also appeared in the footage and was in charge on deciding on our music and sounds. Conor was in charge of filming and creating the anamatic all though we did all contribute to it. Lyle was the main part in the film and helped with everyone else, we all chipped in with the editing as we believed it was the most important element to contribute to.

One of the topics that were brought up when people watched our clip was our interesting and unique variety of camera angles and shots. We believe we opened our film with a different shot, and a good use of sound bridge. In my opinion I believe this was one of our best shots so it was good to start strongly. The class believed one of the best parts was the shot when we approached the camera in slow motion it showed the characteristics and emotion of the gang.

It’s hard to pick a distinctive part of filming that wasn’t a success, there were only small elements that were wrong, for example faults in editing. This only occurred a couple of times in the film, noticeably the transaction between the mirror and the opening door shot, there was a small jump shot but it’s not that evident.

I really enjoyed Perry’s group piece as it was the only comedy created within the two tutor groups. But the humor was balanced it wasn’t just joke upon more jokes, it had a comical storyline but it was obvious that there was a distinct storyline and the film was actually going to have a storyline. It would have been surreal if there was just humor with no genuine story.

feedback on final cut

When we showed our final cut our group had reason to be confident that there would be little feedback as our shots where so fast and tight and every small and vital element was very carefully taken into consideration. But as with every film not everything was perfect.

The class first talked to us about the positive parts of the film they mentioned that we had included a slick match on action, also that pre prepared items worked well and effectively for example the way Lyle rushed to hide all the cautiously placed Tottenham items to show how he feared the gang finding out his true identity. Miss Allison mentioned how we started with a strong opening scene and that it was very interesting shot to have used. We were told that our fridge shot was carefully planned and some of our shots where unique.

However all film productions will gain some negative criticism. We were advised to have a sound-ridge for the opening shot so you could hear Lyle’s ringtone before there was any pictures on the scene. We were told our mirror scene had little impact so we deleted the zoom so it would snap onto his arm to purposely highlight his Tattoo

Receiving constructive feedback from peers give you more knowledge to edit and better our production so it will appeal to our targeted audience. After the feedback we listened to the notes and added what we thought was necessary to enhance our production.

week 2: second stage of filming and editing

The second stage of filming was set in a different location from the earlier shots we had. We decided we wanted to film in an area that was similar to Holloway Road with mostly buildings and very little grassed area, so it looked like a London cul-de-sac. We also had to assure the area had an alleyway with a corner in order to film the shot of the gang walking to the football match. We didn’t want the location to look as if it was an upper class area, we wanted it to create an atmosphere of a dilapidated street as this is what we imagined a group of hooligans to have come from.

We had one distinct problem that gave us a limited amount of time due to various commitments we had only a couple of hours to film all of the shots. We also had been extremely irresponsible and forgot to check if the camera had been charged before we left to film, this resulted in us re-charging the camera and losing even more time, although we were limited for time we did still manage to get some interesting shots and more importantly we had all the 2 minutes of footage.

When we arrived at our location of filming we decided that we would show a couple of shots of the journey made by myself and Andrew to cut in between Lyle getting ready to create a certain element of rushing. It also shows the audience the location they lived in to indicate from the very beginning that they were not very wealthy. We wanted the journey to give us the opportunity of some interesting shots for example the one of our feet rustling amongst the leaves on the path

We filmed the last shot numerous amounts of time as this shot was possibly the most significant shot of all, as it contains the voice over and it was also the only shot that showed how intimidating and feared the firm are. To suggest this we used a low angled shot to create a sense of domination and power. We decided to show this in slow motion so you could really distinguish the characters threatening movements and stern facial expressions.

The second week of filming was a vital stage in our production as it would determine how strong our final 2 minutes of the film would turn out, all of us where very excited to see how our film would look when all the shots where put together, in my opinion we have a great idea that will look great when all the small elements like sounds, music and slick transitions between each shots are perfected.