this is some footage we have filmed but is not able to be used due to it not fitting with our ideas
Thursday 17 January 2013
Wednesday 2 January 2013
Current filming
Because we learnt last year that filming does take lots of time and preparation, we put together a plan for filming right at the beginning of the year so we could keep on top and preferably be ahead of things, another thing that has come at the perfect time is a house being refurbished which we have at our disposal, although we have only finished the research section of the practical side of the media course, due to doing the same thing as last year we had a clear idea of what we are going to do so therefor we thought there is no better time to get started then right at the beginning.
The house we are currently using for most of our filming is currently as mentioned being refurbished, most the furniture in the house has been removed, the floors walls etc are all being re-plastered and re-laid and we have caught this in the process so the house at the moment has a very rugged effect, scary, abandoned almost which helps us to create the idyllic effect we had in mind.
We are currently using two cameras, one of the cameras we are using is for the filming and we have another camera to use for the stills of location we we then hope to upload to our blogger accounts. The cameras being of a high quality enables us to films and set perfect to the location, last year we had to do the filming on a simple camera which we where given and then do lots of editing on the Mac computers using iMovie, once we had our end product although we experienced using so many different effects etc, we felt that so much of the movie was effect, and the camera quality wasn't great it didn't give the real effect that we where looking for, however now we can film a higher level of film and make the horror seem less effect and more realistic.
We have done a lot of filming we realised we are not going to even use half of it, this was similar to last year as we realised there is simply too much footage and too much excess, the trailer as i mentioned in previous tasks needs to be spot on, so much that people want to see more, not so much they know too much, not so little so they have no clue. At the moment they have so much vague footage that it will not give enough information or give much of the plot.
We decided to stick with horror for a few main reasons, first reason was that we had already gone through it all last year and knew lots about the genre, the other reason was that we did horror last year and we got our grades, we could use this and watch it, see what didn't work, what we didn't do so well and improve on it, the third reason was that not only had we done it the year before, but the whole process of getting it done, the effects, the techniques, the themes all this work in different areas that we had done we felt we could use most of the same stuff and we had done it before so we could do it again, possibly to a higher level.
While we were filming recently in the being renovated house, 2 younger siblings of one of the group members came to the house, we thought we would make the most of this, and based on our answers from the interviews, the conclusion for one of the questions was that people do find a movie with a young child in it more scary, so we dressed one of them up in larger clothing and made them scurry around the corner in one of the scenes we filmed that day, it proved to be very effective.
from the beginning we said we wanted more of a cast because then we could do more, improve the piece rather than it just starring the usual same people, (us) and now we have used them for a scene we can film a follow on scene using them also, this is an advantage which we where not expecting however came at the perfect time.
The house we are currently using for most of our filming is currently as mentioned being refurbished, most the furniture in the house has been removed, the floors walls etc are all being re-plastered and re-laid and we have caught this in the process so the house at the moment has a very rugged effect, scary, abandoned almost which helps us to create the idyllic effect we had in mind.
We are currently using two cameras, one of the cameras we are using is for the filming and we have another camera to use for the stills of location we we then hope to upload to our blogger accounts. The cameras being of a high quality enables us to films and set perfect to the location, last year we had to do the filming on a simple camera which we where given and then do lots of editing on the Mac computers using iMovie, once we had our end product although we experienced using so many different effects etc, we felt that so much of the movie was effect, and the camera quality wasn't great it didn't give the real effect that we where looking for, however now we can film a higher level of film and make the horror seem less effect and more realistic.
We have done a lot of filming we realised we are not going to even use half of it, this was similar to last year as we realised there is simply too much footage and too much excess, the trailer as i mentioned in previous tasks needs to be spot on, so much that people want to see more, not so much they know too much, not so little so they have no clue. At the moment they have so much vague footage that it will not give enough information or give much of the plot.
We decided to stick with horror for a few main reasons, first reason was that we had already gone through it all last year and knew lots about the genre, the other reason was that we did horror last year and we got our grades, we could use this and watch it, see what didn't work, what we didn't do so well and improve on it, the third reason was that not only had we done it the year before, but the whole process of getting it done, the effects, the techniques, the themes all this work in different areas that we had done we felt we could use most of the same stuff and we had done it before so we could do it again, possibly to a higher level.
While we were filming recently in the being renovated house, 2 younger siblings of one of the group members came to the house, we thought we would make the most of this, and based on our answers from the interviews, the conclusion for one of the questions was that people do find a movie with a young child in it more scary, so we dressed one of them up in larger clothing and made them scurry around the corner in one of the scenes we filmed that day, it proved to be very effective.
from the beginning we said we wanted more of a cast because then we could do more, improve the piece rather than it just starring the usual same people, (us) and now we have used them for a scene we can film a follow on scene using them also, this is an advantage which we where not expecting however came at the perfect time.
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