Name of our opening scene of a thriller

we found that coming up with a name for our thriller film was particularly hard. There fore we decided to think about the main themes of our thriller, the main theme we thought of was revenge. We did not think that 'revenge' would be a good or effective name for the film, so we decided to use an online thesaurus to see if there were any words that had the same meaning but sounded more effective. This is when we came across the word 'Reprisal' and decided on this name for our film

Sound

when we had filmed both parts of our thriller opening scene, put them into a sequence and had effectively edited them we then realised that we had to put music to it. Neither of us felt confident enough to create our own music, therefore we used the website http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ to get our music. the website allows you to choose what kind of music you want and the feel of the music. this was helpful as we know that the music needed to create tension.

Report on second filming session

we did not properly organise our second filming session and ended up filming late compared to the other groups. There fore we was not properly prepared with the location or props that we originally was going to use. We had to do our filming at school. we used a medical room as the characters bedroom and we used things around school that we could find for the props. for example gloves, a craft knife, wire and a laptop.

Despite all this i believe that the filming went well and even though it was not properly planned i believe it turned out to be very effective.

progress report

as weve now filmed the  first part of our film i decided to do some practice editing to further my understanding of the soft ware. this way when it comes to really doing the editing i will be more familiar with the programme and the editing will look better and more effective.

i learnt to cut out the pieces of film that i did not need and put the different scenes together to make the film flow together.

Report of First Filming Session.

i believe our first filming session was successful, we got about a minutes worth of footage. we did not use anyone in the group for the acting, a friend volunteered to do it for us. we got the shots we needed for our opening scene of a thirller, we also took back up and extra shots in case anything was wrong with the original filming. we filmed about 4 seconds before and after the acting so that it would make it easier for us when it comes to the editing of the footage.
i am happy with the location that we filmed in, however the background noise from a nearby road and the chirping of birds will need to be edited out as it is meant to be taking place at night time. we will also need to use final cut express to make the footage look as though it was filmed in the dark.

progress report.

i have fallen behind in the course as i have not been posting any where near the amount of posts that i should  have by now. i realise that this could potentially mean i fail this A Level. I have come up with a plan to ensure that i get back on track and acheive an acceptable grade in this course.

• I must post regularly onto the blog in much more depth and detail than my previous posts.
• I should find different ways to present my work, using more pictures, videos, prezis etc.

Filmimg

We havent started filming our actual thriller opening scene yet. However me and alex decided that we would take some shots at different camera angles of someone running to see if the camera shots we had agreed to use during actual filming would be effective.
The camera shots we used were:

• Close up
• Long shot
• Low angle shot

when doing this, we ensured that we filmed in a similar setting to what we are going to in the actual opening scene; woodland area. we done this so that we could see if there were any implications to shooting in this area and to see if the camera angles would work in this setting.
Unfortunately the footage that we took could not be uploaded to the computer due to technical difficulties. However we concluded that the list of camera angles listed above were appropriate and effective in the running section of our opening scene.