Over the last year, i feel my group came a long way. At the beginning of the year we produced our preliminary task (click). We did not plan our preliminary task well and broke quite a few rules that we shouldnt have. For example, the 180 degree rule. This is a big rule that should not be broken because it will reveal thing that should not have been showed. Some of the cut did not match up as well as they shoulod have and looking back now, it was a complete desaster.
At the beginning of this course none of my group really knew what media was all about and how much work had to go into the planning and then the actually making of the film. Once we were taught a lot about the planning and how to story boarding worked we had a lot more of an idea of how to do it. We used questionnaires to find what things were needed in making a thriller film.
PRE PRODUCTION:
For our pre production i feel it went rather well. To me, pre production was the simplest thing we had to do as it was just thourough research of different genres and the conventions and surveys and more research than actual physical work. Analysing different starts of thriller films helped me a lot. Paranormal activity showed me that there does not have to be any blood or gore at the beginning to show. Its more of the shot types and the way they set the scene. Arlington Road on the other hand, was all blood and gore and makes you feel very nervous as its hard to see until the shot of the boys hand being blown off it introduced to the audience. This whole exersice was a great help to me. It also made the rest of the work an awful lot easier as we had sort of guidelines to follow and it was not off of our own back. We had to cange our storyboards a few times as everytimw we went filming we thought of more ideas and more shots we could use. We also found that some of the shots we had plan were to difficult to put together and when it got to editing it was impossible. Our final storyboarding of our film works well becasuse we had had a lot of past experience.
PRODUCTION:
The actual production of the film was much more extreme and a lot more work involved. It took a lot of filming shoots and different skills to produce the perfect film. Filming the opening to the film was very time consuming as every time we filmed, it was different settings and a lot of changing. The amount of times we went filming was 6 times. As we shot we changed the storyboards and the costumes and the settings. It kept chnaging as my group wanted to make the film as good as we could. We realised that we had not planned what we were to do in enough detail. This scrambled us a lot and we were stressing because of all of the different bits and pieces we had not even thought about. Many things went wrong in the filming processes but we finally got it together. We also thought up of the idea of adding the next victim in the opening and the film would carry on from there. This was thanks to Miss Street. We used a brunette as this is a typical convetion in a thriller and we worked it out to be rather well.
POST PRODUCTION:
The editing process was rather stressful as well. It took us a while to understand the program and figure out how to use it, which was rather annoying. We were hoping to get a high grade and to do this we had to get our film up to a good standard. Therefore we were on the editing machines as much as possible and figured out different systems and way in which to do things. We learned everything from fading the sub titles in and then out at a certain time, to using the razor tool to cut certain shots and putting the music in. We faded the music out when needed and colour coded the words. It took a lot of work with the editing process but we finally got there. We also used a voice over within the opening which we prodiuced on garage band. This is not a typical convention of a thriller but we wanted to use it as we watched a film called "twilight" which was a thriller romance. We decided to use it to see how it went. It worked well for the film.
Putting the film on youtube was very interesting as we got comments of what people thought of the film. We had one person ask when the whole film was due to be out which chuffed all of us. We used the comments in our evaluation as they were our audience. As we were distributing on youtube we were a showign our film as a company and we finally realised how important this was as we were putting it on youtube. We also got Jack to come in and evaluate our film on the computer which i have written up on my blog. This was also more help to what the audience thought of our film.
Here is our finished film, 4 AM. (click)
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