filming shots

I really enjoyed filming this shot because it really added to the genre of gore and horror. I had wanted to make sure I caught the light perfectly on the bloody knife to connote the danger of what was happening.

filming shots

Rebecca and I both decided it would be effective to use a camera shot from the victims point of view. In the trailer there is a quote saying ‘one two I’m coming for you’ therefore we wanted a shot that actually represented what is being said in the trailer.

filming shots

 

These are other quick shots I had created. I had used zoom shots on the door, this particular shot worked rather well because we had bright lighting which allowed us to see the figure outside clearly.

Also by using a spotlight above the mysterious character it creates shadows on the on the outfit they are wearing which I adds to the genre of horror. 

quick shots

These are the quick shots I had filmed on the door to create tension for the audience when watching our trailer, we wanted the audience to feel suspense and think ‘what is going the happen next?’.

editing

Rebecca and I agreed use her laptop at home to do the editing for our trailer, there fore she can bring the laptop into school and we could edit as much as we needed, however I have the same software on my computer at home using a laptop would be a lot more simple so we could use the time we had together more efficiently.

        When looking at the shots once uploaded onto the laptop, we realised that they were dark and hard to see which didn’t look very professional, there and then we re-filmed parts with a brighter lighting, we also came up with new ideas which we thought would improve these shots, such as using a strobe light on the door to add to the suspense, again we didn’t use it because it was too dark but it’s a situation we can learn from.

        By using Windows Movie maker, I have learnt how to edit the shots by fading them in and out and using white flashes to over exaggerate the tension of the shots we have filmed. I had also cut the shots, some to a minimum amount of 3 or 4 seconds to fit the sound effects we had chosen from YouTube, by doing this I had to convert the sound effect to an MP3 effect so Windows movie maker would recognise it.

beginning of editing

Monday 3rd October:

Today we began starting the editing at school using the iMac computer, previously using the iMac during a AS task I had a brief idea of how to use one, however we had decided to use Windows Movie Maker, we both have had a good knowledge of using this programme and knew how to go about using special effects to making the trailer look professional and flow well.

The first obstacle we came across when editing on the iMac was rotating a shot from landscape to portrait which took us a long period of time to figure out, and we thought it would take a double amount of time only being able to do it at school as we do not have the facilities to do editing on the iMac at home.

finishing filming

Tuesday 27th  October:

When planning at the beginning of this project we had decided to use both of us in the video taking turns within filming as we feel we couldn’t rely on anyone else being involved in case of being let down and delaying our schedule we had planned, however using both of us in the video meant us being in the same shot at one time which ended up creating a bit of a problem however we over came the obstacle by using a tripod, this shot took a lot of takes to get perfect as the reflection of the tripod in the mirror kept appearing, however it worked in the end.

We also filmed me singing a tune on the stairs in the sense the girl has been mentally deranged by the ‘unexpected visitor’  which worked really well and created an eerie effect to the trailer.