Post Production: Second Take

We have had to postpone our re-film several times due to our cast members having other events to attend and unexpected heavy snow. The weather conditions were not suitable to film as there would be footprints in the snow and this would not convey a secluded location like we had planned for our opening.

Update: We have no re-filmed which has resulted in much better footage. Now we can begin the construction process.

Post Production: First Take

When looking through our footage of the first take, we have noticed a few flaws amongst our work.

A bag could be seen in the distance which does not fit in with the location being secluded. Therefore this clip would not be as effective.

Holeigh's feet can be seen here. This meant that to make the clip work it had to be cut short in editing and ended up looking rushed.

In numerous clips the tripod can be seen in the background when we are at this angle. This results in the clips not being realistic and effective. Also even when cut short in editing it does not work as well as we would of hoped.

Another fault was that the camera we used was on auto-exposure. Therefore the lighting changed frequently throughout and picked up on aspects that did not need to be. For example, the two clips above are consecutive yet have completely different lightening.

Despite these technical difficulties we managed to construct a rough edit.

We decided some parts did not look how we initially wanted them too. For example there is a clip showing each of the friends emotions through extreme close ups, what has gone on is not clear to the audience and it does not look very effective. From this we came up with the idea of adding in clips of a newspaper article of Josh's death and pictures of Josh looking happy being crossed out. This would create a sense of tension and make it clearer to the audience to what the film is about. Also we feel the 'person' watching the friends needs to play more of a role in the opening. Therefore we are going to add in some footage of the friends through the trees and running away through woodlands with the camera. This will make the whole thing seem more creepy. With all this took into account, the faults mentioned above and the rough edit only being roughly one minute long, we are going to re-film.

Production: Filming

Today we got the footage for our opening. We worked well as a group and the chosen actors/actresses were very cooperative. Soon we will begin looking over our footage and making choices upon editing in post-production.

Sorting out the mise en scene was vital in our opening.

The tripod was set up for some shots.

We agreed to do some shots without the tripod.

The hand held effect would be more effective in our opening.

We were very pleased with our actors/actresses.