DRAFT

Blog catch up.

Wednesday 4th March

Today was a really productive lesson. After overcoming the first problem presented to myself, which was the fact my mp3 files had not been allowed through on the email, by emailing the IT department requesting the files to be sent through, which they then were, Ben and I captured our filming, and put it on our T-Drive. On the T-Drive was the best place, as we can now both access the clips. We have and will be saving all our work that has potential to be in our final production onto the T-Drive, to make sure we can both access our work. Following the capturing process, we sat down, discussed and finalised ideas, and began working on the very opening sequence. I began to design the logo for "Alien Films" towards the end of the lesson, as well as checking the mp3 files I had sent sounded good.

Monday 9th March

Today, myself and Ben continued with our work. I made good progress with some of the clips, and have now developed a backing track which includes the sound of our character walking, and the traffic. It sounds flawless, which I am very happy with. I also got some more clips added to the sequence. I finished the "Alien Films" logo and put it onto the sequence and it looks good with the dissolve in and out from it. I used a font from www.dafont.com and edited using the programme Macromedia Fireworks. I got the size right by checking the size of our video clips on Adobe Premier pro, the tool being used for the video editing, and being used along side Adobe Audition to edit and manipulate our audio files. Ben also edited some clips and sound, and produced the "Badman Butch Productions" logo using the same process i used for "Alien Films"

Wednesday 11th March

Ben was absent to day for justified reasons. I cracked on with the editing. I manipulated the weird noises I had created at home on Reason using Adobe Audition, playing around with different ideas and effects to get something I felt reflected the mood and tone of our sequence. I did the same thing to some of our video clips using Adobe Premier Pro. I also added more to our sequence, and the opening 40 seconds are now near perfect. I am really happy with how I worked independently and work efficiently as the project is now nearing completion, and is on course to meet the deadline that has been set, Thursday 19th January.

Filming

On Monday night, the filming went really well. We managed to get some really good shots we are really happy with. We filmed numerous takes, which will enable us to choose the best shots for our thriller. Last night (tuesday) I also made the static and other sounds we will be using on Reason. After emailing them in, the school IT team or their programme have found them as suspicious so I will be contacting them to allow it to send through.

Monday 2nd March Lesson

Due to other serious engagements concerning other courses and personal life, Ben and I began filming today, behind schedule. We filmed in lesson the second part of the clip, with the white lights and shadowed figure. We spent time experimenting with lights provided by school, and also different backgrounds and backdrops, including the schools green screen. In the end, we found and used a white screen used for projecting images on. We focused on the lights with high contrast, so we had a solid and pure white background, and placed the screen in front. Behind this we created shadowy and blurry figures, that looked abnormal and strange as the heads moved and disappeared and changed shape. We are really pleased with the takes we recorded, and are impressed at the figures we made, as they are better than we hoped for, as they have what I would describe as an Alien like quality, adding to the ambiguity. This evening we are going to location to shoot our final scenes needed for the first section of the clip (the scene following the hooded figure) with Sam. Doing this will put us in command of our time, as we will be back on schedule to edit our clip in lesson on Wednesday. Whilst being at home this evening, I have created a sound clip of static which we will be using, and also some abstract sounds we will use to create a creepy effect in our clip.