IMPROVEMENTS - 2

As mentioned in previous blog posts we have to improve our explanation of the character's relationship and show the hatred that both characters have for each other. We decided to reshoot the

picture pan shot and make it darker. Below is a video that shows how we achieved this.

Inspiration came from the burn book in the movie "Mean girls"

Tomorrow we will replace this scene with the previous picture panning shot scene. Then we will apply the sequence created onto premiere to redo the glitch effect - along with a glitch sound effect.

On set

ATTEMPTING THE GLITCH EFFECT

After discussing with my partner we decided that some shots were too simple and therefore we were afraid that we would lose our target audience's attention. So we came up with this solution - We'll use editing to improve each shot and make it appear more interesting. From this we decided to attempt creating the glitch effect. The glitch effect would suit our film because the "glitch" gives a broken / out of place feeling. Which can be symbolic for the relationship between the two friends.

After watching this video we tried editing the glitch into one of the scenes in the film opening.

Improvements

After listening to comments and suggestions from my friends, one of the main problem was that the relationship between the two characters was unclear (were they friends or enemies?) 

 My initial plot idea was basically -  a girl losing her best friend and throughout the movie she discovers how her bestfriend was murdered. However with the makeup, clothes and presence of the ghost in the last scene it made it seem like her best friend was the one who killed her. (which initially was not the case) Therefore we will have to solve this problem by reshooting the picture frame scene which we will do tomorrow as well as add layers - (burning picture, match, tearing picture) into parts of the film in order to show their "messed up" relationship. (which is what we started doing today) We decided to change the plot instead of filming the ghost again because my time is limited and we will have to finish editing by the second of February.

ROUGH CUT 2

This morning we worked on shortening the film opening on imovie. We were able to shorten it from 3 minutes to 2 minutes 27 seconds. we did this by deleting unnecessary clips (for example the chicken man scene) 

I then asked my brother for feedback and he said that he liked the pan shot of the images which show the characters friendship and the bathroom scene (the one shot scene). However he said that we needed to add more sound effects which we will do through premiere. He said this because the jump scare is not what usually scares him, but the music that creates this build up of tension is what scares him.

After asking Enid she suggested that we should get rid of the front alley way shot because the actress's facial expression broke the tension that was being created. Another thing we had to work on was explaining their relationship as it was quite confusing (friends - to enemy). We will improve this by retaking the pan shot and by scribbling/tearing each picture - making it darker and also timelapse the clock. She also suggested that we should add a layer on top - burning the picture to the first scene to make it darker to set a clear atmosphere. 

VERY ROUGH CUT

Today I tried arranging the sequence for the clips using imovie. I decided to edit the rough cut through imovie because it is a much easier and simpler way of quickly arranging ideas. After editing I realised that the video is too long and that I will have to get rid of a few scenes in order to shorten it. After finalising the sequence of the clips and shortening it to 2 minutes I will start applying my ideas onto Premiere and After affects where I will be able to edit in the credits, the cinematic opening as well as the sound effects. Right now the video does not really seem like a thriller (except for the last scene) therefore I will tackle this problem by using colour grading and colour correct each scene so that it will appear more dark and mysterious.

FILMING DAY -VLOG

Today we filmed the opening for our film. We followed the schedule and met at paragon at 9 am. From there, we traveled to our first location. We started filming and finished an hour early. After filming at the first location we traveled back to my house to have lunch and then started filming again at 2.30 pm. We also finished here an hour earlier than expected. 

WWW 

The fact that we were on schedule 

There were no accidents - safe

The locals helped us with directions

No traffic

PROBLEMS

The cameras that we used had different lens - so different quality 

We couldn't capture the main actress leaving the bus 

There was a disconnection between the alleyway scene and the bedroom scene

MAIN AUDIO

Arn Andersson created a beautiful composition called "Sad epic emotional music - farewell life". I thought that this piece would really suit our film because as soon as I heard it I felt really touched. The piece was both sad and beautiful which was exactly the message that I want to communicate about the character's relationship in the film. Therefore after decided I tried searching for Arn Andersson's contact information.  From this I found a few details on youtube and that he wrote "For non-profit projects, you can use my music for free, as long as you clearly give me credit with links to my channel and website" So from this I will be adding his name into the credits of the film along with providing his youtube link here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Dn8O3Sc6-VemDJTItDL0A