The blog will be taking a two week break due to the Christmas holidays.
We are all feeling very positive about the project and left it at a good stage today with positive feedback from Miss Thrasher and friends in the class. The soundtrack has been added and small things need to be changed here and there to make the sequence sharper, but all in all we are well on the way.
Really looking forward to more work on it next term,
Merry Christmas everyone!
-Alice, on behalf of the group.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sounds
Yeh...that does sound good...but I'm thinkin when we get Laura in to do her dialogue, we could get Barney to try and scream? I dunno if he would b able to and whether it would be believable but we could try so that it's a bit more realistic. Oh and good idea to join..those free downloads will be really useful.
- Mel -
- Mel -
An update on Sounds
Sounds:
I've been on soundsnap.com again, and i'll link the sound of the man screams to the blog in case you two have a look at the blog tonight and can listen to them before tomorrow.
Click here for man Screaming
I was thinking 8th down, descibed as 'adult man scream' and we could have it loud and use key frames to make it quiet?
Ive joined the webiste and we get five free dowloads - so we can choose five sounds and we're away :) !
-Alice xxxx
I've been on soundsnap.com again, and i'll link the sound of the man screams to the blog in case you two have a look at the blog tonight and can listen to them before tomorrow.
Click here for man Screaming
I was thinking 8th down, descibed as 'adult man scream' and we could have it loud and use key frames to make it quiet?
Ive joined the webiste and we get five free dowloads - so we can choose five sounds and we're away :) !
-Alice xxxx
Monday, December 15, 2008
Soundtrack
I've been looking on http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ and found some good ones.
I found one called 'abandoned 60' im not sure, it might be a bit too 'intense'
We'll see. Discuss this DEFFO tomorrow.
See you ... xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-Alicee
Oh - i've also been looking at sounds.
I found a mobile phone dialtone thingy
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/mobile+phone+dial/score
i thought the last one on this page could work because it's really quick.
it might look a bit rubbish though, but we can try it out.
On a roll now, found this awesome knife picking up sound.
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/picking+up+a+knife/score
The second one is the best. We could put this in to emphasise the movement.
These doorbell sounds are also quite cool. The third one down is spooky.
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/doorbell/score
I found one called 'abandoned 60' im not sure, it might be a bit too 'intense'
We'll see. Discuss this DEFFO tomorrow.
See you ... xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-Alicee
Oh - i've also been looking at sounds.
I found a mobile phone dialtone thingy
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/mobile+phone+dial/score
i thought the last one on this page could work because it's really quick.
it might look a bit rubbish though, but we can try it out.
On a roll now, found this awesome knife picking up sound.
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/picking+up+a+knife/score
The second one is the best. We could put this in to emphasise the movement.
These doorbell sounds are also quite cool. The third one down is spooky.
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/doorbell/score
The Editing Process
Aarti and I have been busy editing and we have made great progress.
Today in the one free period we had together we were discussing the dialogue and we were having difficulties with differences in weather with the scenes with Barney outside.
ALSO - issues with the dialogue. The sound is terrible at the moment, there's a lot of camera noise in some shots, and little camera noise in other shots - i'm not sure why.
Sometime this week at lunchtime we will have to record dialogue, preferably when Mel is back and well again because i'm not around most lunchtimes this week due to the carol service and dentist appointments. So ... we need to get that done urgenetly.
Also - we need to really think about the soundtrack and try and get that sorted by the end of the week. Foley effects too, i was thinking we could have the "beeps" of her dialing the phone or something? And a scream at the end?
I really hope the soundtrack will help add to the eerie inside mood we were trying to create.
I really hope everthing will start coming together this week.
- posted by Alice on behalf of the group.
Today in the one free period we had together we were discussing the dialogue and we were having difficulties with differences in weather with the scenes with Barney outside.
ALSO - issues with the dialogue. The sound is terrible at the moment, there's a lot of camera noise in some shots, and little camera noise in other shots - i'm not sure why.
Sometime this week at lunchtime we will have to record dialogue, preferably when Mel is back and well again because i'm not around most lunchtimes this week due to the carol service and dentist appointments. So ... we need to get that done urgenetly.
Also - we need to really think about the soundtrack and try and get that sorted by the end of the week. Foley effects too, i was thinking we could have the "beeps" of her dialing the phone or something? And a scream at the end?
I really hope the soundtrack will help add to the eerie inside mood we were trying to create.
I really hope everthing will start coming together this week.
- posted by Alice on behalf of the group.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Samples...
These our some samples of our sheets used for planning, and during shooting:
- Posted by Mel, for the group -
- Posted by Mel, for the group -
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Third Shoot
Today we managed to finish shooting all of the outside Barney shots despite the poor weather.
Hopefully the footage will be fine, and we will be able to edit it into the sequence we've already started, next week.
When we edit we need to take care with putting the recorded dialogue to the image because we will need to get the timing right.
I was thinking we should record the sound of dialing on the phone as she dials the number.
We also need to re-record Laura's dialogue because we changed the time from 7:00 to 5:00.
We also need to record the two laughing together.
Since seeing the footage, i'm not sure if it will work having the laughter as she looks at the photo, but i think it would be a good idea to try it out.
-posted by Alice on behalf of the group
Hopefully the footage will be fine, and we will be able to edit it into the sequence we've already started, next week.
When we edit we need to take care with putting the recorded dialogue to the image because we will need to get the timing right.
I was thinking we should record the sound of dialing on the phone as she dials the number.
We also need to re-record Laura's dialogue because we changed the time from 7:00 to 5:00.
We also need to record the two laughing together.
Since seeing the footage, i'm not sure if it will work having the laughter as she looks at the photo, but i think it would be a good idea to try it out.
-posted by Alice on behalf of the group
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Reflections on Teacher Feedback & on The Second Shoot
Today we managed to edit most of our sequence from the footage we shot last Saturday.
By doing this we were able to see which shots worked, and which didn't and we can therefore re-take the shots. At the end of the day, we were able to Show Miss B our sequence and she gave us useful feedback, suggesting ways of improving it and calming our nerves as we were very worried about a lot of our shots! Especially the outside shots of Barney.
Unfortunately, due to ill health, Barney was unable to come to the shoot tonight so we were unable to shoot what we had planned. Despite this, Miss was able to give us some advice on how to really improve our insdie shots of Laura.
Firstly, lighting. We all agreed that our shots look flat and we re-took these shots with lights from differnt angles in order to provide contrast. I think this was quite sucessful, and we managed to create intersting shadows with the bannisters in some of the shots and we'll see how effective these are when we capture on Monday. We also added candles to the Hallways shots and we think this really adds to the mise en scene.
Miss also had another really good suggestion - a steamy bathroom shot.
Initially we had the outside establishing shot, which then cut to the bathroom window, which then cut to an opening pan of the bedroom.
Miss said this would work, but then after watching the rest of the sequence we all decided that it would be a LOT more effective if we made Laura seem perfectly normal without revealing that she's slightly odd (by showing the candles and photoframe) until later on in the sequence.
To make this possible, she suggested including Steamy Bathroom shots! We managed to do these tonight, and we are all quite happy with the footage. We filmed through the shower screen her showering, with all the steam etc, and then her stepping out the shower. For continuity purposes, we had to make sure the back wall wasn't seen because the next shot is her leaving the bathroom and it's a differnt bathroom, where the walls are white - NOT bright blue.
Other shots we re-took are the last two shots, because we felt they were too dark.
We are lot happier with the footage now, and we plan to shoot the outisde shots with Barney next Saturday (13th) so we have all this week to edit the insdie sequence with Laura.
-posted by Alice on behalf of the group
By doing this we were able to see which shots worked, and which didn't and we can therefore re-take the shots. At the end of the day, we were able to Show Miss B our sequence and she gave us useful feedback, suggesting ways of improving it and calming our nerves as we were very worried about a lot of our shots! Especially the outside shots of Barney.
Unfortunately, due to ill health, Barney was unable to come to the shoot tonight so we were unable to shoot what we had planned. Despite this, Miss was able to give us some advice on how to really improve our insdie shots of Laura.
Firstly, lighting. We all agreed that our shots look flat and we re-took these shots with lights from differnt angles in order to provide contrast. I think this was quite sucessful, and we managed to create intersting shadows with the bannisters in some of the shots and we'll see how effective these are when we capture on Monday. We also added candles to the Hallways shots and we think this really adds to the mise en scene.
Miss also had another really good suggestion - a steamy bathroom shot.
Initially we had the outside establishing shot, which then cut to the bathroom window, which then cut to an opening pan of the bedroom.
Miss said this would work, but then after watching the rest of the sequence we all decided that it would be a LOT more effective if we made Laura seem perfectly normal without revealing that she's slightly odd (by showing the candles and photoframe) until later on in the sequence.
To make this possible, she suggested including Steamy Bathroom shots! We managed to do these tonight, and we are all quite happy with the footage. We filmed through the shower screen her showering, with all the steam etc, and then her stepping out the shower. For continuity purposes, we had to make sure the back wall wasn't seen because the next shot is her leaving the bathroom and it's a differnt bathroom, where the walls are white - NOT bright blue.
Other shots we re-took are the last two shots, because we felt they were too dark.
We are lot happier with the footage now, and we plan to shoot the outisde shots with Barney next Saturday (13th) so we have all this week to edit the insdie sequence with Laura.
-posted by Alice on behalf of the group
Friday 5th
In today’s lesson we continued editing our sequence together concentrating mainly on the girl, walking out of the shower and getting ready, and a few of the kitchen shots. It was good as it helped us realize what shots need redoing due to continuity problems, or other things such as the shot being too dark, and objects in the background that shouldn’t be there. It was also helpful as we saw that some shots were unnecessary and took up a lot of time so we decided to get rid of them (for example picking up lipstick). We also played around with the sound testing our shower and doorbell sound bridges and we’re very pleased with the way they bring our shots together. Overall we found some shots like the pan of dressing table or putting on towel need to be a bit quicker so that it doesn’t get boring to watch.
Although we had planned to do a full reshoot of the street shots with Barney after school, and a few of Laura’s shots, unfortunately Barney became very ill and had to go home which was a bit of a problem as we need to reshoot nearly all his shots and we don’t have the weekend to do this. However, we managed to solve this problem deciding to use our back-up weekend, next Saturday to reshoot instead. We are still planning to go ahead with tonight’s shoot however so we can get all of Laura’s shots done.
Here’s a List of things we need to Re-shoot
-Establishing shots (2)
- Shot of upstairs corridor and bathroom door
-Barney walking in the park (towards, low level feet, pan through gate)
- LS of Barney walking down street
-CU of Barney on the phone
- Still of Barney walking into frame towards the front door
- Side of Barney at the door, waiting/ringing the doorbell
-CU of Laura’s scary smile (without lights on ceiling)
-Laura picking up knife from behind (more light)
-POV shot of the kitchen clock
-Laura stepping out of the shower
-Laura leaving bathroom
I’m sure today will go well as we are very clear on what we need to get done as we met at Lunch to make a shooting script, and we have done it all once before. We will definately get all Barney’s shots done next weekend.
-Aarti, for the group
In today’s lesson we continued editing our sequence together concentrating mainly on the girl, walking out of the shower and getting ready, and a few of the kitchen shots. It was good as it helped us realize what shots need redoing due to continuity problems, or other things such as the shot being too dark, and objects in the background that shouldn’t be there. It was also helpful as we saw that some shots were unnecessary and took up a lot of time so we decided to get rid of them (for example picking up lipstick). We also played around with the sound testing our shower and doorbell sound bridges and we’re very pleased with the way they bring our shots together. Overall we found some shots like the pan of dressing table or putting on towel need to be a bit quicker so that it doesn’t get boring to watch.
Although we had planned to do a full reshoot of the street shots with Barney after school, and a few of Laura’s shots, unfortunately Barney became very ill and had to go home which was a bit of a problem as we need to reshoot nearly all his shots and we don’t have the weekend to do this. However, we managed to solve this problem deciding to use our back-up weekend, next Saturday to reshoot instead. We are still planning to go ahead with tonight’s shoot however so we can get all of Laura’s shots done.
Here’s a List of things we need to Re-shoot
-Establishing shots (2)
- Shot of upstairs corridor and bathroom door
-Barney walking in the park (towards, low level feet, pan through gate)
- LS of Barney walking down street
-CU of Barney on the phone
- Still of Barney walking into frame towards the front door
- Side of Barney at the door, waiting/ringing the doorbell
-CU of Laura’s scary smile (without lights on ceiling)
-Laura picking up knife from behind (more light)
-POV shot of the kitchen clock
-Laura stepping out of the shower
-Laura leaving bathroom
I’m sure today will go well as we are very clear on what we need to get done as we met at Lunch to make a shooting script, and we have done it all once before. We will definately get all Barney’s shots done next weekend.
-Aarti, for the group
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
In our lessons yesterday and today we watched through our footage and started to edit some of it. This helped us see the issues with the continuity of light in the outside shots, and a smudge on the camera that we didn't notice while watching the footage on the shoot, so therefore we're going to have to retake a lot of the shots of Barney. We're also going to have to retake the establishing shot. In Friday's lesson we're going to see if we can edit the part where Laura takes a match out of the box and lights it, as at the moment the way we have edited it, it doesn't work very well. If editing it differently doesn't work either we will have to reshoot those scenes of Laura as well.
- Mel, for the group -
- Mel, for the group -
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Aarti
HEY, i found your media folder in the common room, so i handed it into the media block.
just though i'd let you know incase you were worried about it
:)
xxx
just though i'd let you know incase you were worried about it
:)
xxx
Monday, December 1, 2008
Names for the Characters
I was thinking about what we could call the characters other than 'girl' and 'guy', I know we don't find out their names in the opening sequence but I still think we should give them names. But ye, I thought that Laura is actually a good name for the girl character, another reason why Laura is perfect for the role! And I thought we could call the guy like Daniel or Luke, because I think he should have a 'normal' name but it has to suit him and I think those names do. Let me know what you think.
- Mel -
- Mel -
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