Re-edit

At our first meeting, we began re-editing our footage and sequence by looking at areas of the first draft we were unhappy with. We removed some of the effects we had previously added which we didn't think work well or looked as good, then began removing certain sections of footage and adding new ones in. We also changed the speed and duration of some of the clips and also removed the title from the end of the clip.

Charlotte T created the film company logos for the titles at the start of our film opening on Adobe Fireworks, whilst Charlotte H, Katie and Me worked on adding titles to our sequence on Adobe Premier Pro. The whole group worked on renaming our sequence as from our first edit, we were struggling for title ideas and came up with House at the last minute, which is the name of a well known medical TV drama. We eventually decided up Yesterday, as we decided that at the start of the opening sequence a date would be displayed along with the film name, and at the end of the sequence a past date would be entered so that it it presents to the audience how the film would go back in time to before the murders occurred. We also liked this idea as it creates suspense because we are only focusing on the opening and people would want to watch further to see what happens.

At our second meeting, we also added names of actors, directors etc. throughout the sequence on the bottom right corner in black. We then looked at adding in other clips which we had decided not to use in the draft edit. We also adjusted the sound again in certain areas so that either sound from the visual clip or sound from the audio track could be heard. Finally we added the animated gif film company titles onto the start of our sequence and decided to mix them in with some of the footage to follow the common conventions of thriller films.

Draft Edit

This is our first draft:

Editing

Editing our first draft...

To edit our footage and produce the opening sequence we used the Adobe Premiere Pro software. We then sat and worked out the order of the film clips and separated the main footage from the short shots that we decided we would show quickly like crime scene photos. Next we imported all the footage and added it in order to the time line. We then went back through the short shots and added these in the correct places to the time line and discarded some as we felt that the footage wasn't clear enough, especially as a few clips were out of focus.

We then began adding effects and changing the duration of certain clips. First Charlotte T added a zoom to the door clip which we placed at the start of the sequence to make it appear as though the camera was going closer towards the door and allowing us to show it open by itself more clearly. We then took it in turns to add effects to the footage and change the speed/duration of certain clips. Towards the end of this first meeting we agreed that the sequence was too complicated for the opening to a film and wasn't working well. We therefore decided to delete what we had done so far except the door clip with the zoom and began to look at other ideas as to how we could still create a good opening sequence with the footage. We also sat and brainstormed our ideas on the titles and possible film company names and logos we could have at the start. Charlotte T then used Microsoft Paint to create the film company names and logos.

On out second meeting, the group sat together and shared ideas on the sequence and Katie then put the clips in order on the time line, added some effects and played around with the speed/duration of the footage to see what worked and what didn't. Both Charlotte T and Charlotte H spent time finding
un-copyrighted music off the Internet to play in the background alongside the footage and also tried to find a camera click sound. I then began editing the footage by adding the background sound and then changing the volume of some of the sections of footage using the Audio Mixer in Adobe Premiere Pro to make sure that the music could be heard in the background, but that in some areas audio from the footage could still be heard (the knife spinning etc.) Charlotte H then added the camera click sound in the correct places and played with the speed/duration. Katie and Charlotte H then began looking for a suitable effect to create the idea of a camera flash. To do this they added the Additive Dissolve effect, as this looked most like a camera flash. Charlotte H also added the film company title at the start of the clip and then added the title of the film at the end. Charlotte T then added extra effects to the sequence and changed some of the speed/duration lengths of sections of footage.

Filming - Day 3

On our third and final day of filming, we shot the final scenes which included the dad character drowning in the bath. We filmed close ups of the actors face and also of his hand falling into the water. We also filmed the killer walking upstairs, and shots of the killers feet walking into the bathroom. This is where we finished filming the footage as the group came up with the idea of rewinding the footage when we edit it to show the audience that the film would then go back in time.

We also shot some extra close ups and stills in the dinning room of my character, so that when we were editing we had plenty of footage to experiment with to help us create a good and hopefully successful opening sequence.

Filming - Day 2

On our second day of filming, we finished filming the kitchen scenes which allowed us to see Charlotte Kirk in the corner on the kitchen floor. We used an old white t-shirt which we ripped and covered in fake blood around the ripped parts. We also put some of the fake blood on her skin so that it could be seen through the rips and added blue eyeshadow to her lips to make it look more convincing to the audience. Charlotte T then filmed these scenes using a mix of camera pans, tilts and close up shots. She also came up with the idea of editing the close ups together like photographs are being taken at a crime scene. After we finished filming these scenes, we watched back all the footage we had filmed so far and decided that the hanging scenes didn't look convincing enough and that it was obvious Charlotte was sat on something. We then re-filmed these scenes this time leaving Charlotte stood up, as we realised that the way she stood would look more convincing. We also re-filmed all the close ups as we decided that the dress Charlotte originally wore didn't look like a little girls dress.

We took the following pictures when filming our thriller opening sequence.

           Charlotte K covered in fake blood and make-up to make her look pale.

Katie applying make-up to Charlotte H's neck to make sure the bruising was visible behind the rope.

Charlotte H and Charlotte K ready to film scenes.

Charlotte K, me and Katie ready to film scenes in the kitchen.

Filming - Day 1

On the first day of filming the group met at Charlotte Hunters house, where we began to look through the storyboard and discuss our ideas on how we could film the different scenes we were going to attempt on this day. When filming, we chose to use a Canon 500D as it would enable us to film our sequence in HD.

We first filmed the front of the house with the door opening slowly. We decided that when we began editing our footage, we could zoom this in so that the camera appears to move quickly forward and through the door. We then went onto film some of the kitchen scenes where the killer is sat at the breakfast bar spinning a knife. We filmed a few close up shots of the killers face and the knife, without revealing all of the killer face. We also filmed the footage where the killer picks up a glass and drinks from it. Here we again chose not to reveal the killers identity and the camera followed the glass. These scenes were filmed by Katie and Charlotte H. This required the use of the face paint and fake blood to make the knife appear to have been used and also to cover the killers hands.

We then went on to film the hanging scenes. Katie was responsible for creating the bruising using makeup around Charlotte's neck. When then tied the rope around Charlotte H's neck and around the chandelier and she sat on the table. We then made sure that people were stood around the table to prevent Charlotte from falling. We also filmed some close up shots of Charlotte's face and the rope around her neck. I was responsible for filming this part of our sequence. We were also pleased with how the bruising came out on camera as it looked very realistic.

                      Katie filming part of the             Me and Katie filming the front
                            kitchen scenes.                               door opening.

                   Katie applying the make-up to Charlotte H's neck to make
                         her neck appear to have been bruised by the rope.