Editing

For the past few days I have been completing editing together the clips that we have filmed into the final peice. I have decided to do the editing out of the group (although I will receive feedback and critisism from the rest of the group) since I have had experience with using Adobe Premiere Pro before. Although Premiere Pro can be difficult at times, it is good for editing because the timeline is laid out simply and importing clips is easy to do.

This video gives you an idea of what it looks like, and gives some useful tips.

Continued to go out and film and have nearly finished, using the shots we did shoot we also created a rough draft to present to the class that would show them what kind of ideas we had. The first two images are of James during filming, when he was acting as the main role and the bottom image is one I took of Curtis when he was searching for a suitable place to film.

The video is of the group figuring out a place where Curtis could be out of shot and make noises and shake the branches (pretending to be a zombie). We had problems since Curtis was brightly dressed and could easily be seen on camera when not completely hidden.

Filming Delay

After we had filmed half of the film, the next week the weather forcast was snow. We were unable to go out and film again without refilming all the work we had already done since it would be a continuity error. Luckily the snow did not last too long and we were able to go out and film again today since it had melted.
Today we experimented with different angles and ways to film the scenes we had decided.
This weekend I will take the camera, after James has finished shooting the running shots, and film the inbetween-the-storyline scenes. This will give us all the shots we need to edit together a rough draft to be ready by the deadline.

Started Filming

Internet has been down so was unable to post anything from home for a few weeks, but should be posting regularly from now.
Yesterday we could finally get a camera booked and we went out to start filming. We had a location planned, which you can see from the first set of recce shots. We decided to use this as we figured it would be a perfect location to get the main parts of the filming done.
However, when we set off, we had not checked the weather beforehand and found that it had started to snow just as we left the building, this could be a problem for continuity but luckily it was only light and it did stop by the time we reached the location.
We managed to get quite a lot of filming done, James (who is going to be the main actor for our production) got the main speaking section out of the way and several running scenes.

Plans for next time:

• Check the weather, and bring warmer clothing.
• Refilm several shots, just in case.
• Film some more forest shots.
• Get some of the other scenes filmed.

Location research

James went out at the weekend to search for possible locations as to where we could film our film opening as I suggested we could use a forrest-like area. This place is close by, so we could get there easily and fits the desired setting.

This week I will also go out and look for places to film in other locations so we have a wide choice.

By going out and taking recce shots we can see the advatages and disadvantages of all the possible locations and find out which one will be best for us. This place is good because we were thinking somewhere that would have lots of trees/foliage so that the lighting would look interesting, there would be both shadows and natural light. The trees can also conceal other actors until they are needed.