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.

Email for music

Since we are using music in our film, we needed to email the band manager of the song we chose to make sure that we did not go against any copyright terms that might be in place, Curtis sent an email to make sure that this was okay.
Since they did not reply (we said they did not have to reply if allowed to use the song) we are okay to add it into the film.

Make-up

I decided to test out what the make-up would look like for the zombies in our film, instead of using face-paint I decided to use Acrylic paint because you can build up layers to make texture, which you cannot do with face make-up. Using three different colours of red (I may use more when doing it for the final) I painted what would perhaps be a bite mark onto the side of my neck. This is only a practice to see how using Acrylic would go; it is good, but does peel fairly quickly so we would perhaps have to keep re-applying it if the scenes go on for too long.

What does your target audience look like?

The target audience for our film opening is aimed at teenagers and young adults from the ages 16-21 who, as a group of friends, enjoy watching horror and thriller movies for fun when they get together. Films that these groups of people might enjoy are popular scary films like 28 weeks/days later, Paranormal Activity, The Ring, The Excorcist.

These types of films are popular and sell well with teenagers because getting scared on purpose is popular with young culture.
They would enjoy heavier bands, such as A Day To Remember, Bring Me The Horizon and Alesana. As well as watching movies, they would enjoy Television in general and watch popular shows (Sherlock, Supernatural etc.)

Because of this I think that our movie will sell well with this generation, even B-movies tend to become big hits since access to the internet is widely available and young adults will use it often in their spare time.

This means that we will probably use Internet-based advertising as a big part of our marketing distribution, The Internet also allows a lot of convergence (videos, advertisements, downloads.)

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.