editing footage

once we had completed filming our footage we went onto premiere elements 10 and begin to combind each shot taken together and add effects to make it realistic. The reason that we went on here was so then we can cut down shots that we dragging onto long merging two shots so the carried on perfectly without any noticeable jumps.

the first shot had dragged on and it would come across and slow and boring to the audience if we left it to its rawr shot. Not only did the shot drag on during the middle section of the shot samantha the person in character in the shot looked directly at the camera and smerked which didnt look professional so we cropped it to a section where it wouldnt appear.

we then realise that we couldnt cut the shot after so it would work well with the first shot so we use the effect of fade out and back in with a 2 seconds blackness between them so it gives the effect of time speeding up and getting straight to a different point further on in the footage. this showed creativity and gave good effect than watching her continuously walking til she gets to the point of when things begin to happen

In the second shot she walks closer to the shot and the camera follows her. We then use a ringtone which i had used from my phone at the time than adding it in through premiere elements this ment that it was more reliable to work and more realisitc. The phone rings and you see her answer the phone and turn.

we then cut the shot so that it looked as if the shot was one whole one but the shot afterwards was close up shot which ments that we had more focus on her as she was the main focus in this shot and we wanted to hear her speaking. The problem which may occur is that when she began to speak to turned and looked at the horizon. When editing you can hear her but you really have to be concentrating.

we only shot  her talking and stopped it we then went to a medium shot as we watch her put her phone away and walk past the camera. then we follow her as she walks further and further away. we then use the faded out and back in to combind the next shot as we change where we are standing with the cameras so we are facing her front ward. In this shot we made reece the (pale one) stand in an exact spot so when samantha is standing there you cannot see him but when she walks her appears. we took the shot from a low angle so that the effect would work. This gave a creepy effect and its shows the audience whos there but she cannot see him she is oblivious.

we then do a low angle/ canted angle of her feet walking this changed the scenary and put more tension at the point we may include some sound affect because the audience have seen that there is something behind her which means there will be tension and to fit the atmosphere some sound effects would work perfectly. we cut it down so the minute she stop the shot changes and she automatically turns and looks back this could do good with some sound effects nothing to much just faded sound that will blend in with the shot. #

testing out our own music

on the 17th january we decided to go into a music room and go onto the computers which was hooked up to the pianos and we got to test out sounds and make our own little pieces which would fit our 2 minutes. they had a variety of sound effects which could be chosen and different instruments used. I looked at each effect and there were some good ones to use but we would need to think of when to put it into our 2 minutes and what the tune would sound like it could be only a few seconds or could last the whole time.

me and reece didnt get that far because we had only filmed a few shots and i thought that the beginning would be great the a suspense with a creepy sound bring the character in while she walks up the path way and the cast names appear. Reece disagreed so we will need to sit down and discuss if we are going to include sounds or not because with out footage i think that not including it may drag on and becoming boring. Then the fact of a figure appearing the impact of the sound effects may make it better than without.

we will need to test it out more and take an hour of our time to make sure we have chosen the right effects sound in the right moments of the filming.

script

sam walking up the pathway

  her phone begins ringing during the process of walking

  *phone rings loud twice

she answers and pauses at the millpond gets her phone and answers it

sam: "hello, ill be 10 minutes see you soon bye"

stops the phone call and puts the phone back in her blazer pocket

 she carries on walking through she walks on casually but a figure underneath a appears but shes oblivious to what is there

she feels uncomfortable and swivels her body slight around to check out whats behind her but nothing is there

title

Our title is called the pale one and we want to emphaysis the title and make it really get the audience thinking when it appears on the screen and the only way we are gonna buy our audience is using the righ font and colour to send the right message and ideas.

font will need to be scary and rough and unusual so it stands out with the colour and the black background.  we also want the title to explain what sort of genre the film is through the font. If the title sells to the audience and the opening two minutes then they will be bound to continue on watching the rest of the film. We have chosen a font which has a static effect which relates to the key character the pale one.
                 
colours that we are going to be using are simple white against black its simple but effective when it comes to revealing nothing and making it show the genre of the film. Black connotes dark and negative vibe. It can connote pain and fear as black usually appears in horror films such as dark scenes at night time set off a creepy tension atmosphere. Then the white is bold and shows a light and hope of happiness. But it can also make the text more important and the text will be saying the 'THE PALE ONE' which is mysterious and it will be intreging for the audience and make them want to continue on watching to find out why it has been titled the pale one and they will have some ideas of what it means but arent 100% sure of what the pale one is and why its the main focus in the film.

changes to the ideas and what we included in the footage

we didnt include the bag as a prop as we didnt think we needed to include to  many props as it would jsut be too much just the mobile which had use and she can just place the phone in her pocket and having to bring a bag to put it in. To the fact that we didnt include the bag we didnt need a shot of her stopping crouching to search in her bag which means that we will need to think of a brand new idea to make the two minutes successful. I think that not including it was a good idea as we didnt need to add it and i think that the shot would be boring and would drag on and give no interest to the audience at all.

We also didnt need to add in connor musoke jones and charlotte caunter. The reason that we didnt need connor was being we had changed the opening two minutes and we didnt have a purpose to include him but he was an option of including him. As well we didnt need to include charlotte because we decided to drop her from in the conversation of the phone call we didnt think it would work from taking a shot of her sister talking on the phone as it may confuse the audience and we want it to be understandable and simple that they will be hooked and it will be effective.

we decided to use only one setting because to many would just mean that in each shot that it would only be short scenes and it may be tooo complicated and confusing for the audience to get the understanding of what exactly is happening.

film diary

sunday around 2 pm we met with the cast of the opening two minutes and headed to the mill pond which is the setting which we decided to go through with using. We wanted to commit to sticking to the story board of each shot that was drafted.

we located ourselves at the further end of the millpond and began shooting, as it was at afternoon and there was people around we had shot some people in the distance which we wouldnt have had in the ideas as we was going to be shooting roughly around 4pm which in this time january would be beginning to get dark and people would be indoors it would be deserted. We changed our time of filming because we thought that it will be too dark for filming and the effect wouldnt work as people may not see the mysterious character appearing in the distance and we want the audience to obviously notice him so the tension would build quicker and stronger.

Our first shot we thought that it was going to be a long shot as you watch her get closer to the camera. The first shot that we took was in a greater distance which ment it took sam longer to get to the point which we was going to stop shooting so we took another take and made her move forward to a closer position of beginning to walk. Although it worked sam during the course of filming had smerked at the camera and come out of camera which means that we will have to retake that shot and cut and combind the other half of that shot so that the attention of the person noticing the camera will not appear in the opening two minutes.

We then decided to add an added in uncopyrighted music which was a ringtone from my phone which was used to indicate the audience that her phone was ringing. It was only for a short period of time but gave off a good effect. We changed the shot from medium shot to close up shot when she was having a conversation on the phone to bring the audiences attention to her. When that conversation was finished the shot was stopped and we changed the shot to a medium shot but during them when coming to edit them and crop them we realised that sam had moved her position of standing and when combinding them together it will literally just jump and will be obvious we will need to go back and reshoot that.

we have added on sounds such as wind and bird which when coming back to listen over is very vague than we thought which means that it had interrupted in the filming. We then added in a new shot where we look from a slight low angle of sam and as she walks past the camera mysteriously behind her underneath the street lamp in sight. The reason we decided to do this shot instead of it appearing in the distance while she was walking because that it would cause a jump from each shot of reece appearing to disappearing it wouldnt look natural and realistic. Another shot which was on the story board which we attempted to try was the sam walking past the tree from a side view and reece appearing and then disappearing it would also cause an obvious jump and wouldnt be believeable.

we did a shot from a low angle of her feet walking towards the camera its different from the shot taken and takes less focus off recent events thats happened kinda makes it more interesting than sticking to long to medium shots of her walking from a certain distance to towards the camera or past it.