We have been searching for different sounds we could use for the opening of 'You're Invited' on www.freesound.org. One of the elements of our opening is to have the killer, in the film, watching Emily Booth's house from the distance. You will see this shot from his perspective and will hear him breathing heavily. This sound can not be made from within the scene as there may be too much surrounding noise, therefore, we have made the decision to enter this as non-digetic sound.

We have also been on apples website looking at tutorials for 'Final Cut Express', which is the software we will be using to edit my teen horror film opening. As Sian has a short period of time to complete the filming and editing we thought it would be beneficial for Sian to watch these tutorials so that Sian can have a better understanding of using the program when editing.

To practice what we have learnt we plan to use the media room next week and make edits to my premlinary task, this is the best practical way for us to advance our skills on the Macs and will help towards making the opening of our film to a better quality.

On Friday Sian and I reserved a camera and tripod for us to use over the easter holidays, this then gives a sufficient amount of time to plan specifically how we are going to film.

Changes

Me and Sian are going to film the opening for 'You're invited' together, but then seperate when it comes to editing the film. This is because Sian is being entered for the June examination, whereas, I will entered in January.

Planning towards filming

In my last post i said that Sian and I were looking for halloween props so we could begin our filming for 'You're Invited'. This has proven to be a difficult task as we can not get hold of any halloween decorations, therefore, we have made the decision to change Emily Booth's Halloween party to an ordinary party.
Now, we have made this decision and going to collect normal party decoration and begin filming for our teen horror opening as soon a possible.

Planning towards filming

Both Sian and I are beginning to plan towards starting the filming for our Horror Film Opening. We are going to collect the props we need to decorate Emily Booth's house so we know we will have it in time for filming. Also, the camera angles and what we are going to actually film we wrote down on paper so we have something to work from during the filming process, this is to ensure that we don't miss anything vital out and make it easier for ourselves so we can concentrate more on getting the footage correct.

Preliminary Task

Once Sian and I had filmed the footage we needed for our Preliminary Task we then used the software 'Final Cut Express' to piece all the footage together. Above is the video of our final product. The reason for us to produce a Prelimary Task was to get familiar with the how the camera works and to see if there is anything we could pick up on our finished piece that would help us with making our Horror Film opening better.

Something that we noticed was that the conversation in the Prelimary Task doesn't run entirly smoothly, therefore, if we decide to put any conversations in our film opening then we will have to ensure that this does not occur. A way in which to stop this from happening would to be to leave a longer pause between each person's line so that when editing the film together we can cut the clip easier.

In the Preliminary Task you can hear the background noise, this will happen when we film our Horror Film opeing. To eliminate this will have to remove this sound and add our own nondiegetic sound into the opening.

Another mistake within our Preliminary Task is that Sian looked at the camera for a split second, this can be done unconciously. When filming we need to tell our actors/actresses not to look directly into the camera.

Location.

Location 1
When filming the front of this house will be a close up, we are hoping that this will cause tension as we need this for our plan to work. This location is good because the house looks dark and gloomy and it would fit in well with our film.

This location would work because it's a long street and we can film people walking down it however as you can see alot of cars are about this could cause problems with filming because everything could become a bit crowded.

Location 2

If we use this location then obviously the car won't be on the drive as this could make things crowded when filming. When this will be filmed this will be a close up of the house.

With this long shot, this is where we plan to have the murderer standing facing this angle taking deep breathes to create tension. I think this is a good view of the house because it's on a hill and we can get a good view of the whole street, also the road doesn't get too full of cars.