New Opening

As me and Sian are no longer working together I have had to come up with a new opening.

I have a few ideas but the idea I am going to do is called 'Don't Look Back' its a bout a victim walking into the woods on her own with someone watching them.

For this there will be several different angle shots. I am thinking of doing standard tripod shots and then adding in hand held footage to get the victims perspective.

I think this is a good idea as it's in a suitable location for a horror movie.

Changes in filming.

Me and Sian are no longer working together and I am now planning a new plot, this is because I do not think our initial plot is worthwhile. I am still keeping the concept 'Your Invited' and using the same characters but I'm going to change the way these characters are used.

Filming.

During filming Sian and I hit a problem. The camera didn't film very well in the dark so as a result we have had to film in the daylight. This means that we have to change the time and date of the party that will be included in the opening. if we did not change the time and date then it wouldn't match up. For example we have changed the time to 7pm start, if we still kept the date as October 31st, at 7pm it would be dark. We have chnaged the date to Friday 13th May.

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.