Sound

sound

as a group we did  research on sound especially on gangster films as that was our genre, we gathered. however seeing as thriller has many sub genres the music differed with each type of lm we research for example

 

The godfather is a gangster film the music was very calm and orchestral started of quietly then the music started to rise and became quite racy and pacy and louder. however even though this is what a gangster movie would have I don't think it will be suitable for our film as I  think our movie needs a bit more of beat to it and jumpy however there are some scenes that will require quite music slow motion part. But because our movie is more modern it won't be using the orchestral

 

we also researched a more modern gangster movie e.g anuva  hood a felt the music used in anuva hood was similar to what we would like to include in our film upbeat racy and fast the lyrics also mean something that applie to our story. compared to the godfather the compleltey different i would classify it as more modern and not as classcial as the god father this would be something i might include in my film for sound, so when making or music on garage band i will be focusing in this type of gangster rather than the other one  

Re film

Friday 15th November 2010

Today's filming went much better as we got everything we had needed all or footage was ready to upload and edit.

Re film

 

Thursday 14th March 2013

 

Today was our first filming day after the robbery incident and also after changing our story because we felt that our other storyboard was quite difficult , AS school was our main location we stayed after school where we were to shoot our ‘walking in to school hand held scene’. I thought this was a great location as it shows that the main areas of where the kid is getting bullied and this could apply to real life situations. Due to some of our shootings being outdoors the fact that our first location was outdoors we wanted to do it while the weather was calm without wind, rain or snow. The preparation of getting used to the cameras took quite a long time, as well as, despite having our location, finding the correct area that would have enough light and room to fit our actor and props also took some time. however as we changed our whole story board it took us a while to discuss everything. today we got most of the filming done which was quite impressive.

for one of the scenes we needed it to be just before dark At around 4pm we was ready to shot, as it was winter it had got dark a lot quicker than we had anticipated and the lack of natural light prevented any of our shots to be visible enough to see the action within the scene. However, it was a learning tool that when we come back to do that scene again, we would come slightly earlier to give ourselves more time to set up, and to come with a plan of what we want to film.

Filming

Filming day 3 (31st January 2013) 

Today we filmed the scene were Fahad writes the letter and decides he wants to commit suicide. we had to re-film a few times because we had to fix our continuity editing as in some shots there were people in the background and in the next shot then there was not so we thought the best idea would be to film when there is no one around so it won't mix up.

Filming

filming day 2 (29th January2013)

Today we filmed the first part of the chase when Fahad enters the common room and the bully chase after. filming this went well we just had to have the same people again to film the next day which was quite difficult as they all had other things they needed to but in the end we managed to film,

Post production

After our filming task was completed during the following week was the editing stage. We used MAC Computers and two types of software, Final cut pro and logic pro.
As a group we had to decide what footage we would use to put into our final piece.

Some of the footage was really good and others had a disadvantage, usually either to dark , not showing the whole picture or there was a mistake in the acting. When we had decided on the film we used Final cut programme to put them together.

we all took turns on editing however smara was the main editor. At first i found it difficult, i had never used the programme and was feeling not so confident that we would do this all in a week. After adjusting to the process we added effects such as black and white to represent the flashbacks so the audience would be able to know the difference, we added other effects such as dissolves and fades to make the scenes drift in and out.

It began to be frustrating trying to locate and put them back within the sequence to make it at least 2 minutes long. I found the editing stage very stressful and not as enjoyable as the filming process, simply because i was not used to the programme and began panicking as i thought we would not have it finish in time. However, because of every ones input we was able to get the final copy created and fit our soundtrack on top.

Editing

Thursday

Today is the day before our deadline for handing in our final sequence so we had so much work to be getting on with we all did something each so we will not be wasting much time, we have finally finished out footage all we have to do now is put everything together so it is all complete.

Editing

Tuesday 19th 2013

Today we swapped roles as yesterday Fahad and Inoshan were editing and today me and samara did the editing. when editing we realized that we had all ready reached to 2 minutes long of the film and we still hadn't edited half of the footage so we decided to edit the whole film regarding of how long it will be and from there we will cut scenes out to make it up to 2 minutes and half at least. we also stayed after school today while Inoshan and Fahad finished filming the last parts of the film that we will hopefully be editing tomorrow.

Editing

Monday 18th 2013

Today we uploaded most of our footage we still had to reshoot some scenes meanwhile we started editing our sequence. I felt this time our editing went better than last time when we attempted t edit because we got some practice on different was of shooting so  they can fit when we edit. in today's lesson we got half way through our sequence hoping that we will be done by the end of this week.  we also stayed after school to edit some more we had some errors wit our footage when importing however we managed to sort that out in the end. while we were editing Fahad was making the sound for the sequence on garage band we all decided on the music and Fahad  will be putting it together seeing as he has had some experience on using garage band so far we have been working well as a group.