Thriller Evaluation

Hi everyone.. I'M BACK! I know it's been a while but I've been spending a lot of my time creating my evaluation for my thriller video, which I'm guessing you have all seen EEEKK! In my evaluation I discuss what I have learnt over the process of planning, producing and editing my thriller, how we chose our audience, how I have improved and progressed since my preliminary task (which is on my blog from 2015 so if you would like to view that and see for yourself how I have improved then just keep scrolling) and much, much, more so check the link below to see!

NOCTURNAL

The moment you've all been waiting for.... DRUM ROLL PLEASE *drums* IT'S FINALLY HERE!! I'd like to introduce you all to my thriller opening 'NOCTURNAL'!! After all the hard work, long hours, exhausting days and stressful times me and my group have finally completed editing our thriller.. it's not perfect due to all of our technical issues which no matter what we did, continued to mess up our video including: sound not playing, then sound playing games of its own and not letting us change it, to our thriller not playing so we were delayed at adding our titles and sound effects, to clips being fuzzy.. basically, EVERYTHING that you can think of that could go wrong, went wrong! But anyway we stuck by it and tried our best to fix the problems and carried on editing as best as we could and FINALLY we have been able to finish it. What a relief! 

I hope you enjoy watching it and please take into consideration OUR AWFUL TECHNICAL PROBLEMS *cries*

Colour changing my thriller shots

In the past few weeks you'll probably know that me and my group have been editing our thriller opening and as we are new to 'Premiere Pro' which is the editing programme we use (as well as after effects) we only know the basics on how to edit! So, using youtube or google to find out how to do specific things is very ideal, for example, I wanted to change the colour of someone's eyes in one of the clips (if you want to see, you'll have to wait until I upload the final thriller opening;)!). Anyway, as I didn't know how to change the colour of certain objects I thought it would be best to use youtube and I simply typed in 'Premiere Pro How To Change The Colour Of Objects' and a range of tutorials appear but, here's the one I watched..

 

 I also googled the question as well because the clip looked quite old and I think Premiere Pro has been updated since so just to be sure, I looked on this website too! It's pretty straight forward when someone explains it to you but, its much easier than trying to figure it out yourself! If you're interested here is the link to the website! http://disposablefilm.com/Tutorial-2.html

Filming for the final time!

Hi guys, I've not updated you in a while about my filming schedule and what I've been up to for my thriller opening video! Once me and my group had done our 4 days of filming previously, we edited it bit by bit but, we decided it wasn't long enough! The criteria asks for a 2 minute (average) thriller opening but ours, once edited and cut, only turned out to be 1 minute and 20 seconds so, obviously we had a problem!

What we decided was that we'd film an extra 30 seconds or so without the previous cast members, just showing our mystery murderer and at the end of our 1 minute and 20 seconds clips we will add a shot saying '12 hours earlier" and show the murderer preparing themselves! We thought this was the best way to extend our opening and it goes into a bit more depth about the murderer, whereas before they were only shown for a couple of seconds!

Anyway, hopefully by the end of this upcoming week our thriller opening will be FINISHED! Finally after all this time and hard work we will finally have a finished thriller opening which I will be able to post on here!

I hope you're as excited as I am! See you then ;)

Location & Sneak Peeks

Hey guys, I wanted to show you some shots of locations that we are using in our thriller opening and this helps create a picture in your head of what our thriller may be like! There is a shot of the muddy track which will be in our thriller opening to show the way to our main location (the cabin) which the majority of the thriller will be filmed in. The other shot is the log cabin itself (well inside of it) which is actually located in Charlie's garden but, we are making out it is in the woods, which is why we include clips at the start of our thriller opening including the tracks and fields to help set the scene.

The picture inside the cabin shows who the characters were going to be (excluding me and Brooke) before we had to make changes. Now Callie the blonde hair girl on the right isn't in the film, neither is Ellie, the dark haired girl on the right. The shot gives you a sneak peek into what we are doing and what props we are using.

I will be filming again on Friday as we STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED, so I will update you afterwards on how it goes! See you soon, thanks for reading!

Filming Day 4!

Hey everyone!
Filming day 4 was a SUCCESS.. although we haven't completely finished filming, we did get the majority of it finished and only need around 10 seconds left of filming which we will do Friday and then hopefully we can just edit, edit and edit from the onwards!


We've have tried to include as many shots as possible in our thriller opening (to make up for the poor acting;)!) and it took us so long because as we are filming in the evening it goes dark very quickly so we have to think our shots through thoroughly and make sure we don't make any mistakes which will look bad in the film, e.g. different lighting. One of our characters couldn't make it on this day of filming so we have had to switch around some roles again but it's worked out better than we expected thankfully!


The camera did die on us (again) but it was ok, by this time we needed to stop as it was getting late so we planned our next filming session and have made a list of the shots we need! We will do some editing before the next filming day though but, this is a good thing as we are able to spot any mistakes or see if we are unhappy with any shots so we can re-film them. My fingers are aching now so I'm going to leave you guys but I have said everything I wanted to..


BYE :)

Filming Day 3!

Hey guys! Today was A LONG day, we got some much done however, one of our characters is on holiday so we've had to switch around roles but that wasn't too bad. Anyway we did around 2/3 hours of filming I think,, the time flew by and we wanted to do more because we were on a role but, sadly it got to late in the day and the sun had gone in so it was too dark to do the rest of our shots!

We managed to get around 3/4 of what we needed done so, we're going to meet up one more time in the next week, try get the final pieces and then we can start editing our thriller opening, EEEK!! We've already edited and put together the first 10/20 seconds which is our setting and intro type part of the film, then the rest we are able to start editing on Monday when we are back at school (it's currently half term). Once we have got all our shots and whilst we're editing it we can see which parts we don't like, whether we want to take parts out, add some in and then we can plan another meet up and film them parts!

I'm so excited to see the final product and I hope everyone else is too! I'll update you with my 'Filming Day 4' which like I said, should be in the next week or so! (But it is difficult to find times when everyone is free!!)

See you soon :D