Editing up to now

            In our first editing session we realised that our shots were actually in the wrong format for final cut express. After seeking advice from our tech support in school charlie managed to find an online converter which would convert our files into mp4 so after a few failed attempts we managed to get our files loaded and rendered onto final cut. After importing our files we began to watch them back and get them into some sort of order. We realised here just how many extra shots we actually filmed and have since deleted a few of the shots in order to make the film as a whole easier to work with. 

          Our first main task has been to cut shots and edit some to black and white (which we are using to show a flash back).

(Left) Here we went into the colour converter menu and changed the colour filter by altering the saturation to zero. This worked well and from here we also altered the brightness of some of the black and white shots in order to make them more visible (especially in the panning down shot of ellie next to the lamp post which was exceedingly dark).

         We also really wanted to make use of the effects in final cut and create some cross fades in order to shorten the shot of the flash of the Polaroid camera and also to continue the noise of the flash after the actual on screen shot had finished playing. This effect is useful because we only wanted to use the flash as a kind of splitter between scene's (See screen shot right). We also used the cross fades to create some interesting flashes of shots in order to emphasise the disorientation and vulnerability of our victim on the cross.

        

         Next we used the colour filter tool bar again to edit the lighting more in some shots to make them look better as we filmed with two different cameras and one was better quality than the other (this also helped with improving our continuity, see screen shot left).

         Today we managed to make real progress in ordering and cutting quite a few of our shots. We made the important decision of not using the shots from inside the shed as we felt that if they were included, they would have made the piece look very disjointed and hard to follow as there would be far too many different loactions to focus on.

         

         We plan to put in a few extra editing hours this week in order to make lots more progress and meet our deadline of this friday, we may stay for an hour after school today (as we did last night). The editing process is going well so far and there have been few disagreements.

Final filming session.

           On Sunday 20th of November Charlie Chalkley and Amy Wootten re-filmed scenes 3 and 15 as me and Ellie duckles were unavailable and we felt the first takes of those shots filmed on the 13th of November didn't turn out as we had hoped. We viewed the new takes as a group and were happy with the new results.
           Following the re-filming of those two shots we decided we would film the remaining night shots of our opening after school on the 21st of November. We ran in to a few difficulties when filming as we didn't allow for the camera not being able to adjust to the poor light conditions. We resolved this problem by using torch's (which charlie chalkley managed to get from his house) and the torch's on our phones, the light conditions significantly improved from then on. We also filmed some extra footage that we felt would work in our opening; we shot Ellie kicking off her shoe as she was running from the villain at a low angle shot and we also shot Ellie running past the stationary camera.
             On the following Tuesday we managed to get into the 'mac' room at school with intentions to watch through all our footage and begin editing. Although, we realised that the majority of our footage was filmed in the wrong format for we are now in the process of attempting to convert our files into a format that 'final cut' will accept.

See below a revised filming schedule:

Filming

           Today we had our first day of filming for our main task. We had planned to begin filming yesterday but couldn't as a few people were not available so we now plan to complete the rest of the filming next Saturday on the 19th. We made very good progress today completing shots 7, 11, 15, 17, 19, 24, 25, 27 and 28. We also filmed some extra footage of a saw in the shed covered in blood etc. Here are some images taken of two characters and the locations we filmed in.

Our victim.

Our killer.

 Inside the shed(not able to rotate this one).

                                                                  Inside the shed.

                                                     A shot of the crime scene and crucifix.

Our forensic officer.

The evidence bag.

Film concept in 25 words.

A religious extremist serial killer begins to re-write the bible by keeping a scrap book of the 'sinning' young girls he brutally crucifies and murders.

Preliminary task completed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23IhJD4JRXo&feature=youtu.be

Shooting schedule for main task.

• We plan to complete most of our filming this weekend in Baldock.
• I'm trying to get some sheets of wood to construct the crucifix for this weekend so that we have the opportunity to complete the filming.
• We also need to make the book complete with text of 'The Crucifixion' for which we are going to use a tippex pen on my old art book.
• Charlie is going to order the film to create the flashes of the Polaroid camera. 
• We also need to clear out Amy's shed so it can be suitable for filming.
• We also need to label a plastic bag for evidence and buy some police tape.
• Ellie already has some clothes that can be used for her original 'prostitute outfit' and we are going to use a bed sheet to cover in fake blood and wrap her in for the shot of her on the cross.
• We will use Ellie's old extensions for the lock of hair in the evidence bag. 
• We've decided that the actress we are going to ask to do the voice over of the news report is Hannah Reynolds, we intend to record it during the next two weeks and add it in during editing.