During production day 9, we discussed the editing process and I helped with the editing and making our 'trapped' footage look professional and realistic by watching the footage we already have whilst giving advice to the editor (Mel) for example, the scene when the victim is being attacked we decided to include a dark setting with a built up sound clip, which makes the viewers uprehensive as it seems like a mystery. Also setting up each clip in order whilst giving my advice and opinion on the title fonts and credits, therefore I helped choose the best font. As Josh made a good quality font for our 'trapped' title and credits which goes really well with our genre horror as josh designs a creepy face figure, which is the main featured character in our short film who attacks the victim, therefore the short film is very understandable as it gives a clue in whats going to happen and as a group we voted for which font to use.
This is when we start to edit and start putting together our 'Trapped' footage, this involved our group getting involved and as a director I had to organize, give advise an help make the footage flow and look effective also check if my group is doing the work correctly, I decided to experiment with garageband for our credits so i put together a soundtrack which could make our footage look effective, depends on which scene we're using. Therefore i tried to visualise the clip whilst putting together a soundtrack.
During Production day 7, we had to re-film a lot of shots therefore we had to be motivated and put effort towards getting the acting and filming perfectly right as time was short. Also I was back and ready for the filming and acting footage, so I was certain we will get this right if everyone works as a team. Once we had finished re-shooting our footage and got the shots accurate, we then needed to film the ending parts we hadn't done. This included the kidnapper following, attacking and dragging the victim into the bushes also the victim being trapped in a box in the middle of the forest then the next footage is Me, Hollie and josh (group of friends) notice the victim (Mel) taking a while looking for signal so the group panics and decides to look for him but not realizing he is trapped in a box, therefore this leaves a mystery. Once we had finished all of the footage we uploaded it to the computer ready for the next step which is editing.
I woke up and felt ill so i couldn't come in, but new it be fine as i would have to work extra hard Friday, as friday is our last filming day. So we would have to get it right friday and this means worthing as a team.
As a group, we went into more detail and uploaded most of our shots for our 'Trapped' 4 minute short film. Once we uploaded the shots and put the shots together so it flows, we showed Steve so he can give us advice on what to do next, but we wasn't happy with the shots therefore we decided to go out and re-shoot, so we can have a variety of professional and understandable footage we can use from. But it was a risk we had to take as we had a strike the next day therefore we was cut short of time, but we managed to shoot most of our film, as everyone was putting in more effort to get it right this time, so as a result we was happy with our footage so far.
During out fourth production day, we went into detail and done more shots for our scenes, this included the tent scene therefore we had to be careful about the location and weather. Also be careful so the shots actually look realistic, as the sunlight kept making the area look too bright and we wanted the area to look gloomy and dark. So it looks more interesting and gives out a mystery also sets the scene in a negative and backs up a point of view shot when something is watching them.
We stayed in the classroom during some of the media lesson, as we done our first shot footage, therefore we uploaded them and wanted to check if the footage look good and sounds fluent, but some of our shots didn't make sense as it was cut too shot, therefore it seemed jumpy so we decided to go back out and film the shot again but experiment with more different shots. overall we got the shots accurately and was very pleased with the result of doing it again as we knew why it went wrong.
During our production day, we began organizing the location sheets, took photographs of the location, I began producing the script, planning each scenes by order, organized costume props and giving initial ideas which will make our 'trapped' clip look effective and realistic. During producing our shot list we used many different shots through out our story line. We learnt how to customize and learn different effects for each scene. We used many shot types which looks realistic e.g. a point of view shot towards the group of friends walking into the forest, this will create a tense moment as the audience will instantly know someone is watching them, therefore creates a mystery. The next shots we used was long shots, mid shots and close ups of their facial expression and these shots are used when the group of friends start their conversation when they're introduced on scene. I was one of the characters, therefore I had to sound convincing and also my expressions saying each line had to suite my character on script. I created the script we used, therefore i had to give many ideas in appearance on set (body language) and facial expressions.
During production day 9, we discussed the editing process and I helped with the editing and making our 'trapped' footage look professional and realistic by watching the footage we already have whilst giving advice to the editor (Mel) for example, the scene when the victim is being attacked we decided to include a dark setting with a built up sound clip, which makes the viewers uprehensive as it seems like a mystery. Also setting up each clip in order whilst giving my advice and opinion on the title fonts and credits, therefore I helped choose the best font. As Josh made a good quality font for our 'trapped' title and credits which goes really well with our genre horror as josh designs a creepy face figure, which is the main featured character in our short film who attacks the victim, therefore the short film is very understandable as it gives a clue in whats going to happen and as a group we voted for which font to use.
