Showcase Film

This was the film that we showed as a group to our classmates during the showcase. Everything went according to plan except we hadn't finished the soundtrack in time for the showcase but it didn't affect people's understanding of the narrative or genre. Although, the clip of the red lips didn't export with the rest of the video so it came up "Media Offline" This was a problem as it did affect the control of the narrative but we explained to the audience after the clip what the scene should've been.

Production image created

We finally finished our production logo for our film, we used Photoshop CS3 to create the image.

Our shooting schedule

This was the final plan of our filming schedule

Problems with filming

When we all went out for our last filming session, we encountered a big problem that threatened to damage the quality of our film. The problem was the street that had a street lamp that we used for our main source of lighting had been removed. This meant that we couldn't film in the same location anymore and had to find somewhere similar. Luckily there was a suitable light source from a street lamp up the road from where we was filming and we had to edit some our planned shots to try and avoid showing the change in scenery.

Difficulties in editing

During editing we encountered a problem with one of the flashbacks, where we planned to desaturate all of the colour except for the red colour of the lips. We chose to do this effect to show that the person speaking was a woman and the colour represents the love and blood; themes which run throughout our opening. It also fits in with the red colour of the title, which appears at the end. The programme we are using didn't include the correct tool we needed to use this effect and so we had to use a different programme to edit this one clip and then move it back across into Final Cut Express. Instead we used Final Cut Pro which allowed us to use an advanced colour corrector. This meant that we could isolate the colour red on our clip and desaturate all the other colours.
We also managed to find sound effects to a couple of our clips, including the sound of a match lighting up and are still deciding between different footstep sounds.

The clip that we edited in Final Cut Pro

Detailed treatment form

We've finished doing our treatment form although some of it may have changed due to our change in storyboards.

Change in storyboards

We have decided to change the scene in which we use a silhouette to suggest that the a character has been stabbed. This is due to the fact that we found it too hard to create a correct silhouette without any problems. The problems was the lighting out side wasn't up to our standards and the camera kept casting a shadow. Instead we have created a different way to portray the scene which still fits into the next scene of our storyboard.

Next film shoot

We need to finish filming the rest of the film at our last location from the last filming session in Loughton. We filmed the majority of it but need some fews quick scenes to try and make the film seem more fast-paced. We're thinking about filming next weeek because we need some time to get the props together, we need a knife and find a fake gun.

We're also working on changing the storyboards because we feel that we could make the opening fit more into the thriller/gangster genre that we want to get. We're going to try and make the last scenes more dramatic and gain more control on the narrative.