Sarah-Ann Palmer
Sarah was our guide, she new everything and was a great asset to our group. Although she wasn’t seen on screen, Sarah did focus mainly on the footage, for example, filming, editing and directing. I think that Sarah is an easy person to work with due to the fact that I have known her for years and we get along very well. I would defiantly work with her in the next year to come.
Adam White
Not being in the class to start with made it hard at first for Adam to fit in, as he is an external student. But knowing that he is in my tutor, we got on well.
Adam had great acting skills as we tried to portray a certain character for JACK and he had it off to a tee. Hoping that Adam stays on doing media next year, I would gladly work with him again, as I think he is such a fantastic guy to work with.
Ami Fitzpatrick
I was in most of the film as SKY and loved to do so, as acting is my passion. Also I did some of the editing and inputted ideas towards the angles, etc.
The Group on a whole
In my opinion, this group had a great atmosphere about them as we never argued about anything, if someone disagreed with one thing, we would all listen. Most of the work we shared out, as sometimes, wee were unsure if people would be off school for some reason i.e. being ill. We had a great time, and I wish for it to stay the same for our next year in this subject.
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Editing
In my opinion, editing has been the hardest thing to do, as we had 20 minutes, possibly more, when we are supposed to have 2 minutes of film. Cutting it down was simple enough, as Adam and I had done most of that whilst Sarah was ill once. I think we had cut it down to around three minutes.
When Sarah came back, we had cut it down to two minutes exactly, but that’s all we could cut, otherwise the film would have been ruined, yet we still had the credits at the beginning to do, which rounded our film up to about two minutes forty.
When Sarah came back, we had cut it down to two minutes exactly, but that’s all we could cut, otherwise the film would have been ruined, yet we still had the credits at the beginning to do, which rounded our film up to about two minutes forty.
Sound and Effects
Sound effects such as non-diagetic music were all in aid of the effect of the film. We decided to use eerie music for when SKY is walking to her destination as we were trying to bring across the fear of the unknown. The loud, heavy blasting music is when something happened, for example SKY was walking along the alleyway, and then, all of a sudden we see another pair of feet walk past. The diagetic sounds, such as the breathing were situated to keep the audience in suspense. Also the dialogue was played with music to mute the speech to give the effect that the audience should still be unaware of what is about to happen.
The special effects we used were black and white to show the present time. We decided to use it for the present as most of the film was set in the past and I do not think it is advisable to set most of the film in black and white.
The special effects we used were black and white to show the present time. We decided to use it for the present as most of the film was set in the past and I do not think it is advisable to set most of the film in black and white.
Limitations
During filming we had a few technical limitations, such as sun glare.
The sun glare was the biggest problem as we wee shooting at the time that the sun was setting. It shone right in the camera most of the time, which then limited where to place the camera.
Also, unfortunately the tripod we had collected was broken, therefore, leaving us to not use it in some of the shots. To be honest, in my opinion, not using the tripod sometimes made the film better, for example, walking to SKY; it made it seem like the camera was the stalker.
The sun glare was the biggest problem as we wee shooting at the time that the sun was setting. It shone right in the camera most of the time, which then limited where to place the camera.
Also, unfortunately the tripod we had collected was broken, therefore, leaving us to not use it in some of the shots. To be honest, in my opinion, not using the tripod sometimes made the film better, for example, walking to SKY; it made it seem like the camera was the stalker.
Location
The location we chose suited the effect we were trying to portray across. Where we were situated was only a ten minute walk from our school, but as we were walking to our ideal place, we came across another alleyway and space that would suit our film more. 
The outside was going to be on a place we students call ‘Pit Tip’, but our new place was closer to school and had the right effect, for example, the lighting, the proxemics (space).
We had to hurry along on the outside filming as the weather took its
turn. The time we went to film outside, I was freezing cold as the costuming was not exactly winter material. But on that note, we did exceptionally well that cold day, as we finished the whole of the outside section.
The inside filming was quick and simple. Although we had recorded this previously, we had to record it again as we had lost the filming of it because of recording outside. The new filming of it was better then the original anyway, as we decided to work with different effects on the lighting.
Finally, I had filmed my clock at home over an hour and half approximately, due to the fact that as the credits ran at the beginning, my group and I thought it would be different to run some footage through the title and credits.
The outside was going to be on a place we students call ‘Pit Tip’, but our new place was closer to school and had the right effect, for example, the lighting, the proxemics (space).
We had to hurry along on the outside filming as the weather took its
turn. The time we went to film outside, I was freezing cold as the costuming was not exactly winter material. But on that note, we did exceptionally well that cold day, as we finished the whole of the outside section.The inside filming was quick and simple. Although we had recorded this previously, we had to record it again as we had lost the filming of it because of recording outside. The new filming of it was better then the original anyway, as we decided to work with different effects on the lighting.
Finally, I had filmed my clock at home over an hour and half approximately, due to the fact that as the credits ran at the beginning, my group and I thought it would be different to run some footage through the title and credits.
Shooting Schedule
The shooting schedule was tricky to start out with as Sarah and i had a rehearsals for the school show, plus the show. So due to that, we missed approximatly two weeks of filming. But we did it in the end and eventually we were the first to be finished too.
Script - first chapter.
1. INT. MENTAL HOSPITAL-DAYTIME- (PRESENT)
2. EXT. IN PARK. DUSK.
(Past) The bell had gone for school to go home and SKY is walking through the park to get home. Hearing a branch snap SKY stops to look.
SKY
Hello.......
She turns to look around her.
SKY
Is anybody there?
Come on, this is not funny!
She then paces on; quickly away.
SKY then goes back to the present
1. INT. MENATL HOSPITAL-DAYTIME- (PRESENT)
2. EXT.IN PARK. DUSK
Remembering back SKY carries on pacing. Next, she comes across a friend at the bench, JACK. They pretend to speak (muted). JACK hits on SKY and she gets up to run away. SKY starts to hear voice’s in her head, not knowing it is JACK
JACK
(The voice)
Go on.... you know you should kill him. That’s right KILL HIM!!!!
Still running SKY is wondering what is happening to her and faints.
SKY
(Faintly)
Kill Him....
2. EXT. IN PARK. DUSK.
(Past) The bell had gone for school to go home and SKY is walking through the park to get home. Hearing a branch snap SKY stops to look.
SKY
Hello.......
She turns to look around her.
SKY
Is anybody there?
Come on, this is not funny!
She then paces on; quickly away.
SKY then goes back to the present
1. INT. MENATL HOSPITAL-DAYTIME- (PRESENT)
2. EXT.IN PARK. DUSK
Remembering back SKY carries on pacing. Next, she comes across a friend at the bench, JACK. They pretend to speak (muted). JACK hits on SKY and she gets up to run away. SKY starts to hear voice’s in her head, not knowing it is JACK
JACK
(The voice)
Go on.... you know you should kill him. That’s right KILL HIM!!!!
Still running SKY is wondering what is happening to her and faints.
SKY
(Faintly)
Kill Him....
Camera Map
The first Camera Map is showing when we taped my clock for the opening credits.
This second Camera Map is of the sections in doors - where everything is in black and white.
This Camera Map is for the while of the film where we shot outside.Before creating these final camera maps we had a different place to film the outside, which was bit further down. But the reason we had changed was due to the cold weather outside, we couldn't make it that far. Along the process of editing we had decided to film my clock for the effect of time never ending - whilst the credits where running through it.
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