16/3/11 lesson-

What we did..
In this lesson we continued with our editing of the footage we have already gained. We are also putting the feedback that we got from other groups and teachers into our thriller meaning we could then look back on this and decide which bits we needed to change in order for it to improve. There wasnt time to film in the dark room, so we are planning on getting the last few shots in there next lesson, which are needed because more is needed in order to set the scene better.

Garage Band
After this, we also went on to working on garage band, in order to get a backing track for our openeing sequence. We had already listened to a few tracks that were on the cd's and saved a few which we liked and thought would fit in well with the feel of the film. We imported these on to garage band and worked around them, using the sounds that were on the program already and so therefore built up a track that slowly built up tension just like our thriller.

abstract shot/close up of part of the camera.
shots in the red room following what the stalker is doing
add in shot of stalker putting up picture
speed up shots at the end to build up tension then it stops and title comes up
use the lip shot just before title

Editing

We had a collection of ideas between us before we started our editing process and so knew what sort of direction we wanted to go in regards to the montage images flashing up randomly and what questions we wanted unanswered such as who is the stalker and why they are stalking a certain girl.
 We took many different shots of the places we were using, and went on the fact that it was better to have too many shots than not enough so that we could pick the best and use them in our final piece so this is where editing came into place.

Our first aim was to make up the small flashing pictures and therefore cut them down and put them together in order for it to be quick enough to make a good effect. Once this was complete, we moved on to trying out different effects on the clips so that they would make it fit into a more thriller convention, such as the glow we used on the newspaper cutting. We also tried other different ones but this to not fit in to the feel we were trying to give.
After this we decided to have parts which played forward but then reversed which was idea we had after watching the opening sequence to other thrillers. We feel this worked well and were pleased with the outcome. There was two clips that we felt was hard to flip from one to the other and this was when it went from the dark room to the wall with the pictures on. Many different things were tried but in the end we decided to go with the fade into black.

Rough Cut

Sound Effect Ideas

Essential Death and Horror Sound Effects:
Track 13
Track14
Track 15

How we can use our class feedback to improve our blog?

From the feedback we were given, we could've done with some more constructive critisism. However, from the feedback we did get, the first thing we would do would be to add captions to our pictures. This would add more information to the reader and would give people a better understanding of why we used the pictures we did. We could also add more personal opinions and maybe a little bit more media terminology. This would make our post more technical and detailed for the reader so they can get a really detailed idea of what/why we chose what we did for our thriller opening.

Class feedback from our blog

Variety of relevant posts:

. good variety

. most of the checklist complete

. long paragraphs

. posts that are in place are detailed, however a few more could be added

. Disney post wasn't that relevant

Appropriate visual aids:

. large amount of pictures and videos 

. used pictures throughout the blog, not in clumps

. good visual aids to support ideas

. a lot of pictures used for each idea

Appropriate use of technical vocabulary:

. good quality context/media language, i.e. 'enigma' and 'montage'

. correct shot language

. lacks in technical vocab

. appropriate to thrillers

Quality of posts: content, explanations, clarity:

. long, informative explanations and analysis

. highly descriptive explanations

. detailed

. uses media terminology to further the information and makes it clear

Development of ideas/stages:

. organised

. completed each stage with high quality 

. clear sections of development and headings

good step by step guide to show how they did their planning stage