To Do List

As our deadline is drawing ever nearer I thought I would make a list of what needs to be done so that we don't forget anything! (Just in case)

• Credits and title but these can only be done when we have been able to download the fonts
• Music for the end of the sequence?
• Also, I've just been editing and something seems to be wrong with track 2 which we added last week Friday so we need to sort that out.
• We need to reduce the fuzzy noise in the sound of Mia's side of the dialogue.
• This is not that important but I was thinking it might look better if we rearrange some of the shots of Mia getting ready. This won't take long and can be done later on. It isn't a major issue or anything.
• Fade from title into black and then from black into the sequence of Bisma going upstairs...or something like that
• After the re-shoot, we will obviously have to replace the two clips of the drawer and knife at the end with the one clip.
• Come up with a production company name.

So we'd better get cracking!

- Bhavika xx

Re-shoot

Hey Mia and all

I won't be able to give us a lift to your house tomorrow after school and I most probably won't be able to take the lighting equipment into school on Tuesday. Really sorry. But we'll sort it out tomorrow with the whole group and hopefully find a way to do it.

Bhavika xx

Lighting Equipment

Hey guys, it might be a good idea to possibly find out if one of you can take the lighting stuff home on Monday because my mum won't be able to give me a lift on Tuesday. Also, she's not sure if she'll be able to pick us up on Monday (whoever is coming) because she has a meeting at work... so I'm not sure how that's gonna work yet... Just to let you know
Mia xx

Feedback

Today we got some feedback from Ms Blackborow during our after-school editing session:

· The new close-ups in the getting ready sequence and the sequence of ‘suddens’ were good and the ‘suddens’ were really scary along with the music.
· We had a shot of Mia’s face after the title but told miss we were going to get rid of it. She thought an audience may think Bisma is the girl in all the previous shots getting ready if we remove this shot
Outcome: We will fade the title into black and then fade from black into the shot of Bisma switching the lamp off for the stairs sequence so that it is hopefully clearer to our audience this is someone else.
· Shots of Bisma going up the stairs had been moved and one was missing.
Outcome: We fixed this so that it is now fine.
· The two final shots: CU Mia opening drawer and CU pan of drawer looked odd.
Outcome: We now need to re-shoot this shot again! This time we are going to have Mia opening the drawer and taking out the knife all in one shot. The re-shoot will be on Monday and shouldn’t take long as this is the only shot we have to film.
· The lighting is much better in the dialogue section. I asked her if it looked odd because of the difference in lighting between Mia’s side of the conservation, which was well lit and Bisma’s side, which was not. She could see a difference that only after I had asked but thought we had done a good job with the brightness and contrast and lighting effects so that it was not too obvious.

The issue of lighting differences was worrying me quite a bit so I am happy that Miss did not pick up on it and think it looked odd. Yayyy!

- Bhavika

Re-shoot Shooting List

We just had our re-shoot and here is a list of our shooting list:

• CU foot (putting tights on)
• CU putting on shoe
• MS establishing shot
• MS dialogue
• MS turning round to open draw
• MCU opening draw
• CU pan of draw
• MCU face in mirror
• CU smiling face
• CU evil face

Hopefully we got all the shots we need and they all turn out to be great!

- Bhavika xx

EVALUATION..please respond! =]

Hi everyone!
Okay, so i was thinking about our lesson today on EVAULUATING our final piece. So, i thought we could start a discussion. Lets begin with Question 1, which asks how we challenged, or conformed to conventions. So, I thought we could brainstorm some ideas and then publish a collective posts of all our gathered ideas. What do you guys think?

I think the most obvious convention, which we BRAVELY challenged, was the fact that we used a female antagonist. I think its pretty evident that with the majority of Slasher horror films, which we gain our inspiration from, its the 'surviving girl' who is the main female character. (For example, Scream.) It is almost always only the victims, which are young pretty girls.
However, i felt that we did not have any problems when portraying Mia as a murderer with our 2 minute time restriction. I think challenging this particular convention will work to our advantage, as it will make our product different and more uncomfortable for the audience.

So, what do you guys think? Maybe you should respond with your ideas, and maybe anything you want to add or change to what i have said.

Bisma

ITS 2009...Happy New Year!!!

Hello again! Its 2009 and this post is to validate that this blog IS NOW UP AND RUNNING ONCE MORE..

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Bisma