Coloured storyboard!

The final storyboard for the opening 'suddens'.

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Storyboard (uncoloured)

Is this OK? I filled in the titles between the 'sudden' shots, as I didn't see the point of wasting panels when they all look basically the same. I shall get to work colouring them now. (Click to full-view)

Screenshots

Not very good quality, but I just took some stills from the YouTube version. Feel free to use them (and post your own).

I'll be deleting this post on Monday, so take them now.

Screening

I won't be able to make it; I'm too ill...at home with an evil, evil, evil cold. Good luck though, hope everything goes well and that we get lots of nice feedback. I've given my CD to a couple of friends to watch so that we can get feedback from them, but I need some copies of the questionnaire for them to answer...can someone email it to me, please?

All my love and sneezes,
Mary

Editing!!

Bhavika is very ill again today =[

We really need to get some music to go with our foley - preferably with synth and a low bass drone that matches our aeroplane foley. This is now PRIORITY when any of the group have free time, because we need to get it done by the end of this week at the absolute latest.

Today we were editing the stairs scene. Our main issue was that the sound on the majority of the footage had mysteriously disappeared since capturing. We also had one or two continuity editing issues, because of blurring within the shots we needed. We experimented a bit more with foley, and a lot with brightness and contrast, because our lighting had shifted between shots (the paglight battery faded towards the end of the shoot).

We also need to replace the old shoes shot with the new one, and change the titles. But overall, good work, guys! =D
~Mary

Friday - Lesson, pre-shoot

Our main setback today is that Bhavika phoned in ill, meaning that she's unavailable both during the lesson and for our shoot after school. She texted ahead of time to let us know, though we did phone just in case to check up on her. She said that she'll try her best to make it to the shoot, but not to hold out hope, as she's not feeling much better than when she texted.

In the lesson today, we've been experimenting further with effects and writing the dialogue script between the two characters. One recurring problem was trying to balance out the number of effects between various CUs - we had too many on the eyes and not enough on the nails. We also had difficulty in creating a visual style that lasted throughout the title sequence but wasn't overly repetitive.

In the shoot tonight, we're planning to re-shoot the shoes shot and also to film the dialogue scenes between the two roommates. We'll also be filming the pre-dialogue shots of Bisma on Sunday. We hope to get everything sorted so that we can edit on Tuesday and have cross-cutting between the dialogue. We'll also be attempting a tricky overhead shot, so wish us luck!

~Mary

We have a problem.

Guys, I know that this is really going to muck everything up, but I honestly can't get the time off work this Saturday. I know Ms B is going to kill me for this, but there's really nothing I can do. I can come straight after work ends, or we can rearrange to the Sunday. I don't actually remember why we couldn't do the Sunday anyway.

Friday is absolutely fine, though. Cancelled youth club again. =3

Please respond ASAP.

~Mary

Idea Development

We've decided to alter our original idea a bit, and scrap the outside shooting because there's so much to think about with it, & we can focus a lot more on character if we just have the getting ready bit. Mary's going to use her superfantastic mad skillz to storyboard this before we shoot it, and we're going to test it out tonight. Wooh!
posted by the group xx

Location recces

They're posted on my blog. I did the park and the forest. Go check 'em out.

Mary

Meeting Notes - 17/11/08

Ideas:
- female killer killing other females whom she sees as threats

• location?
• teenage actors - difficulty

Storyboarding Ideas:

- killer getting ready & victim parting with boyfriend -- cross-cut between

- LA of victim walking

- establishing shot of alley with group of teens

- subjective view - focus in on victim

Other Ideas:

- killer getting ready - cuts, CUs, ECUs

- radio in the background - 'third model to be killed this month' or something to give background info

- shot/reverse-shot of dialogue between victim and boyfriend

- subjective view of victim and boyfriend (kiss & part)

- establishing shot of alleyway with other teens

- LA or mid of victim walking

- subjective view - focus on victim

[- if there's time -> victim suspicious, looking back and behind her]

- subjective approaching the victim, see back of head

- CU of victim's face with gloved hand around face