It's all uploaded!

Here's our final film and our making of. Let us know what you think!

Film:

Making Of:

Sorry

Has been a while since we've updated.

Good news though, we're basically finished! :)
We managed to take out the awful-looking shaky footwork from the attempts at a tracking shot, and it's been replaced with a few far more effective-looking shots of our stalker reading in his room. The film itself is now done, and we've filmed an "interview with the directors" style making-of documentary. We've also just finished the dvd menu, it's quite looks quite cool, keeping with the polaroids thing and the dark creepy music. (Even more new technology for us to use.)

All that's left to do is burn to dvd, get together the last of our paperwork from our planning stages together (although we do have most of our plans on here), and celebrate a great peice of coursework :)

Look out for us on youtube soon.

Yay

Almost entirely done filming. Edited everything together (thought we were basically done) but discovered that the footage we have of someone walking looks horribly shaky (resuklt of trying to film it with a steady hand while walking backwards through mud in high heels) so we're taking it out and covering it with some other shots of our "stalker". Also means there's a bit more variety in our mise-en-scene, at the moent it's only going between two locations and looks kinda dull.

Sound edit's totally done, we ended up sticking with the first person we filmed for the voiceover. Sounds very scary, and he's got a credit in the peice so he's happy :)

We're also starting work on our evaluation, so keep your eyes peeled for our making of documentary. If anyone who reads this wants to add anything to it, or ask any questions of the films Directors/writers/producers/stars (basically us :)) let us know, we'll be using bits and peices from the blog.

Editing/filming ect

We finished filming everything on wednesday, however after we uploaded it all we discovered the shots of the feet were too shacky so we're goning to have to reshoot. Also, once we roughly put most of it together, we worked out it would be too short, so we've begun putting little flashes of the 'dark room' scene throughtout the begining that are going to be in black and white and will get longer as you get towards the end. Furthermore, this solves the problem of the images of the girl tied up being too shocking.
Hopefully, if Jo remembers my digisticks, we'll put the music on and whilst i'm in russia she'll film/record someone doing the vioceover so we can add that. (i like the idea of having a professional vioce doing the vioce over btw).
And if she does remember my digisticks then we can finally put some sample music on here and do the poll/audience research thing.

Preliminary task

So this is our preliminary task. Not great, but good learning experience considering Georgie and I are both new to this.

Taught us a lot of things. Was also our first experience of Garage band, you can probably tell we got a bit carried away. One thing we did realise is that the sound quality from the video recording is awful, which is why we'll be using a separate voiceover and none of the sounds from filming for our main task. Also realised that it's going to take us a long time to score any music to it, and it takes a while to edit. So it's got us working a bit faster.

Our filming's nearly all done. Corkboard/darkroom sequence will be done by the end of next week, and we've made a start on editing what we have so far. Voiceover's sounding good, had a few guys read it out. It's very likely it'll be my boss's voice on the final piece. Realised it might sound odd using someone from school, as we need a quite distinctive voice, and would rather people weren't just watching thinking "I know that voice".

Voiceover

Working on the psycopaths monologue. This is the first draft, need to work it over with whoever ends up being the voice of our psycho. Any suggestions?

"You know the old adage, 'it takes 43 muscles to frown but only 17 to smile?' People really ought to smile a lot more. Smiling does a lot for you. A smile releases endorphins & painkillers, like a natural drug. A smile can denote pleasure, amusement, happinness, and a whole array of positive emotions. If you're smiling when you're down, it can cheer you up. It relaxes you, cheers you up, and is so much better for you than any other drug. Now, let's not forget the main one. Smiling can make an ordinary face light up. Make the most mindane of people seem interesting, different, can fascinate you. And for someone like her, smiling really does make you beautiful.I couldn't stop watching her after I saw that smile. The perfect curve of those pink lips in a way she can't hide. Her laughter and beauty are so much more obvious when she smiles.I can't help it if I need her, if I want her. It's really not my fault at all.I just had to see her smile."

So this is our cork board which is the main focus of our film. We've been making stuff to put on it all week and i just stuck them on tonight. I've left a bit of a gap on the top right so he can stick the last polleriod on.

Hopefully we'll be filming all the dark room/ cork board things on saturday but we'll have to see if the polleriod film arrives in time.

Also we've taken the stills we wanted from the film we shot on sunday and Jo's going to photoshop them to make them look like polleriods this week so we have them for sunday (to add to the cork board).

Finally, i recorded a sample of some possible music but its a bit repetative and annoying but once we work out how (and make some other samples) we'll upload them onto here and have some audience research going. And we're writing/editing the vioce over Jo started today tomorrow.

This is just a picture from our filming on sunday. This may feature in a making off documentary if we do one...