Possible Distributors

Lionsgate is a possible distributor that we are looking at from it's previous films such as 'saw' and other films that have some of the same themes as our thriller has.

Ideas

We were talking about typography last week and I had the idea of having the words of Enigma disappearing or appearing one by one to go in with the missing element of the film. One of our group members has done exactly this and is working on making the rest of the titles to suit our title sequence well.

Journal 31/1/12

Today we are exporting the video as many times as we can once we have cut it because final cut wont let us view the actual video, this makes the process of us editing our video a lot harder than it would be for everyone that is able to use final cut as I have to export it see what is not tight enough, go back to final cut and estimate where I should cut it based on the export, then I have to export it again which takes another 5 minutes and then I have to go back and repeat until it's all done. The music is finally on the video and works really well, even better than we expected and the credits are just being finished then they will be put on the video. Even though the macs are slow we're all working really hard to get as much done as we can today.

Journal 24/1/12

Today I finished putting all of the videos into final cut and editing them into the right place, making them the right length etc. However, after putting everything together and putting the effects on, final cut started to play up. Right now after every cut the video jumps ahead and hesitates slightly and considering we have a lot of quick cuts the video is quite hard to watch at times. After speaking to several teachers about it I'm quite confident once the video has been exported we wont have this problem, but for now we are going to put it on one of the other group members personal laptop. Though I am confident once the video stops jumping it will look really good.
RIGHT NOW I AM NOT FEELING THE LOVE FOR MEDIA.

Filming

Filming was very interesting because we shot everything outside of the school, which was something I personally had never before done. I didn't think about some of the problems we would have filming outside of school other than the obvious ones like weather and having to find the time when we could all do it. When it came to filming we soon realised that we hadn't quite thought through everything we could have and we faced a few problems.

First of all when in the church, the flooring was uneven which we had not anticipated so the dolly would not work sufficiently. We had to then go back to the church and I had to move the bottom of the dolly whilst someone else held the camera part and as a result we had to film from a different angle and ended up changing the shot completely. 

We also didn't use the tripod at one point where we should have and it was very noticeable so when we went back we had to reshoot that as well. 

We ran out of batteries in the church and had to borrow some from the priest who had only an hour ago told us how organized we all were... slightly embarrassing.

In the forest we didn't realise just how awkward it would be to get a straight shot without the camera tilted at an angle. Luckily we learnt from the previous trip to the church and used the tripod for everything that wasn't POV.

overall, though we did have some trouble we most definitely learnt from it and it will help us for when we ever next come to film. 

Journal 19/1/12

Today we shot the missing girl poster part of our title sequence, we had some trouble with the weather but we worked around it. Once we got back to school we began putting everything in final cut. We chose what we wanted and cut it down, now we need to finish it and add effects. We've now got all of the shots we need to begin making our title sequence. We have converted it all into final cut and have out around half of the video in the correct places, leaving space for where the title sequence will be coming up on a black background.

To do list for our group

Our group need to:

1) shoot the missing poster image shot, rethinking how we are going to use it
2) now we have uploaded the video we need to put it all together on final cut and cut it so it is tightly together without jumps or skips (with the exception of where the missing girl poster shot will go)
3) play about with the effects on final cut and decide on what would be best or our video (we know that we will definitely be using black and White at some point)
4) download the typography we have decided on and put it on our title sequence in the appropriate places
5) edit the music together and put on our video

Once we have done all of this we will be ready to hand our video in. This should take approx two weeks at the very most though we're hoping to finish it all by next Thursday.