Feedback

these are the feedback sheets we got from the other groups, overall they are all pretty accurate yet still a good response - this is very good for our groups confidence and now we are willing to go back and make the necessary changes to show that we have listened to audience feedback and taken it onboard.

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.

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. 

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.

Missing poster sign

This is the poster we will be adding into our video very shortly, we need to do a couple of shots with it in and then we will be completely finished with the videoing.

Typography Ideas

This is a certain kind of typography I am very interested in using, I feel that it suits our film very well and links into the plot. The writing is in a style of a typewriter which connotes the police force. Also the way the words are rubbed out looks almost as if they're disappearing, which would link into the whole idea behind the film. 

This was an idea specifically for all the t's in the title sequence as it looks like a cross and involves the religion in the film with the title sequence. Though if we were to use this we would have to think carefully about the typography used for the rest and to make sure it wouldn't clash or look terrible together. So this could possibly limit our primary choice of typography.