re-shooting

My group have to re shoot a scene to make dan's petrified scream look more realistic as at the moment it looks a bit pathetic and does not display the right emotion to the audience there response to the current scream was laughter as it seemed a bit more of a joke.

Black and White

We decidied to make our project black and white as it is not really being done and it gives the film a more sinister feel to it. Initially we were not going to do this however after talking t through with the group it was a possitive choice as it also gives the film a noir feel and sort of combines horror and the noir genres.

Critique on our title sequence

Our audience wanted to watch our film from watching the opening title sequence however thy believed it gave to much away and could guess the story line although saying that they could not guess the whole film. They also felt that the subliminal shots in the montage were good however some of the shots need tidying although they are good. They also said that there needed to be more sound effects in the title sequence and that the emerging title of traces needs to be made longer and needs a sound effect that is scary and shocks you. Daniel pye our actor needs to be more terrified in one of the shots so we are going to reshoot it. we need to bring music in when Daniel the audience said. The audience said it is clear thet the film is a well thought about project as the mis_en_scene is brilliant as well as the shots and performance of our actors. The final comment by the audience is that we need to tidy and refine shots and dd certain things like the music and the new shot of pye.

What i hope to acheive with this project

Obviously the first thing i would like to achieve is a high group grade as well as a high project grade i feel that the group has overcome many issues personal arguments within the group as well as problems we faced during planning and filming, i feel that we deserve a high grade as we have put our heart and souls into this project, also i feel that this project has helped me understand why planning is such an important thing as well as helping me achieve a more leader role than sitting back and letting my group do everything which i am enjoying more as my ideas are quite good and have helped make some of the shots look good i feel i am becoming more of a team member of the group as i am always helping. I would like to achieve a better editing skill which Lauren has helped do as i am observing how to use i movie. Overall i feel that we have achieved so much but there is more we need to do which we are in the process of doing such as re shooting and editing.

Reflection on project so far

So far i feel our group has overcome many problems such a arguments in the group which were sorted out and now we are working more as a team, also i feel the shooting went amazingly as we shot everything we needed and only need to reshoot one thing which is Dan's scream although we have to reshoot this i feel Dan is the best actor for the job as he did not complain and listened to everything we told him to do without a fault. As i said the filming went very well but this is becouse we all worked well discussing the scenes befor we did them allowing us to know exactly what we were going to do. The editing process went well but i beleive this is down to Lauren we all discussed what needed to be cut and eddisted and she did it the only thing we have to do now with editing is tidy some shots and add a few effects and music which we are thinking of now i beleve we are going to use a contrupuntal sound for music. The things we have to do now is reshoot one scene and finish editing and add music which i believe we will have done within two weeks.

Shot list

1. The first shot is a blank screen with Daniel pye screaming.
2. Then a subjective point of view of him looking at the time.
3. He wakes up and suddenly sits up in front of the camera it is a close up shot.
4. then he leans over to grabs the tablets this is a close up shot.
5. He takes the tablet and drinks and lies back down this is a mid shot.
6. Then we have a montage (a series of fast paced shots) of Dan trying to get to sleep this is another mid shot.
7. Then a subjective point of view of the alarm going off and dan stopping it ringing.
8. Then a long shot of dan getting out of bed then heading to the bath room this is continued as he walks towards the camera.
9. Then a close up of Daniel alking towards the sink.
10. A subjective point of view of Daniel running some water in a sink.
11. We the get a close up of Daniel leaning over to get a wash then the Ghost appearing he screams turns around and runs out the bathroom.
12. Another longshot of Daniel heading back to his bedroom.
13. Then a close up of him grabbing his things and running back out towards the corridor.
14. We put the camera on the floor so Dan runs past it so here is a close up on is feet then as he gose down the stairs we seem him as a midshot through the banister.
15. We then get a subjective pint of view of him running down the stairs then turning back and seeing the ghost.
16. We then get a subjective point of view of the ghost.
17. Then a mid shot of dan opening the door.
18. Then a close up of his hand on the door knob.
19. then a longshot of him outside the door running out.
20. Then we see a blank screen with the title of the film traces.

photos of location

These are the location shots of the house we

were filming in all the shots we have used are the ones we used for the scenes. The reason they are late is because Lauren forgot she had them. These pictures establish meaning in the opening as the room and the bathroom look like a bit of a bachelor pad like a single man lives there which is what we wnted to get across so i think this location works very well.

The day that we filmed

we filmed on the 8th of January i should have wrote this post closer to the time but i had to get the date of filming off kirstie as i could not remember. the day went really well when we started filming we used lots of different camera angles that we all talked about before hand then shot and most of them we used it gives the project a more interesting look, we also made little changes to the story itself for instance this hallucination chasing him which adds a more scary feel to the film especially now it is in black and white we will have to re shoot some shots as i have mentioned before, also when we were shooting we had to move things and add things like aftershave to make it look more like a mans house also we changed location from a flat to a house even know the flat was a good idea the house was bigger for better shots easier to get to and we could shoot almost anyday.

Shooting schedule

Film title:Traces

Day of filming: 8th January

Location: Laurens house

Cast: Daniel Pye as doctor sam storey
Kirsty Houghton as the ghost/hallucination

Times 11:25- 3:30

What happened: we went to Laurens Scotchers house to film we were there most the day and we were out during school, it took around 3 hours and we finished the film ready to edit it went very smoothly and no problems occurred during the shoot.

our inspiration for our media project

When we were originally coming up with the idea for our project we were originally doing a horror with a ghost but we as a group felt it had been done to much, Mrs Moore our teacher told us to watch the machinist so we did and this showed us what we could do so using a similar but completely different at the same time our film is about an insomniac who See's a girl he believes he has killed and our micro elements show this through the whole title sequence which our audience picked up on. So our inspiration was the machinist as its storyline and twists allowed us to take our film in a different direction which makes the film a new film and not a recycled idea that keeps being used.