warehouse Killer rough cut from Emma Bailey on Vimeo.
Monday, 31 March 2014
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Shooting Our Opening to a Thriller
The First Shoot:
We got off to an unsteady start, as we weren't quite as organised as we
should have been. Both of our original
actors told us on the day that they couldn’t do it anymore, but we decided to
carry on regardless because Alex and Emma both had a little amount of acting experience.
Also, we had to get used to using the equipment, which took us a little
while to get the hang of. We had some
trouble with our microphone, so the footage that we got out of the shoot didn’t
have a good enough quality for what we wanted.
Originally we only planned to have one shooting day, as everything was
to be shot in the same location, however in the end we didn’t have time to
finish all of it, and we had trouble with the lighting in the warehouse.
The Second Shoot:
On the second shoot, we were a lot more efficient and quick with the
filming. We had to redo a couple of
shots from the first shoot because of the quality or the change in natural lighting. Everything ran a lot more smoothly and we got
all of the shots that we needed to, because we had got used to the equipment
and we got the correct microphone working, and we were all working together a
team more than the first shoot, because with two thirds of our team acting, it
would have been difficult to dedicate different people to specific tasks.
Friday, 14 March 2014
Music
Below, you can see a video of the main piece of
background soundtrack non-diegetic music we used in our production: a free
piece of music we found off the internet called ‘Bent and Broken’, which we
thought sounded fitting for the thriller genre.
The song by Kevin Macleod was designed for a Horror film; however we
thought that the piece had thriller connotations within it. The piece had to be cut down for our
production, as it was too long and it wasn’t appropriate for all parts of the
film, however it does run from the very beginning of our production, through
the production company logos, as we thought the music sounded quite dramatic
and good for the logo title music. This video has been sourced from YouTube.
The second piece of music we use in our production is called All This. This piece of music plays when Karen sees Joe on the floor of the warehouse near the van. Again, we thought this sounded fitting for the thriller genre, but as you will hear, the first minute of music isn't used, because we didn't think that that part of the music was appropriate for our piece. Again, this was a free piece of music made by Kevin MacLeod. Again, this video has been sourced from YouTube.
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
General Planning
On the day of our filming, we had to take a bus to get to
our location to film. We used rosso.com
to organize the time that we should get the bus and helped us to figure out
where the nearest bus stop would be to the location we were filming in.
We also used Facebook messenger to communicate with each
other about media outside of school. To give the whole group access to our work
to put on their blogs, we put finished work on a group Google Drive which we
could all access.
Friday, 7 March 2014
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Production Logos
Coffee Films is a British independent film company that was
established in 1996. In 2004 it was
recognised as one of Europe’s leading young production companies. We decided that our film would be made by a
small production company because it isn’t in the same style as other Hollywood
films. The company has produced
thrillers such as ‘Lucid’: a psychological thriller feature set in the Scottish
Highlands. They have also produced
several online films, including ‘A Plaster, A Paper and a Cheese & Pickle
Sandwich’: a black comedy thriller short film.
While the company isn’t very well known, we think that this production
would be more suited to producing our film.
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