Editing

The software that we will be using will be:
- Final Cut: this will be to edit our film
- Soundtrack Pro: this will be used to do our soundtrack
- Live type: to do titles, also where the background from the new's report is from.
- YouTube: to host the end product

Shooting on location: shoot 2

This shoot was really successful. We firstly went to sarah's house to reshoot the kitchen and window scenes which didn't take very long as we had done it before, learning from the mistakes of the previous shoot we made sure the camera was set on auto rather than manual making sure it remained in focus.
The second shoot was at the cafe, luckily it was really quiet so we weren't going to be disturbed by anyone. We did a few takes for each shot so we made sure we weren't an inconvenience and had to go back to reshoot.
Next we went to my house to film Charl coming back from the cafe, and then going to the woods with the dog (Casper). We had some difficulties keeping the pan up with casper pulling Charl to get to Gregg or trying to get to us, but after a few try's we finally got what we were looking for.
The woods shoot was our most successful, although not planned we made a few changes to the shoot there and then as they were opportunites that we couldn't miss! As the camera was rolling, Casper started to bark as he heard another dog, we managed to get a clip of him barking and wanted to use it in the film.

Shooting on location: shoot 1

As arranged on the shooting schedule we went out on the set days and filmed. Our first shoot was the cafe scene. Like we said we were going to make our own set which is what we did with a grey board, some handmade paper signs and a table. After showing the stuff we filmed to some of our peers and our media teacher we could tell that they weren't too keen. It didn't look like a cafe scene and looked really unproffessional. I work in a cafe and after asking my boss for permission they let us film inside the cafe when it was quiet, the result was that the audience actually knew she was in a cafe and made it look a lot more proffessional. The left picture is the cafe set that we made, the second photo is a still from an actual cafe

The second shoot was the news reports. We used one of our friends from our media class and again used the grey board with a red sheet over it. The camera was also set to manual mode which made it all out of focus, our newsreported didn't look like a news reporter and the whole thing looked really poor. We then decided that we would use a green screen after finding a background we liked on live type. Our other media teacher also said that she would be our newsreporter. Overall it looked a million times better with a green screen and was really interesting to make. To learn how to do it we watched a tutorial on YouTube which was really helpful and we did it on final cut.

The left was our first attempt at a news report, its unfocused and looks nothing like a news report. The right picture is our second attempt using green screen.

The next shoot was at Sarah house for the kitchen scene. This again was all out of focus as we didn't realise that the camera was set on manual and on the preview screen showed it as in focus. We then had to go back and reshoot this to improve the quality.

The left photo is the first attempt and is out of focus. The right photo is the second attempt.

Preparing for the shoot

In order to make the shoot successful we need to be organised, have the right equipment and everyone to know what they are doing.
Firstly what are the problems going to be?
We looked at the weather reports to make sure the weather is okay to film outside, we didn't want it to rain as we were going to spend a lot of time filming in the woods.
The equipment we are going to need will be:

-HD Camera
- Clapperboard
-Tripod
- HD tape



The camera work will probably be shared throughout the shoots, so we all participate and whilst one of us shoot, one of us will be in charge of the clapperboard and the other organising the actors.
Whoever is doing the camera work at the time will have to check the camera is charged enough, the framing is right and whether the lighting is okay.
Whoever is in charge of the clapperboard can help who is on the camera and help organise actors, check the costumes and make sure the props are there and ready to be used.
Whoever is organising actors will have to make sure they know what they have to do and whether they know their lines.

To organise the actors we have supplied them with, script, shooting schedule and a story list. Luckily Gregg can drive and is willing to drive us to to each of our locations so this means that we won't have any difficulty getting there.

Brand Identity

A typical definition of 'Brand Identity' is:
Visible elements of a brand (such as colors, design, logotype, name, symbol) that together identify and distinguish the brand in the consumers' mind.

Basically in terms of our film, the visible elements such as, colours that are commonly used, shapes that are related to our film for example a werewolf or symbols used are all incorprated into the design of our titles, as this place where all these elements come together.

Harry Potter is a good example, the font style is a gothic style which ties in with:
- The setting (almost all the buildings are gothic)
- The plot; mystical
The colours used also tie in with the gothic style and the convention of Gothic is stormy weather which is used in the background.

Title research

Now we have finished the treatment, the next step is the storyboard. For A2 our storyboard this year will be very detailed and one of these details will be that it will contain is the titles of the film.
Our first step is to research some titles of a similar genre. Our genre is a thriller/mystical genre.


A film that is really similar to ours is The Wolfman:

These titles are very conventional, the black background is a gothic colour and the moon is a connected to werewolves as in full moons make the human turn into a werewolf.
When creating our titles we will incorparate colours related to the gothic theme and also elements of mystical thriller.

Our titles will contain:

-a dark background

- moon in the 'O'

- Gothic colours ; dark and gloomy

Film title examples from a similar genre:

The Village:

This film is a thriller and is similar to ours because the villagers fear something mystical in the woods:

28 Days Later:

Panic Room:

I really like the titles in this film, the typography is really catchy and unusual because its incorporated into the background of where its set, we really liked titles and decided that we'd incorporate this idea into our titles.