Feedback for Practical

Excellent transitions editing between computer room and hallway. Editing a very strong aspect to the sequence including use of match on action. Appropriate, effective and imaginative presentation of titles both in the diegetic world (on ipods etc.) and non-diegetic world. First shot of the sequence is excellent but the effectiveness of it is lost as the 'watcher is not seen for long enough before tracking forward to the monitor. A very strong piece of work. Well done.

Wednesday's Production Meeting

Today was very busy. We had to get our film finished, add titles and add the soundtrack. But despite all of this we managed to come in on time and we know have a high quality film.

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Jon, Rob, Dan

Credit Ideas

For our credits we have come up with some ideas for us to use. They are:

Stalk.net
Rob Kendall
Jonathon Bulbrook

Script by Dan Aschcroft
Camerawork by Jonathon Bulbrook and Dan Ashcroft
Titles by Rob Kendall
Locations by Rob Kendall
Editing by Jonathon Bulbrook
Soundtrack by Dan Ashcroft
Co-Producers Dan Ashcroft and Rob Kendall
Executive Producer by Jonathon Bulbrook

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Dan, Rob, Jon

Monday 15 December - One of the last production meetings

On Monday Jon was busy editing the footage together after we finished filming everything we needed. Jon spent a good 2 hours editing it together.

During Filming Rob and Jon set up the chat section while Dan filmed the final parts as both Rob and Jon were in the film.

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Jon

Rough Cut

Here is our Rough Cut. We have just got a basic rough cut done and we will be continuing to finish editing it over this lesson and next lesson.

This Weeks Progress

On Monday Rob and Jon filmed most of our opening sequence. Most of the footage is filmed, we just have a bit more to do over this week but due to illness we haven't been able to get much more done with both Rob and Dan being ill this week.

On Wednesday Dan and Jon started to edit together our footage. We have just about got the rough cut sorted and need to add the final parts of footage, soundtrack and titles for the final film. We currently have our film edited to a rough timescale and shot duration but over Today and next week we will finish editing it together and make minor tweaks to the existing shot duration.

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Dan, Jon, (Rob is still ill)

The Soundtrack being edited in Garage Band

This screenshot shows part of the creation stage when making our sound track. We have continued to make it more tense and added more suspense to make it suit the film more.

Test CCTV footage

This is one of our pieces of test footage that we have looked at. We have tried to recreate the CCTV style footage.

With this video you can't quite see what the effect looks like compared to the real footage due to it being compressed but you get a good idea.

Props, Costumes and Locations

After looking at many possibilities we have finally decided on our props, costumes and locations.

Props

- Mobile Phone - for credits
- iPod - for credits
- Laptop/Computer

Costumes

- The main character who the audience are meat to identify with will wear ordinary casual clothes.
- The antagonist won't be seen as a whole, the audience will just see parts of his body or a silhouette

Locations

- For the beginning sequence where we see the antagonist, we will film it in G7 at Long Road due to the fact that we have access to computers that we can make look really effective.
- When we see the protagonist, it will be filmed in the corridor before the Refectory because the ceiling is low meaning that we can get a good CCTV style angle.
- For the corridor scene we will use the corridor outside the internet cafe to match the refectory scene.
- For the first computer scene we will again use G7 as this will make a realistic computer scene.
- We will then cut back to G7 once again but it will be dark again with the antagonist looking at the screen at the main character. Also there will be the word document that the main character is working on.
- The last part will also be filmed in G7 with the protagonist talking on an instant messaging system which then says they are looking at her. She looks around the classroom and see no-one at any of the windows. This will end our actual footage for the title sequence.

Our Deadlines

These are our deadlines that we need to meet:

1. End of the last lesson of w/c 24th November: ANIMATIC DEADLINE.
2. End of the last lesson of w/c 8th December: ROUGHCUT DEADLINE.
3. End of 1st/ 2nd lesson of w/c 15th December: FINAL CUT DEADLINE.
4. 9am 19th December COMPLETED EVALUATION POWERPOINT TO MOODLE.

Test Location and Prop Images

Today we have been preparing to film by taking pictures of locations and our props that we will be using in our opening sequence. We really like these different ideas unlike conventional opening titles. We have decided to change the Contact in a phone to one of our credits and we have chosen a CCTV style angle for our location. We will also look at some other features and locations that we can use.

Animatic Feedback

Today we had our animatic screened in class and we were given feedback.

Our feedback was:
- We were told that the title sequence wasn't clear enough to tell the audience what the film will be about.
- Also we didn't have many close-ups of the victim, instead of this we have close ups of mobile phones, ipods and laptops.

- The good points of our animatic was that it has a realistic idea of the pace, the sound that will be used and the camera movement.
- Also the animatic didn't give much of the story line away which means that it keeps the audience guessing what is going to happen.
- The shot duration is also realistic showing an approximate length of our actual title sequence.

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Jon, Dan, Rob