Monthly Diary- January

This month has mostly been spent editing our remaining footage and incorporating transitions and animations to make our film trailer look more effective. Furthermore, I have also begun to look at film posters and magazines and narrowed down my search to base my magazine on "Little White Lies" magazine. From this I then produced my magazine front cover using pictures that we had taken at the abandoned house, the picture fits the brief of a little white lies magazine as it is iconic and stands out and will be appealing to my target audience.

Monthly Diary December 2012

This month has been a very productive month. As a group we have all worked hard into completed assigned tasks. Sadie has foccussed on constructing a storyboard and using shots that she has produced to incorporate it into the story board. Brandon has been editing our feedback and editing our title sequences. Frankie has been editing our presentation that was performed to the class. Whereas will has been looking at props and soundtracks and possible locations for our filming. Towards the end of the month we focussed on our filming and have now completed all of our filming and edited most of our footage and produced a first draft for our trailer. At this stage the sounding has not been produced so the first draft lacks sound which does make a signifcant different as the music is incorporated to create tension.

Second Filming Session

Today was another successful day of filming. Building upon our abandoned house scenes we focused today on our school scenes and spent a lot of time manipulating and varying different camera angles to create the perfect shots. The scenes in school include a build up of the couple of Matt and Jodie, where it is portrayed that they are a couple. We also have a school scene after Jodie gets taken and involves Matt asking where Jodie was this scene starts to create tension and we focused heavily on the dialogue and the tone of voices used by both Matt and Jodie's friend Frankie.

First Filming Session

Today During our coursework lesson we begun our first filming session. The location was an abandoned house about 15 minutes away from our school so this gave us plenty of time to film. We took with us our video camera as a tripod was not needed during this filming session. We had all our members of the group and our two additional drama student actors. Within our first session we managed to complete all our shots needed for the trailer plus several other additional shots that would all be edited and then as a group we would decide what shots to include into our trailer. From this the lighting was perfect as it was the middle of the day and the location meant that for any shots where the lighting needed to be varied that dark house gave us this option. In terms of our storyboard, we followed exactly what we had devised as a group.
Below I have some still shots of the fascinating house.

Monthly Diary November 2012

The past few weeks lessons has focussed on planning for our main coursework trailer. What was involved was trying to create an idea and in turn think up the props, setting, location, story and the cast for this. We then had to establish this into a PowerPoint presentation which we then presented to the rest of the class and on camera. We used the class as a good use of audience feedback, helping get their ideas and thoughts on what could improve our trailer idea and whether it will be reasonable to make.

The response came back fairly positive, with a number of people excited by our idea and potential trailer.  The negative feedback we got was mainly to do the subliminal extras we planned to put in. After analysing this, we took this feedback on board and hope to improve it for once the filming starts

Monthly Diary September

During the past few weeks the main focus has been on preparing for our new main project. I have been assigned researching into low and high budget films. Anaylsising the marketing of these films to get to grips with the film industry timetable. We have began brain storming ideas for our film trailer. Thinking of props and settings to incorporate. I have began constructing a powerpoint presentation on ideas for our film trailer. After this was completed the rest of the class was used as a good source of audience feedback outlining areas which they liked and areas which needed to be changed.