Edit 1-Editing the thriller opening

After we finished filming the thriller, we then had to edit it before we had our finished product. We had cut & paste a few scenes, including one where a member of the public interrupted filming & looked into the camera, smiling. We also added some non-diergetic sound to the piece to add some atmosphere, as well as various fades & transitions.

Our initial shoot of the opening included a scene where we see a drug deal commence. This, however, did not seem very significant, & would not catch the viewer's attention in any way, & so we decided we would change this occurrence by going out & re-filmed the scene with a piece of important technology being dealt rather than a common drug. We then slipped this into our existing footage to piece together the final opening.

Screening & Audience FeedBack

Here our thriller opening is being displayed to two members of the public to gain their overall reaction to the film.

The audience expressed various views about the production, including one of them mentioning that they wanted to know more about the piece of tech exchanged between The Collector & The Dealer. This comment is good for our thriller as it shows that our opening has somewhat succeeded in it's aim. The whole idea of the opening is the 'conspiracy' behind this piece of tech & the operation taking place around it, & if this enigma has caused a viewer to say that they want to watch on to find out what this enigma is, then that means that, in that respect, the opening has succeeded in it's aim of drawing in audiences, which is exactly what we set out to do.

Sound Test

This is our Sound Test video, & was the first time we ever filmed outside.

            
When making this video we put great focus on the sound aspect. This was the first time we had ever used a boom & dead animal before & so recording sound using the audio apparatuses was an interesting experience for us. The sound could be greatly improved (as well as the story & filming, though this was not the aim of the task), thought this was our first time with said equipment.

3rd Production Meeting

This was our last production meeting before filming. Here we settled on our final locations & arranged the days of which we plan upon filming. We hope to be done filming by christmas, as long as everything goes as planned. After the meeting we collected all the equipment we needed & set out for filming over the Christmas holidays, ready to face whatever filming perils await us!

Introducing Our Group

This merry band of misfits is the group I shall be working with for my A-level media course. Our groups is called "White Virgin Media" & consists of Carly Laslett, the Michal Cendrowski, Joshua Collier & myself, Samuel Hannigan.


   

Cinematography

This was our first time filming as a group. Here we are merely testing out the equipment & editing software for the first time, & using some of the camera shots & angles we have recently learned, such as the close up, extreme close up, rolling shot, tracking shot, low angle, long shot, point of view shot etc.


              

The video could be much better, as it does not show a huge amount of skill, but it was, however, our first attempt at such a project, & our skills have improved greatly since this production.

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