Music

We have been using this website to look for music for our Thriller opening:

http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/index.html?feels[]=Suspenseful

We have found a piece called "Awkward Meeting" which suits our piece and we plan to use this once we have done some tweaking in Garage Band.

Unedited Filming

This is our footage, straight from the camera, unedited. We filmed last night, and although it was absolutely freezing outside we are happy with the footage we shot, and think once edited, it will be as good as we could've hoped.

New Location Scouting.

These are pictures of where we now plan to do our Thriller Opening filming on thursday. The first is the outside of the building which we are going to use, as there are places around there which some of our shots will be effectively filmed from. We are going to move the bin, and cover the "sixth form" sign to make it appear less like a school building. The second is of the main door into the meeting room we are going to use, there is a notice board on the wall which we need to make sure is not in any of our shots, as we do not want it to appear like we are filming in a school.

New Health & Safety Risk Assessment

As we are no longer filming our thriller opening along a main road and at a train station, our Health and Safety Risk Assessment needs to be changed.

Falling Over.

As before, our female protagonist (played by Hannah) needs to fall over, Hannah has drama and dance training which will enable her to fall safely and not injure herself. Also, we are planning on filming Hannah tripping, so will not need for her to fall entirely onto the floor, which will reduce possible harm that could be caused to her.

School.

As we are now filming in school, we need to be aware of the people who will be around at time of filming. We plan to film after school, waiting until the majority of younger students have gone home. However, as there are normally lots of activities going on at school, on the day of filming, we will have to take into consideration the people who are around at the time.

Lesson 09/02/2010

In this lesson we began to walk through and 'mark out' our piece (we did not do any filiming). We went over with each other our costumes and props etc. Our location pictures have been taken and will be uploaded onto the blog tonight!

New Storyboarding (8th Feb '10)

Today we completed our storyboard and filmed it (with shot by shot commentary) unfortunately we are having problems uploading it to blogger, so will find a solution to this when our teacher returns lesson.

New Prop List

For main female character:

- a range of books,

- folders,

- a diary,

-2 different pairs of shoes.

For meeting setting:

- Potted Plants,

- a clock,

- objects for table: mugs, laptops,

- work to go on board, ie. pie charts.

New Location Scouting

We have decided to film our new (& improved) Thriller opening in school, we are using the formal board room in S Block, to create a professional looking environment for our "meeting" setting and the area outside, where there are lots of paths & trees which will enable us to get some interesting and more creative shots which are more like those we have observed in other Thriller Openings.

5th Feb '10

in today's lesson we completed our new plot, discussed our new ideas and completed our new storyboard (ready to be filmed next lesson).We have also completed our new location scouting, props and cast list. These will be blogged next lesson.

Filming Dates

We have had to postpone our filming due to the problems we had with gaining permission to film at Newport train station - they said no.

We plan to film at some stage this this week and finish before the weekend.

New Storyline and Plot lines

Following the recent letter we have received about the use of filming at the station, we have decided to change our story-line slightly in order for us to include more thriller conventions and we would film at school so that all of our group would be able to get there easily. We have come up with a new story-line.