Group Discussions: 07/02/13

Today in our lesson we gave audience feedback to our peers on their opening sequences. This allowed us to evaluate the work of others, but also helped me see how we could improve on our own because some of the editing, shots and narrative were very clever.
We also gained some very informative feedback from our peers who pointed out some valuable advice on how to make our opening sequence even better, this included lighting and match on action.

Editing 07/02/13

In today's lesson we finished editing our behind the scenes footage. This helped me to experiment with Final Cut further, and we showed it to many people in the classroom who liked what we had done. The behind the scenes footage altogether is around 3 minutes long, we also took some photos in class which I included at the end. Overall, I think the video is humerus and vibrant, which is quite the opposite to the tension and suspense we have tried to create in our actual opening sequence, however we had fun filming our piece and editing it. 

Group Discussions: 04/02/13

In the lesson today, Kiah, Laura and myself made progress in our behind the scenes footage, and applied a soundtrack to it. We decided to use something upbeat and vibrant, and after much searching decided to use Azealia Banks - 212. In our next lesson we will hopefully 
begin to work on our soundtrack for our actual opening sequence. 

Initial Planning: Shooting Schedule

In order to structure our filming day to make it most time efficient, we planned the order which we would take our shots. During our filming day we generally stuck to this, however after we adapted some scenes, and the end of the opening sequence had an alternative ending, the order some shots were taken in changed. During the day we filmed in the house first, and then in the car (due to 1) Nikolai being a little late and 2) It was quite cold outside!), which meant time was not being consumed unnecessarily. I have included the original shooting schedule here:

Initial Planning: Script and Synopsis

During the initial planning of our opening sequence it was recommended that we included minimal speaking during it. As there were only two characters, we only planned for there to be one sentence of dialogue which occurred at the end. However, as the opening sequence changed, on the day we decided there to be no speaking at all. Here I have included both photos of our planned script, and the synopsis.

Initial Planning: Risk Assessment

Whilst initially planning the filming, we conducted a risk assessment to ensure that we understood some of the risks which may take place whilst shooting. Here is the risks we listed that may occur:

1)	Be careful to not burn our hands whilst using the cameras as they may get hot quickly.
2)	Do not drop the camera.
3)	Do not eat or drink near any of the equipment.
4)	Be careful to not trip up over the wires.

Editing 01/02/13

In the lesson today, we carried on editing our opening sequence, however at times we have found it slightly tricky to match up some of the sound with the footage on Final Cut. We have now put the CCTV camera effect on both clips it needed to be on, and are now in the process of trying to perfect each shot to make the entire film look as professional as possible.
Today we also began to edit our 'behind the scenes' footage, which will also be put onto the group blog. Today I experimented with the text to put on some of the shots, and we will hopefully finish editing this sequence in the next couple of lessons.