Second Draft

Here is the second draft of the music video, however the quality of the video is rather poor this is because of the way it was uploaded, so the final piece will be of better quality. 

Further work to the video includes; 

• Recording non-diegetic sound and recording the dialogue 
• Addition of sound-scape and possible theme music at the start and end of video
• A title sequence 
• Any editing of effects on the video, though this will be kept minimal - not necessarily meaning simple though. 

Filming 4

Looking at the footage in order on final cut we were able to figure out what sections of filming were needed more clearly. Our final pieces of footage were based around the Witness and how he came to actually witness to mob.

All of these shots will have me as the witness narrating over them, though will be cut to shots in the cafe to show the responses of the killer to what I'm saying. 

Update On Filming and Editing

Video blog on the last bit of filming, the reason my eyes may look funny is because I'm reading off my screen. Enjoy.

Filming 3

After reviewing the footage that we had already as a group we made a plan of what shot we have left to film to tie the scenes together. Overall the Cafe scene is pretty much there, our main focus was on the Estate scenes, having establishing shots of and setting and of all the characters (witness, victim and mob).

The main scene we wanted to get were broken down into; Opening of witness running away, Witness watching the gang, mob leader by the car  and several establishing shots, including one from the victims point of view from with in the car as you drives up. This is one of my personal favourite shots as it not only sets the scene showing the mob on the estate to the audience, but it is a great shot for building tension as the audience will sense there is a connection between the driver and the mob.

After the days filming the only shots left to get now are the establishing shots of the witness (Me) at a store the entering the estate. These shots should take to long at all to get and will finish the filming stage of the project. So far though I am extremely happy with how filming has gone, sure we had a bit of troubled finding a suitable time of day, but the shots we have now are of a good standard.

Filming 2

We went out and filmed the cafe section of our thriller opening. For this section of filming I was acting as the witness along side Tommy (the killer), Lewis was filming and Declan was organising which shots we had to film.
The filming went really well and we got plenty of shots from a variety of angles shown below.

Filming Postponed

We were hoping to film the shots from the estate setting which we did not get the first time, however we have had to postpone this filming due to one of our actors being ill. We will be in touch with everyone involved through the Facebook page to rearrange when we can film. We also hope to get the cafe scene filmed Friday, this day was easy to organise as it was just the three of us and Tommy (the killer) who are needed.

Filming

Filming has initially been split into to two parts, the estate scene and the cafe scene. Though we will probably have to film extra shots, or re films shots which we have taken into account when planning. Our first filming sesh took part the other day and we decided to get the estate shot out of the way first as this was the most challenging due to the amount of people we have to organise and getting the light of the location right, as soon the evenings will get to dark.

During the scene myself and Lewis were filming, and Declan was acting as one of the mob members. We managed to get most of the footage, though will need to go back and film one or two other shots. Below are some stills from the day.

Final Cut Practice

As I am A bit of  novice with using Final Cut Express I decided to practice using the program, editing a piece of footage. This also gave me the opportunity to using my Camera, which I will be using during filming as it is a higher quality then the schools cameras, so I also got to play around with the cameras filming functions.  Below are a series of effects that I applied to the video, I found practising using final cut was really helpful and has me more confident for when it comes to editing the actual thriller opening.