Final Filming - Yesterday

I'm happy with the final editing, I think it has come a lot further than it was on the first draft. I think this is mainly because the filming meets with the conventions of a Thriller a lot more than it did in the first draft, especially the small cuts and close up shots on the face. Although, I also think it breaks the conventions of a Thriller for example how the killer (Lauren Gavagan) is wearing casual clothing, usually the killer wears black formal clothing and gloves, but the fact the the killer is wearing casual clothes gives the impression that she doesn't care which adds to the tension.

Media Draft edit

Editing

We took it in turns to edit small bits, we also all worked together so that if any of us didn't know how to do something and another person did it was quicker than having to figure it out by ourselves. We used the programme Adobe Premier Pro, it was rather complecated to use, but after we got used to it, the simple things were easy to do. When it came to doing harder things we had to ask Mr. Turner to come and help us, after he showed us what to do we would practise it so we would be able to do it without his help.

Filming

Before we began filming we created a filming schedule, so everyone in our group would be able to have a turn with the camera. This is the filming schedule:

Monday 27th Feb
Katie Morrice: Scenes 1-5
Lauren Gavagan: Scenes 6-7
Katie Morrice: Scene 8
Wednesday 29th Feb
Charlotte Tomlinson: Scenes 9-13
Lauren Gavagan: Scene 14
Charlotte Tomlinson: Scene 15
Thursday 1st March
Charlotte Hunter: Scenes 16-20
Charlotte Tomlinson: Scenes 21-23
Charlotte Hunter: 24

In total I filmed about 7 scenes; I found that these scenes weren't hard to shoot because they were mainly filming of the corpses. I found it difficult to use the handheld camera because the angles that I was originally meant to shoot were hard to keep balance, therefore we had to change the angles, e.g. when Charlotte Kirk is dead on the floor I was originally meant to climb over the breakfast bar so it was almost like a bird's eye view shot, I was unable to do this because what I was climbing on wasn't stable enough for me to hold the camera steady.

This is a photo of Charlotte Kirk,
who plays the first dead corpse.

This is a photo of Lauren Gavagan,
who plays the murderer.

This is a photo of the make-up being
applied to Charlotte Hunter

This is a photo of Charlotte Hunter who plays the
second corpse in the opening scene.