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Music

I did some research on possible selections of free non-copyrighted music for our thriller;

This first one i thought would be good for the begining half of our opening as it is very haunting and chilling.

This is my favourite of the two, it would be potentially used for the second half, although it may be considered too cheery, but this could be used to our advantage as a way of tricking the audience into a false sense of ease.

Editing 2

Looking back in class at what we re-shoot in the weekend we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of some of the shots, one of my favorites being Eve walking down the path blurry, camera focused in on a leaf. However we clearly still didn't manage to organize our time well as although we started filming early, our last shots of Rachael's Mum looking out the window are in the dark which completely ruins our continuity and confuses our narration. We have discussed ways of correcting this error by adapting the story-line so that Eve has gone missing and the Mother doesn't know where she is, thus the time change and to try and edit out the garden in some of the shots and to zoom in on just the Mum so the lighting change is less obvious. I hope our blunder does not damage our end result and i believe that the change in story could be an improvement as it adds to the audiences tension as they do not know where Eve has gone, especially as we are thinking of ending it with an extreme close up of Abigail's eyes with a darkened (via editing) background.

Editing

We started by uploading and looking through all our footage from two seperate camera's and two seperate day's and organising them into 'Nikon Saturday', 'Nikon Thursday', 'Sango Saturday' and 'Sango Thursday'. We marked our favourite shots and we were happy with them all, nicely suprised by the school camera's quality and The Nikon was great although a little blurry a times. However we did realise that we had missed out some footage of Rachael's mum and had slipped up on continutity issues with me holding the toy! We had only shot Rachael's mum from behind which looked very strange as the viewer, also as i walked up and down the garden i didn't have the toy in my hand. We decided to have another session of filming the following weekend to fix what we had missed but to also film some extra shots of me dissapearing behind the shed.

Saturdays Filming

On Saturday we had planned to meet at Rachael's house at 10:30 am brining all the camera equipment and props with us. We had to organise our time as Tatiana had to leave at one for her gymnastics practice and Rachael's mum was going out at around three we also didn't have Nuriah to help us organise our time so well. We managed to arrive at a resonable time, i stayed at Molly's house the night before so i would be sure to wake up and we all remembered to eat and have tea before we started. Our main obstcle with filming was that the back of Rachael's garden didn't fit in with our storyboards, we'd imagined Eve peering through the behind the gate where Abigail was standing. We didn't have a gate but we did have an old shed which we could just fit round the back of among with Rachael's old trampoline and single kebab takeaway box. We finished all parts with Tatiana in first so that she could leave, we shot from different angles from behind the shed and added extra fotage of her entering the house picking up a book and leaving a toy behind which we had not originally planned. We then shot me discovering the toy and then standing up and leaving the house to follow in Abigail's footsteps. After our lunch break of chicken, mayo, lettuce, tomatoes, ham and a smudge of barbeque sauce sandwhiches (and a cup of tea) we filmed Rachael's Mum from the kitchen window gazing out into the garden on the phone, we took some time to go through the script with Sarah and make sure she was comfortable with her lines. Rachaels and Molly had to film from upstairs whilst i walked up and down the garden in my dress. Overall i felt our filming was succesful, I esspecially liked our idea to shoot Tati and me reflected in mirrors in the sitting room and their were no more fainting issues.

Thursdays Filming

The first issue with our filming is that except for Tatiana, our Talent we all arrived late. Though not drastically only by ten minutes or so, it still meant we missed out on valuable time to get the costumes and props sorted and to eat some food before filming. The filimng went well, at the start it took us a lot of time to move from one shot to the other but thankfully with some help from our teacher keeping time, we managed to move from shot to shot efficently. There were some issues with dog walkers and their spaniels walking into our frame but overall the footage was great and the snow ended up being an assest and gave a great atmospheric quality to our work, though a little chilly. We were unable to get the last shot, a 360 turn around me standing by the edge of the lake as having not eaten anything, wearing a constricting dress and having just done more running than I've done in the past year i feel faint and we thought it would be wiser to cut filiming short and return to school.

Preparing for Filming

In Preperation for filimg on Thursday my team and I made a checklist for everything that needed to be bought and finished before we started to film at 8:30 Thursday morning. We made sure that our mood boards and animation were completed so that we would have a definite guideline as to what we needed to shoot and gathered ideas about how we each wanted it to look like from our moodboards. We wrote a list of all the props that we needed to bring and assigned each of us the resposbility of doing so, Rachael's main task was organising Tatiana and making sure she came on time and bought shoes and tights for her part, we had already brought in the dresses but Molly had to bring in knee high socks, her camera and tripod and most importantly the toy. My job was to bring in shoes for me to wear, hairbrush and make-up for me and Tatiana to use. The biggest potential issue with filiming was the Snow, we did not know how heavy it would be and as Tatian and I had to wear minimal clothing we did not now how cold we would get and there was the possiblity we would be too cold and have to go back to school having not completed all our filming.

Organising, Props, Costume, etc.

We wrote a 'To Do List' to help organise ourselves with our filming.