Editing session 2

Last Week we started editing our footage for the second time, we had about 4 minutes of footage that we filmed. we watched all the footage through and we had quite a lot of usable footage that could work well together with the footage we filmed before. the footage we filmed the second time is during the day which means that it will give our trailer a day to night feel, following what the 3 friends in our trailer went through throughout the day. We cut down our footage to 51seconds with only adding a few transitions between some scenes next editing session we will add logos and text clips into our trailer to get our first draft trailer.

Second filming session

On Wednesday the 24th november kate, katie and myself went out to the woods that is next to our college to continue  filming footage for our trailer, it was in the middle of the day so it was brighter than the first time we filmed when it was really dark and our footage was'nt as clear as we wanted. As we filmed in the daylight we will now be able to change the effects of the footage into black and white or an effect that would make our trailer look more like a horror. We managed to get all the footage we need and we now have to cut it down and edit it which will be done before christmas.
We filmed location shots of the woods along with clips of katie, kate and i acting within the trailer, we filmed the scenes in a way that we can cut back and forth to the footage we had shot first of all to make it not look too different when watching the trailer.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

for the next filming session

We still have to film some more footage for our trailer which we are going to film on wednesday 24th november. the footage we still have to get is:

• shot of the cast hearing noises 
• a long shot of the woods to show where they are and what they are seeing
• a close up of one of the actors face, worried 
• shot of the camera on the floors showing feet walking away 

imovie session

(image of the amount of footage we kept)

Today we uploaded our footage that we filmed to a portable hard drive and saved it to the mac. We then used imovie, uploaded our footage and watched it through. We then went on to imovie help where we watched some video tutorials so we can find out how we use imovie we watched clips to show us how to edit and cut, use transitions and add music all the features that we would need to have in our trailer.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#intro
We found that we had quite a bit of footage that couldn't be used as the picture wasn't that good, we cut our footage down and we ended up with about 20 seconds of footage, we did not edit this anymore as we need to film some more footage.
Shots we need are:

• Scenes of panic by the Characters
• location shots of the woods
• chasing/running shot
• screams 
• End shot (Camera on ground showing someone else there)

We are going to carry on filming on 10th of november.

Fonts

Today i looked at some fonts that i would think would work well for the title of our trailer. I wanted each of the fonts to be effective without being to much and these three fonts are quite effective and bold, they all would work well within our trailer or on our poster.

we will choose one of these fonts to use in our trailer if we can to show the title of our film. this will be shown for 5 seconds before the last clip of the trailer is played. 

Filming trailer

(image of the footage we shot)

On wednesday october 27th our group went out to Foxes forest to start filming our trailer, when we arrived at the location we scouted out which parts of the forrest and the surrounding area would be most affectivtive to shoot in. We filmed some long shots of our actors walking in the woods at the strat bt we had some trouble with the camera we was using. The camera was not picking up the picture in the dark, even with our torches shined on them, it was only when we were in well lit places that the picture was clear. We did manage to film some footage but we dont no how effective it will be, one day after college in the coming week we are going to film some more footage ready for our lesson.

Possible Movie names

We had a production meeting today to discuss possible title for our movie.

• The Woods
• Alone
• Haunted
• nowhere to hide
• The unknown 
• Hidden

We put together a questionnaire listing these possible movie titles and asked to get feedback from people in our class to see which one they would work best and be the most effective.

The results of the questionnaire showed that the movie title: The Unknown, came out as the most popular choice. This is what we also thought would work the best for our trailer as it is the one which sounds most like a title that people would want to watch.

Here is a copy of our questionnaire showing the results.