Final Project- More filming

After weeks of not filming the meat scene we have finally filmed it. We have filmed every part we will be needing to complete our final project. On Sunday Craig managed to go to Sainsbury's and buy some lamb kidneys and a sirloin steak. In the shots we have used the meat in different ways such as tearing and cutting the meat. I must admit that watching these clips back the images are somewhat disturbing, however these images fit in with the genre of our project. Different angles of the knives and meat are being Incorporated into our project.We struck trouble when we couldn't get the props and the same location as the first clips but now we are back on track. Already we have edited 70% of our clips, we needed the filming of the meat badly because our project was far to short before hand. We are giving a lot onto this project and will be spending a lot of dinner times and Free's in the media classroom working on this so we can reach our deadline without any problems.

For reference of the pictures of meat look on Craig's blog

Final Project- Editing

Today we are carrying on with the editing we started at the beginning of the week to make sure we get our rough cut completed for the deadline. Today we have added two new effects to our piece of work we think these have improved the quality of the clip. These are:

• A bloody handprint on the titles screens. On the title screens there is now a bloody handprint in the back ground, behind the writing, James has editing this image to make the red a darker red which matches some other writing we will have in the clip
• A heartbeat sound overplaying throughout the whole film. Throught our film we are having a heartbeat playing constantly, we have found a heartbeat sound clip and slowed it down.

What do people think of this image? is it effective?

Final Project- Credits

Througout our film we will be having the credits flashup on a black screen, these credits will be :

• Producer - Craig Mullen, James Corker & Lauren O'Brien
• Distributer - Lionsgate
• Writer - Craig Mullen
• Editor - James Corker
• Director - James Corker
• Co-Director -Lauren O'Brien
• Actors - Lauren O'Brien & Craig Mullen
• Music - Jonathan Moore

Final Project- Rough Cut

When piecing together our filmed clips we have realised that our film does not last for the 2 minutes it should, it only lasts for 1 minute 30. This weekend we are going to do some more filming, a clip of Craig cutting up a liver in the kitchen will be filmed. This will add the to "killer" threat in our film as the liver will look like a human organ and will give a more sinister twist to our film. So hopefully by tuesdays lesson we will have our rough cut up to the 2 minute mark we are wanting and if we're lucky maybe more.

Final Project - Using Clips

On Thursday we shot the outside footage and we shot this at my house at 4.30 after school, this was the earliest time we could all meet up with it still being light outside. Any later and the darkness would have taken over our shot and would have made it more difficult to get the shots we wanted and would have made it harder to see where we are going for example in the cut next to my house where we shot Craig walking. On Tuesday, James and I watched through the clips we shot and picked out the ones we were going to use, we found that we were gonna use all of clips shot on Thursday.

Clip:
57- Craig walks to door and then knocks
58-A close up of the knocking of the door and of the victim. Criag is let into the house by the next victim
59- Craig is let in the house and then there is a zoom out of the front door, this will be the last clip we use
60- A close up of Craig's clenched fist
61- A cut of Craig walking past, just from the chest down
62- Craig walks up the steps and down the cut
63- An overhead shot of Craig when walking down the cut
64- A close up of Craigs feet when walking up the steps
65- A shot of Criag walking towards the end of the cut a front view, a long shot
66- A long shot of Craig walking towards the door
67- A shot of Craig walking towards the door but from a different angle

The shots from 57-66 we have decided will be mixed in with the kitchen scene this will give the audience a sense of knowing. They will be able to follow the story more this way. Shot 59 will be the last clip we use, this is when the killer is let into the house by the unknowing victim and then there is a zoom out of the door. I think thisis very effective because the audience will know what is about to happen because they have watched the rest of the clips.

Media Title And Production Company

Due to popular demand the title of our final project will be 'Animus Messor' which in latin means soul harvestor. We put the titles we liked on Craigs blog and we asked our peers to vote for their favourite one. Myself and James liked harvestor but Animus Messor was the favourite so we decided to go with this. We added a glow so it blended the two words and made it look interesting. The english translation we decided to add it to the title, so people watching wouldnt need to ask what it meant or be confused. The production company logo we are in the middle of making it an animated logo, we are trying out different effects and will post on the blog with the final product. Please leave comments for any critisim or praise  

Final Project

Today we are carrying on with the editing of the first footage we have shot. We will be shortening the clips which we think lasts too long, an example of the clip is the fridge scene. The clip shows Craig bending down and searching the fridge, this would be come tedius if we left it that length, we have shortened it so it moves the clip along.