Main Task - Editing - First Draft

This is our first draft, with the feedback received from our teachers, Hannah and myself have agreed the beginning definitely needs re-filming in a different room with better lighting and camera angles for dramatic effect. We have also agreed that the opening credits should overlap the opening sequence of the letter. This will create more visual stimuli for the audience and also create more content, benefiting both Hannah and myself.

We're both unsure about the music for the stalking section, it seems unfitting. We shall both pursue a new track which is copyright free for this section. Our teachers had pointed out that the end of the film cuts out rather abruptly. This can be fixed with a straight cut to black by adding a black title at the end of the footage.

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Main Task - Filming

Hannah and myself filmed the scene where I, the unknown stalker, am writing a letter to a the possible victim, Hannah. Although lighting was not adequate, we sufficed with none. However the footage is poorly lit and definitely need re-filming, neither of us have time to do so at this point. The footage captured will do as a rough draft of what the scene will look like after the first draft is handed in and feedback is received.

We captured this footage into Adobe Premier Pro straight after filming, so editing may begin Monday morning.

Main Task - Capturing

In an attempt to capture what film we had from last Wednesday on the computer Hannah and myself discovered that the capturing machine was broken and so, maintenance kept us behind an hour more than planned. Although once captured into Adobe Premier Pro we named file according to the scene and setting (to make finding the right footage whilst editing quicker) and disposed of the footage that was unneeded. This has left us both with the correct scenes to add to with our finished filming on Wednesday.

Main Task - Filming

During the filming process both myself and Hannah decided to start at the end and film, in the city centre of Nottingham. This was due to difficulties occupying a working camera forcing us to become delayed an hour as a result.To fix this issue of time we both planned to film the section of myself writing the letter next Wednesday.

Upon arrival at our first filming destination I filmed Hannah, the potential female victim, on the tripod walking up the alley several times, and then with a hand held technique for the point of view shots of the stalker, again several times to ensure we had a lot to work with in the editing stages.

Hannah and myself then continued onto our next location, a second alley. We then filmed the same shots using the tripod and without numerous times in the hope of adding to our options in the editing stages.

Finally we moved onto filming Hannah entering the alley from crossing a road as it was originally stated in the storyboard. The location for this section is just outside the second alley, opposite the entrance. We filmed this behind some black railings to symbolise the victims forthcoming entrapment and possible demise. Like before we filmed this sequence several times over to ensure we had a good pan as jerks are easily done on a tripod. We shot a zoomed version of this sequence so we could interchange between each shot at the editing stage.

Although the afternoon was not as successful as expected, we did get some good footage to work with to create an adequate preliminary version to use as a rough guide.

Main Task - Plannng - Storyboard Animation

Main Task - Planning - Risk Assessment

Myself and Hannah have written up a risk assessment together to view possible dangerous activities during the filming process.

Main Task - Planning - Film Schedule

Hannah and myself are going to film the stalking sequence on both the 4th and 5th of March, but due to Hannah's other commitments we were unable to film on the morning of the 5th, and so we decided to film the entire sequence on the afternoon and evening of the 4th. Even so, if we'd filmed in Nottingham City Centre on the afternoon and evening as well as the morning of the 5th, there would be a continuity error due to changes in lighting. We shall commence filming at 12 noon, the scene we shall start with the room including the desk and stalker, this should only take a few minutes to do so. Although we will need to print off many picture of Hannah for the final sequence in this room and so this may take up some of out allotted filming time.
Hannah and myself shall then move onto the stalking sequence in Nottingham City Centre. This scene will involve the general public to co-operate and there is a high possibility of some inconveniences occurring during this sequence, for example an undesired vehicle or person(s) walking in front of the camera, because of this, it may take noticeably longer to film and so will use up more of our filming time.