Wednesday 30th March

Today in our media lesson, we downloaded the new footage onto the Macs and then began to edit it together it together. We put together the first part of it, (Scarlett and Jamie showing the reality of a happy relationship) and also put some titles into it. We used the sequence of MirrorMask titles as Leanne had already looked at the opening credits of that on her blog. Next we are going to find some pop type music from the internet which is not copyright to use over the top of our 'happy couple' scene. We can already see improvements with the continuity.

29th March 2011

Today, as we needed to re-film, myself and Hayley went out of school in a media lesson and to my house to film some new footage.We filmed an establishing shot of my house from outside, and then inside, we filmed myself sending a text saying 'We need to talk. Meet me at 12 at Pleasure Park tomorrow.x' using different angles. We also filmed Hayley's phone receiving the text as the audience would not know that this was not Ben's phone.

27th March 2011

After editing more of our opening, and also having a  cat with our teacher about continuity, we decided that we were going to re-film out horror film to make it easier for ourselves, and also to make it a more scary build up to the opening.We decided that we would take out some of the characters because this would make it more easier to edit together. We also decided that we would change the names as this would make it easier and less confusing for us. We are now using our real names (Scarlett and Jamie).

Our new idea has not changed much, but what has changed in the plot is
Scarlett (myself) and Jamie are in what seems like a happy relationship to Jamie, Scarlett then breaks up with Jamie and then we continue with the original idea of Jamie then turning crazy and killing Scarlett's friends and family and then eventually her.

Beginning to Edit

On Wednesday 16th March, we started to edit together the opening. We found it okay, but we had a bit of trouble because we noticed that  piece of the footage was blurry, to we overcame this problem by adding in an effect to make it look like it was supposed to be. Also, Hayley had an idea to use jump cuts showing Ben (Connor) and Ellie (myself) all the way through to keep the audience in suspense.

Moving to Post Production

Now that we have all of out footage uploaded onto the Macs, we can now move onto the post production stage of the horror movie opening. All together, out footage is about 11 minutes long. We will need help with putting the music over the top, but to do this, we will use Garrageband. We will also need to enhance sounds to help to create tension.

Props used

Here are the props that we used for our opening: 

This is the cork board that we used for Connor to stab into. The photographs include different characters from the opening at different times. 

This is the knife that Ben (Connor) stabbed into the photographs with. 

All Footage Downloaded

To make sure that the footage was ready to be edited on the macs, Myself and Leanne went to go and put on the last bits of footage. Now, we have all of the footage downloaded that we need for the opening two minutes, we are ready to start the post production stage.