The Journey
This page is a diary of the journey that we went through to make the final thriller film. We went through many stages and on this page is where it will be shown at every stage. It will explain what went on and how this benefited us and our film.
We started off by planning our film by drawing what we imagined onto a storyboard. The storyboards consists of different camera angles, the sound and what will be happening in this scene.
We started off by planning our film by drawing what we imagined onto a storyboard. The storyboards consists of different camera angles, the sound and what will be happening in this scene.
This is the final storyboard of what our film should end up looking like and the sequence of which it should end as.
The next step of creating our thriller was to create an Ident which would fit into this as our production company, the name we came up with was, 'Ellipsis Productions'. We made the Ident in Final Cut express. We then searched for music that would fit our Ident and which would potentially fit a scene of our film. We done some research on this and we got in contact with the people who made the music. They agreed that we was able to use the music. We had to add the beginning titles, we added the Director in with the Ident to make it more effective. We then planned to add all of the other titles in to the beginning scene to the film.
We then started to film our first scene. The setting of our film was very different to how we planned it. We planned it as the woman was walking down a dark road at night and then gets captured. We didn't really like the thought of filming at night because we would need a lot of lights in able for the cameras to capture the action. So instead of this we ended up filming our first scene in an alley which looked very isolated and suspicious.
Due to the result of our filming of this first scene, we came to a decision to make sure we done it again. The reason why we thought to do it again was because it did not look realistic and the weather was sunny as we wanted a more dull atmosphere.
We then went and filmed again, making the sequences shorter and using much more camera angles to make it look realistic. It was raining on the day that re-done this scene which we was very happy about as rain shows a sign of sadness and suited the atmosphere very much. We was very happy with this outcome and we decided to use this in our film.
For the main part of our film we was really struggling about where to set this and where we would get all of the props and actors from. In the end we achieved all of the things we didn't think we would have. Thirteen of our friends showed up in order to be in this film which we was very pleased about. We set this scene in the Robert Clack drama rooms instead of the All Saints one as the lights were much better. We then borrowed a table, cloth and a poker set from people we knew which really set the atmosphere of the casino. We was very happy about this, however the battery of the camera went when we was filming the last part. As the battery went we had to charge it for about 10 minutes whilst everyone prepared themselves.
The next step of creating our thriller was to create an Ident which would fit into this as our production company, the name we came up with was, 'Ellipsis Productions'. We made the Ident in Final Cut express. We then searched for music that would fit our Ident and which would potentially fit a scene of our film. We done some research on this and we got in contact with the people who made the music. They agreed that we was able to use the music. We had to add the beginning titles, we added the Director in with the Ident to make it more effective. We then planned to add all of the other titles in to the beginning scene to the film.
We then started to film our first scene. The setting of our film was very different to how we planned it. We planned it as the woman was walking down a dark road at night and then gets captured. We didn't really like the thought of filming at night because we would need a lot of lights in able for the cameras to capture the action. So instead of this we ended up filming our first scene in an alley which looked very isolated and suspicious.
Due to the result of our filming of this first scene, we came to a decision to make sure we done it again. The reason why we thought to do it again was because it did not look realistic and the weather was sunny as we wanted a more dull atmosphere.
We then went and filmed again, making the sequences shorter and using much more camera angles to make it look realistic. It was raining on the day that re-done this scene which we was very happy about as rain shows a sign of sadness and suited the atmosphere very much. We was very happy with this outcome and we decided to use this in our film.
For the main part of our film we was really struggling about where to set this and where we would get all of the props and actors from. In the end we achieved all of the things we didn't think we would have. Thirteen of our friends showed up in order to be in this film which we was very pleased about. We set this scene in the Robert Clack drama rooms instead of the All Saints one as the lights were much better. We then borrowed a table, cloth and a poker set from people we knew which really set the atmosphere of the casino. We was very happy about this, however the battery of the camera went when we was filming the last part. As the battery went we had to charge it for about 10 minutes whilst everyone prepared themselves.
We looked back at the last part of the film where we was rushing due to the camera losing battery and we really wasn't happy with the camera angles. There was no time left to film this again, we were unhappy about the shots but we added it transitions to make it a little bit more effective.
As we was about to publish our film, we was told that it was too long. This caused loads of confusion as many scenes had to be deleted. The only way that we could have made it much shorter was by deleting the first scene where the girl was taken, and put it in towards the end as a flashback. In the end of all of this it made our film look so much better, it also made more sense too. We realised that this was probably for the best for our film as many scenes were longer than they had to be. Trimming down some scenes of our film really helped and the outcome was at the correct time.
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