Trouble production

This is the logo for our own production company 'trouble productions'.

Improvements

Improvements

We handed in our first draft (Without credits, all shots and our own production logo) and gained feedback from our teacher and class mates. We all decided that there were many improvements to be made. The first improvement needed to be made is cutting down on the length of the production company logo's as 3 was too many and it made it too long with nearly 30 seconds of logo's. We then need to shoot some shots of the body in the forest again as we agreed the murder weapon with blood at the end needed to be more prominent and clearer. We need to add a shot of Billy washing his hands again as it was agreed the shot of the tap without Billy was pointless and unnecessary. We also agreed that the zooming out of the body was for too long. Some of the running away shots also need to be cut and shortened, the music for this section will also be changed as it is too dramatic as does not fit it with the theme of our film. Finally we decided that we just need more shots to explain more showing that it was Matt and Billy who killed the boy in the forest.

Good Shots

Good Shots

 Throughout our opening scene we have 3 shots that work really well we have the zooming out on the body shot, the shot where Billy falls over and the shot showing the CCTV sign. The zooming out on the body shot is really effective as it starts up close in on the body slowly zooming out revealing a big wide empty forest making the body seem smaller and smaller, this shows how the dead body is all alone suggest whoever has done this and left the body here is gone and the reason it is here is unclear.
The shot where billy falls over looks very effective in a long shot from the side of the two. We show Billy falling over to show how he is nervous and anxious over what he has just done and is not paying full attention when he is running. We also see how Matt looks back at him and does not stop to help his friend showing he's scared and just wants to get away from it all.
My favourite shot however is the close up of the CCTV sign as it is showing that they would have been seen running away from the crime scene. It is also a very interesting and nice shot looking over the bridge.

Film Companies - Opening Credits

Film Companies - Opening Credits

We decided that our film would be produced by Revolver Entertainment as well as Trouble productions, we also decided it would be funded by BBC films. At the beginning of our film we need their animated logo's. We have used the trailer for the film city rats as it also was produced by Revolver Entertainment and has the logo at the beginning   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUuF3KWUmSY 

We will also use this clip as it has an animated BBC Films logo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvCbJImgPk

Special Affects

Special Affects

For our film we are not going to be using to many special affects because it is quite a quick and filled starting to a film. We have decide that nearly all of the shot transitions are going to be clean and quick, however there is a scene where the two boys are running down the long path and for this we have used a small fading transition so it make it go quicker and it shows that time is passing by. I think that we have been able to do this well and the transition looks really good and doesn't slow down the pace of the film.

Current stage of editing

Current stage of editing

At this stage we are quite near to finishing the first cut of our film opening the things we have left to do is to add the music and sound effects which we do have we just need to overlay them on the video. We also need to add the rest of our clips and edit them, and then we need to add the film production companies, logos, film credits and the film name. Once all these things are done our first cut will be complete.

Filming day 4

Extra Filming 

Whilst editing the clips we had together we discovered that the total time was below 1 minute 30 seconds, as the project has to be 2 minutes long we did not have enough footage. We then decided that as a group we would add more flash forward clips between each different shot of Billy and Matt running away. We will take a range of different shots and then decide which few we should do. 

Some of the ideas included: A shot of Matt or Billy taking off their jacket, a washing machine spinning,  Billy splashing water in his face after washing his hands, Matt putting his head into his hands and finally a text saying either 'Don't tell anyone' or 'This never happened' or 'What have we done'. 

We also decided we needed one more shot of Billy washing his hands. 

Filming Day 3

Filming Day 3

 On our 3rd day of filming we started off at the same location as last time but in a different area. To start off with we planned out all the different shots that we were going to take and compare them against the story board that we had created. Once we had planned all of our shots we started to experiment with the different angles and distances from which we should take then. After deciding we begun our filming. 

After two hours we had finally got all of the shots that we needed and we were able to capture everything we needed just before it started to get dark. I think that the shots that we got are very good and are able to create the sense of panic that we were trying to show. I think that after some editing and cutting the shots we took would end up being very smooth and will follow our storyboard very well. We have now done all of the filming that we need, unless there are a few shots that need to be re-done.

Filming Day 2

Filming Day 2

Our second day of filming was during our double Media Lesson on Thursday the 29th of November. During this time we filmed the flashback scene showing Billy washing his hands. He had put dirt of them to make it more realistic (he gets the dirt from when the boys were running away and he fell over). We filmed the scene in the school toilets, it was made to look as if he had found the nearest sink possible and that being a public restroom. We did three different shots a Point of view from Billy, a over the shoulder and a close up this was to show different shots every time it flashes back. Each of these flash backs will be quickly flashed onto screen as the camera zooms out from the dead body. They will be linked in with white noise and a static screen to help portray the sense of panic as Billy is washing his hands.