Minutes for thriller opening sequence

4th January 2011 -

Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. We discussed the locations where we could film and the ones that are easy to access for us. We then decided as a group on the theme of the opening and what shots we would use. Some of the shots that we will use include a canted shot of a tree with nail scrapings embedded into it, many POV shots and low angle shots. We will also use a train track that is near us to add a little bit more drama. We will use quick panning to create the effect that the person is running around checking if anyone is behind her. We decided on filming in the woods by Wem mill and the roads surrounding it. We decided to film in the dark as this would look quite creepy and it will create lots of shadows which will add effect. We decided that we would use editors to input sounds such as twigs breaking and heavy breathing.

6th January 2011 -

Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we started to storyboard our idea, we all drew the shots that would be used in the opening. We will then upload our storyboard to Blogger once it is finished.

20th January 2011 -

Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we carried on storyboarding out idea. We also uploaded some footage that we recorded for our thriller the other day onto our Macs. We will then edit this on Final Cut Express once we have finished storyboarding.

25th January 2011 -

Sophie and Jasmine. Today we uploaded more footage as the original footage was lost on our Macs. I continued to storyboard as Jasmine worked on uploading the footage. We had problems uploading as the cameras kept running out of battery.

27th January 2011 -

Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we were unable to edit our footage as Final Cut would not open our videos. We decided that we needed to re-shoot some of our footage as we missed out shots that are necessary to the opening.

3rd February 2011 -

Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we completed the risk assessment for our production as the college's server had gone down and we were unable to do anything else.

8th February 2011 -

Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we scanned our risk assessment into our blogs and we completed our storyboard and scanned them into our network. Next lesson we will create an animatic out of these images.

15th February 2011 -

Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. We were going to shoot our video again today, but the it decided to rain so we couldn't film. Instead we decided to tidy up our blogs and finish any loose ends.

17th February 2011 -

Sophie, Jasmine and Melissa. Today we tried to use Garageband to start our soundtrack for our thriller opening.

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