Rough Cut Part 2

Here is our Rough Cut! It was a teeny bit rushed but I think it came out OK. We are going to have to add quite a lot more footage, as it is only just over a minute, and its supposed to be two minutes long. We will add more to the dream sequence.

Rough Cut

The rough cut deadline is today, we are all glad to know that it has been completed, with only a few soundtrack completions to go.
The rough cut is completed, thanks to jacks very hard work and amazing editing skills. Also Chris worked hard on the soundtrack. But overall is was a combined effort of pure labor to get this completed. Not to fear though as only a little more is needed for the final cut and photographic evidence shall be given as this time all of us shall be involved in filming. Currently the last part of the soundtrack is being completed, which will eventually add up to a total of 2 minuets after our final cut is complete.

SOundtrack

I experimented with different everyday sounds mixed with a dramatic backing sound and created this which is an idea for the sound in our bedroom scene.

After halfterm

After a well deserved rest,
this our first week back after half term. Jack is now with us, having seen his filming he has now agreed to edit with us. We are currently editing our rough cut. No more filming is needed. Our soundtrack for the rough cut is nearing finished. I think that our rough cut will be completed this week. (:

Footage

Jack got some footage for us to upload and work with. Aside from the obvious flirting he did he has given us something to work on while he is skiving.

The female character is good for the part because she has a terrifying face and can partially act. We are not happy that the footage mainly contains the lead female laughing when we want to a achieve a supernatural thriller.

The actors for the characters changed as the director (jack) failed to state where the location was for filming and so the original actors could not be present. Still, as we have learned there is a little more to film for the final cut, the actors may make a return but still at this point in time it is uncertain what the director has planned.

Delay

This project has been slightly delayed due to snow storms, they in fact cut out access to the college so therefore due to transportation problems we could not continue as all the equipment was at college. That is not the case now as the storms have stopped.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard. It was drawn by Chris. He's a very talented artist.

Analysis of our blog

Today we got feedback from the rest of the class about our blog. Heres what was said:

Positives:
Lots of written analysis and good examples
Good choice of videos
One post with bullet points - really good to the point
Good videos
Conventions
Lots of research on other films
Good inspirations
Good choice of clips - fit genre well

Improvements:
Not enough plot explanation
Research classics of the genre ( see Quatomass)
Synopsis not very long
No animatic
Not working as a team - blaming each other for lack of work together - RAM
Wheres your ident?
Not enough pictures
Not clear what you are doing
Needs animatic
Too casual

As you can see there are a few improvements to be made, but also as you are aware the ident and animatic have already been uploaded and due to technical faults these could not be displayed on
the blog giving the illusion that they are not there.

Animatic

This is our animatic. It is amazing. The drawings were done by Chris. It was edited together by Jack, and the sound was mostly done by Jack, and Pav did a slight part of the sound. Pav took the photos of the storyboard.

Synopsis:

Chris ( Main female actor ) is an ordinary woman, has a job, trying to cope in life...until one day she comes back from a hard days work and falls asleep. Little does she know that the "dream" she has is in fact reality of the future. Her visions continue, and as confused as she is the idea of "seeing into the future" is just thrown as de'ja vu. These visions continue and start to progress and build up. They start as little visions such as paper cuts, making a sandwich, whats on television. They then start to build up to a whole days.

Our film is starting at this point where she has a vision of a day after work, she is followed by a shady character who confronts her. She sees the death of herself and then the vision distorts and she wakes up. After waking up from this she then realizes that she is having visions as she felt her soul being destroyed, she felt the knife in her back, she felt dying.

After this traumatic event she seeks help and eventually finds out that the visions are not of her own and have been implanted within her. This is the story of how she travels to find out who did this, why, and how to rid herself of these visions.