Moving forward into Post-Production stage

Now that we have completed our Production stage of our horror opening, this means that we can now move forward into the next stage, the Post-Production stage. Altogether, we have about 11 minutes worth of footage that we can edit with to create our 2 minutes horror opening. With the Post-Production stage, we would need to learn the basics of how to edit our horror opening like composing our own music to go over the top and adding different enhanced sound effects to create the tension and suspense in our opening. However, we would move forward into this stage and start editing the next lesson that we have which is on Monday 7th March as we would miss tomorrow's lesson, Wednesday 2nd March due to Skills For Life.

Downloading the footage onto the Mac

Today, me and Scarlett decided to download the footage we filmed of the scene of the stabbing of the photos onto the Mac. The footage downloaded was 7 minutes from 26 clips. This would be more than enough to edit with using that scene and other footage that we also have.

Props we used

These are the props that we used to film the scene of the stabbing of the photos.

These are the photos that Scarlett created and arranged on the noticeboard for Connor to stab into. There are different pictures of the character Ellie (played by Scarlett) for Ben (played by Connor) to stab into to show his anger and the start of his madness and revenge of wanting to kill Ellie.

This is the knife that Connor used to stab into the photos on the noticeboard.



Filming at Scarlett's

On Monday 28th February, me and Connor went to Scarlett's house at 3pm to film the end shots of our horror opening. To create a scary atmosphere, we decided to film the scene of the stabbing of the photos in the dark and using a torchlight to create some light. This worked really well as it made our footage more sinister and frightening which we are trying to create through the character, Ben. I filmed the footage as planned based on our storyboards and also filmed extra shots so we would have more to edit with. I filmed from different angles, from the side and also used over-shoulder shots of Connor stabbing the photos multiple times to have more variety when editing. I also slowly zoomed into the stabbing of the photos to increase the feel of tension and suspense of our opening. By using the torchligh, it created different spotlights and having this scene in the dark made it more scary and on edge as the audience would not be able to see clearly but only shadows, darkness and a bit of light. Scarlett also switched the torchlight on and off when I was filming Connor stabbing the photos. This made our footage look really good as when Scralett switched the light on and off, it created different blurred shadows of the stabbing of the photos and also reflections on the knife which made it look quite dramatic.

After filming these shots, we felt that we had a lot of footage to edit with so we decided to keep the footage we filmed in town. We also decided not to film in town again as some of our cast were busy with other work and might not have a lot of free time for filming.

Arranging time for filming at Scarlett's

We decided to film the end shots of the scene of the stabbing of the photos tomorrow, Monday 28th February. However, Hayley is going to be busy tomorrow so me and Scarlett decided to film these shots at Scarlett's house as we are both free tomorrow. We only asked Connor if he was free tomorrow for filming and he said that he was free. He plays Ben in our horror opening and he is the only character in the end shots of our opening stabbing the photos. These shots are going to be easier to film as there is only one character in it. As these shots are filmed at Scarlett's house, Scarlett has arranged for me and Connor to go to her house at 3pm, giving us enough time to film.

Booking out the Camera

On Friday 18th February, I booked out the camera so we would be able to finish filming our opening in the half term. However, I asked the Librarian, who keeps all the cameras and tripods, first on Thursday 17th February if it was ok to book the camera out for half term as we would be keeping it for a week. She said it was ok which means we could finish all our filming and be able to film more footage and extra shots for our opening in the week. Now that we have a camera and tripod for the half term, all we need to do is arrange an appropriate time that our cast would be free to film in our opening.

Filming in the Half Term

We couldn't finish our filming this week due to some of our cast being busy and also the bad weather. However, we figured out that we could film in the half term and could download the footage on the first day we come back, which would be Tuesday 1st March and have everything ready for editing on the first lesson we have on Wedsnesday 2nd March. The shots that we have left to film are the scenes in town and also the stabbing of the photos at the end of the opening. This means that we don't have much filming left to do and would not take long to finish filming these shots as these scenes especially the shots in town would have to be filmed all on the same day.