This video highlights the footage we filmed last lesson, and we have literally just put it together, not necessarily in the right order we wish to do it in, in our film. The description is in the previous blog. wahh

Extra filming, more footage.

Today we did some shots of Summer and Sam (Summer's boyfriend) to show scenes of them being a couple so it is clear to the audience they are together. We also did some shots of Charlotte and Sam together showing Charlottes intense need to want Sam due to the fact he is Summers boyfriend. This worked really well as it was the first time we were filming Mark (Sam) and he played the part very well alongside Grace (Charlotte). We still need more shots of the two of them and a few more of Summer and Sam, however most of the shots from now on will be short clips to put together into a montage that grows in intensity throughout. It is now a case of getting the music to work in time with the footage and the speech in the clips as we may need to do voiceovers to make it more pronounced and hearable as the technology of the cameras is not great so the sound in the clips are rather terrible.

It's all coming together now!

More Editing, Music

This shows what we've done so far. We have filmed more scenes such as the beginning one, the establishing shot of Charlotte entering a classroom full of Summer and her friends. We have used a voice over of Charlotte saying 'Hi, I'm new here' to which an office lady replies 'Name?' and she answers 'Charlotte Westbridge'. As the trailer develops we may change the position of the trailer if any shots are needed to be added or taken away. We have come very far with our music; we have made it into a track that can be used throughout the entire trailer by using an acoustic version of the song 'Uninvited' and link it into the Freemason's club edit version which helps as at the start the scene seems innocent and unclear whereas the music begins to become more uptempo as you see Charlotte's true intentions and actions towards Summer, such as her opening her back gate. We still need to work on the music as somehow the volume keeps changing. This is probably due to the fact we have hushed the sound in the clips and it is therefore changing the volume of the complimentary track but we will sort it out. As not all of our filming is done and we are not sure how much time will be taken up of the track we are not yet merging the two tracks together due to the uncertainty of how long the trailer will be in the end. We feel like we still need to edit some of the clips already involved in this version as some may be a tad too long to work in time with the music. We have added some transitions, subtle ones as we run the risk of making it look too cheesy if the transitions are hugely noticeable. We have titles now, and we will most probably add more but for the moment these work well ad are in fairly secure places in the trailer as we are sticking to the conventional type of psychological thriller trailers. We have begun to add some short clips in that will eventually be part of a montage such as the 1-2 second clip of Summer crying on the phone. At the moment, it doesn't look good but it is just a small taste of what we will include when all the filming is finished. The shot of Charlotte running wildly out of a room and towards the camera is most likely to be at the end of the montage once it has intensified more gradually as at the moment it all happens fairly suddenly. It's just about doing some more filming which we plan to do in this next week and it will start to really take form.

First Edit

Here is our first edit. It needs a lot of work but just shows what we are developing upon. It shows we have put together a few clips of footage and started thinking about music at the beginning of the clip. We have chosen another piece of music to have at the end of the clip which works well as there is variation, whether or not we will keep it is another story. Right now, continuity is not great as we have literally put which clips we want together is a rough guide of the order we would eventually put them in surrounded by other clips we yet have to film. In some clips we need to sort out the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, by either adding in certain noises, for example the part where the gate shuts we might add an artificial slam, or by taking away the original background noise such as the wind or myself and Carly discussing filming ideas whilst actually filming (not very professional, whoops). We have however sorted some of the sound out as we dubbed a part of the scene where Summer is doing her hair and Charlotte is looking in her window from her garden; we split the clip after the hairspray noise and muted the sound after as it was the sound of Summer sitting on the bed when she is meant to walk past, but we wanted to keep the sound of the hairspray, spraying, so we did it in this way. We still need to add transitions between clips as at the moment it is looking rather jumpy but in time we will make this flow.

Call sheet

Call sheets, like all big movie production teams use, are a way in which they organise the day's routine, showing the necessary things the actors need to know such as locations, cast members, crew members and all the information needed to contact them. Here is one designed for our own film:-

Directors: Imogen Brown and Carly Chamberlain
Production office: Southfield School for Girls, Kettering

Locations:
1)Longfellow Drive, Kettering, - Summer's house
2)Southfield School for Girls, Kettering - main cast's school

Cast Members

Grace Meredith - Charlotte Westbridge - 07845728107
Imogen Brown - Summer Freeman - 07664522967
Mark Drakeford - Sam Furlow (Summer's boyfriend) - 07944627756
Greg Hughes - Matt Green (Sam's bestfriend) - 07778563126
Carly Chamberlain - Chloe Streisand (Summer's best friend) - 07658376492
Chloe Pitts - friend at school - 07531249655
Ellie Tate - friend at school - 077988641523
Phillip Swain - Teacher at school - 07514296380


Cameraman - Carly Chamberlain
Production team - Carly Chamberlain, Imogen Brown
Location - Imogen Brown, Phillip Swain, Grace Meredith

Filming Schedule

Friday:-
Charlotte is at Summer's house, partly invited but some shots show clear signs of her not being invited. These shots will include:-
-Charlotte in the location of Longfellow Drive. Certain shots of her in and around her house such as the hallway, garden and study area/dining room.

Saturday:-
Same location.
- Charlotte is by the side gate entering Summer's house very cautiously showing her insecurity and uncertain invitation to the house.
- Shot of Charlotte putting on a red wig, trying to look like Summer, however, the audience cannot tell whether Summer knows of this yet.
- Scene of Charlotte and Sam together

Monday:-
Location: Southfield School
- Shot of classroom scenes between friends
- Shot of group class laughing (establishing shot)

Initial filming

Here is some of our first filming that we did and some of the shots we will use in our

actual film because some are quite effective.

For example, the one where Charlotte is standing in the garden and Summer

Walks passed oblivious to her while she is doing her hair. This is quite a conventional

scene, e.g in films where there is an obsessed person they are often there when the other

person is unaware.

Currently there is no music and this will obviously be added for affect. This post also

acts like a test shot as it gives us an overall idea of what we need to do in order to make the trailer effective and also to give us an idea of what it may look like.

Filming Schedule

Filming In the holidays...

Friday: Grace will come to Imogen's house and we will aim to complete the following scenes.

Location: Imogen's house, using the landing, hallway, garden and side gate.

* Shot of Charlotte entering Summer's house

* Shots of Charlotte in Summers garden, spying on her.

* Shot of Summer doing her hair while Charlotte is in the garden.

* Charlotte screaming 'Don't run away from me'.

Saturday: We will aim to complete more scenes.

Location: Imogen's house, front of the house and bedroom.

* Shots of Summer walking out the house with Charlotte round the back of the

* Charlotte putting a wig on to copy how Summer looks.

Filming during term time.

Location: School

* Shot of classroom scenes

* Summer and her friends scenes.

* Composing of music