Problem with uploading

Yesterday Alice and I put the film onto youtube and blogger but when we had finished uploading it we realised we had muted some of the sound when we were editing. This means we will have to re-upload them with all of the sound turned on.

Laura Jolley

FINISHED!!!

New Title

We had 1 second to fill in our film and this meant there wasn't any point in trying to fit a small shot in. Instead i put a new title in and an idea that i had was to have 'inspired by true events '. I thought this would go well because it will make the audience feel more nervous.

It fits perfectly and now the film is the right length and the video and the music stops at the same time.

Laura Jolley

1864 - Michael Suby

After watching an episode of The Vampire Diaries and hearing a song from the soundtrack, I had the idea that we could use one of their songs in our movie.

The song is called 1864 by Michael Suby. After downloading the soundtrack I thought this song would work in our film as it is quite creepy and gives the right atmosphere that we are trying to create.

Alice Humphries

DVD case cover/ Poster

The font used in our title page is Broken Ghost from http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=broken+ghost

We got our picture off of google, we spent ages trying to find a silhouette of a willow tree, all the ones we found were not what we were looking for. We kept looking and finally after trying several different word combinations i came across this sketch, but the colours were the wrong way around so with a bit of fiddling around we got the colours to invert so it would fit our poster well.


We thought this picture looked good for our DVD/Poster because the movie is about a girl called willow and the movie title is Weeping Willow, so the picture fits it perfectly because it is a picture of a female imitating a weeping willow.


Elizabeth Neal

Editing - Music

This week i have spent a lot of time cutting the clips down so they fit in our 2 minute slot. So far we have 1 minute 59 seconds of footage so we will probably fill the final second with a title.

We have been having problems deciding on what music we are going to have over the first part of the film as we all have differing opinions. Originally we were going to have the Saw theme tune over the film but most of the group were not happy with this choice as it is such a well known song from a well known thriller.

The next idea was one of Alices. She came up with '1864' from The Vampire Diaries (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0bkvfXzDSI) which is quite a creepy song. This goes really well about a third of the way through the film as the masked figure starts to appear. When the overall feel of the film gets weirder this track fits completly. The problem is it doesnt go with the beginning of the film or the end. Including this song would mean we have to have 3 different songs in a 2 minute thriller which could turn out badly.

Elizabeth had the idea of another song which is 'Omen' By The Prodigy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnzL9Rsoxw). This song is fast and could fit as the track willow is listening to on her iPod. This song doesn't fit over the masked figure scene so it would have to be cut before that started.

The problem we are having is that the 2 songs go well with 2 different parts but they are such different songs they don't fit together well. We have tried stopping Omen and fading in 1864 underneath but because of the different beats per minute it doesn't work. What we would really like would be a song that fits all the way through but because there are so many different parts to the film one song wont go with all of it.

Another option we have is to have Mad World by Gary Jules over the whole film but I'm not sure if have the right atmosphere. This song is very slow and toned down and would give the film more of a sad feel to it which isn't what we want.

Laura Jolley

Georgina leaving the group

On the 7th February Georgina decided she didnt want to take media as an AS level anymore. This means she is no longer in our group and we will have to cover the work she would have been doing between the three of us. With a week and 3 days until the deadline its going to make it even harder to get it done in time. This could make it easier though becasue we all had different views on how we wanted the film.

Laura Jolley

Editing - 1st & 2nd February.

On the 1st and 2nd February I have started editing. Firstly I had to import the clips from the hard drive camera onto the Mac and then put them into the project in Premier Pro. The first problem i had was that the Mac we were using wasnt working properly and after some help from the ICT Technician he recommended that I moved onto a different Mac. This meant starting over again but all we had done so far was imported the film onto the computer.

I started again and re-imported the footage then spent a few hours getting the clips in the right order and deleting the things we didnt need. I have made considerable progress in the time ive spent and now everything is in the right order we have around 2 minutes 30 seconds of footage. Im feeling positive and when i spend some more time editing it and cutting down the clips im sure it will fit perfectly.

I have done a lot of work on the end scene of our thriller which is Alice handing out missing posters. It is all in the right order and i have used some dip to black transitions between shots. This makes it flow very nicely and seeing as the last part of the film is going to have slower, sad music these transitions will help to make it have a calmer atmosphere to fit with the mood. After listening to a few different songs i think i will use 'Mad World' as this one fits best.

Laura Jolley

Song Ideas for after titles

After the titles of our thriller we are going to have some shots of Alice handing out missing posters. I think it would be suitable to have a different sound track over this part of the film. To go with the mood I was thinking of a sad song, and some ideas I have come up with are -

- Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton.

- Everybody Hurts, REM.

- Mad World, Gary Jules.

I think these songs will portray the right kind of atmosphere that we are trying to get across.

Laura Jolley

Filming Attempt #5

On the 1st February the whole group managed to go filming. It was the first time we had all been there and it went really well. We got a Taxi from school which cost £10.50 from Halstead Cars and were filming for around 2 hours. We started the filming again because we were worried about the continuety and followed the storyboard carefully. I played the character of Willow again just in case we needed to use some of the earlier shots. Lizzie was dressed as a masked character but as there was only one mask we could only have one masked person. We changed a few shots so we could build our story around this, such as when we were going to have a 180 degree rule of the masked people in a circle. Instead of this shot I had an idea of putting 6 red candles in a circle on the floor with a larger one in the middle. This shot looked really effective and will be used in our film.

Also before we left for filming me and Lizzie got some shots of Alice putting missing posters up for the end scene after the credits.

Hopefully this will be all of the filming that we need and we can finish the editing in time.

Laura Jolley

Missing Posters

Today we were trying to think of a way to bulk out our filming, we came up with some ideas.

The first was to show the scenery of where the village was based, we thought this may be a good idea as it give some background information of the area, showing that it is a middle of nowhere town .

The second was to put a scene from two days before, with "Willow Emmerson" driving, but then we didn't see the connection between her driving and then going into the woods running, so we thought it wouldn't look right.

Then we came up with the idea of missing peoples posters. We could make several missing peoples posters, put them up onto a board, so it shows Willow is not the first girl to go missing. We made up some posters in one of our frees, we used pictures from google of actual missing girls. We thought this shot of all the missing posters will give a slightly eerie feel to the area, especially with the posters we crumpled up to make them look slightly older (so it's being going on for years). Now we have a shot of another girl, going upto a board putting "Willow" a missing poster up, as well as her putting more up around the school.

Elizabeth Neal