Research and planning – Radio trailer

We are currently working on our radio trailer for our film. I've done some research into finding something similar to our idea for our radio trailer. It was really hard and took a lot of time to find a perfect one, but this came closet to our ideal radio trailer. This trailer contains different layers of sounds, there is peoples voices in the background, they're panicking and shouting which builds tension and suspense. The sound track used here is really striking and dramatic and it very effectively creates a dramatic atmosphere. Instead of having a huge array of voices in the background, we're planning to have a voice over (dramatic and sarcastic voice over). We want our radio trailer to contain a sound track similar to this, in order to create suspense, terror, anxiety and to make the audience feel agitated. This is effective as it will drag the audiences attention and make them anxious to find out more about the film.

Production: Editing; opening title

Today we have worked on combing all our animations together using the software final cut. We had encountered   some problems. Because we worked individually on our animations we had a lack of proper communication and mine and Tahmina's work which was meant to go together (the titles, title typing and then title shattering), came out in different font sizes. So, we had to figure out how to fix it. We had a professional BBC Production assistant who helped us overcome our problems. We had other problems, also, our animation when put together kept on over lapping each other, so we had to fix it.

Production: Editing film:

I was given the role to edit some of the shoots for our film. This gave me the opportunity to work on final cut and learn editing skills. I had learnt how to render clips, import clips on to final cut, how to shorten clips, how to use the timeline, how to remove sound clips or how to insert sound clips and how to change the effects. I have thoroughly enjoyed doing this and learnt many editing skills from this process. 

Production: animation for opening title

Production: Filming - Day 4

Today we started shooting our first scene of our film. It was important that we booked our locations and sorted out what props we were going to need. Also, importantly we had told our actor few days earlier of the day we were going to film, so that he was aware of it and prepared. We needed a bedroom, but we used a music studio instead. Using our creativity skills, we got enough props such as blankets and pillows to make the sofa we were using, a bed. It looked believable. When filming we made sure that we only got the particular parts we wanted and had to make sure that the back ground didn’t reveal the music studio too much.

We also worked on our third scene again to take the remaining shots for the journey to the school. We used a wide variety of camera angles and shots. We took a distant shot; we did panning shots and close-up shots of our actor making his way to the school. 

Practicing making animation

Using Flash, i practiced making animations. I practiced making motion animations and i was overall happy with my effort. I have successfully learnt how to make a motion tween animation.

Production: Filming - Day 3

Today me and my group set out to shoot our classroom scene. We had some bits and bobs left to film for our classroom scene. Firstly, we needed to film from a wide variety of angles including long shots of the classroom, close-up shots of the mischievous student and panning shots of the classroom. It was important that we took a series of different shots so that when we edit our shoots, we can pick and mix the best camera angles for that scene. This will enable us to use our creativity skills by planning on how a particular scene should look like, also making our scene look interesting. Me and Sufia both worked on scene three – the journey, the teacher makes his way to the school. For this scene we just took a couple of shots of the school surroundings. Overall, i improved my filming skills and my use of camera shots and angles and enjoyed myself.