10/03/09

In today's lesson we edited the movie to the new story line. This improves it a great deal as it makes more sense and with the credits creates more tension for the audience. To improve it we need to add in dialogue so the audience can understand that the other character is their brother and he is about to find out what they have done wrong that is why they are racing home; by adding dialogue such as "quickly we got to get home before my brother!"

09/03/09

In this lesson we decided to change our story line slightly, instead of having a teacher going to the house and catching the boys, we changed the role to their brother. We cut the film so it builds more tension, the brother is coming closer to catching them and they are racing home; this way the story makes more sense. Therefore we do not have to re-film anything, and will hopefully complete the whole movie by the end of this week (including soundtrack).

5/02/09

Today we are unable to do much work, as we are waiting to film our final shots of our opening sequence. Hopefully we will do that this weekend and will be able to edit the rest of our film by next week including editing and sound. 

3/02/09

This lesson we used Live Type, this program enabled us to create really good credits at the beginning of our film, for example different fonts and animations for K.J.F.M Productions and the actors names. We are placing the credits between shots that jump, this will create the sense that out continuity is better than actually is. 

2/02/09

In this lesson we researched opening title sequences for "Wreckie" This is the opening sequence for Gladiator featuring Russell Crowe, we felt this was a good a opening sequence because the music really built up tension. We researched different genres because we felt we could get a better idea for our film, with a variety of ideas.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SvymXFaDD8

26/02/09

This lesson we continued editing the soundtrack, and found out how to slow or speed up the tempo of individual tracks. Also we discovered that we are going to have to re-film parts of "Wreckie" due to continuity faults. For example the teacher is going to feature throughout the film, building up suspense by giving the impression that he is getting closer to catching the characters running away. 

24/02/09

In this lesson we started to add music, we originally planned to record a track that was similar to those in "Ferris Beuller's Day off" and a running scene from "Friends". However due to a lack of time we have chosen music from soundtrack, it begins with a tambourine loop which builds up and adds in drums and orchestral string section which creates suspense and fits really well with the running.