Sound Scape

The Sound-scape is a very impotent aspect of any movie, however it's especially impotent in thriller and horror films. taking this into account therefore I have been looking into the possible sounds.This is why i have been using my time to browse pre-recorded diagetic sounds to place into our thriller. In todays lesson i have spent the time looking through sites from which to take sound effects. 


 In this I have looked into various websites such as SoundJay another site we used was Sounddogs. I found both of these sites when looking for free audio sound effects.  I have been searching in todays lesson for a heartbeat sound effect. This will be layered on top of our running scene to give a more realistic feel to the piece and show the characters distress. 

Final Draft

This is our draft of our thriller, there are problems with the sound due to the cafe being noisy. This will be dubbed over later placed over some cafe background noise we are recording on monday.

Editing (II)

Today we edited together the majority of the first half of our thriller, however we realized halfway through the action doesn't fit together as we had hoped so after re-thinknig our shotlist we intend to put in a new set of shots which we will add after filming again later. Therefor I focused on placing together the majority of the estate shots, the missing shots  in todays lesson.

In the filming process there were also a few pieces of footage which were too unstable to use, this was due to our use of a improvised steadi-cam  when filming. Therefore when filming the remaining footage we are intending to use a borrowed steadi-cam.

Of the estate footage we put together these shots are the ones i believe to be most important.

We start the estate scene with a shot of the victim entering followed by a quick shot to the two sets of gang members, i believed this was a good way of starting. As it shows establishing shots of the majority of our characters setting up for the action.








By following this with match on action shots of the starting of our victim dragged out of the car I am hoping to give the sudden changes which are associated with thrillers Hopefully maknig the audience jump.

Filming (III)

Editing (I)

Today we started editing our thriller opening, and roughly drafted together 24 seconds of the whole 2.00 video. Although this is only rough due to marking out this part we were able to decide on some shots to use later. Also during the lesson we were able to decide on some parts of footage to use later on in the opening. During this however we were able to notice a few shots we missed filming last monday an therefore need to film these as soon as possible.

As you can see theres a gap towards the start of our thriller, this is due to us missing the opening footage. Which although is a quick thing to film, without it the start of our thriller is incomplete, we are already organizing times and date when this filming can be done. Another piece we have left to get is the recording of background noise, as our cafe was so noisy we have decided to dub over the audio to get a clearer cleaner sound. Therefore we need background noise to place under the audio, to get this during the next week were going to head to Starbucks a recognized cafe to record. The reason behind this is the cafe we were recording in was not only noisy it also had music playing which i believe would distract from the narrative.

Filming (II)

Today we filmed the shots taking place in the cafe, this was very successful as we got a wide choice in shots and angles. there was however a lot of background noise in the cafe and music playing throughout the time we were there. This didn't effect our shots too much due to our initial idea of dubbing over the footage/speaking however it was a distraction for our actors.
We made sure to get a wide selection of low, high,mid and close-up shots which will be helpful in the editing later giving us a selection of shots to choose from.
    



These are a few of the different angles we got today, although taken as stills from the footage the clarity shows why we shot on our own personal cameras.

Filming Part (I)

Todays filming was a success we managed to get the majority of the shots we were hoping for. From a variety of different angles for our first filming location; along with the opening shot for our second location.

Here is a selection of stills taken from the footage before editing, showing the range of angles and shot types.

 

 

 

After todays successful shoot we only have the Cafe scene left to film which we are hoping to do next week.