Character Voiceovers

One of the final things to do in terms of sound are the voiceovers, we need to record the following:

Scott: 

I ran but running wasn't fast enough, love is a dangerous thing when put in the wrong hands (opening of the trailer)

Grant: 

7pm sharp (during phone call)

Filming and Editing Updates

After watching through our trailer we have found that the following things are missing that we had put in initially;

1. We found that there is discontinuity between two shots where our character Scott answers the phone and in the next shot when he is dropping the phone where he has switched hands.

2. Sound - We still need to insert our protagonist Scott's voiceover as well as Grant's dialogue for the phone call.

3. The triple split screen of the exchange of money and the plan to kill Layla in which there will either be:

- A POV shot of Scott looking at his watch and walking over to Grant's approaching car 

- The window of the car winding down

- The handing over of the money 

alternatively if the shots don't flow well we can use:

- Long shot of the back of Tommy against the car

- POV shot going through the money and the window of the car winding down

- The handing over of the money

In these shots the character's faces may not be revealed to the audience to add mystery but this may confuse the audience so we will experiment with this when filming.

Titles and Finishing Touches

We experimented with titles and after having a play around on live type we decided on some suitable titles which match the pace of the film and genre, all that needs to be done is adding in one more shot and our music which Alexis Skitini a DJ will send to me today we will be able to add alongside another song which we feel was suitable.

Screening feedback

Today we had a screening of our trailer at the stage that it is at now, we were also given the opportunity to veiwother students work and reflect on what they have done. We were given feedback sheets of everything that they thought was good and bad about our trailer so far.

Many people commented on the variety of shots that we used, saying that thhis was a good feature of our trailer. Somebody commented that the lighting in the tunnel was a lot darker compared to when he was on the platform. This is something that we have already disscused and we have decided that we will refilm this scene, however the scenes that are currently missing are of more of a priority to us. Most of the groups commented that the use of our titles was particularly strong and worked well with the genre and plot of the trailer. An obvious improvement suggested by all of the groups was to add sound, this is defiantly something we are working on and we aim to get this done as soon as possible.
 

Filming session 3

Today we had our third filming session, due to one of our actors being unavailable we were unable to film everything that we had planned, however we did manage to capture quite a few good shots.

We managed to film the scenes with just Claire and Ben alone. This includes when they were in the car together and when they were on the Train Station platform.

The above clip is an example of some of the scenes that we managed to capture. The clip is only a rough copy and it will be edited until it is perfect.

The photos above our from our filming throughout the day including travelling to the locations (which we now may use in our final trailer in order to add variety of shots and context) and filming the appropriate shots. 

Filming

After looking at the filming we done Friday, we noticed that in one of our shots our bags are visible in the background therefore we may have to refilm this shot, also in the kissing scene our actor playing Scott is wearing the same white shirt as he is in the running scene therefore we may have to refilm this as this is suppost to be a flashback. This monday we refilm them shots and take some snapshots of our actress playing Layla, by using stop motion it will look as if someone has been taken pictures of  her which makes it clear to the audience that she will be the victim and she is in danger.

Filming session 2

Today we had out second filming session. Due to the problems with lighting lastime we decided to film much earlier so it wasn't as dark. This time we were much more successful with the footage that we captured.

The first scene we shot was of Layla and Scott together on a bench. This scene would be part of the flashbacks as Scott is running to save Layla from Grant.

It took a few times to get a good shot as the characters we not used to acting however we manged to get a few shots from different angles.

We had to change the location slightly, as the lane that we had first chosen was far too buy to film whilst it was still light, so it wouldn't be possible to get our footage in time.

  

Below are some stills from some of the footage from the filming session:

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Due to the location of the new lane, we found that it was hard to get signal to make the phone call, we tried many times to resolve this problem however we still didn't manage to film the phone call. We will have to try again to resolve this problem.