In today's lesson we had a group viewing with the class; we watched wach other's thrille movie and gave feedback to each other, so that we could go off and write an evaluation for it.

Wednesday 14 January 2009In today's lesson we were given our brief for our practical 2 minutes film by our teacher Dan. When the information was finally given out, my fellow group mate and I went and planned out our ideas it.Friday 16 January 2009Within this lesson, we had a short period time of 3 hours to film an edit the practical task.In this lesson I have found it very difficult, du to the short period of time and there was only two of us in the group as one of the member was ill at that day.Wednesday 21 January and Friday 23 January 2009For this two lesson we had to be focusing on planning our real "thriller" 2 minutes film, we had to start our planning; what is our story line? What shot are we going to use? And where would we film it?On Friday lesson, we had roughly 10 minutes to go through our ideas and make any changes we wished to change. When this was done, we then had to do a quick "pitching" in front of the whole class, this is because we wanted feed back to our idea, so that we would then have a larger idea on what would make it good and how would we improve it.Wednesday 28 January and Friday 30 January 2009This is our first day of filming the 2 minutes beginning of our "thriller" film. We had chosen "Finsbury Park" as one of our mise en scene. The filming went very well and quick; we worked as a team and got everything that needed to be done within these two days.Wednesday 4 February 2009Due to the poor weather condition, we had to re-locate our filming to my house to film the beginning of the "thriller". It went really well than we thought it would be. We worked well as a team and didn't have any group argument.Friday 6 February 2009For today's filming we went to the graveyard; this is one of our mise en scene. However due to the poor, wet and slippery weather condition, we didn’t get any good shot for our "thriller". Due to this problem, my fellow group mate and I was a bit disappointed, we headed back to college and done some "log and capturing".After all of our filming, my group sat down and discuss what we liked about it and what we don't like about the filming. In conclusion, we thought that it would be better if we should only have two “mise en scene”. Therefore; we had to re-plan our "thriller" and decided to keep the filming that we done at my house and film once more at the college as our new mise en scene to fit in with the new story line.After all of the filming, we had to "log and capture" the clips and edited it using "Mac" computer. In this process, we found it very hard and difficult to do as we have never use the "Mac" computer to this extent, so it was a whole new experience for all of us.Friday 27th February 2009Today was a very stressful day for our group as we were behind from every one in the class. We had to arrange our clips into orders, add sound effect to it, title/credit to the film and add effect to it. We were worrying about not finishing it in time for the deadline at 3pm. However, we have got it together and worked as a group all the way through and managed to finish before the deadline. We were very happy and proud of yourself for finishing it on time.

An over-view of the thriller.

An over-view of the thriller.
The thriller is called Her Revenge; the story is about a two best friends and one of the friends had been murdered. We used flashbacks to establish the friendship. One of the girls gets a phone call while she is at home. The next shot if a cut away shot of her washing her face and the a flash back moment of when she was with her friend, she then looks up at the mirror and she sees writing on it and suddenly gets scared and runs out. She is then kidnapped by some one but the audience do not know who it is.

Final production

For the past week, my group have been stuck in the editing room adding the final touches to our thriller. After sacrificing our free periods, lunch and break times and also after school...we finally finished our thriller. Throughout the whole of this coursework, the most difficult part of it for me was the editing. It took some time to get use to the Mac computers as it is very different from normal PC’s. Throughout the week we had to log and capture all the clips that we made edited them down by making them shorter so that it would fit with the time limit of 2 minutes. We made a few match cuts and also added in effects which included: flash backs, black and white features and also having the clips dissolve into each other. After sorting out the clips and making sure that the order of the clips is correct we decided to create the credits to go with the thriller. We used live type to type up all the credits and live type also allowed us to have added fonts and also effects onto the writing. The effects that I added to the credits created a spooky and chilling atmosphere. After adding all the credits to the main sequence, we had to make the sound. We used soundtrack pro to cerate the music. We combined three different tracks and created out own music. Making the pitch higher when needed to and lowering the pitch need required. Friday was our deadline and we managed to finish our thriller on time! Overall my group and I were very proud of the final production and we believe that we have successfully created a good thriller opening.