Film Planning

Between Eva and myself, we had to plan our filming in order to stick to our deadline. We started filming in the middle of December, and finished in January 2011.


December 21st 2010:

• We filmed our fist scene, where Eva was running up the road, with the camera following as though it was from someones point of view.
• We also, filmed the shuffling through the pictures, which showed all the girls that the man was stalking. I filmed whilst we used Eva's hands in the shot.

January 6th 2011:

• Due to christmas, we were unable to film for a while, but as we came back to school, we could use the library facilities. We filmed a conversation between Max and I, talking about the incidents that are occuring with in the area. This is vital because it can make the messgae we are trying to send out to the viewer, clearer.

January 10th 2011:

• For the scene in Costa, we had to ask the manager and customers for their permission in order to film. Eva stood in side and filmed through the glass window, to make it look like I was being followed.
• The final scene was then filmed, in the grave yard, we chose this because it was a well illuminated area as well as eerie which then linked with our genre.

January 12th 2011:

• As all of our filming was finished, we were left to put it onto the Imacs and start editing.

• The editing then took use through until the beginning of February, as we had alot of cutting to do due to fliming a lot of footage.

Script
 After deciding to change our idea, we wrote this script for the dialogue scene between Max and Sarah. I think this is vital because it starts to build up the story through conversation.

Sarah and Max were sat in the school library studying.

S: Did you hear about that girl that went missing the other day?
M: Yes, saw it on the news, Mum and Dad are being really weird about it. They wont let me go out anymore.
S: I know, mine are exactly the same, you know what party the other night. I wasnt allowed to go, so annoying.
     But it has been like 4 girls in the last five months
M: But it will never happens to any of us.
S:No well it never does... well anyway I have to go and meet my Mum, but I will see you later.
M: Ok, see you later...Oh wait you forgot your phone!

Sarah leaves to meet her mum.


Target Audience

We originally carried out a survey to question people from around the area, varying from different ages and genders in order to pick our genre for our film, we asked 10 males and 10 females. Males seemed to prefer horror, thriller and action, where as women preferred romantic comedies. However, some females liked to watch action and thriller depending on the film. Our actor and actresses were both in their teens making it more appropriate and relatable to our audience.

Music

We used garage band, which is an application on an Imac.We then used this after our film was done, music is a compulsory thing with in a film because it adds tension to the atmosphere. At first it was hard to get the hang of it, due to only using it once before. We took tim ein going through all the different instruments and melodies to ensure that we have the best suited to the film.

Editing

After we had filmed, we discovered that we had filmed quite alot for each scene, therefor we had to cut a lot. After sorting out between the both of us which parts we wanted to keep, we then moved on to adding transitions, such as fade to blacks and fades to whites. There is also a section where we used slow motion, when Eva is running this made it look professional, we also removed the volume which allowed us to hear the natural sounding which added to the verisimilitude.
In the dialogue scene, we used many different shots which made the editing for difficult, we used over the shoulder, two shot and shot reverse shot throughout the conversation allowing us to focus on the speaker. 
As Sarah was walking past Costa Coffe, we added a jump cut which my partner had seen in SE7EN, I think it worked it went well with the rhythm of the music and made it seem more eerie. 
Finally, at the beginning we used a voice over of someone screaming, to make it seem louder which then added to the atmosphere.

Planning of Obsession

We changed our original idea, because it proved to be too difficult with the number of characters and we felt as though our animatic lacked the mystery which a thriller should hold.  However, we are combining ideas from this into our new film and still using the same genre.