Re-shoot and new story board

The first, second and third day of filming went well, but when it came to editing our shots the footage was very dark, blury and spacious we tried to edit the shots by making them brighter and also zoom in on certain shots to make the shots look tight and crowded but theres only so much editing can do. We went back to the story board to re-think our idea and decided instead of having a big party scene and actors we were gong to get different shots of the voodoo alter and just use that as the title sequence. We got inspiration from the film 'Seven' because the title sequence in that is just lots of different angle shots of various pictures and objects.

Filming went well I got lots of different shots from different angles and got shots of several objects on the alter.

Second and third day of filming

The second day of filming went very well, we got all the shots we needed and the shots we got looked really good when going over them. The scene we were focusing on was the voodoo scene, we brought all the props necessary and make-up didn't take long atall, the set looked really good and filming only took about 2hours and we managed to get a range of the same shots so we have more shots too choose from when editing.
the third day of filming was alright the timing didn't go to plan, but we again managed to get the shots we wanted. This time we were focusing on the party scene, so we managed to get enough people to make it look like a decent enough house party, we had the right music and the right props to make it look convincing.
If we had to to these scenes again i would make sure we have a run through of what we do instead of going straight into fimling, overall im happy withthe shots i got and i particulary like the voodoo scene.
Hopefully the editing will really help with the shots look more intense and thrilling, and the music we choose to edit in will help make the title sequence more dramatic.

First day of filming

Today was the first day my group and i started filming, we didn't get much shots because even though we had a good pitch and a good idea we haven't organised our time properly.
This week we have decided to book the camera and do some filming outside of college, so we can spend more time on our shots and have easy acssess to other props. We've made a list of what shots need to be done and where, the durstion of each shot and the different props that need to be included.
I think if we manage our time wisely then we can get most of our thriller sequence done, them start editing next week.

The Pitch powerpoint presentation

Here is a Powerpoint presentation of our ideas.

The idea

This is a powerpoint presentation for the idea of our title sequence 'Bitter Sweet'

The Pitch

during the lesson, we were given the task to create a pitch in order to "sell" our storyline to our teacher as if we were actually in the industry trying to win over potential producers and funders. As a group we generate an initial idead and storyline which we thought was a cross between a traditional revenge thriller and teen horror. this therefor makes our idead quite unique as it crosses over 2 sub-genres of horror but also will relates to our younger audiences.

The Idea: A girl is not invited to a party as she is being bullied at her school. she then goes carzy and decides to seek her revenge on all those who ever bullied her by doing voodoo while the party is happening. One by one people start dying according to the way in which she is playing with the voodoo dolls.

The Location: for the party scene, we decided to use the drama room because it is quite a large space and can become quite dark. Whereas for the voodoo scene, we are using Deemarli's bedroom and livingroom and builiding a fake shrine to give emphasis to the idea of voodoo.

costumes and character allocations are yet to be decided.

Filming and Editing

I was handling the camera and used the zoom for a variety of shots such as the extreme close ups of Shekira’s eyes to create added tension to the short film. The close ups of her eyes and her slamming the newspaper on the table, shows the viewer that she has seen something that she didn’t want to see or something frightening. A Long shot was taken of Shekira walking towards the table where the initial film will take place. This shows her journey towards the table. Also, mid-shots were taken of her sitting down at the table, this simply shows what she’s doing and her body language which at this stage was positive. In terms of editing we took several takes of each shot so we could have a variety to choose from when it came to the initial cutting stage.