Analysis - Rough Cut of The Return

After a lot of rushing, in order to get the filming done, we finally managed to film what we needed. Today, we finished our rough cut. This DOES NOT reflect the final look of our opening sequence. It only contains the raw shots that we will use in editing. Therefore, you may notice that the sound isn't that great and you may found that the editing could be improved.

All the files we have to go through...

Hanifah is working on the titles (already?! Yes.) and trying to find an appropriate font.

When we arrived in the edit sweep, we saw that everyone kinf of started editing their opening sequence already, which made us panicking because we only just finished filming and we didn't do any editing yet. Once we had our hard drive and our memory cards, we tried to organise ourselves and to try and see which shot we will be using or not. This took us a long time to do because the shots from our two previous practices were on the memory cards, and it wasn't sorted out correctly so we couldn't directly know which files were the one to use. After a lot of laughter (we will keep the shots for an outtake!), we finally got ourselves organised and we made a start on our rough cut.

Rough Cut - Opening Sequence of The Return

 

While I was doing the rough cut, I had an instant of panick: WIll our opening title meet the timing imposed? ( more or less 2 minutes)

Luckily, it is a bit more than two minutes which means that it is perfect, considering we have to make some cuts and include the titles.

I think that our film is quite promissing and it made us all happy to finally see our film, coming together.

Rough Cut - Analysis to do

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Behind The Scene Pictures Of 'The Return'

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Not all the shots were as serious as they look. We had a great laugh.

I Think I managed to capture really good shots, so it would be good to look back at our 1st day filming.

Applying the makeup to create the 'bruise'

Simple use of eyeshadow, blusher and a touch of wipes to smothen the edges. We wanted it to look realistic.

I dont know what you think, but I really think this looks real and PAINFULL!!

Filming of "The Return" - Day 2

Today is our second and last day of filming. We planned on "renting" flowers, however it didn't work. Therefore, we filmed some Over The Shoulder shots, close ups and the shot of the memorial paper.

We could have done this during the first day of filming, however we ran out of time.

The memorial

Filming of "The Return" - Day 1

We are currently busy filming our opening sequence, "The Return". But here are some pics, behind the scenes...

Me, setting up the tripod...

Sharming, having a laugh with my phone's camera!

Hey Hanifah!

Serious please... ACTION!

The character is on her computer, talking to her friends on Facebook. The actor... is actually doing the same thing!

Sharmin, with the camera :)

It's time for a make-up session... (making of bruise)

The Animatic Of Our Thriller..

Today; 03.03.11 we finally set of to create the first stage of our thriller, which was the animatic. So instead of having a normal thursday media lesson, we asked Annabelle if it was alright to skip the lesson and create our animatic. She said it was fine!
So we set off straight to my house after we asked her. We didn't need any equipment from the technician because we had our own camera's.

As soon as we reached my house, we headed straight to my room (main location) and started!
We reviewed through our plan/idea and just got into action really.
Well not into action, but the pose for the camera !

                         The idea was to get a couple of different shots of the same pose, so when it comes to picking the really good/clear ones, we would have a range of pictures and angels to choose from.

( now thinking about it, wasnt the best idea we came up with because we ended up having loads of shots and plus we forgot to delete our previous work from the memory cards! So we had to go through all of them, which took quite a while )

Our storyline changed approximatley 3 times, therefore some pictures( not all )have to be replaced with different shots of our final opening.

We decided with this storyline, it would be difficult to create a sudden black out and get all the lightling correct. Thats why we thought we would change it to something much simpler and straightforward.

We took turns in taking pictures and using the camera.

These pictures are not in order of our thriller!!

Therefore it might look slightly confusing..

Now its time for us to start our actual filming !! Due to certain circumstances we were not able to start filming during the half term holiday, unlike some other groups. So we thought we might be a little bit behind, which we were indeed but managed to catch up eventually when we met up during lunch breaks and weekends.

I can't wait to start. the excitement is building. I hope everything goes well and according to plan. 

Animatic of our thriller