Before we filmed on the 9th April I had to arrange the date and time to do it with everyone. We had to re-film everything and not all of our actors were available for a new filming date so I also had to find new actors. I quickly asked Michael Ridgewell (previous actor) if he was available, he said yes; then I asked Alex Jobson and Sarah to help us with 'EMERGENCY FILMING'. I explained that we were desperate to film and we needed actors. Once this was agreed I explained to them over a facebook inbox exactly what would be happening on the day. I explained to each person the storyline, the types of characters they would need to be, that we would have to film multiple shots to ensure we get the best we can and to make sure they act fairly professional so that we don't have laughing and messing about during filming; which they all understood even though this was hard to fulfil on the actual day but everything worked out okay.
I put all of the props in a bag; the fake blood, latex and faces wipes. Although as this wasn't in school time we had no way of getting a tripod. I also remembered to charge the camera and clear space for the footage; it'd be a big nuisance if it ran out in the middle of filming.
We and met at Hutton Country Park at 1:30pm and made our way on to location from there. Upon reaching the house, we promptly ran over the shooting schedule with our new actors and began shooting shortly thereafter. We were shooting for a few hours, taking multiple shots with various angles. We had a short lunch break as I had brought food along for everyone; during this time we did make-up. This is what our villain, antagonist looked like in the end.
The only problem during the day was that our camera battery ran out on our very last shot so we had to switch cameras but this was not a problem. Then we took a wide range of shots for the poster.
I immediately started uploading all of the videos when I got home because it takes a while to upload them and make sure the format was right to edit them on Movie Maker. Once they were done; I split it into sections, for example; walking through the field, Michael scares Sarah, etc. This made it all easier to work with because in the end I only had to edit the ending and beginning clips together although this did prove very difficult. The hardest part to edit was 'the hug' because sometimes the hand position would be different or it would look strange or the clip would be ruined by bursts of laughter; editing that out was extremely difficult. I decided to do a zoom reverse zoom on the line Sarah said "oh my god what was that", it was two separate clips put together but the speech has clearly continued throughout the clips. I spent a lot of time trying to find sound to fit into it, it was trial and error but I eventually found some music on sounddogs.com and freeplaymusic.com. I remember that James Hodges, former AS Media Studies student recommended this when talking about the do's and don'ts for our thrillers.
A problem I had with Movie Maker is that when I had finally finished editing all of it; one of the key videos (the hug) had "broken" and was not compatible with the rest; I attempted fixing it but in the end I had to re-upload the video and star again. By this time all of the music had jumped around so I had to fix and reposition that as well. Once this was all done and saved with no glitches or jumps; I uploaded it to YouTube and then embedded it on to the blog site. A small glitch had developed here but it was nothing to do with the editing it was a small buffer when uploading. Apart from that everything went smoothly.
I put all of the props in a bag; the fake blood, latex and faces wipes. Although as this wasn't in school time we had no way of getting a tripod. I also remembered to charge the camera and clear space for the footage; it'd be a big nuisance if it ran out in the middle of filming.
We and met at Hutton Country Park at 1:30pm and made our way on to location from there. Upon reaching the house, we promptly ran over the shooting schedule with our new actors and began shooting shortly thereafter. We were shooting for a few hours, taking multiple shots with various angles. We had a short lunch break as I had brought food along for everyone; during this time we did make-up. This is what our villain, antagonist looked like in the end. 
The only problem during the day was that our camera battery ran out on our very last shot so we had to switch cameras but this was not a problem. Then we took a wide range of shots for the poster. I immediately started uploading all of the videos when I got home because it takes a while to upload them and make sure the format was right to edit them on Movie Maker. Once they were done; I split it into sections, for example; walking through the field, Michael scares Sarah, etc. This made it all easier to work with because in the end I only had to edit the ending and beginning clips together although this did prove very difficult. The hardest part to edit was 'the hug' because sometimes the hand position would be different or it would look strange or the clip would be ruined by bursts of laughter; editing that out was extremely difficult. I decided to do a zoom reverse zoom on the line Sarah said "oh my god what was that", it was two separate clips put together but the speech has clearly continued throughout the clips. I spent a lot of time trying to find sound to fit into it, it was trial and error but I eventually found some music on sounddogs.com and freeplaymusic.com. I remember that James Hodges, former AS Media Studies student recommended this when talking about the do's and don'ts for our thrillers.
A problem I had with Movie Maker is that when I had finally finished editing all of it; one of the key videos (the hug) had "broken" and was not compatible with the rest; I attempted fixing it but in the end I had to re-upload the video and star again. By this time all of the music had jumped around so I had to fix and reposition that as well. Once this was all done and saved with no glitches or jumps; I uploaded it to YouTube and then embedded it on to the blog site. A small glitch had developed here but it was nothing to do with the editing it was a small buffer when uploading. Apart from that everything went smoothly.
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