Production Log 2

This week we successfully began editing our short film and edited all the clip that we had remaining to film last week. The scene we had filmed last week were: the conversation scene where Freddy, Jack, Colt and Tony are talking to each other in the lounge. Another scene we had film was the wake ups scene where Freddy wakes up from a nightmare, some parts of Jack death scene (no actors die in real life) and we completed edited Tony's death scene.

I contributed in most of the editing this week with some help with the visual idea of the short film scene. Outside of editing we all contributed towards filming a scene where Colt dies viciously by the hands of the killer and we also collect sound effect for the film. 

We re-shooted the scene where Freddy ends up fainting by the door on Thursday.
I could not attend to filming that day due to the fact I went for a meeting. We added some transition to where it was appropriate to use in the scene. The reason why we did this is so that we could draw the audience['s attention to show that the next scene is the nightmare scene, where Tony dies. We also made fake blood to enable us make the audience feel shocked when seeing it from a point of view shot in our film. This shot is used in the scene where Freddy see the masked man costumes.

 

During this week our main challenge we faced were the visual effects for the nightmare scene, below is a picture where we tried to make it look blurry. The reason why we did this is because we wanted it to look obvious that it is a dream scene. Whilst we were filming I arrived late to the location which had caused a delay with filming but other than that everything went according to plan.

nightmare scene

conversation scene

We also collect some instrumental music and copyright music for our scene, these were conversation scene and the nightmare scenes. The genre we chose were rock and horror musics (3 horror music to show variety of intensity for the death). The rock music was for the conversation scene where Colt interrupt Jack, Tony and Freddy by playing some loud music that can be heard from his headphones. We did this to add some sense of humor and also to add some awkwardness to the atmosphere in the film. The horror musics was for the nightmare scenes only, to indicate that the killer is nearby.


During this week we did not change much of our plan. We originally thought of doing the alleyway scene at Romford, however the director found us another location to film so we decided to film the alleyway next to his house.

Another thing we had changed within our filming was the amount of shots we wanted to used for our alleyway scene, we decided to add more shots so that we had a variety of shots to select from.

Next week we aim to finish filming / editing our short film.

Overall I feel that we are ahead of meeting our deadline.