Draft Edit - Abandoned Thriller

  

Today, my groups draft edit of our thriller was completed and put up onto YouTube.

Our Thriller is set in an abandoned location. There are three people, all of which are teenagers who have been out for the day and come across the location our thriller was filmed in. The location was in a large forest like field with an old abandoned metal framed building.

The thriller starts of with a mystery person walking down an old looking path. This mystery person is breathing heavily and gives the audience the impression that they are scared.
The next scene is the teenagers coming across the building and looking confused.

The teenagers then decide to explore the building and see what is around, little did they know what the building holds for them...
As the opening sequence continues we find out that two of the teenagers go missing; we don't know how they disappear, all we know is that they have gone.

The teenager that is left is now on her own, what does she do?
She is left with the mystery noises.

The last teenager is left scared, hears a noise and runs, runs for her life to get away from the building and she doesn't want to be the next one to disappear.
The title sequence then appears as the opening sequence is over. The title links to the title of the thriller as it is called 'Abandoned' and the letters disappear too.

This is our draft edit as there is no production company, the dialogue isn't very clear or very loud and the last bit of the opening sequence (the swinging door) needs to be extended with the backing track extended and made louder.
These will be changed ready for the final edit.

Planning - Brainstorm and Questionnaire

In today's double lesson, me and my group spent the first hour finishing off our planning for our Thriller.
We did a questionnaire and a brainstorm with planning on, including title ideas, evaluation process and improvements.
The questionnaire we have done is focused towards specific ideas that will halp us build our thriller as to how people want to see it. If we have response, it means we can make the thriller to match peoples interests as much as possible rather than just making it up as we go and then the audience not liking it.
The questionnaire is very much focused towards our target audience of teenagers as they are the people who like thrillers.
This piece of research allows us to work with the answers to create a thriller that is good and that people will like.

The brainstorm planning sheet has all our ideas as to what we are going to call our thriller. We have decided to take the name 'Abandoned' as it fits our location that we filmed in and it fits the way we are filming.
The brainstorm also contains our evaluation of the process and the improvements for the next time.

Both of these planning stages will allow us as a group to look back on what has been said and will allow us to make sure our thriller meets the criteria as to how we and others want it.
It is important that we have planning with different title options as we wanted to make sure we had the right name and not just a name that didn't mean or relate to the thriller much. The title planning was one of the most important stages as the title would portray our thriller in either a good way or a not so good way; we want people to be interested.

Here are the pictures of our questionnaire and our brainstorm sheet.

Thriller Filming

In today's lesson, Me, Alex and Beth went to our location and started filming.
We had our actors and actresses ready and  we set up the camera and tripod in the correct location within our location ready for the scenes we wanted to film.

W spend around 2 hours filming today and we got all the footage we wanted.
We never experienced any problems today during our filming.

When we returned to the classroom, we uploaded all our footage and watched all the clips to make sure we were happy with everything.
As a group, we were pleased with how everything turned out in terms of the filming, however, we weren't very happy with the sound as it wasn't very clear, so we decided to do the sound again. We got a voice recorder and got our actors and actresses to say what they said during filming into the voice recorder.
We then uploaded this and listened to it all. We were happy with the sound as everything is now clear and can be heard.

By the end of today, all our footage and sound has been uploaded to our computer and everything has been saved into our folder. We have also uploaded all the filed into Adobe Premier Pro which is where we will be doing all our editing for our opening sequence thriller.

Risk Assessment

There are a variety of risks with the area we have chosen to film in.

The first risk is the branches. There are hundreds of sharp branches over the ground and sticking up from the ground. We have to make sure everyone is careful when they are around this area as if someone falls, they could really injure themselves. The risk if getting hurt is around 6/10 as anyone could trip over and if they do, someone could break there arm or wrist or they could just fall and cut themselves. There are different injuries for this hazard.

Another risk is that our actors or actresses could trip over. There are plenty of things that they could trip over due to the filming location being abandoned. They could trip over metal, weeds, branches or stones as these things are all over the abandoned building area. We have to make sure precautions are taken when filming starts and we have to make sure that everyone pays attention to what they are doing to make sure they don't trip over anything that is lying around. The risk is around 5-6/10 as it could lead to serious injuries if it did happen.

The area we have chosen to film in is an abandoned metal framed building. It has no roof on so it is all outdoors. There are hundreds of high and low metal bars situated everywhere so another risk for or actors/actresses is one of them banging their head. We have to make sure everyone pays attention as to where they walk or when they enter the building as they will have to climb in-between two metal bars. As a group, we will have to take charge and make sure everyone is aware of what is around them. The risk is around 3/10 for this as it could hurt if someone bumps there head. I haven't put the risk any higher as unless someone is running on the premises and runs directly into the bars, it would only be a small bump.

These are about all the risks we face with our location as it is set outdoors, in a field, in an abandoned roofless building. As a team, we will have to make sure everyone is aware of any risks around so they know that they will have to be careful around the area and watch around them in case they bum into anything or trip over anything.

There aren't any risks that are incredibly dangerous.

As a team we will be watching everything that is happening and we will watch the actors and actresses we have to make sure they are safe throughout the filming procedure.

Planning - Storyboard

Me, Alex and Beth decided to draw up another storyboard for our thriller as the one we had before, we couldn't use due to us not being able to get into the location we wanted to use.
We also changes the thriller a little bit, so rather than having a small child as we found it difficult to get a smaller child to be in it, we used 4 teenagers. We changes the storyline to 4 teenagers on a day out together when they come across an abandoned metal framed building.
We have similar aspects to this one as we did before, just with different actors/actresses and different location.
The location is still close to school so it will allow us to film during our school hours and use people from school.

This storyboard now relates to what we want to do in our thriller. It may not be exact but that doesn't matter as on the day we come to film, we don't know how things are going to work.

Planning - IT Skills

In today's lesson Me, Beth and Alex went out and took pictures of the location we chose to make our thriller video.
We decided to take pictures so we could then write something about each picture so people would know which areas of the location we are going to use, how we are going to portray the areas etc.

We uploaded the photo's and then we analyses each picture and we said why we were using the area. The pictures will help us as a group realize why it is a good location, why we have chosen it and it will also let anyone else who may want to read about our video know about the area ans see what it is like before we started the filming.
This planning is always a good idea to do so we as a group can use it and anyone else who is interested can use it and read about the project.

These are the pictures we took and have wrote about.

Planning for the thriller

In today's lesson, me, Beth and Alex went out to our new location to make sure everything was okay and then we could use it. We also went out there to take pictures of the location and surroundings so we could create a planning sheet with everything on. We took around 10-20 pictures of the location, different objects and features of the place.

After we had done the photo's, we came back to the class and started on another planning sheet. We did a sheet on our filming schedule, actors/actresses, costumes, locations, props and time management.
We wrote everything out so we had a plan on how we were going to do everything. We now know when we are going to film, we know who is going to be in it, we know the location, what props we are using and how we are going to manage our time. This sheet will help the group prepare for the filming and also keep us on track. If we follow our planning we know when we will have the filming finished etc.