Third time lucky

You must be getting tired of our changing ideas now... let's just call the others , practice. We've changed our minds again! This time though, we really are very optimistic about it. We already have some footage filmed and it actually looks great! (for once). We're really quite excited about getting this filming finished, and editing our opening. This is definitely the one, I promise. Our new idea is based in our school, I know it sounds like the easy option, but our school really is quite creepy. Our idea is paranormal activity meets every other generic horror film. With doors moving on their own, and lights eerily turning off, and of course, no horror film would be complete without the beautiful teenage couple bringing themselves to their death, although we won't see that, you don't get that far unfortunately. We're filming the rest this week so, watch this space...

Injection

We managed to get a needle, and here is a practice shot using it! It's not brilliant but it's a start. We're currently reviewing our footage from filming a couple of days ago, and once again it isn't great... so, we're going to try and put a bit together and see how it comes out, but, it could be back to the drawing board. Here's hoping it's third time lucky!

In needle of something

We're currently on a hunt for a needle, so we can get our shot of Olivia (Katrina) injecting herself. But, as we expected, it's not easy picking up a needle just anywhere.We're hoping with a note from the school to reassure the chemist that we are not using it for drug (we'll leave a phone number so they can call too) that they'll be generous enough to let us have one. Fingers crossed!

Our set!

We think this looks like a pretty typical teenage girls room... right? Just what we're aiming for!

Finally

We have an idea at long last... I've been absent from my blog due to a lack of inspiration. After a good group discussion, we've come up with an idea we all think will be successful. We are hoping to use Lucy's bedroom as our set, and she's letting us write on her wall! There will be paper stuck on it, but still, very generous of her. Our idea is that of a girl struck with cancer, writing her 'bucket list' as such, on her wall. Inspired by the book 'Before I Die' by Jenny Downham. We are hoping to buy a novelty needle to get a great shot of her injecting herself, and we are going to try and find an oxygen mask that we can place somewhere in her room. All to create the illusion of illness. Once we have these we should be able to crack on with filming. Hopefully all will go well this time!

Rethinking

We reviewed our shots from southend and edited a few of them together, we're not entirely pleased with them. They didn't come out as we had hoped! This has made us think that the idea of using Southend may not be the best one. This is what we edited before we changed our minds:



we are currently in the process of storyboarding our new idea. I'll post our new idea as soon as we're sure about it!

Filming

Me and Lucy made the trek to Southend today to film the main parts of our opening. We managed to get it all done and tomorrow we will see how it came out! Despite it being extremely windy and cold, I think the shots came out well and hopefully it will all look okay. I'm really looking forward to editing them and seeing the final piece. We got a few bloopers and kept a little video diary of our day, so as soon as they are edited I'll upload them to my blog.

Heres our proof: