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!

Media has ruined my life

Well, not so much ruined my life but it has ruined films for me! I can no longer enjoy them without analysing every shot or angle. I guess you could say I can now appreciate the work that goes into them, but it does get quite frustrating... It's what I signed up for though, and it's a small price to pay for all of the other enjoyable things we get to do, like write essays! I'm kidding, but I do love the filming and editing process, and of course , blogging, although I know that isn't evident by my blog. I watched the film 'Never been Kissed' last night, it was showing on E4, and although it's a film that holds no depth, a typical RomCom really, it was fairly enjoyable. Anyway, the reason as to why I am writing this babble is that I LOVED the introduction, there was this single brilliant shot, something that I think would be fantastic to have in our intro, but I don't see that happening. Anyway, here it is, it's so long because this is the only one I could find! 1:14 is the shot I'm talking about:

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!