Let the filming commence - Main Task

Today Lauren and I shot our first clips for our film opening, Project : Shadow. 


We went to our location equipped with my video camera and of course, ourselves, and began recording lots of different shots which we think we could cut and change, to make our film opening just as we have envisioned it.


We are planning to meet up again soon in the next few weeks to continue recording some more of our clips, and also to take some vital pictures that we will be placing in our opening. 


When we filmed today, it was very dark by the time we got to the location, and the camera did not focus well at all. The shots we originally wanted to get were not possible due to the dark, and even our hand lights, phone lights and torches couldn't light the location up enough for it to be seen. This is why we need to meet again when it is slightly lighter so that we can get these shots. 

Costume planning

Today me and Lauren thought about the costumes that we will be wearing in our film opening.

In the film we are going to be playing two average teenage girls, so we are keeping the costume basic. We are hoping to represent the girls as normal teenagers in modern day so our target audience will be able to relate to the girls.

I will be wearing black jeans, a black double breasted coat similar to the picture shown below, and a pair of black dolly/ballerina shoes.




Lauren will be wearing a black quilted jacket, jeans and boots.

2nd Production Meeting

 Lauren and I have once again got our thinking heads on and we have had a second production meeting.
We have discussed our film schedule and when we think is best suitable for us to meet up and film. 
Later I will post evidence on my blog of our discussions and explain how it will benefit our progress.

Main Task - Storyboard

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Me and Lauren have been busy busy bees today as we have spent the majority of our day working on our media coursework. I am quite proud of us!

Lauren has been busy completing another task that will be useful for both of us while I have been drawing out our storyboard.

Here is a picture of some of the completed sheets!

So this means that, while we were working hard, we have completed 4 of the tasks on our L.O.I!


- complete our storyboard. J
- take a picture of the completed storyboard and upload it to our blogs as evidence. J
- create a Shot List using the completed storyboard. J
- create a Filming Schedule - decide when and where we are going to film.
- look at creating a Risk Assessment sheet for our first shooting.
- decide the order of opening titles. J


This means that the only vital tasks left to complete are creating a Filming Schedule and creating a Risk Assessment sheet. As we only have a week left of school before we break up, these need to be completed ASAP. Filming will not be a problem and me and Lauren see each other out of school anyway, so we will be able to arrange a day where we can both go and film the majority of our opening shots. Exciting stuff!

Main Task - Planning Storyboard + Shot List

Today, we have decided on the order of our shots, and which audio is going to be placed with them when we are editing.

We have drafted a rough version of half of our storyboard, to see how we are going to draw our final storyboard. We also have a page with all of the shots, titles and audio in order, to help us draw up our final storyboard and from that, hopefully create an animatic.

Freesound - example clips.

Tonight I have been browsing through some horror-related audio clips on www.freesound.org, another audio site that Big P introduced us to a few days ago.


I have found and downloaded a few clips that are similar to what I imagine me and Lauren will use in our film opening. They are brief audio clips to go in the background of a piece to create tension. When I listened to the clips through my laptop before downloading them, I found them quite spooky, so I would like to put the clips to a piece of spooky film and see what the effect would be like with it altogether.


I have uploaded the clips that I downloaded from FreeSound onto SoundCloud. Here are three of the audio clips that are on my SoundCloud account:


 Horror clips - Scape by kimchamberlainkba 
 Horror clips - Explosion by kimchamberlainkba 
 Horror clips - Ambience by kimchamberlainkba 

Soundcloud account

I have just registered with http://www.soundcloud.com/, an audio sharing website that I have previously posted about, so that I can upload audio clips and link them to my blog as evidence of research.


I have created an account under the name of kimchamberlainkba. To access my account and hear any tracks that I have uploaded, you can go to www.soundcloud.com/kimchamberlainkba.