Luke

Luke is one of 2 boys in our group. Not for much longer though. Hes leaving. This was so out of the blue and unexpected. Hes decided 6th for isnt for him so he has got himself a job and he's on his way. He doesnt lwave until Monday 2nd Feb. So he is in fto help us film on Friday. He has said if we need him again he will help us =]. He'll definately be missed. Although i wont miss We cant let this make us fall behind anymore so were not going to let it. Were going to keep our heads down and get on with it. So now theres just 3 off us left =[.

Editing

We uploaded our film footage on to the Macs today and realised we didnt need half our our footage. We filmed our man Harry getting dressed and putting his shirt on but however we realised he didnt want to get blood on his shirt so we had to change our storyboard to Harry getting undressed. This was the cause of us loosing half of our footage. Although we chnaged it half way through we still got somereally good camera angles and have managed to edit them all in together. It looks really good now. We had a bit of a dilema with the blood. Obviously we didnt want to draw blood from harry we needed to use fake blood. This was a problem as we couldnt find any fake blood at the time of filming so we had to water down red point and use this instead. We all agreed that the red paint substitue for the blood didnt work very wel as it looked to orangy. So we have decided to re-film on Friday and goign to use fake blood this time.

Although we are filming these shots again we are still going to upload the original peice edited. So we can show the process of our mistakes and errors.

Filming!

Sure enough another bump in the road for us. We had planned to film on Monday 19th of Jan. However this did not go to plan. As we didnt have the main thing we needed to film a DV tape. So this set us back a stage. It didnt delay us much though as we managed to get ourselves a tape and we was on the way. On Friday 23rd we managed to film. We had our cast all set up and we was underway. We started to film at 11o'clock and finished around 1o'clock. As we began to film we relised that the victim was going to die whilst in the shower, however the showers in school dont work. So again we had to change our film. So we had the victim getting changed and the killer come up from behind and kill him. During the filming there were many knew ideas being suggested from us all. So we shot our orignal piece and added more shots through out. We shot many of the scens in differens camera asngles so we can have many editing scenes. So fingers crossed it works =]!

The Storyboards!

The Discussions

When we thought we had decided we had our final idea Nina said it was to simple as ther are not many locations and also there were not many shots. So again we started to think of ways we could make it not so boring. So we sat down and thougth again about our ideas. We had to pad it out as such. Our film is about homosexual hate crime, however from the way we had decided to film our piece it isnt clear what it is about. So as it is about gay hate crime, at the begining of the piece there are some insinuations of hate crime. We have added more locations and more characters. We ran through our ideas with Nina and she thinks that these ideas are alot better and also this would also bump our grades up if we was to do this.

The Projects Underway!

The whole project is starting to happen now thank god. Weve now got our date for filming Monday 19th =]. We went to the PE department to make sure it would be ok to use the showers for a few hours. There was a bit of trouble finding someone to go topless in the shower for us. But we managed to persuade someone. So the next step would be storyboards. We have already started them, howevre they are not finished. So today we are continuing to do so.

Our ideas we storyboarded are similar to CSI opening sequnce. I kike the idea of having many different cuts in the sequence of various different things happening. For example as it is a crime drama you would expect there to be a crima of some sort involved in the tilte sequence murder or assult, perhaps and fingerprints being taken and many other shots involving crime.

CSI Title Sequence