Rough cut

The rough cut which had been edited over all the takes which had been previously done. There were several different takes this is a small section of the thriller which had been compressed into about half a minute. This is a brief introduction to our piece which shows Sara walking into the park who is then shortly followed by her partner Marcus.

When watching this back there were some minors errors which we had noticed, by fixing small errors like this it will allow us to make our final piece to have a better finish the first error which we had noticed was at about 0:14. The error which we had noticed was that when Sara first started walking she had gone quite far and when we show her then walking towards the camera she is further back makes it look as an unprofessional finish, it also looked slightly grainy. This didn't fit the effect pf continuity.

The next error/improvement which was noticed by the focus group was that we should keep Marcus's identity a secret.this was noticed at 0:25. At this point we saw the protagonist Marcus watch is wife Sara walk into the woods. The focus group said that the impact of suspense isn't the same as if to if his identity was kept a secret. 

filming day 6

This is the day where we have almost got towards the end of our filming period as on this day we have moved on the the final scene of our thriller. Even though the filming begun on this day it will be carried onto another day to be finished.

Our biggest challenge for filming outside has shown to be time as we can't control the lighting outside ot the time it begins to get dark. This means that we will have to work fast or we will fall behind due to the amount of lighting.

filming day 5

For this day the plan was to carry on filming with what had been done previously. Once this was done it meant that we could begin to move ontto the editing stage of our thriller as all the scenes will have been shot.

The biggest challenge which we had was making it look  the same from previous takes. This had shown to be a challenge for us as we had been filming all the scenes over many different days which therefore made it harder for us to create continuity for the overall scene. In the end we did manage to do it after trying various different methods.

filming day 4

We had looked back at our previous takes which we had done and realised that the quality isn't what we were expecting and didn't have the touch that we were looking for within the piece. Due to this we had decided to refilm this, by filming it again it would mean that we would have more of a professional finish to our piece.

To improve this we had improved the amount of lighting which we had used however once we had done this we had then realised previously we had filmed when it was slightly darker which meant in order to carry on filming we had to wait for it to become slightly darker. Through this day we had filmed from many different angle. This would be helpful for our group when it comes to editing as there will be a range of shots to choose from which will mean the we can choose only the best ones to make our thriller the best it can be.

filming day 3

on the third day of filming we decided to do it on a weekend which means we could start filming from a sligtly earlier time, however it didn'tt mean that we could film later than usual. This is because this is the day we wanted to film outside due to the weather conditions it still meant that we had to work fast.

Working fast was vital as if we didn't we wouldn't have the best lighting as possible as we were outside. Even if we did begin the film at a sligtly later it would mean that the quality wouldn't be as good. As a group we wouldn't have the equipment to change the lighting outside. As well as filming later than other days wouldn't create the effect of continuity.

special effects make up and why its important

                               
Learning how to do simple special effects makeup will make a massive impact on our piece. In our case the correct type of effect to learn would be how to make a realistic bullet shot. This will be used in the scene where Arthur the antagonist shoots Sara the female  victim. We could decide to just drizzle fake blood on the side of her face however that wouldn't seem realistic as when someone gets shot there is usually some sort of crater left behind.

However when we actually put this idea into action it wasn't very sucesfully as our equipment wasn't the same high quality as were used in the video. This resulted in our group applying the makeup in a different way, it wasn't as effective as it could have been if we used the right equipment.

why using transitions will make an impact on our piece

when editing this will be an important aspect when editing our piece. Using transitions will allow our piece to flow better as each transition going into the next scene will give the audience a feel to the mood of the scene.