Location #3 Office

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A incident that happened while filming.

After we had finished shooting in the forest, we started packing up and clearing up our things/props.
We then decided to film something for our blooper video, so I was laying down on the floor dead with
red food colouring around me and on my t-shirt. Daniel was putting the fake knife away, that was when the incident happened. Daniel had not yet taken off his balaclava, so something unexpected occurred. A guy walked past Daniel, looked across the forest seeing me on the floor (meant to be dead for our filming) and the guy saw Daniel and then me on the floor with fake blood, he  then ran for his life down the pathway. We did not expect to come across an incident like this, and we just want people to know that they should be careful when it comes to using props, and they should make sure people don't get the wrong impression. It was funny at the time, but we will use this as a message to other people to take good care of how things look when they are filming, especially horror/scary shots. We didn't know our filming looked so realistic =D

~Posted by Lauren

Editing Schedule.

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Shooting Schedule (now complete)

                                   

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Classroom's feedback.

This is the other AS media group's responses to our opening sequence so far. When reading through the feedback, we realised almost every person commented on the storyline not making sense. Of course, this is perfectly understandable and nothing to worry about for our group because we haven't put everything together yet, the classroom only saw two scenes. We are very glad that people commented on our shots and said they liked the variety because that is what we aimed to do. Also, people mentioned the sound a lot, and how it was hard to hear, our group have planned to sort this out by using voice overs and ADR. Our group have not started creating our sound/credits yet, which was also brought up a lot, so we definitely know that we have to get this done anyway. Overall I am pleased with our feedback, as it's all the areas we already knew needed working on, we are very impressed that people like our close-ups and shots though.

~Posted by Lauren

Meeting #8 Shooting the first scene

Here is an image of one of the props that were used in the opening sequence. As you can see in the image, it is a white top that is covered in "blood". Of course the blood is not real. The way we made the 'blood' look alike colour on the white t-shirt was by the use of red food colouring. The red food colouring was very cheap at a cost of 60 pence and the outcome of the colouring on the white shirt was very pleasing and better than we had expected! The shirt was used in the scene where Olivia (Lauren) was up against the tree after she had be brutally stabbed in the chest by the killer (Daniel). Us as a group thought that the prop of the bloody shirt worked really well in the opening sequence because it look realistic. If we were to use something more basic such as ketchup for the blood, we don't think the results would have been as good as the red food colouring.




 Here is another image of the white t-shirt close up. In the morning we went to Alex's mum's office to shoot the office scene. We are very lucky to have a proper office to shoot in, and this was very successful as we were very well organised etc. Later on in the evening we went straight to the forest to shoot the first scene to our opening sequence. The lighting at the park near the forest was very good and bright which gave our film quite a weary atmosphere to the scene. This scene was definitely the most challenging scene as it was important to grab the audience's attention and engage them.
We made sure to film when nobody was around, to make it more lonesome and creepy like. I am very proud of the amount of teamwork there was at this meeting, and I am glad our group pulled off a tough part of our course.

~Posted by Daniel and Lauren

Character profiles! =D

Name:Olivia Watson
Age: 16
Played by: Lauren Elaine Vlahos
Personality: fun, outgoing, confident, dumb, 
Hobbies: films,going out with mates, telling jokes
Occupation:Just started her college course 
Other Information: Olivia is just like any other normal teenage girl. She likes spending late nights out with her friends but she isn't too bothered about life at home. Her dad left her and she prioritises her relationship with her mother, as she lives with her mother and that is all she has. Her mother is an important person to the town, and loves her daughter an unexplainable amount, and if her daughter was to ever go missing, she would do as much as she could to get the people to find her,  losing her daughter would break her heart. Olivia's life at home isn't that great, so she prefers spending time outdoors having fun with her mates. 
Part:Victim


Name: Aran Wong (Asian detective)
Age:  27
Played by:     Daniel Walter 
Personality:  Serious,hard working,intelligent,professional,neat,logical 
Hobbies:solving mysteries, working with crime problems,chess,mechanics
Occupation: Detective
Other Information: Aran Wong is a little less trained and has only been working for a couple of years, he is the type of guy to just get on with things, but often complains and has to prove that he is right. He lives with his mother and father and is more of an independent learner/worker. He has had many jobs and a very good education, he is pretty rich but lives away from his older sister who lives in China. 



Name: Michael Smith (British Detective)
Age:  34
Played by:     Alex Griffith 
Personality:  Demanding,smart, joke able,understandable,helpful,organised.
Hobbies:solving mysteries,investigating,finding out new things, joking about while serious
Occupation: Detective Chief
Other Information: A very upper class detective who has been solving all kinds of crimes/murders since his early twenties. He is good at giving advice and guiding others right away, but he doesn't like messing around and gets straight to things. He is married and has children but he rarely gets to see them and when he does he spoils them, he is the richest out of the two, and can often take a joke too far. 



Name: Unknown
Age:   Unknown
Played by: Daniel Walter 
Personality:  cold hearted,emotionless,careless,horrible,selfish & is easily thrilled.
Hobbies: killing,having a thrill, more killing and being able to get away with it
Occupation: Unknown
Other Information: Bad past, badly influenced as a kid, never felt love. The rest is unknown.

Part:  Killer 

~Posted by Lauren and Daniel