Yesterday, the band recorded our song for us however, the vocalist was not able to attend as she is not very well. We could have used a male vocalist , but thought the female voice would give the song a different feel, so we recorded the bass and the drums and will have to wait for the female vocalist to recover before we record the vocals.

In todays lesson, we came up with an idea for the opening of the film. We decided that we was going to black out the screen at the end of the title sequence, whilst the music is still playing, then show a friend of Emily's grieving over Emily's death in her room with the song playing in her room as diegetic sound.
We did more editing on final cut pro improving cuts and spoke about where in the title sequence the titles will appear and where the film title will appear. We also scheduled the band in our school who are recording our music to record it tomorrow after school so we can add the song to our title sequence and adjust the pace of it to match the music.

Today, we edited our footage and put it all together on movie maker. We only edited it roughly on movie maker and are going to transfer it into final cut pro so we can get a sharper edit on it and so we can add more effects.

Today, we started editing the footage we got on Monday. We managed to put together the chase through the woods and Emily getting bitten by the vampire. We had previously edited the surveillance pictures however were unable to save them, therefore it has to be done again. We also need to add the titles and recored the band doing a cover of the song we have chosen.

Today we started filming our chase. We did this in Bostal woods as the scenery was dark and damp which was perfect as it set a good atmosphere for the sequence. We used lots of different angles to shoot add effect like letting Emily hold the camera and run to show it from Emily's point of view. We got most of our filming done today and will start editing the footage we got on Wednesday.

Journal

7th January 2010-


We have decided that at the beginning of our title sequence we are going to include a stream of surveillance pictures which have been taken by the vampire, of the girl. They will appear on screen in the way they would look while they were being taken and have the sound effect of a camera. They will start off at a steady pace but gradually get faster. We will stop on one of the pictures and slowly zoom out to show a whole notice board filled with pictures of the girl.
Today we started taking our surveillance pictures for the beginning of our title sequence. We wanted to take them in different angles such as birds eye as they are supposed to be images taken by a vampire who would have the ability to move around very quickly and climb up on things. Me and Charlotte took pictures of Emily on her journey to school from different angles. We will continue taking pictures of her on different occasions to make it look like they are being taken over a period of time.

Pitch.

We had to present our pitch to the class pretending we were trying to persuade independant film makers to fund our film. We chose the genre fantasy/thriller as it would appeal to teenage girls, espiecially because we chose "Zac Efron" to star in it. We also believed a vampire story would attract teenage girls after the popularity of "twilight". We were given feedback on our pitch, which was to watch "Lost boys"; as it is of a similar genre as ours, to get ideas on what to include in our title sequence. We was also told to research the work of Tim Burton as his style of work would is similar to what we are trying to achieve.