Thursday Lunch Time Workshop>> Deadline Day Looming

On a Thursday me and group member Tarek decided to use the media studies editing suite to continue working on our project. We met each other in the canteen and made our way to the media studies office to collect our video drive. We went to the editing suite and began editing. We first "logged and captured" the new close up shots. We added these shots to the film. This made the film more realistic as the audience and Amy would be able to identify the villain. We finished this and decided to call it a day. We agreed to come the following day (deadline day) to finish our film.

Finally Filming Is Finished (Reposted due to previous post not having my name)

On a Wednesday we had a morning media studies lesson. This was the day of our filming for the "bus stop" scene. I came to college with my attire as I will be starring in the scene. All group members arrived in the classroom. The other character in the scene Amy played by group member Precious also brought her attire as she will also be starring in the film. Before going to our location, we had to print a mini photo of Amy and Lucy to use as an prop. We done this and made our way to our location which as an nearby bus stop. We began filming and everything was going to plan, surprisingly even the weather. All members of the group participated in filming some footage. We finished filming and we were all rejoicing the fact that filming is finished. We returned to college to return the filming equipment. Even though we were happy, we knew that now the real work is about to begin with editing .

Editing Continues And New Close Up Shots

On a Wednesday we had a media studies lesson which we used to carry on with our editing. We got our equipment from the media studies office. We entered the editing suite and began editing. We linked shots together and we were really pleased with our match cutting shots. We showed our media studies teacher our progress. He pointed out the fact that there is no close up shots of the villian which will make it difficult for the audience to recognise the villian and will make it rather unrealisitic that Amy recognises the villian during the "bus stop" scene. After the media studies lesson finished me and my group member Tarek decided to shoot close up shots of the villian played by me. We booked the filming equipment and went to both locations which didn't seem a problem as both location were near each other. We finished both close up shots and returned to college pleased that due to the new shots our film would seem more realistic.

The Hard Work Begins

We returned from our half term break fully aware that the deadline for our project was imminent. On a Monday we came to our usual afternoon media studies lesson. I booked a video camera and took our videotape and video drive to the editing suite. We began to " log and capture" the bus stop scene in to the video drive. We also discussed several ideas in what effects to add and what clips to use. We picked out our best film clips to use in the film. We finished the "log and capture" of the "bus stop" scene. We also done some editing to a a certain extent. Our media studies lesson finished and I returned the equipment back to the media studies office. We would carry on editing in our next media studies lesson with deadline day looming.

Finally Filming Is Finished

On a Wednesday we had a morning media studies lesson. This was the day of our filming for the "bus stop" scene. I came to college with my attire as I will be starring in the scene. All group members arrived in the classroom. The other character in the scene Amy played by group member Precious also brought her attire as she will also be starring in the film. Before going to our location, we had to print a mini photo of Amy and Lucy to use as an prop. We done this and made our way to our location which as an nearby bus stop. We began filming and everything was going to plan, surprisingly even the weather. All members of the group participated in filming some footage. We finished filming and we were all rejoicing the fact that filming is finished. We returned to college to return the filming equipment. Even though we were happy, we knew that now the real work is about to begin with editing .

Postponed Filming To Start Editing

After the snow week fiasco we came to college on Monday 10th February. Instead of filming we decided to begin editing. This was due to the fact that starting to edit would be more practical. This is because it was an afternoon lesson and the setting was to be of daylight. Also as we have a longer media studies lesson on a Wednesday and it starts in the morning, we believed that filming would seem more practical on this day. I booked a video camera and took our videotape to the editing suite. We started to "log and capture" the clips to store them on our video drive. We finished this task and we prepared for the filming lesson by discussing the agenda of that day. We finished discussing and shortly after I returned the video camera and videotape to the media office.

Disruption Due To "Snow Week"

On Monday 2nd February our filming was due to take place. I received a phone call from group member Precious instructing me to bring "business like" attire for the "bus stop" scene. After receiving this call I prepared my attire for the scene. However severe weather conditions caused public transport to close. I later received a text message later in the morning from the college saying that college will be closed due to adverse weather conditions. Another text message was received later in the day saying college will be closed the following day. We returned to college on Wednesday with weather still being a cause for concern. I came to college with my attire. However due to dangerous weather conditions our teacher advised us to postpone filming. We agreed and instead we planned our agenda for when we film.