Music used in final piece

Lone Harvest - Intro
Movement Proposition - Punch and chase scene
Medusa - Flashback
Nathan walking to Aaron's house - Feral Chase
(possibly) When Alex breaks through door - Mechanolith

Update

We have to have the film finished by Monday next week but we have yet to film our scenes at Aaron's house. Paddy had to cancel again as his brother was visiting for the weekend. We are hopefully filming tomorrow (Tuesday) and should be working on editing for the rest of the week.

Changes Made to Script

The script we wrote initially had to go through a couple of changes as when we tried to film it the way it was on the page, it didn't really make sense and we thought it would look better another way. The prime example of this was the scene where Alex infects Chris, in the script we had this on screen and very obvious but we found when filming that it, to be honest, it looked really stupid and we didn't really have anything to use for blood. In the end we decided to imply the attack rather than blatantly show it. There were some slight changes made to dialogue to make it sound more natural. The biggest change to dialogue was when we cut out Nathan talking to Chris with the amateur camera. We decided to edit around this as the speech was very obviously scripted and just didn't flow well with the rest of the project.

Location Jonathan's House

We needed to use a second house and we had already used Conchur's house. Paddy's house was unavailable for use at the time and mine would be difficult for the others to get to as its out in Crumlin.

Location Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park

The second location that is seen in our production is Lady Dixon. We used this as it was publicly available and we were all able to readily get there and we needed a foresty area with trees and this met that requirement.

Location Conchur's House

This is the first location seen in the film and it is Conchur's house. We used Conchur's house as one of our locations as it was easy for Paddy and obviously Conchur to get there. It wasn't too difficult for me to get there either and we needed to film the scene somewhere so this was a more than acceptable location.

Editing progress

Ryan has been doing the majority of the editing in the movie. However, Paddy is working on incorporating opening titles using iMovie although we are waiting on new software to make professional titles. I worked on deleting all the footage we didn't need for each scene i.e. mess ups. I also edited the scene where Ryan punches Paddy and transferred it via memory stick to Ryan's Mac for him to add music to.

Small update on project

We have decided to refilm one or two scenes in Lady Dixon as there a few shots we have in mind of the flashback scene. This means we will have to film twice before we have all the footage we need. Me, Conchur and Ryan are available for Friday and Sunday so we will need to ask Brendan and Jonathan if they are available. If they are, we should have all the footage we need by Monday.
Currently we are working on editing, mainly trying to find music to fit each scene. We also have the introduction finished apart from the credit text.

Update on progress

We finally finished our work at Lady Dixon with an overhead shot and a POV shot filmed by me, filling in for Brendan's character Chris. Ryan (Alex) also filmed a POV shot running at Brendan and this could make for a great scene with the right editting. Jonathan was unable to film so we couldn't film the remaining house scene. We hope to have this finished by Friday and that will wrap up our filming and leave us free to work on editing and perfecting our clips.

Title Examples

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/03/26/se7en/

Although this is not a horror movie it is a great movie for creating a suspenseful atmosphere and this is well shown in the opening title sequence. We are hoping to recreate this sense of atmosphere in the title of our movie using appropriate music.

Filming at Aarons house

We were unable to complete filming at Aaron's house due to Paddy not being there. We did get one line recorded of Luke (Jonathan). We may use this but it is more likely that we will just re-record it when the time comes due to the lack of effort needed and to improve on it based on the atmosphere leading up to this line.

Progress on Filming

Last Sunday we got every scene that was needed in Nathan's house so we won't need to go back there to film again. However we still need to finish one scene in Lady Dixon and in Aaron's house. This should be easy to do and should only take one more week.

Update

Today Conchur and I are working on editing and trying to come up with some sort of title sequence We want it to be eerie and creepy but it may be difficult to work out the details especially since we are down a man in that Paddy is not here.

Update

Ryan is working at editing the footage we recorded using the amateur camera by inserting a viewfinder to make the clip seem more realistic and more amateur.
Paddy is working on ideas for a title sequence as we feel this will be more atmospheric than simply jumping into the movie.
I am editing out footage that we can't use and (obviously) updating the blog.