Production day 12 and 13

We uploaded the rest of the stills pictures onto the laptops. After each laptop had the images our group viewed the trapped short film, we were happy with most of the sequence, however we felt that we needed to re-do some of the shots. The shots we wanted to re-do only had Mel in it so only me and Mel went out to film whilst Josh and Kaylee stayed in to do some other things to help the short film to progress. As well as re-doing some shots, we needed to create some more shots and add them to the short film as some of the shots didn't connect properly. After we had both finished filming, we uploaded the footage and Mel put all of the new shots into the sequence on final cut.

Production day 11

In this session Josh finished the font for the end and the beginning of our 'trapped' sequence. It took him a while to find a font that he was happy with and that he thought fitted well with the genre of our sequence. He also found a picture of a hooded character with a white masc, this picture is relevent as is supposed to be the kidnapper in our short film. I think Josh did really well with the task today.

Production day 10

Today I helped Josh find a heavy breathing sound effect again, most of the sound effects were either too slow or too fast. We thought about recording a member of our group heavy breathing if we didn't find a good sound effect. We found a good sound effect that we thought would work well with our sequence. 

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Production day 9

Each person in the class had to blog about each day during working on their 'trapped' sequence, In total there would be 12 blog posts all together. In this session I deleted all of the blog posts I did about he 'trapped' film as I thought I could write them better. On this day I wrote 7 blog posts about the previous seven days. On this day I also uploaded all of our pictures from the stills camera to put on my blog. The images are of my group filming, setting up equipment and acting.

Production day 8

As we had finished our filming, Our group stayed in the classroom, Mel started the editing with the help of kaylee and me and Josh looked for sound effects needed for the starting clip. We needed a heavy breathing sound effects for when it was the point of view shot of the kidnapper running through the forest. We went on quit a few web sites and couldn't find one that fitted well with the sequence.

Production day 7

Production day 7 was our busiest day yet as we had to re-film a lot of our shots. Kaylee was back so we could successfully re-film some of our shots. After we had finished re shooting our footage we needed to film the parts we hadn't already done. This included the kidnapper attacking the victim and the victim being trapped into a box in the middle of the woods. After we had finished all of the footage we uploaded it to the computer ready for editing.

Production day 6

Our sixth day of working on our trapped film was the day after the strike. One of our group members, Kaylee, was ill and unable to do her acting, so me, Mel and Josh  decided to film our opening clip of the point of view shot of our kidnapper running through the forest. We also decided to film the shots with the kidnapper sneaking behind the victim. The only shots we could do were the ones were we didn't need Kaylee. I thought the camera work on this day was the best of the week so far.

Production day 5

We uploaded the footage we had so far of our trapped short film, we vaguely put the clips in order so we could show Steve and to see how well the footage worked so far. As a group we weren't happy with most of the footage, we thought that we could have made the shots better in the way that the camera shots could have been more successful. As a result of this we decided to film pretty much the whole thing again. Because there was a strike on the day after this I was worried that we wouldn't get the filming done in time as we only had two more days to film.

Production day 4

On our forth day of working on our 'trapped' short film we discussed more about what we were going to film now that we had finished the first section of our filming. We needed a opening clip that included the title. We discussed about different ways we could include the 'trapped' title into a opening clip. We decided to do a point of view shot of the kidnapper running in the forest then he jumps over dome logs, the footage then pauses on the title 'trapped' in graved on the pile of logs and then the footage plays again with the kidnapper finishing his jump over the logs.

Production day 3

At the start of our third day of filming we stayed in the classroom for a bit to upload the first bits of our footage to see what it looked like so far, Some of our shots we thought we could do better so we re - filmed some of our bad shots. We also wanted to try some better camera shots that fitted in better with the scenes.

Production day 2

On our second day of filming was pretty much the same as the day before, we finished off filming the start of the film where the group of friends are walking through the forest, we had to cut down some of the script as it was too long for a short film of about 3-4 minutes. The second day of filming was a little harder to film than the first day as the sun was a lot brighter and was shining into the direction of where the camera was pointing, as a result of this it was difficult to see all of the characters because of the glare of the sun, because of this we had to retake quite a few shots because it the sun was effecting the filming. Me and Mel had to go back to the classroom to get some camera equipment that blocks the sun.

Production day 1

For our first session we had a meeting with all of our group members to discuss what part of the film would be best to film first. We discussed our script and what equipment we would need to use. Before we could go out filming we had to fill out a booking form which allowed us to take out the needed equipment. We also needed to write down the date, the time we took the equipment, the time we will bring the equipment back and one of our group members number incase someone needed us. We ordered a stills camera, a tripod and a filming camera. Our first shot we decided to do was to do a long tracking shot of the group of friends walking through the forest finding somewhere to set up their tent. It took a few retakes to get the shot perfect as the sun was pretty bright and effected the picture. Overall our first day was a good start to the filming.