30th March 2012 - Media lesson.

During today's lesson we progressed further on the filming rather than editing that we had recently been doing. We understood that some shots had been left out of filming as we were going through the editing and we decided to film them today. We also carried on filming the documentary, and what we have filmed will make a great contribution to our project so far. The remaining shots to film are only the retirement party scene at Francois house. This will be filmed in the coming weeks as it is now the holidays!

23th March 2012 - Media lesson.

In today's lesson, as a group, we collectively researched what specific type of music we will be using for our final production. We looked at various films that we have studied before, such as "The Shining" and The Silence of the Lambs, to help with this research, but we also studied other media AS students blogs to find out what they used, and the effect of the music used. All three of us decided on using both diegetic and non-diegetic sound, for different effects.

The use of non-diegetic sound in the opening scene of "The Shining", creates a sudden involvement with the viewer and the film. The viewer feels engaged and already they understand that this film follows the thriller genre with eerie and unusual music, creating a unique atmosphere.

Then in "The Silence of the Lambs" with one of the last scenes whereby Clarice kills Buffalo Bill, with the use of diegetic sound. This is then exaggerated with the current events on screen, but overall it truly creates a tense and suspense filled moment for the viewer.

This video shows another media students coursework that we have been taking notes off and have really loved the use of music. The eerie non-diegetic sound links with that of "The Shining" and due to copyright issues, the music featured actually fits in incredibly well. We will use this to structure further our advancement in this field, and using a piano to create music, looks like the best possibility.

15th March 2012 - Media lesson.

Today, due to me being on my own, I had to continue with more editing and other projects that did not involve filming. I finished creating our new and improved costume board, with our new changes and also I edited all the film work we have produced so far. Overall the final production is looking very promising and I am pleased with what we have created. I also continued with the 'documentary' style blog, editing and then posting the video update produced yesterday, and also creating a further blog update for today. This will be placed onto the group blog.

14th March 2012 - Media lesson.

Due to the rest of my group being away, I have had to further our advancements in other fields rather than the filming side. Today, as I could not film, I organised all our filming work so far, editing it and placing it within different folders. I have also started to create new documents outlining the changes that have been made so far with our production, an example being the costumes and props we have changed. I tried to continue with the video blog for our group blog, and with difficulty, I managed to film several parts of the process solely on my own.

9th March 2012 - Media lesson.

During today's lesson we progressed thoroughly through many shots. There are only several shots to go and we are hitting our deadline currently with what we hoped to achieve within a certain time period. Today we completed all scenes between Michael Thornton and **** but with a change of actors playing the characters. With Michael we stayed with Francois playing that part but with **** we had Ed playing the part due to the difficulties trying to obtain the actor we would of hoped for and because Ed did not have a significant role, acting, in the production. We will create a blog in the near future showing our changes to characters and props after filming has been completed.

Francois (Left) as Michael Thornton and Ed (Right) as ****



7th March 2012 - Media lesson.

Ed filming Francois in one of the shots.

So today we have had a very successful session, filming many shots. All the shots filmed today were of one location, the computer room where Michael receives a mysterious call from an unknown number. We changed a few of our shots to what was featured in the storyboard, but all to help improve our production. We will make a blog on the group blog later on, explaining the changes we have made, but we expect to change other shots so we will do that after the completion of our final production. Also today we continued with the video blog, Ed being the documentarist today. We are changing our documentarist each lesson as we believe as a group that it would be best for all of us to take part in the video blog. So next time we expect Francois to be the documentarist.

2nd March 2012 - Media lesson

During today's lesson we progressed extremely well into our final production. We shot many of our scenes quickly, and efficiently with great techniques used. Another idea that we came up with, was as we need our blog to be in different formats, we have started to create a documentary showing the assessor what we have done that day. So we bring the video camera with us at all times, and every landmark of our production, we will film it to give the assessor an idea on our project. We also decided that we will make an "Extras" part on our blog which shows outtakes of our filming, which wont be too serious, but which will show the assessor on how we filmed our production, even if some humour is included unintentionally.

29th February 2012, Media lesson.

In today's lesson we all seperated and cooperated by sharing the work load with all of us doing different parts that helped the group. While I began on writing about the locations of our shots, Francois continued with the script and Ed began researching into a production logo. Team work will help us to create the best possible product.

Ed focusing on his research.

Costume for final filming - Secretary position