Sixthteenth blog- Story and how the opening sets it up- Evaluation

The story of our film is;

The main character's (Jennifer) friends are brutally killed by a mad man, she manages to escape from him but a few months later the murderer returns to seek vengeance on Jennifer. The film opens with Chad running away from the murderer, he trips over a fallen branch and gets his arm cut off by the murderers spade. Barry goes looking for Chad, he finds his scarf hanging on a tree branch, he then finds Chads hacked off arm under a bush, while he is in a state of shock, the murderer appears from behind a bush and stabs Barry with an axe, thus Barry falls into the river. Cindy, Whitney and Jennifer and wandering around looking for both Barry and Chad, they see a figure coming towards them, Jennifer and Whitney realise that the figure isn't Chad but Cindy stays to greet who she thinks is Chad. The figure appears to be the murderer and Cindy is stabbed. The murderer then follows Whitney and Jennifer, Jennifer hides behind a tree whilst Whitney runs, the murderer follows her and she trips over a hole in the ground, she is then stabbed by the murderer. He then turns round to chase Jennifer, she runs up a small slope and has enough time to grab a big stick so that when the murderer managed to get up there, she could hit him with it and run for safety

Fithteenth blog- Camerawork and Editing- Evaluation

For our camerawork, we both filmed certain parts and also we had help from another one of the characters because we were both in the scene. I feel we can both do well in the camera work and can shoot quite good angles. For the editing, Grace does all of it as she is faster and better at using the Adobe Premier Elements. She had to edit the first scene allot as it had many shots of Chad running and we used match on action so we could see the front and back of him, she also put shots of the murderer in there so we knew who Chad was running away from. While Grace edits, I help write the new script and do some of the evaluation. Because Grace edited our preliminary task, we felt it was best if she did the main one too as she knows what she is doing and can get it done quite fast. We both have input to what scenes should go where and what looks best and sometimes I can help her when to cut pieces out and leave pieces in but she has the majority decision which I'm okay with.

Fourteenth blog- Setting/Location- Evaluation

We filmed our film opening at the Nature Reserve in Whittlesey. We used this because it is in a wooded area and it has an eerie setting. It was close to our original setting so the arrangements to film didn't change much. It was a little bit difficult to film because there was noises in the background that we didnt want, there was a train track nearby and trains came past every 20 minutes or so, this made it difficult to know when to film and try and cut the sound out. We used various locations in the Nature Reserve because we needed it to look like all the characters were comming from a different place and had to be killed in a different place.

Thirteenth blog-Costumes and Props- Evaluation

All the costumes and props we uses were things we had at home. The costumes were just old clothes and ordinary footwear;

Jennifer wore a hoodie, jeans and flat shoes.
Whitney wore a t-shirt, jeans and welly boots.
Cindy wore t-shirts, a skirt with leggings and an open hoddie.
Chad wore a black hoodie, jeans and flat shoes.
Barry wore a grey hoodie, jeans and flat shoes also.
The Murderer wore dark jeans, dark shoes and a black hoodie with the hood up to hide his face.

We used old clothes so that we could cover them in 'blood' and the clothes wouldn't be needed again. Also we didnt need a strict costume for each character as they were just playing normal teenagers so it was pretty easy.

Twelfth blog- Movie title- Evaluation

For our movie opening we have decided to name it 'Jeraha Kumbukumbu' which is Swahili for 'Deadly Memories'. We didn't want to spend too long on coming up with a name so we quickly decided on this. The film is about the main character Jennifer remembering the deaths of her friends and how a man wanted to kill her. The last scene is of Jennifer in a panicky state as she had just reminisced about the horrible memories. She keeps seeing the murderer in her dreams and fears that one day he will return. We chose to translate deadly memories into Swahili because it sounds more exotic, interesting and mysterious. If it was called just 'Deadly Memories' i don't think it would sound as appealing and fun as it is in Swahili. The fact that it is in a foreign language makes it more exciting and if it was in English it would give away what the movie opening is about.

Eleventh blog- Camera log

We took the camera out to film on Thursday 28Th January, we kept it until Wednesday 4Th of February, unfortunately, we had to give the camera back to the library so that another group could film. Due to the technical difficulties with the Adobe Premier Elements we can't get the film on the computer. We will try to get it fixed but in the meantime we will make another questionnaire and start our evaluation.

Tenth blog- Filming

We have successfully filmed our main task, we are having slight problems with the school computers because the Adobe Premier Elements weren't working and we had to put the film on the computer, we don't know if it is fixed now but as soon as we put it on we can edit and do evaluations and all the rest of the stuff to do. We managed to film it in one day, which is good for our continuity and timing.