Editing Techniques

Okay, I'm here today to explain to you the various editing and effects we will be using in the editing of our masterpi- I mean, film.

It took us roughly about one week to film our thriller opening sequence. We based our filming in the school bathrooms in the junior school. As a group we all nominated Ryan to be the director. We wrote our own theme music because we felt that it would be a lot easier to adapt it to fit our opening sequence. We edited the sequence using different formats such as, blurring it; using different colouring effects, and making it look like CCTV footage. We kept to our storyboard, but on some occasions we felt that some scenes needed to change. To help us get a better picture of what kind of scenery and setting we would be using we decided to take some pictures of some of the different scenes. We used a variety of software like Garage Band, and we used Final Cut Pro for our editing.

Written by Hannah and Nicolas

Character Profile - The Victim

Victim:

The victim is a student (actor: Nicolas Inzelmann) that is about 15 years old. He is in the bathroom and washing his hands, when he sees the murderer in the mirror. He is relaxed because he doesn’t know the person behind him is a murderer but after some time he realize it and is shocked. In the next shot he is dead and his blood is everywhere. The victim wears a school uniform (white shirt).

(Written by Nicolas)

Location shots - Cont.

The main entrance. The statue that the killer places his bag on is to the right.

The Reception hallway that the killer walks through to get outside.

Location shots

The dining hallway which leads to the reception area and the entrance. The killer uses this dining hallway to move to the entrance.

View from the entrance into the bathroom. This is where the victim meets his demise, and the janitor discovers the corpse.

Another view in the bathroom, this showing the entrance to the bathroom which the killer, victim and janitor enter from. The teachers would also have entered from here.

The bathroom and sinks where the victim notices the killer shortly before his death.

The D&T area in the hallway where the teachers would have met to discuss suspicions of the then unknown killer, prior to their removal from the final script.

Hallway No. 1 - The first and main hallway in the film. This is used by the murderer, victim and janitor. The teachers, once again, would have used this hallway prior to their removal from the script.

Animatic

Here's our animatic finally uploaded.

The animatic outlines the basic times we want each scene to run for, approximately. Of course, we may not stick exactly to it, but it is a guideline. So if we follow the animatic's times, we should end up with a 3-4 minute film.

As far as I(Daniel) am concerned, there doesn't appear to be anything that needs changing at this point, apart from possibly more cuts. Either way, I am sure we'll end up changing things during filming, but until then, we'll see.

All we need to do now, of course, is film and edit.

Shooting Schedule

Here's our shooting schedule.

1st Shoot (Date) - Scenes 1, 4, 9, 12 and 18.

Location - Hallways
Equipment - Camera, Tripod
Personnel - Ryan, Hannah, Daniel, Nicolas, Teacher
Other Factors - Bag + Gloves

2nd Shoot (Date) - Scenes 19, 20 and 21.

Location - Outside
Equipment - Camera, Tripod
Personnel - Ryan, Hannah, Daniel, Nicolas
Other Factors - Bag

3rd Shoot (Date) - Scenes 3, 5 ,7 and 8.

Location - Bathroom
Equipment - Camera, Tripod
Personnel - Ryan, Hannah, Daniel, Nicolas

4th Shoot (Date) - Scenes 13 and 14.

Location - Bathroom, Bathroom Door
Equipment - Camera, Tripod
Personnel - Ryan, Hannah, Daniel, Nicolas
Other Factors - Mop, Bucket

5th Shoot (Date) - Scenes 10, 11, 15 and 16.

Location: Teacher's Hallway
Equipment - Camera, Tripod
Personnel - Ryan, Hannah, Daniel, Nicolas, Teachers

6th Shoot (Date) - Scenes 7 and 17.

Location - Bathroom
Equipment - Camera, Tripod
Personnel - Ryan, Hannah, Daniel, Nicolas
Other Factors - Blood, Cling film, Sticky Tape

7th Shoot (Date) - Scenes 2, 6 and 22

Location - Room
Equipment - Camera, Tripod
Personnel - Ryan, Hannah, Daniel, Nicolas
Other Factors - TV

Thriller Risk Assessment

This is the risk assessment we had to fill in for filming. We checked each filming area thoroughly before we filled in the risk assessment, to make sure that we had filled it in correctly, as this risk assessment was used for all of the filming instead of one for each scene.