Update and reflection

I'd completely forgotten to do some posts during most of this project so here is an update but also a reflection and description on what has happened so far.

With being permitted to film only in the 48 hours of Wednesday and Thursday, we had a lot of time for planning. We did this thoroughly, and changed, expanded and developed our ideas many times. Our genre was crime/detective but we found it hard to keep the subject of our ideas within that genre and most of them were veering more toward horror, rather than simply just crime. After a couple of days of this we were allowed to change our idea to thriller, as there was already a group doing horror but thriller was free just for us.

Eventually we settled on an idea and story that we all agreed on, as well as characters, character names and a title name. When planning all of these things, I believe that all four of us contributed equally.
On one of the days of planning, the four of us went to look for props. We walked up to K road, and then all the way down Queen street to the shops opposite Britomart, also checking shops on the way down, looking for our props. On they way back to the Tower, we looked on the other side of Queen street. Apart from buying one thing, the entire journey was a complete waste of time, although thanks to Yuta we each got a sample, albeit a small sample, of really expensive ice-cream : ).

On Tuesday evening we booked our equipment, and being first we were lucky enough to get two cameras. Earlier we had also managed to get a microphone and one of the pole thingys(I don't know the technical word for this : )) to attach it to. We were due to start filming on Wednesday morning, and seriously what a terrible morning we had.

Check 'event no. 4' in the events blog for more details. Though in short: we were wanting to film in Zoe's apartment in the Wellesley Student Apartment building, told we couldn't, got pissed off, went to James, and eventually, after much wasted time, got it sorted out which involved having to succumb to writing a letter.

We had to get our filming done as quickly as possible, because some of our actors were leaving the next day. We had decided to use people outside of our class as actors, because we thought that if we used ourselves it might draw people away from the actual movie, seeing people that we know. I think we made a good choice in doing that, and it also meant that we were able to work behind the cameras more easily.

We managed to get all of our filming done by Thursday night, and also started some editing. Overall, I enjoyed the experience and even though there were some stressful times, there was also a lot of fun. The four of us worked really well together, we all contributed equally in our own ways and I really enjoyed working with the 3 of them.

Our movie was finished enough to be able to show it to the class and I think that all four of us were quite pleased with the result, although the projector made it look a lot darker than it was which meant not all of it could be seen. I think that all of us had the same favourite scene, which was the stabbing scene. It worked really well and looked frighteningly real. It was also really interesting to see all of the other groups movies.