Production Progress - 12th December

Today was our final lesson of being able to work on our production before we reached the deadline. Before we began the work, Jon and I evaluated each one of our shots drawing up ideas for better shots we could include, all in the hope of boosting our grade. Here is the list of ideas;

• Stabilising the first bed shot, removing the jerk on the zooming out phase.
  


• Walking down the stair scene - re shoot scene getting in three different shots including close ups of the framed pictures.
  


• Include lip syncing or show someone playing the guitar. We came up with the idea if a busker playing the guitar in the street, but without any strings on his instrument.
  


• The freeze frame of the character being run over could replace the looking through the window scene, working well with the sound of the car crash.
  


• Instead of using the car crash incident from the television programmes "Skins", we could film our own and have it being played on the television.
  


• We found a potential of applying the heartbeat monitor lines onto the blank piece of paper, making the scene more interesting and weird.
  


• Shorten screaming, chiaroscuro scenes as they lose their effect as we've played them too long.
  


• Needing to change the car park setting as it means there are people around, getting the total opposite effect and meaning we are going for.
  


• Add a scene of the driver getting out of the car earlier in the production, building a story for the viewer.
  


• Applying a red sky effect to the walking across the Mead's scene. The red sky will darken as he gets closer to the building, walking towards death or danger?
  


• Remove the laying on the ground scene inside the house from the rewind sequence as it doesn't relate to the story what so ever.

Production Progress - 8th December

Today was our penultimate lesson before the deadline day of December the 12th. We had to use this time wisely to have our production up to a substantial enough level, prefferably higher than our predicted grades. As Jon had finished his special effects scenes at home, we were now able to add them into our production. These special effects scenes included the removal of a mysterious characters face and a scene where two moons can be seen. Both scenes were a generated idea from the groups feedback session, coming from the aim of making the production ore "weird".