Realising

that we don't always have to film as human eye, Our film will have a selection of clips as CCTV footage. Hopefully this will bring questions to the audience; Who's watching the CCTV footage? ETC.


SO NOW
We just have to finish filming one or two shots and then We are on the way to editing. I wont say that this is the final idea, because due to the amount of times i've said it before - It obviously jinxes things.

Here is a little video of 3 different shots, we may use for the CCTV footage.

With no surprises...

We eventually decided to scrap our 'Before I Die' idea totally and go back to the drawing board.


And it was during mid conversation of how freaky looking our school is, We realised we'd stupid not to involve the school in our film. As before, we felt that our ideas were too outgoing and flamboyant, with trips to southend......That filming in our school might actually lead us to having a film that is somewhat acceptable. Because of whole freakiness of our school, We felt that it was needed to create a thriller. We'd previously decided on creating a thriller, so that we already were siting on a basis of research.

However..

I then watched a film called 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. the world', and even though the plot isn't relevant. The way it had been edited really got me thinking. The film is based around a comic book, and its been edited how that font has been used to emphasize objects. Such as, when the phone rung it would say 'Ring'

And how in this picture, the sound waves are shown. Yet, More importantly, the film has been editied in a 'stop animation' style. As the camera skips from face to face, and hardly ever uses a panning shot.


And because i had been exposed to this new way of editing, I quite innocently noticed the same style in the TV programe 'Secret Diary of a Call girl'. Which made me realise that the camera doesnt always have to represent a human eye.

Failure

After filming all the footage for our 'Before I Die' idea, we had to come to the conclusion that it wasnt looking very successful. As we we're scared to scrap the whole idea, - yet again - we tried to rethink the base of it. We slowly adapted it into an idea of A character (Katrina) being on youtube, and talking to all her 'fans', but in contrast is really lonely outside of her internet stardom. We felt that would be easiest as it would only need simple shots, because our camera would act as a webcam.

For research we looked at previous media students, and we found this from 'Hurtwood House'

We felt that it would be fun to create something like this with such interesting effects. We were also very keen to do something like that, as we were shown this at a conference and we all remembered it to be our favourite.