Editing on home mac

During filming on Sunday, we thought we would put the panasonic given to us by the school to use and record ourselves throughout the day as evidence. Tonight i have began editing together the many videos at home! It also lets me have a little play around with iMovie on my macbook (as i have a different version from the macs at school) the video should be up if not tonight, tomorrow.

Inspiration: Haunting of Radcliffe house.

 The opening credits for the Haunting of Radcliffe house uses still shots of foliage, trees etc for its opening credits. We've taken major inspiration from this as we were planning on using shots of the landscape we took to create a similar title sequence. However, we made need to re-film certain shots using a tripod to ensure there is no camera shake involved. We felt using these shots as our opening credits would create a simple yet eerie tone to our movie opening.

Below is the entire movie but we've just focused on the credits (00:00 - 01:05)

Beautiful still shots.

I LOVE these still shots of Keeley we took today. Her 'possession ' over the doll captured in the second picture really creeps me out to be frank, also a massive thank you to Nicole for letting us 'trash' her china doll, i don't think we could have found one quite as terrifying and spine-chilling as this one.  

Film day!

With our hot chocolate at the ready, today our group went out and finally filmed. Due to our 2 minute opening all being set at the same location, we were able to shoot the entire movie opening in one day.(However we are ready for criticism.) We adjusted many things today, for example we found trouble panning at a smooth pace due to our tripod, because of this we decided it would be best to use an old disregarded idea, this new idea consists of a lot more editing regarding making the girl disappear then reappear in a jittery composition. Despite this we found as a group it worked well so we scrapped the pan. Also due to the lack of movements from the clouds, we were unable to complete the time lapse, also we had a limited amount of memory from Kelly's cannon; we thought the time lapse took away from the 'sinister' atmosphere that we are attempting to set.

Here are some pictures of the day;

Costume!

So today me and Kelly took to the shops to purchase our 'little girl' costume.
We bought :
A really beautiful ivory dress from Monsoon that really captures the innocence yet sinister look we wanted it to.
We also bought a cute pair of black Mary-jane pumps from Next.
As well as some burgundy ribbon to be placed in with her hair, also a matching thinner ribbon to attach to the dolls hair.

Storyboards

Here is our first drafted story board! (Some changes will need to be made, such as the changes to the bear as well as the pan.)

Woman in black: Angel of death!?

             I went to see the new Woman in black: Angel of death last night. I found it's plot of involving children rather similar to our context. The overuse of prolonged silences and long paced shots created the sinister and daunting atmosphere i hope will be portrayed in our opening 2 minutes. Despite holding the audiences interest with it's compelling storyline, i couldn't help but cover my eyes and ears throughout the more 'active' scenes. One of my favourite things played out in both films, is the connotation aroused with certain rooms\objects. almost instantly after entering the nursery you become aware of the tragedy and simply the dismaying scenes that occur within that setting. so much so, you know something disheartening is going to happen just with a shot of the door of the nursery.