Construction

Filming Problems and Solutions: When we began filming, we encountered our first major problem which was lighting. When we arrived home from school, it was already becoming dark. This restricted our filming to just the weekends if we had the time. However one afternoon we gained permission to leave school early in order to film the scene.

Here is a picture of when we first started filming after school. When filming in this light it was near impossible to make out who the figure was or what he was doing. The time was around 4:30pm when we took this picture.

Location Stills: The film was shot at Ashes house and along the road next to it. This was chosen because of the it is an isolated area, making it easier to film and giving the atmosphere we desired. At first we wanted the house to look abandoned by boarding up the windows, so that it would seem mysterious. However we decided against this as it would be difficult to do, and also we don't actually see much of the house in the scene.

These are some photo-stills of the locations we are going to use.

Edit Issues and Solutions: When we transferred our opening scene onto the main edit station we found that two of the video files had not transferred correctly, and had a slight glitch in them when played back. We solved this problem by copying the original files onto a usb, and transferring them that way.

Music Issues: When trying to find a suitable music track for our media piece we used a website called 'www.freeplaymusic.com' this website is a 'copyright free' music website, where users can download music. The first piece of music we chose for our piece was called 'Valley Of Mist'.

This is a slow, mysterious piece of music. We used this music for the first 30 seconds of our opening scene. We then used a cross-fade into a much faster and heavier piece of music called 'Limp Trusket'.

The problem arose when we were unable to find a suitable track for the last 30 seconds of our piece, after finding a track that we thought was suitable for the last scene, we realised that it didn't really climax at the place where we wanted to end. So we decided to leave the scene at a point that doesnt reveal to much of the storyline. The final track was called 'Dark Angel'.

Titling Issues: When trying to create titles, we found that anything we created that was colourful or artistic didn't really suit the feel of our opening scene. So we went for something a bit more simple.

These are some previews of the titles we created:

This is he first title we produced for our film, however we felt it didn't really look right when we edited it into the opening scene. So we went for a style that matched the rest of our titles.

 

Apart from the 'Andale Production' title, these titles will be layered over the footage, we have positioned them in appropriate positions.

When we layered this title over the footage we had limited space to fit the title

in, so unfortunately it is very close to the edge of the screen, and not in our 'safe margin'.

For our final title we created a typewriter effect for it by using 'Adobe After Effects CS4', which we then combined with a sound effect that we found on a CD. 

Here is a preview of our final title, which will feature at the end of our 2 minute opening scene.

Timing Issues: We were very pleased with the timing of the opening scene. As when we put the piece together, it came to just over 2 minutes long. Therefore no cuts had to be made, and we did not have to include any unnecessary cutaway or titling.

Weather/Illness Problems and Solutions: The weather was a serious issue when we wanted to film. There was a severe amount of snow that came half way through filming, so unless we started again we could not continue filming until it had gone. This delayed our film from being made for quite some time.

This is a picture of the location before the snow came.


This is a picture of the location when the snow had hit.