[EXCLUSIVE] Poster Pictures

Today we took some pictures which we believe will be in our poster for out teaser trailer. Here are 5 of the 28 pictures we took just to give a sample of what sort of pictures we was going for.



If you look at the pictures as normal stills they don't look like much but these pictures have 3 ideas incorporated with them, and when we learn how to use photoshop the posters should include some of these pictures.
However, I must say that we will be taking more pictures and hopefully with a better quality camera so that our poster will be of the highest quality

[FIRST DRAFT] Storyboard

This was our draft storyboard:
First Draft Storyboard

As you can see this was our first draft storyboard, from our first idea we came up with for the teaser trailer. It coincides with our first draft shooting plan; which I have already posted.

[FIRST DRAFT] Shooting Plan

This was our first draft shooting plan:
First Draft Shooting Plan

This was our first draft of the shooting plan, we made it a draft because certain things may come up and we might need to change the day we shoot the scenes. Also, as this was our first idea for the teaser trailer, we didn't want to rule out other ideas. At this point we hadn't thought of our official name yet, so we called it Echo Of Silence which was the first idea for the title we came up with.

This shooting plan was made before the actual shooting of the teaser trailer and you will see there have been significant changes to the shooting plan and the whole idea from my other blog posts.

[EDITING] Third Session

Our third session of editing happened today and it was a very productive day.
The second session ended with us leaving the all the clips which we picked together untouched and that added up to 1:42minutes. Since we knew we was going too add some black screens and fade in/outs eventually, we thought we should just add some of it first so we knew how much we had to edit out of the clips we filmed. By doing so it brought the whole teaser to 1:49minutes which was less than what we was expecting.

To the actual editing since we made the choice that each of characters scene would be shown simultaneously we had to move each clip so it would look right.
For example, we had my clip then a fade, then Samuels clip then fade, then Marks clip. This was the sequence that we wanted to have during the whole teaser trailer.
Usman came up with the idea to have 3 black screens all including part of our tagline and they would come up throughout the teaser trailer.
The tagline is 'What would you do if you past came back to haunt you?'
1st Black Screen - What would you do...
2nd Black Screen - ...if your past...
3rd Black Screen - ...came back to haunt you?
That would be the sequence the tagline would come in.

Once the session finished we had reduced the teaser trailer to 1:01minutes which we are very pleased with and it is starting to look really good. For the next session I want to get it down even further as we have to add a few more things.

Today was also the day where other people in my class could see our teaser trailer, we got alot of positive feedback, alot was the actual plot of the teaser one person said 'the way the trailer is set out makes me wonder how is this guy stalking all of these people and appearing out of nowhere' and there was a clip that was getting good feedback, this clip was a panning shot which Samuel walking across the screen whilst the camera pans right and once he leaves the screen another character is there.

[EDITING] Second Session

Today was the second session of editing, now that we have learnt how to use this new laptop and placed all clips into their correct folders, we now have to find the best clips we made and start placing them together.

We out all of our chosen clips together which made the length of the teaser trailer 1:42minutes, with past research it has shown me that this amount of time is not acceptable for a teaser trailer, so when we saw this we made the decision to cut down the teaser trailer to 50seconds to 1:10minutes. This will take a lot of editing as we still haven't added in the black screens and some fades which might be in the teaser, these we believe will add up to 5-10seconds of footage, in theory we need to cut at the very least 42seconds of footage, which hopefully won't be too hard.

Once we put the the clips together we made the choice that each character will be shown simultaneously getting stalked by their killer, this is because I believe that it is very unique to do such a thing as I haven't seen it in any of the teaser trailers I have watched over the past 2 months and it will add into the theme of horror and the name of the killer Lucifer will as he will be every everywhere all at one time. This will make the audience start to think how is he doing this as well as why he is stalking these 3 people.

We looked at this trailer to give us ideas on the way we should edit our teaser trailer.

[EDITING] First Session

The first session of editing was somewhat difficult, this is because the difference from last year was that we are now using different laptops. It is the same make Apple but the more update MacBook Pro, which I and my group have never used before, so before we even thought about editing we have to figure out how to use it. Our teacher Mr Kay showed us various iMovie tutorials which helped me understand more about using this new piece of hardware.

Here are some of the tutorials:

This was useful has we had many clips and being able to organize them made life much easier when we wanted to find a clip.


This tutorial will be very useful as one of our clips need this so when we get to editing that part, we will implement this instruction.

Today's editing session was to understand the new hardware we was using and to organize all of our clips.

[FILMING] Day 3 & Pictures

The third day of filming which is the house scene, before we got to the location we came up with some really good ideas. Then once we got to the location we came up with even more ideas, as we were able to see what we was actually filming so we could change and add some shots.

Location: Stockwell, Inside home.

Todays roles:
Me - actor
Usman - camerman/actor
Mark - idea guy/photographer
Samuel - Had college lessons so we didn't want him to miss them so he didn't have to come, but we did fill him in on what was going on and what the final shots were by text and I believe that we have achieved this.

Today we shot me(Nicholas Andrews) aka Lee and Usman Sheikh aka Lucifer in my home and just outside it. We wanted shots that were both slow paced and fast paced. The artificial lighting in my flat made the shots look more real and intimate because we wanted to show that this was my house and that I was somewhat successful as I can own my own flat. We had some real good shots and one not really good shot. One was on the window seal looking down and out of the window showing my walking into my block, this was a really good shot one which we made up on the day. The not so shot was when we tried to film me walking into my block through the intercom camera, it didn't look good as there was black lines going down the screen. There was another horrorish shot where I am sitting on my couch and Lucifer walks down my corridor but I don't see him, I believe that this adds to the suspense or whats going to happen or am i going to see him.

Again like previous days we took alot of shots with alot of different angles, this should help us with editing. This was the last day of filming and now we have to edit.

Here are the pictures from the final location for our teaser trailer:
Stockwell Pictures

[FILMING] Day 2 & Pictures

Second day of filming and we was optimistic with this day as the ideas which we came up with prior to filming was really good and the location was somewhat exciting based on the ideas we came up with.

Location: Southside Wandsworth Car Park.

Todays roles:
Me - cameraman/idea guy
Usman - actor/idea guy
Mark - actor/photographer
Samuel - Had college lessons so we didn't want him to miss them so he didn't have to come, but we did fill him in on what was going on and what the final shots were by text.

Today we shot Mark Ahmed aka Tom and Usman Shiekh aka Lucifer in the car park. The shots we was looking for today was more slow paced than day 1, yet it was more menacing and dark themed. We hoped that the natural light from outside the car park and the artificial lighting the car park has would be enough to make the shots not look too dark but not too light and I believe that is what we accomplished today. We played with a hand held shot which was tricky but I reckon that it came out ok and with a bit of editing it will look better than what I saw whilst filming it. I took a classic shot which I have seen many times in thrillers and horrors where a dark shadow walks across the screen and the person can't see them but turns around just was the shadow leaves the screen.

Just like day 1 we took alot of shots with different angles so we can have a variety of shots to work with whilst editing begins.

Here are pictures from the location we filmed this part of the teaser trailer:
Southside Carpark Pictures

[FILMING] Day 1 & Pictures

This was the first day of filming, we was unsure if it would work out as there was some rain before we went out, and once we got to the location it started spitting but it didn't affect the filming.

Film Location : Tooting; Chetwode Rd, Holdemesse Rd and Trinity Cresent.

Today we film shots with Samuel Mante aka Jason and Usman Sheikh aka Lucifer. We had 2 ideas one was a slow paced stalker theme and other other was a fast paced supernatural ghostlike theme, luckily enough we was able to shot both of the ideas with alot of shots and angles. We wanted alot of shots from different angles as it would gives us a variety of shots to work with once we start to edit. As it was raining before we filmed I believe that it added to the footage and fits in well with our genre, during the filming it started to spit a little which you can just slightly see in the camera but it didn't affect us at all, infact it actually added that extra something to the shots that we needed.

We came to the conclusion that on each filming day we all would have our jobs to do depending who is there.
For today the roles were as such:
Me - cameraman/ideas guy
Usman - actor/ideas guy
Samual - actor
Mark - photographer/cameraman

We believe that assigning roles for each day will make us more organised and efficient, which will make the filming easier and less stressfull.

Here are the pictures from where we was filming this part of the teaser trailer:
Tooting Pictures

[EXCLUSIVE] The Film Title Has Been Decided

This has been an ongoing discussion with my group on what the name of our film should be. There have been many things we have had to consider whilst comoing up with the title such as:
- The film genre.
- The film concept.
- Origionality.
- Something that will stand out from others.
- Can it be related back to the film.

The Ideas we came up with was:
- Echo of Silence
- Silent Footsteps
- Red Ribbon
- The Silent Pursuit

Whilst having to consider such thing that I have mentioned above we have come to the conclusion that the title of the film will be.....

Silent Footsteps

Also, with the name of the title now decided we have started to create ideas for the films posters and magazine covers.