Since i can't figure out how to attach a word document or turn it into a pdf without downloading some programme, I'm just going to copy and paste it here:
After being put into groups, we sorted out our roles for the production. It was quickly decided that Storm would be the producer, Owen would be the camera man and create the poster, and I would be director and editor. Once roles were sorted out, Owen and Storm came up with a great idea for our short project; having a woman getting a phone call about her husband and going to see him in a morgue, only to have him wake up and complain to her. In the end the audience would find out it was only a dream she was having whilst in the waiting room.
Once the idea had been sorted out, they informed me on the genre so I could start some research. I got information about comedy shows and movies, and also researched morgues and hospitals a bit. In the mean time, the others worked on completing the storyboard. we got together in a free to discuss the script and what changes there should be to it. We also thought about who our actors could be. It has already been decided that Philipa would be the female role. Storm got a male actor to be the doctor, and I managed to convince Conan to be our main male actor.
Storm asked me to find a morgue to film in, though looking around for places in Peterborough, found the only place that I could get any information on was an abandoned hospital/morgue. It would have been great, but it was far too dangerous to record in, so i text her about filming in a hospital instead. I got a few possible hospitals and contact details, and contacted the Fitzwilliam hospital in the end. They said they would reply within 48 hours for our enquiry - but didn't get back to us. Luckily, Storm knew of a good room to use in the Leisure centre since she works there. I went with her that lesson so she could ask permission, and she later filled out the risk assessment paperwork for it.
We had planned to film on a Monday, (as did quite a few groups) and told all our actors to be prepared, but had to call it off last minute, since our teacher wasn't there and there seemed to be a problem with the HD cameras and SD cards not being sorted out. We filmed the next day instead, and managed to get our actors there on time. Filming went well, Storm had set up some of the 6th form chairs in the Leisure centre to make it look more like a waiting room - we took them back the morning after - and we set up a bed for Conan to lay on.
Owen filmed the different shots that were on the storyboard, and the actors did a great job at performing their roles, especially Philipa. After discovering our teacher had an emergency operation so suddenly and not told any of us he was out the whole week we found we had an extra week for our production, so formatted the footage and got it onto a computer on Thursday.
Editing was a little tricky, as Storm and Owen didn't know how to use the software, and I only knew the basics. (Luckily a month prior to editing I had watched some tutorials since the workshop sir said he'd do wasn't on as he wasn't it.) We went through the clips together, deciding which ones we could use and white were useless due to wrong lines or laughter. we got that done quite quickly, and then went for lunch.
The next day, the others were ill, so I edited on my own, cutting the clips together as well as I could. I tried to save the clips and the project film on my memory stick to edit at home, but every time I tried to download adobe premiere trial, something went wrong and it refused t download onto my computer. Instead, I tried starting from scratch and editing on Sony Vegas to see if it's look any better. (I was more focused on trying to mask out a small error with continuity editing, but it didn't seem to be going very well.)
On Tuesday, we were planning on meeting up in our 4th lesson (a free) and checking over the project. To make sure it had saved OK on my memory stick I went in near the start of lunch to find all of our original footage had gone offline, and whenever I tried importing the original mpeg files an error occurred. I spent that lunch re-doing editing and putting back the clips we had used. By the end of lunch it was back to where it was, ready for Storm and Owen to see. We decided on the start audio, but then got annoying at the background noise of the dialogue. We added the beeping of hospital equipment in the background, but adobe was frustrating to use and wouldn't let us soften it enough, so it took your attention away from the actual dialogue.
We also tried taking out the audio when someone wasn't talking, to try and get rid of the bad continuity with background noise. (There were people taking a swimming class in the other room and you could hear them through recording.) Though when we removed audio and made parts silent, it didn't sound right at all, so we decided to deal with the background noise since we're not professionals, don't know how to get rid of it, and can't re-film the whole thing. In hopes of distracting the audience though, we tried adding a background track of Taylor Swift, last kiss.
After editing was done, Storm set to work on creating a PowerPoint presentation for us to show to the class on Friday, while we tried to sort out updating our blogs - but it seems the blogs were pretty useless as in the end no one n the class could get onto theirs.
I'll upload a copy of our video tomorrow, the Internets being too slow to upload the video atm.
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