Week two: Edit Workshop (camera and editing techniques)

Hey everyone welcome to my blog, for today’s post I will be talking about this week’s filming editing work. 

During this week in class we began filming our work for “the  encounter”, in addition we had to also choose the type of music we want to play in the background and also decide what kind of props and locations we want to add in the footage. This week was quite hectic as we only had a week to complete the footage.

Music

During the week we also chose some background music which is  going to be included in the footage. The music that I found is quite intense and very bloodcurdling. The music is from 3D sound illusion  which is made by Gregi and Kurczak .The scary music will create an understanding to the audience that the genre of this footage is going to be horror. The tune of the music has someone whispering in the background and this connotes the devils voice as the story is about “a girl called sally who is suffering from a life threatening disease, then later on sally made a deed with the devil for her sister’s soul and her child.”The devils voice in the background will create an intense atmosphere which therefore will make the audience quite frightened as they might feel that the devil is near them or is going to jump unexpectedly. Also during the filming one of the dialogues in the script is sally saying “shhhhhhhh... Can you hear that.(sub text tapping table with hands “ the background music includes whisperers  thus this will create an spiritual vibe to the footage as audience highlights the fact that there is someone else in that very room but the interviewer doesn't know. At the beginning of the music ,the music becomes louder So I decided to put a long shot of sally sitting in chair looking possessed this will aware the audience that the room is not safe. The music also include sounds of blood dropping heavy breathing and tapping nosies.This will give the audience a horror experience .Click 
below to listen to the horror music.

camera movement and angles

As we were filming we had to use many camera techniques and different shots. These include:

• Mid shot
• Close up
• Long shot
• Extreme close ups          
• Track
• Low angle
• and many more...

 During filming I had to create many different kind of shot angles and different type of shot so that if I have difficulties of editing during the work shop session I will have more backups to put on my footage. The use of a different shots will make the audience more interested as they are not looking at a still shot. I got this inspiration from the movie “up” as they had many different types of shots during the first 15 minutes of the footage. 

During filming we also had to include shot reverse shot, the 180 degree rule and match on  action and rule of thirds. It was very difficult to film these as it was our first time to attempt this. I used the shot reverse shot for a conversation between the antagonist and the interviewer, this included the interviewer saying “where is Bella and her baby, tell me where is she, god damit it give me an answer", the shot goes back to the antagonist and she starts laughing and then the shot goes back to the interviewer and she looks really annoyed. This was quite easy to film as all of these shots was mid shots and the camera was placed in one place. So that bit of the filming was successful. The match on action was very hard as we decided to put that at the beginning of the footage of the interviewer opening the door. hopefully, during the editing day we will get the editing right of the match on action shot. Throughout the whole footage we had to include rule of thirds. The 180 degree rule was the toughest at times as we didn't get the shot right. But after trying a few times we got there. Overall all we got four of these shots and they are the main ones to get a successful footage for our primarily task.

props and location

We also made props this week in class, I made a newspaper  for the beginning of the footage, this will create a realistic attitude towards the audience as the newspaper is giving out some information about what is going  to happen but not giving any answers. This creates an disjointed narrative as the audience doesn't know what the  answer is to the questions.below is the template we used.

The location that we used was the drama studio as they have great lighting, we used a red spotlight to highlight the danger of sally and also we used black rostra blocks to create the table and chairs for the props. The drama room  almost looked like  jail witness room, this was very successful during the making of “the encounter”