We had a group discussion before filming and realised that we were going to have to change Izzy who was going to play our female character. This is because most of the locations we found that would look really good in our film were around school, therefore this meant that most of our filming would have to be done during the week after school, although we realised Izzy did not have much free time just after school finished. This meant that this would limit our shooting hours. Therefore after a long discussion we decided to change Izzy to Becca Bentley for our female character.
Although Becca is not our 'typical blonde' female character which we first thought that we wanted as we felt it would be very stereotypical, However now as Becca has brown hair i think it will present the character as being a much more strong woman as the blonde women are usually used in thriller films as the victims and characterised as weak. I think we made the right decision and hopefully that will come across in our finished film which will present a very strong female character.

Panning and Zooming

We decided to try out how the red room looked when we video it. We have found out that sometimes it could make the image look a bit fuzzy, however i feel that we will be able to use this to our advantage. We tried the shot where we are going to pan along pictures and then zoom in to the picture of the victim to see if we will be able to do this using the camera. We tried it many times to try and get the zoom right without making the shot look jumpy. This is our last one we recorded and I think it worked quite well as our zoom was quite smooth untill the very end, therefore i feel that we will be able to do this when we shoot this scene for the real thing and it will work and add to our slow pace and suspense.

Premiere Pro

Last lesson Josh did a presentation on how to use Premiere Pro.He talked about the main seven things that you can do on Premiere Pro. These were; format, layout, import, timeline and edit, transitions, and texts and effects. Josh went through step by step on showing us how to do each of these things. I found this presentation really useful as it has really helped me in understanding how to use this programme properly and it will help me when it comes to editing our film. I feel that now i will confidently be able to edit our film well, including text and effects.

Lighting

We decided to start playing around with the lighting that we will have in the rooms that we will film in. One of the rooms will be used for when the woman character is printing the pictures of her victim, with the walls full of pictures of previous victims. Because of what this room is going to be used for we thought it would be a good idea of having quite a dark red lighting. We done this by getting a sheet of red transparent piece of paper and a lamp.

transparent red piece of paper:
  

We tried this out by putting the red piece of paper over the lamp, this was our first attempt:




Although, from holding it quite close to the ceiling it meant that the room went very red like this. However, we thought that it would have a greater effect and would look better if we didnt have the room as red and more a faint dark red instead. We mananged to get this effect in the second attempt we did, this is how it looked:





This is the effect we wanted for this room as it makes it look like a printing room for pictures, but also quite dark. Therefore I feel when the pictures are up on the wall and we have the props we want in there, i think it could look quite sinister which is the effect we are trying to get. I think from trying out lighting it has helped to imagine more exactly what we want it to look like which will help us more when comning to film.