Evaluating

Charlotte and I are at the stage now where we are going to begin our evaluation and hopefully we will be able to create the right atmosphere for it to go hand in hand with the style of our film. We shall be filming our evaluation and so we would like to create idea that we are doing an interview of the cast and the makers of 'Liason'. We shall hopefully answer some important questions and manage to explain the process of filming.

Amy Reeve

What's left to do...

Charlotte and I are now happy with our thriller opening. We feel that we have fully edited our footage and we are pleased with our choice of music and effects that we have used. All we have left to do is to blog what we have done in full detail, we are also planning on posting extra information to give an insight into the progress we made throughout the project and any issues we came across. We need to do an evaluation, which Charlotte and I are planning to film in the style of a; 'Behind the scenes interview'. We shall take it in turns to question one another on our characters and then we shall both talk about the process of filming. I am hoping to upload our film onto youtube so it will be on our blog before half term. We are also asking for advice on whether we need to change anything in our film, or if people who have viewed it have any suggestions as to what might make it better.

Filming progress

Reeve came over mine last Sunday to film the rest of our project. First of all I filmed the bedroom scene with Amy and Ross in bed asleep. I got a few different shots of them that we've used in our film, including one mid shot of Amy alone that is used at the end after you see Ross hanging from the tree. Amy then filmed me walking through the forest, using a range of different shots, most of them long shots and filmed from behind me. When we came to Ross hanging from the tree, I was originally going to kill him using a gun, however we decided this would be too hard to film, as we wanted to actually film the bullet being shot from the gun. Instead, he is hung with a noose round his neck (though you don't actually see this) from a tree. I filmed a mid shot of his legs dangling, and at this time the sun was just setting so the light creates a slight silhouette and looks perfect. We then went back to mine and continued to film: I went outside and filmed a few shots of Amy and Ross in the window, kissing. I have mesh curtains which created a silhouette of the two lovers with the light behind them. The low angle shot of the window is a little jolty, to deliberately show that it's also a point of view shot, to create the impression that my character is watching Amy and Ross. We deleted some of the footage that we originally filmed of me outside the window looking up at Amy because it looked quite unproffessional, plus the only way to capture a clear image of me was in the day light, but when my character is spying on Amy and Ross it's dark as you can see their silhouettes. We decided to not include the text message and the phone, and Amy waking up and finding that Ross has disappeared, mainly because our film now goes on for a total 2 minutes including all the editing. Instead the film ends with Amy asleep in bed, but alone instead of with Ross, leaving room for interpretation of what will happen in the rest of the film once she wakes up and realises Ross has gone, and how severe her reaction is. We decided that we are going to use Devendra Banhart's Insect Eyes for music throughout our film as we have received a positive response to it from various people who have viewed our film. We edited in the opening credits using the Men in Black Font. We used dips to black during the first part of the film as the shot changes from page to page of the notebook. We also used gradient wipes as each page changes. The name of our film 'Liason' appears at the end of the film, after the shot of Amy asleep. A dip to black emphasises the white writing. the font we used is called Phorssa which we installed from the website dafont and fits well with our film as it is like cut out letters from a newspaper.

Charlotte Bone