Final Cut Express Effects

The main effect I used throughout the sequence was the colour corrector. This aided us so much in giving the film a professorial look. I looked on youtube for video tutorials on how you can make that "film look". What you do is add the colour corrector effect on the footage. Duplicate the footage so one is ontop. Then on top section click modify>composite mode>overlay. Then go to the bottom footage and put the saturation to 0%.

The effect of this makes the film look almost as if it were a professionally made product.

Garage Band

We used garageband to make the film's soundtrack. We downloaded some music from royalty free sound websites such as http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html

All we had to export the final cut project in a .mov and put into the garageband.

Film Production logo

this is our production logo.

Jess, Jade and Chloe edited this in Flash. It the light bulb flashes about two seconds into the moving image.

some names we initially thought of:
Wonky Donkey Productions

Lighthouse Productions

Newhouse Productions

Light bulb Productions

Transform Productions

Idea behind Opening Sequence

We chose the horror type genre because Miss Thrasher said it would be easier for sixth form students to make it look more presentable. Genres such as Comedy are hard to film effectively and it's easy for it to look cheesy and not funny.

Are original idea was more of a thriller than a horror but we scrapped that idea because we were running out of time and wanted an easier sequence to plan and film

Rough Copy of our Opening Sequence

This is our rough working copy of our opening sequence. It's about 60% finished and we needed to make a couple more edits and cuts and basically upload all of our sound.

Original Film Title

We originally thought of calling the film "The Hiding". Because Efosa was meant to the be the hidden killer but we changed the title to Captured as it has a double meaning. Captured as in Efosa eventually capturing Jess. And captured as in the photography sense when Efosa takes a picture of Jess at the end of our opening sequence.

Final Cut Express Cuts

I've made numerous cuts since the film showcase. I've cut nearly every section of footage to give the film an overall cleaner look. The transitions are now cleaner and it makes more sense now.

The first cut I made was the length of time where the lipstick drips onto Jess' picture. It used to be 10 seconds,now it's about 5 seconds. It might seem minuscule but it's quite effective in the long run.

Film Schedule

Filming

Initially we had planned a different story to the one we have now. The original story was Jade being alone in the house and then she starts having visions and starts hallucinating. Seeing visions of me and Jess attacking her but it never really happens. We didn't all agree on that story line, so we changed it to something we could agree on. The new story line was Jess being held captured by Jade and I was the secret villain who was in connection with Jade.

The storyboard was devised by all of the group but Jade drew the pictures and wrote.We then organised the schedule .We said we'd film on Sunday the 23rd of January But we weren't all free so, we decided we'd film the week after. We organised the I took the camera, tripod and tapes from Steve. We starting filming at Debden Station on the 1st of Febuary.