Here is the final finished movie :)

Obsessed from Scott Smith on Vimeo.

This is our Prelim Task:




Our prelim task helped us alot with our main task in the end and was really helpful to us. The preliminary task gave us an understanding of continuity, which is a fundamental principle of film and tv production. We leaned as long as continuity rules are followed our narrative can unfold in such a way that we can assume what happens between each shot or sequence

Match on action:
We learned this is a cut from one shot to another view that matches the action and pace of the first shot. This creates an impression of continuity, such as Mair closing the door in our video.

Shot/reverse shot:
This is a film technique where one character is shown looking (often off-screen) at another character, and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. This is shown here in the dialogue between Mair and Robyn and we used it in our final product during the Warehouse scene.

The 180° rule:
We learned that is a basic film editing guideline that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. As you can see we have tried to keep to this wherever possible in the prelim task and also in the main task.

This is our pitch to camera with our moodbord at the begining of the main task.

We thought we would show this as it shows how much we had to adjust the original when katie decided to leave college, and how far the film has come along. Another video will follow shortly showing our final presentation to the class, voicing our reasons for certain decisions and an overall evalution of our product.

Editing

Scott has started to do the majority of the editing and we can say that the film is really starting to come together now. We are currently sorting out problems with sound. It turns out we had to mute the original and add natural sound effects and some dialogue that Robyn and Sam recorded. This worked alot better by also adding an echo sound to make it sound like they are actually walking though a tunnel. It is still realistic as we filmed it so that you purposefully can't see their mouths/faces. This adds to the tension and allows their emotions to be heard in the dialogue:

As we're nearly done editing the final aspects of 'Obsessed' we can see all has gone well with what we've done so far, and big thanks to everyone.

But how has our film abided by the 4 main elements of film?

Look out for future posts explaining how we have tackled Camera, Mise-en-Scene, Sound and Editing :)

Newsflash

We decided a newsflash would be the easiest way to get information across to the audience about the stalker escaping from prison. We found a willing actress from our class (susie) and proceeded to film it in the tv studio. We got susie to wear formal clothes and glasses as costume so that she looked like a real newsreader. We set up a desk with a keyboard and papers for her to sit down at, and filmed all this infront of a greenscreen so that we could edit the news behind her.
We also filmed a sequence of sam and a robyn watching the news on a television, so it was like they were recieving this information at the same time the audience is.

During editing we will add a news studio in the background behind susie to make it more authentic, and a helpline to call if anybody comes into contact with the stalker.

Thanks to Susie for helping, as she was a great actress and remembered all the lines :)

Update:
Here is a screen-grab of the finished newsflash

Argument scene

On Thursday evening we filmed another sequence for our film. (the argument scene)
We found a few places in which this scene could be set we then chose the place most suited to our film this was an underground walk way to an old abandoned school (The Groves.) This place suited our scene the most because it was out of the way nobody can see you there and it was dark. This all added to the tension we are trying to create in this scene.

Here are some shots of us filming on location:


This was one of the other choices:



We decided however that this was to open and not dark enough for the effect we wanted to create.

Some of the problems we encountered were the noise of the traffic overhead and sadly it was an extremely windy day so this added to some camera shake and disrupted alot of the speech between robyn and sam with wind noise. Hopefully this is something we will be able to fix during the editing and if the speech is incredibly unclear, we can hopefully record robyn and sam's dialogue in a quiter area and add it over the top.

The warehouse

In our original script the main scenes/murder take place in a field during a camping trip. We have decided to change the setting to an abandoned warehouse in favour of a field. We feel this would add much more flexibility to filming as we can do so inside of the TV studio rather than waiting for dusk each day to film outside, and is much more weather permitting. I also feel that we can work alot more with isolating the characters within the warehouse moreso than in a field as it makes them seem much more vunerable and trapped.



(Image of Warehouse from google images)

The setting should be quite simple with achieve in the TV studio with the already simple background and a few scattered boxes and low key lighting with carefully placed beams of light, we should be able to achieve a good realism of a warehouse allowing us to film during the day :)

Note: Filming of argument scene postponed due to prior commitments in the group