Editing Experience

Now that all of our editing has finished i found that it has been quite extensive because we have now re-filmed and edited almost 6 times including our:News report, re-filming the second half 3 times, our 1st half and any singular shots that needed to be redone or broken down slightly more. Editing has become one of my favourite things since we started this opening and as its finally priced together i can how see where to changes we needed were made and how much this improved our opening as whole. Also the feedback we were given from our peers helped a lot as it showed us what people thought of our product as we went along from an audiences perspective rather than just ours as we were less likely to pick up on the smaller details that we needed to improve as we went along.

I found throughout our editing experience I was the one to do all of the music and the sound affects and pricing in the music and sorting out the timings for the ending where April opened her eyes which i was glad to fond a sound affect for which made it more intense and sudden. This experience has really shown me how much music and sound affects effect the quality and flow of a film. I also find that the editing took a lot more work than i had initially expected, as i thought it would be more filming. 

As a group I'm glad that we had started filming very early on into our coursework as it really helped us time wise as we had managed to perfect things, that we wouldn't have been able to change and improve if we didn't have that time. I think as a group we worked really well although some people did not do as much editing as others we were able to spread out the jobs between the four of us quite well. When we first started the topic we had done a preliminary task which wasn't very good but int he time between then and now i think all of us in the group have really improved and have gained a lot of new skills and experiences. I think my own editing skills have improved enormously since restarted and have progressed to get better throughout, it took some learning curves but i also found that if i wasn't sure of something someone in the group knew how to do something or if not we would would do some research and find out.

Also for the match on match on the van we found it very hard on how to make the two images blur together to make one smooth movement. I found that by using a transition and cropping down the second image i was able to line up the two shots and use the transition to pull them together. At first i found that the transition didn't work but then looking closer to the computer tools, there you can shorten the transition so it was quick between the two shots to make it less obvious and the shot was then clearer for longer.

Towards the end of our editing it did start to become a bit of a chore as at some points we felt so close but so far to finally finishing. Some of my favourite shots that we took were: the van, ending shot and when we filmed Hannah leaning back in her chair and the shot changing half way through. I think these were my favourite shots because they took so much time to figure out and make them work, that when we had got them right they looked really good and you could see how much time we had spent on them.

Initially when we had created the ending to our Thriller there was scream, at the end but now that we had changed that to the beaten face coming through the title and then the loud sound emphasising it i prefer how we changed it and in my opinion it links better to the genre ofd the film and works better.

Re-filming 3rd March

Finally this is was our last time filming and I'm glad that we decided to change our ending as now everything fits into place so much better also our 360 degree turn although we found was very hard to do we still manages. As luckily Hannah has a Lazy Susan (a turning disk in the middle of her table) where we were able to place the camera and do the shot in one go but the turning of it at a consistent speed was really hard as either someone was seen or it went too fast or slow at times. So it took us a long time to finish this. 

For our last shot we had changed it completely from the other times we had filmed. For this i had done Paige's makeup to make her look like she had been abused which thankfully turned out really well. We also used a simple black pair of tights to make the gag as we weren't sure what to use but we found that they were the closets thing we were going to fins.

After doing her makeup in Hannah's house there is a wall in her kitchen that is a drag grey that worked perfectly with the filmed lightly to use as place to film Paige, and we would edit it by darkening the background so it doesn't look as textured and fit better at the end as the shot Fades through the title.

When editing we found that when we originally filmed the shot of April walking down the stairs and putting her shoes on that a coat was in the way so although there was the indication that she was putting her shoes on you couldn't actually see so we decided to retake the shot. As we had done it before, i found it very easy to retake the shot it just took a while to get the right position from above to get the angle we needed for the shot.

I think the shot of Paige opening her eyes is one of my favourite because with the correct sound effect and piece of music i will be able to give the shot some more intensity and impact as she opened her eyes so quickly. 

Production schedule for 3rd of March

The reason we are re-filming our 2nd half again because we were not completely satisfied with how our Opening ends and we thought that we would change the ending completely as we think by doing this we could get a much higher grade using a better ending. We also found that we were using quite a stereotypical ending that has been used in previous films, so we thought that we would start the 2nd half fresh and come up with another way to end our opening scene and make it less predictable

We will still be filming at Hannah's home after school on 3rd of February. We will be continue using the same props and Outfits that have been used previously, and my outfit will be with the white blouse and smaller amount of makeup as we decided it worked better. This time however we will be using a remote rather than Hannah leaning over the TV, we will be using the Kitchen table as one of our props and also a glass of water and some tissues.
Characters: will be Susan Richmond, Hannah, Jessica and Poppy.
People that will be present will be: Myself, Paige, Hannah, Jasmine and Lacey

Last time we had re-filmed we had planned to use a school camera but ended up using my own as some of thew members in our group hadn't given in our permission slips. However to our advantage my camera had worked really well and improved the quality of the film with little to no blur, but the battery was not fully charged so we had to recharge half way through filming so it had taken a bit longer than expected. So we will have to make sure it is fully charged this time. Also instead of filming the interrogation in the living room we will be doing a 360 degree shot so that every time a question is asked a new person is answering the question. Also after the screen goes black at the end of our opening we will have our title come up and then a fade in of April's face all bruised and battered with her eyes closed before they suddenly open.

The production schedules that we have used to guide us each time we re-film and the story boards have really helped and i think they have kept us on track although we may have slightly changed and improvised while filming.

After we have re-filmed this last part of our opening which will hopefully we will be finished so we can start editing on the Monday 5th March. We should be finished with all of our editing and filming after a couple of weeks.

Re-filming 10th february

When re-filming it took a bit longer to get started as people were late or they we needed to focus. but after everyone was on the same track we got started properly. Like the first time we had filmed the the 2nd half i took a point of view shot of Poppy sitting down as we thought that it was a good shot to keep as it was then adding to the variety of different shots we were using. This also gave you a shot before having the closeups off Poppy as this is where i ask if she is Okay.

We found it easier to put the news report on this TV this time as we knew what we were doing as we have now had a bit go experience with our timing so we could get it right when we were filming the news report last time.

We filmed this shot of Lacey walking out the house except unfortunately because of the time of day we filmed we couldn't use shot from last time showing the sky which was one our favourite shots so we had to retake the shot in the day. Which still worked but the one before hand would have worked better especially for our Thriller/suspense theme.

When re-filming Hannah was the one who took the close-ups of Poppy's face which worked well as we had managed to get them at the right angle. However when we looked at these after filming one was talking using the flash so did not match the others but we did not find this out until we started editing.

I think as a group this time we were more experienced which meant that we found it easier to swap and change which shots we took. We also Had another investigator (Matthew) as generally you would see a lot of thrillers have more than one investigator present. We found that this worked quite well as the focus was more not the questions and Poppy than on the rest of the characters. 

Re-filming 2nd half story board

For frame 4 we decided that we would do the Pan whilst Poppy gets put o answer there door bell to save time and so that there is a link to her walking out of the living room and opening the front door in the next frame. 

In Frame 7 after briefly talking to the investigator she invites her into the home by opening the slightly wider and stepping to the side. Here i thought it would be good that whilst they talk the ,music should fad out slightly and be more in the background rather than being too loud. 

I think for Frame 10 it would be good to have the heart beat get louder as it shows each closeup, generally when people are nervous or upset they bite the inside of there mouth or there lip so the close up of the mouth works well as it is a known nervous tick that most people have.

For Frame 14 the match on match between the Investigator and Poppy works well and the wide shot shows both characters. Showing The Investigator thanking Poppy fir answering her questions.

With our storyboards as a group we use them more as a guideline rather than a set script as when we are filming we finds it better to sometimes improvise or use a slightly different angle that works better for us and we feel looks better generally. 

Planning for 10th february.

We will be re-filming in the 10th of february for our second half of our opening scene, so as a group we made another production plan so we knew what we needed to do on the day:

The filming will take place at Hannah's house after school.

For props we need to use the TV to show the news report, Note pad and pen for investigator to make them look more professional, Also we will be using a fake business card to give to one of the family/friends like you would stereotypically see in an investigation as the family are always given a contact incase of extra information.

Characters will be: Susan Richmond-Me, Co-worker-Matthew, Samantha Jones-Miss Court, Poppy Greene, Jessica-Jasmine and Hannah and Laura are Extras.

People who will be: Paige, Matthew, Poppy, Jasmine, Hannah, Laura and Myself.

Shots that we need to re-film:

• Extreme close-up of the news report
• Long shot pan of the room
• Halfway through the pan, do close up of my face as i start talking
• Point of view, shot reverse shot of the conversation between Jasmine and myself
• Cut to the conversation between Matthew and Lacey
• Close-up of Lacey's Facial expressions, hands, eyes and mouth
• Mid-long shot of Lacey running out of the house
• Long shot of Lacey speed walking out of the the front door slamming it behind her
• Pan around as Lacey sits down against the wall
• Low angle shot of view, showing the sky
• Screen goes black.

Video discussion about re-filming

Our discussion

Match on match of van

When doing our match on match shot of the van we found that it was harder than we first thought to make it flow past without looking like it was jumping from one shot to the other. We tried multiple different ways of attempting to get it to go past almost unnoticeable, because the shots were very slightly different we had to crop down the actual image of the van to make it exactly the same between the two shots. We also found that by using a transition that blurs two shots together, which cause represent the passing of time and which indicates that something bad has happened while the van carries on past. Although this shot was the hardest to edit i think this is one of the best in our whole opening scene.

Re-filming the 2nd half

When we started editing we found that a lot of shots in the second half were blurry and we would need to re-film a fair few of the shots to improve the quality of the ending. Unfortunately we found that the reason the shots were blurry was because we were Hannah's personal camera which is more designed for pictures rather than videoing. So we will have to refill the majority if not all of our last section to improve the quality of the film. We also found we didn't have all the shots we needed and some were unusually short or were too fast as we needed to pace ourselves a little better. We decided since we are all available we will be re-filming on the Friday 10th February. We will be using either my camera as it is more used for filming or a school camera to ensure that our filming is clear. We will also be taking shots to make sure we have enough and that we have some to pick from that are better quality.

Titles and font research

The font used to open a film is very important as it is generally the first thing you see and it also has to match the genre of the film. The font for Thriller is normally in capital letters and like all movies has to stand to show the name of the film. Also the font of the Title of the film in my eyes should be different to the font used for the credits, showing the names of the actors and actresses. As a group we were trying to think of the name for our opening scene and thought we woulod stick to something fairly simple, but we knew there wasn't a film with the same so we are calling it April. The font of the title can determine how popular the film becomes as it would generally be the same Font used to open the film that is used in the posters. If the title were to look childish and unprofessional then the audience may assume that the film may not be very good or could be quite boring. Also in the start you would need to show the names of the compnaies and the distributors of the film. So a well known company would not be particularly impressed that because of the font and how their names are presented to look amateurish.   

Insideous is a well known Horror/Thriller film. The title here is very bold with a dark background and a deep red title that has an almost blood splatter affect which immediatly shows the audience what type of movie it is. It also shows a well know a well known film director which would also increase the popularity of the film because a lot of people prejudge a film by who is the director and producer. His name is also in bold and is made to stand out so is white instead of red otherwise the two titles would be likely to crash so you they would need to be different colours to make sure they both are noticable against the background.

Fonts i researched:











When i was researching i thought that these fonts could really work for the opening as they were very bold and were all different fonts but were still fairly similar the middle two i found were although quite scary and very bold they wouldn't work as well as the one at the top or the bottom because i found that these two were commonly used in Thriller films where as the other two were more on the Horror side. My personal favourite is the last one as its bold but its not no too big although simple i think it would still work really well with our opening.

Doing this research has proven useful as it has shown me how the Titles of a film really do make a difference and also how many different fonts are available to use as there are multiple for alll genres and occasions.

Location Research

As a group before filming we needed to decided where we were going to film our opening scene and what background we wanted for different areas of our film. We came to decision that we would use Hannah's house for multiple reasons, her house was closer to the school and was very close the location we decided that April was gonna disappear at. Also her house it quite spacious so it would be easier to move around and position the camera where we wanted to take the our shots. The road outside of Hannah's house it conveniently quite so we weren't going to have too many interruptions meaning we could really use the outside area to our advantage.

The main places in the house we are going to use are the bedroom, living room and kitchen. We also needed to use the front of Hannah's house especially for the beginning where April is shown leaving.
The bedroom and staircase worked well for our 1st half of our opening s they were perfect representation of how a teenage girl would generally live and the lighting in those areas give a warm cheery atmosphere in the house.

The living room and kitchen will be used to film the investigation in the 2nd half of our opening. We are using these areas as they are the main areas a family would congregate, especially in this kind of situation.

Not far from Hannah's home there is a secluded wooded area with a road in front of it that is mainly quiet.This is where we filmed April's disappearance as it is the perfect place for the van to drive past without too much interruption. The woods also immediately indicate that something bad is going to happen as the forest is thick and of an evening would become dark and scary.

Our news report was located in our media room at school because the green screen made it easier for us to film over and put in an image behind our reporter. Also in our media room we already had the props we needed as we only needed a table and chair to be placed in front of the wall to create our report.

Props and costume list

April's costume consists of, black jeans, a black vest top, some black converse, a green parker jacket and a burgandy back pack.
My group and i decided that this would be her outfit because we wanted her to remain casual as she is only supposed to be going to her friends house so wouldnt need to be overly dressed or madeup. We choose quite  dark outfit because we wanted this to portray that something isn't right as someone as bubbly as Aprils's character would stereotypically be seen in light cheerful/colours. We decided on using the backpack because we wanted it to look fit for purpose as generally when you stay round a friends house you would carry a big bag with you.

Poppy's costume wasn't as thought out as we just wanted her to look casual but comfortable as when you find that a a close family member is missing you wouldnt be too fussed to make too much effort as you would too destraught and worriesd.

Susan Richmonds costume was a smart black blazer, a white blouse, dark trousers, red lipstick and a note pad and pen. As Susan is the investigator she needs to look professional and meet the standards of what you would thing an investigator would wear. We chose the colour red for the lipstick as we said that it would represent a type of danger. We also introduced the note pad and pen because we wanted to make her look as professional as possible as possible, also shoing that she is afficient as he writes April's friends and families replies to her questions.

We wanted to use a red van because its stands out and symbolises danger, alos he red van is very noticable however it would be hard to find and people generally wouldn't expect such a brightly coloured vehicle to be used. It would also allow our audience to make their own assumptions about what happens to April.

We used the living room because every house has one and would therefore make it easier to take the shots needed and the inteveiw. We also wanted the living room to symbolise a place filled with Apri's loved ones, to show how many people care for her and the damage her Disappearance has caused.

For the rest of the people in the scene we kept the costumes simple so they were just in every day clothes and hadn't made too much effort otherwise it would look very staged and we wanted it to look more prfessional and show a representation of a real trauma that has affected the family.

I found that this list was very helpful as we needed a guideline so that when we wre filming we all knew what we were wearing, which also meant we weren't taking too long to decide our outfits on filming day.

Target Audience

Questions I used in my survey:

 1) How old are you?



2)Do you like Thriller films?









3)What's your favourite Thriller film?

• Gone Girl 
• Prisoner
• Saw 
• Inception
• Dark Knight
• Black Swan 
• Jaws
• Sixth Sense
• Orphanage
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Some for these were quite popular so more than one person chose some of them such as Gone Girl.

4)What do you like about Thriller films?

• Suspense
• Mystery 
• The Chase
• Shock
• Other

For this question most people put that Suspense and mystery were the main themes that drew them to thriller films as it gives the film adrenaline and intrigues the audience

  5)What is your Gender?

6)Do you prefer the Title to come before or after the opening of the film?

7)Are you more likely to watch a film if you like the actors?

Most people said that they would be more inclined to watch a film with famous actors that they know because generally they're movies would be good however others said that based there decision on the plot of the film although they would still sway there decision on tho the main characters are in the film. 

9)What do you think would be a good name for the Main characters (April) sister?

10) do you think the music/sound effects improves the quality of a thriller film?

Filming 2nd half of opening

After school we had met up at Hannah's house so that we could film our second half of our opening scene as a group i think we found that this took longer than the first of our opening as we had a lot of different shots and we also had to have more characters. This meant that at times some people would feel awkward or nervous also a couple of the shots we had to take twice as we hadn't gotten them completely right and wanted a selections of shots that we ended up deleting but at least when we were editing it was easier because we found which ones definitely worked and which ones didn't.

At the beginning we needed to shoot the TV scene to show the news while we zoomed out to show Hannah turning off the TV. At this point we were all fairly nervous as we had keep completely serious because otherwise it would have looked unprofessional to laugh especially with the theme of the scene. We also found this shot quite difficult because we had to get the position of the camera straight and the tripod we were using was slightly off to the side.

For this shot in our opening i am the investigator so Hannah and Paige filmed the shot reverse shot between Jasmine and myself as we had set up the scene so it was similar to a interrogation. This shot was also fairly difficult because we had to like before stay serious and we had to make sure that each shot reverse shot had the camera in the same position.

I took this shot as it was a point of view shot where i was ask Poppy if she was okay which also meant meant that Lacey had to look confused and disoriented. I had to take this shot multiple times because we weren't sure whether to take slightly away from my face or whether to take it like the camera were my eyes. Also for this shot it was quite difficult to keep my hands steady and walk at the same time but we were able to fix the slight shaking motion of the camera whilst editing.

For our last shot we filmed Poppy seated outside on the floor looking distressed and upset to give the emotion in the shot some intensity. This shot worked really well when we had looked at it when we finished filming this part. As afterwards you would just have the view point of Poppy looking up at the sky before the screen would go black.

Analysis of Women in Black.

                                        

              The Women in Black is more of a horror film although it could be also considered a horror as it carries the theme of suspense throughout the film which i thought really related to the opening scenes we have to make ourselves.

              The opening starts off with the Production and distributing companies which are CBS films and Cross Creek pictures. Initially you have the iconic instrumental music that almost has a childish ring to it making it relate well to the storyline to the film. You then have a close-up shot of the children china tea set, which leads on to extreme close-ups of the children's hands as the three little girls serve Tea to their dolls. This scene has a big impact in the film as something so innocent as three little girls playing with their dolls looks odd. As the dolls are slightly tattered from general use but they are the type of china dolls that you would typically see in horror films as they quite creepy. 

              The music that was light and quite childish tarts to get louder but doesn't change pace that mush but is more the fact that it sounds like there are more involved that help incorporate the cold spooky atmosphere. They have used natural lighting however its quite a cloudy day and the weather also add to the music as with both components incorporated the scene looks very out of place and adds the suspense of a Thriller/Horror film. The three little girls are wearing traditional dresses that you would see children in the early 1900's showing that the film  is set in a different era, they also have their hair in the same way which could suggest that they are siblings as the same person would have done their hair.
             You then have a three person shot of the girls playing, the room they are is most likely their bedroom or play room, it is filled with light colours as they are also surrounded by toys which could represent the childrens innocence. However, next to the little girl with brown hair and in the white dress their is a completely black pram that looks out of place and almost like it shouldn't be there.
             There's a series of mid-shots of the girls tending to their dolls like brushing their hair and conversing with each other a completely innocent action. But, the camera goes from a mid shot to a three person shot showing you all three girls looking to the other side of the room simultaneously. This notifies the audience that someone else is in the room but the rooms atmosphere darkens as the children's faces go from happy to emotionless. They then turn their heads towards the window, the camera pans to the window and zooms ins hinting thats going to happen next which builds the suspense even further.
           The camera moves back to the girls showing them moving from their crouching position as they start to stand. At this point the music is evenly paced but had a lower tone so its not as happy which dims the atmosphere and the lighting in the room looks darker which helps make the scene even more scary. You have a series of extreme-closeups that start with the girl in pink dropping her chins cup and the camera follows it watching it break before moving on to showing the girls making their way towards the window while stepping on and breaking their toys.
             Lastly you have a long shot following the girls opening the windows before they jump out, the camera then zooms out so you can see that the shot is coming from someones perspective. There is a scream in the background which is obviously from the little girls mother, the camera continues to zoom out until you see a glimpse of the women in black to the side of the camera from here the music has slowed dramatically and also lower dimming the atmosphere completely and the lighting in the room is similar to the music is it has become darker and more depressing.
            

Music Research for our opening scene.

In lesson today we started to consider what type of music we wanted to use for our opening scene.

We used Youtube to look for instrumental pieces that would fit well with our genre and would build suspense. We decided that the first song we would use is Conspiracy by David Fesilyn. we decided to look through his other compositions to see if we could find anything of his that would match for the ending but it ad to se a different tone and pace other wise it would have been too similar.

This is where we came across the next composition we decided to use called Panic man, in the description for his work it states that as long as we are not profiting from his work then we are free to use. However, because we wanted to make sure that his work was open for us to use we contacted him just incase and we found that as long as we didnt make anything from it them it was fine for us to use it.

As a group we decided to ude these two soundtracks because they link well together and would cause suspense in our opening. Conspiracy is a fairly quiet and slow paced piece that they has a light tone, which would help create a good atmosphere at the beginning. While Panic man is quite abrupt and uses a deeper tone in it which will help represent the data at the end of the opening scene which will also help indicate that it would carry on from there if we were to have made an entire film.

Conspiracy
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcYx1w0o7zfesJr8ZrzcPtxqqZa3hIyTt

Panic man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sSVQrnvyIk

1st half of opening scene

My group and i met up around 3pm after school hours so that we could film the first half of our opening scene. It went rather well although because of our lack of experience in front of a camera at times it was awkward and we had to refill some of our shots as they were slightly off or we thought we could improve them as we went along so that while editing we could pick and choose which shots were better and fit well in our opening. Also we filmed this at Hannah's house as we thought it would work as her house it quite spread out and spacious and is also close to where we wanted to film Aprils disappearance. 

For the first few shots that included Paige being filmed in a bedroom they were mainly filmed by Hannah and Jasmine while i was in another room on the phone to Paige,we found it looked more realistic and was less awkward because we were actually having the conversation we had planned. However, when we had to film the shots from the top of the stairs showing paige walking down and putting her shoes on from behind, while editing it showed we would have to re-film this because the coats were in the way on the side of the stair case. Making it unclear what she was doing as you couldn't see her putting on her shoes even though the indication was there. 

I filmed the mid shot of paige walking out of the front door and closing it behind her, i found that this worked well as i was standing close to the car on the drive but slightly in front so it couldn't be seen. Also i thought that being a step lower than paige also helped take the shot as i had to tilt the camera ever so slightly and as i am a little bit taller it worked well as i was able to level the camera.

From the front door Paige walked down the path beside Hannah's house, i had taken this shot i wanted to see if it would fit well with the rest of our scene and found that although it goes from clear to blurry it worked really well. It gave off a vibe to make the audience know that somthing bad is going to happen next in the scene.

Each time we took a series shots we would all look at them and makes sure we were happy for the moment before we moved on further. I think this helped us through out as it meant that we did have all the shits we needed for our first half but one or two as we wanted to improve the quality of the shot or we wanted to change is slightly.

I also filmed the shot of Paige walking down the path near the wooded area before the scene of the van going past. I think the transition from the long to shit to the close up to another long shit made the transition smoother and was quite affective, but difficult because we had to make sure the shots were in the exact same position so that it worked otherwisemit would have looked odd.

Edit News Report

On Monday 16th January we started to edit the footage of our news report whcih was filmed on the Thursday prior. We had initially wanted to finish editing the shot on the Monday, However we had issues with how to edit out the background without also editing out the news reporter in the shot. At first it would only show the outline of our reporte. We had tried multiple techniques to try and get rid of the background. We then decided to look on youtube, to find a video to show us what we were doing wrong. Unfortunately this meant that we could not finish our editing in one day so we were set back slightly. Miss court discussed with us how do the green screen, we found that we needed to swap the image and the footage around so we overlayed the footage over the image. This thankfully mean that our background was now of a stereotypical news background, and also kept the reporter infront of the image. Now we are finished with editing we will be filming the second half of our opening scene tomorrow after school.

Institutional research

Filming news report

After school my group and i filmed our news report, this did not take long to film however it did take awhile to set up as we needed to make sure that the table was positioned so there was only the green screen in the background. Using the tripod helped a lot while filming this piece as it kept it steady so the picture shook less and it stayed centred. 

When we film our 2nd half of our opening scene we will need to use a HDMI lead from a computer so that we can connect it to the TV. Also we need to edit the filming so that we can put in a news channel background which was the main purpose of using the green screen. 

The main reasons we filmed this at school because it was easier as we had all the props we needed and it was also because Miss court wouldn't be able to film the piece with us anywhere else. 

Group discussion about our opening scene

Media.m4a

Production schedule

For January 12th we will be recording the news report after school as a group as it is the most convenient time to film this as all of us including mis court are available. We will be filming this in our computer room because wee have the resources there and also a green screen which is a vital prop for us. This is because we will need it to make it easier to put the background image of a typical news program which while make the report look more realistic to our audience.

On January 14th we will be filming the first parts of our opening scene including the establishing shot, and April walking out of the house. We will be using Hannah home as we found that the location is ideal as it is also not too far from where we want April to disappear. In this only April will be present as the rest of the characters do not come in until further on. Her costume will be quite casual and simple so just jeans, vans, a t-shit and a coat as in this part of our scene she is only traveling to her friends house so wearing anything too fancy would be unnecessary.

On January 19th we will be filming our last scene here there the rest of the characters are introduced and the news report is played on the TV. In this scene all of the characters will be wearing casual clothing except for Susan Richmond (Investigator) which is my character as i will need to wear appropriate and professional clothing as it is a serious situation. I will be wearing some simple boots, trousers and a blazer with a white blouse. I will also be wearing white and dark makeup with my hair tied back as my group and i discussed that i would need to have my hair up as its typically more professional.