The Film

one of the main problems with our film was that we had a discusion about some alternative shots in the film which was of her running but the problem was that it was too light and the weather was differnt to when we filmed the other scenes, typical sods law, this also made us go over our allowed time, so we took out these scenes and put in other shots which were also on the story board(Alex Mutu)

Voiceover

One of our ideas was to put a voicover over the burial scenes of of the film. This would mean that the main character starts speaking before you can see her in the police interview.
We decided not to do this because it would not harmonise with the music and the atmosphere could be ruined. (Alex Diss, Anton Heil, Pat Henbury & Alex Mutu)

Mistakes in the film

We have finished editing, filming and we are coming now to the end of our media project.

We have to admit some small mistakes that are in the film and we can't change anymore.

• In the scene when they start filling in the whole one of the actors foot is moving whilst laying down inside the body bag.
• In one shot they are filling the whole and in the next shot, which is the over-the-shoulder shot of Mairyn, they are digging the whole again. This changes the order in which events should happen.
• Some of the shots do not fit the whole screen and therefore there are black bars at the sides. These are the shots that we took during the second part of filming. The reason for that could be that we used a different camera to capture the material or that we changed the camera settings in the second part of filming.

We decided to leave these errors in the film as they are not very obvious and and they don't destroy the atmosphere of the film.

(Pat, Anton & Alex D)

Help and Advice From Others

• Batman Soundtrack- Although picked by our group, we got advice from other and encouragement to use this as our background music piece. We got told that it worked very well with our film and juxtaposed the type of film it would have normally been played in.
• Very first shot with the spade- We originally stuck the spade in the ground and started wiggling it about. We got told that it was too long and should just dig the spade in to the ground and then cut the shot.
• Voice over- The voice over we have been advised to try it and see if it works. As a group however, we haven't yet tried it and are deciding still whether to have it or not.
• Extra shots of the woman- We had been advised to add some more shots of the main woman (played by Mairyn Heather) so you can clearly see that she sees the burial and then runs to tell the police.

(Patrick Henbury & Alex D)

Filming Part 2 Problems

• One of the actors had a haircut
• One of the actors was not wearing the same clothes
• Weather was raining but due to time we had to finish the filming

(Patrick Henbury)

Filming Part 2 (Thursday 3rd december)

Today we finished the filming. Finally we found a date when everybody was free and we could do the last part of our filming, including the scenes with Mairyn, after school. It was raining but not too strong so we hope that the enviroment doesn't look different to the first part.
These are some pictures we took during the production:

Thursday the 3rd December

Our next date to finish filming is the 3rd of december. We will meet after school with Alex's dad, our actors and film the scenes with the woman. Hopefully we can get all the filming, that is left, done on this day. Our biggest concern is the weather which has to stay dry.
As we use actors who are not part of our media group it was quite complicated to find a date when everybody had time to do the filming.
Another problem was that the actors wont look exactly the same as when we filmed the first part. This could confuse the audience as they expect the characters to stay the same throughout the whole scene.
(Anton Heil, Pat Henbury & Alex Diss)