JM - News on Soundtrack audio

After reading the specification we learnt that the soundtrack can not have any copyright infringement. After numerous attempts on searching for the Muse - Hysteria track on the internet we were unsuccessful. We have therefore decided to make our own copy of the song. We have gained the assistance of a group of Musicians to produce a copy of the song. The group under the supervision of us will be making the track in our Schools Studio facilities. In order to have this soundtrack ready for our editing stage of the opening sequence we will have to book a Studio time soon.

MM - Class Discussion

During the class yesterday, after looking at our footage that we had taken over the weekend, we found that the majority of our filming was just me, the main actor running. We thought that is would be very repetitive and tedious for the audience. We also found that nothing really happens to made him run. So we discussed that something worse and more has to happen to trigger him to sprint off. We also said about using more zombies to also make the main character run off.

MM - First Footage

On Saturday the 12th of March, we took the camera out to our locations for the first time. We found that it got dark very quickly and we left it to late to film everything. This analysis is very useful as if we had left it later to find this out it would have been much worse, as we would have had less time to film. We took a variety of shots to see which ones to use in our actual sequence. A lot of them we all thought were really good, however a few of them did not look as good as we thought they would. Sadly we could not film everything that we planned to use in our opening sequence, but we are certain that it will look interesting and keep the audience wanting to watch more. We are thinking of filming this weekend and after school once or twice next week. Our first footage personally I think went well and we learned a lot which is the main purpose of it.

JM - Research

Above is a clip from 28 Days later. There is some interesting use of black flashes alongside the film with the audio bridged over. This technique could be ideal for our group as it will allow us to show the Zombies in detail and maintain a realistic feeling to the opening sequence.

CB-Blog Director-Progress Report

As blog director I have looked through all the work on the blog, given it a current grade and stated where certain parts need improving. Overall the work is too a good standard but certain bits can be improved, for example the technical analysis needs to be more technical and key words need to be highlighted. As a group we also need to comment on other posts, this will give easy written communication so we can all clearly understand our opening sequence, the different resources we need and what we are going to do when filming.

As from now we, as a group, need to:
Scan in Moodboard and call sheet.
Develop and highlight key words in the technical analysis' and 'analysing an opening sequence'.
Upload wilderness woods location recce.
Upload slides of methodology and results of audience questionairre.
Ensure all the font throughout the blog is the same.
Provide a detailed introduction to every piece of work on the blog.
Ensure comments are made on posts and that all work is completed in detail.

MM - Title

This is the title we have chosen and the font we are going to use. We found it quite hard to decide on a title as we all liked different things. But we think that the title we have come up with is bold and ties in well with the genre of the film, which is zombie, horror. The font also anchors the genre as its messy and looks like black blood.

CB-Pitch Feedback

From our pitch feedback we have learnt that to make a good 'zombie' opening sequence will be hard to do well and could look cheap and 'tacky'.

We need to focus on:
Make-up
Costumes of our zombies to give an effective and realistic look.
Contrast our zombies to give a vibrant red, representing blood.
Soundtrack will need to be chosen very specifically to represent either a playful or ironic theme.
Permission for our opening sequence is also needed from South Eastern train company.

Overall we now know that to make our opening sequence good, a lot of detail and effort will be needed, otherwise it will look cheap and tacky.