As you can see, the top picture is not one of our group; he is the Year 11 we drafted in to help us write our music, as this is one aspect of film that we all seem to really struggle with. However, Ben managed to cope very well with the brief that we set him, and within an hour he had written a very good piece of music, exactly what we were looking for. Previously, we had tried to use GarageBand ourselves, but we didn't really get very far. However, we did use it to add the sound effect right at the beginning of the telephone ringing, before the voice over picks up. With the music, originally, we had planned for it to begin when the voice over stopped talking, but eventually we decided to play the music quietly underneath the person talking, and the phone ringing too. We as a group all feel that it adds significant tension to the very beginning when the protagonist is looking over his work, as without the music it seemed a lot more amateurish and less like a thriller.
Above, you can see what our group spent part of today doing. As professional films tend to have professional logos and production titles at the beginning, we decided to use some new software on the Mac to attempt to make a production title of our own. Since we had never used the software before, it was a steep learning curve, and while what we have come up with is far from perfect, we all agree that it looks much better than what we had before (production titles flash up on black screen). Also, it adds an element of professionalism that it is always good to have in a film.
The above are pictures of our resident artist and story-boarder, Jade, doing the storyboards for our thriller, and above that is what the final storyboards looked like, if you hadn't seen the post with them in previously. Coming up with the storyboards as a team, we then roughly drafted what we wanted to see in each shot, before Jade drew them up neatly for us. During filming, they have been really good, as we can see what we need each shot to be framed like, and we can also remind ourselves of the action going on in the shot. However, we haven't followed the storyboards exactly, as when it came to filming, getting some shots proved too difficult, and we were forced to improvise.
As you can see, the top picture is not one of our group; he is the Year 11 we drafted in to help us write our music, as this is one aspect of film that we all seem to really struggle with. However, Ben managed to cope very well with the brief that we set him, and within an hour he had written a very good piece of music, exactly what we were looking for. Previously, we had tried to use GarageBand ourselves, but we didn't really get very far. However, we did use it to add the sound effect right at the beginning of the telephone ringing, before the voice over picks up. With the music, originally, we had planned for it to begin when the voice over stopped talking, but eventually we decided to play the music quietly underneath the person talking, and the phone ringing too. We as a group all feel that it adds significant tension to the very beginning when the protagonist is looking over his work, as without the music it seemed a lot more amateurish and less like a thriller.
Above, you can see what our group spent part of today doing. As professional films tend to have professional logos and production titles at the beginning, we decided to use some new software on the Mac to attempt to make a production title of our own. Since we had never used the software before, it was a steep learning curve, and while what we have come up with is far from perfect, we all agree that it looks much better than what we had before (production titles flash up on black screen). Also, it adds an element of professionalism that it is always good to have in a film.
The above are pictures of our resident artist and story-boarder, Jade, doing the storyboards for our thriller, and above that is what the final storyboards looked like, if you hadn't seen the post with them in previously. Coming up with the storyboards as a team, we then roughly drafted what we wanted to see in each shot, before Jade drew them up neatly for us. During filming, they have been really good, as we can see what we need each shot to be framed like, and we can also remind ourselves of the action going on in the shot. However, we haven't followed the storyboards exactly, as when it came to filming, getting some shots proved too difficult, and we were forced to improvise. 
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