Editing - Day 2

Once all the shots were in order, we moved our focus onto music to set each mood for the different scenes of the film opening and getting the Narration that was to go over the video recorded. For the music, we found all of the tracks used from http://freeplaymusic.com/ where we went through many song clips searching for the ones that would best fit the scenes (we went with jazz music). We ended up deciding on three seperate songs which we edited and merged so that it transitioned as if it was one song to avoid repetition of audio throughout the film opening.

Once we had got the audio, we matched all the music to the correct scenes

 Left and below: Looking through the narration clip before starting to edit it and place it on the right part of the film opening

 Listening to one of the audio clips for the third murder victim scene with Samantha Scarlett

Editing - Day 1

For our First few editing sessions, We uploaded all of the footage from the camera onto the computer, looked through all of the clips and decided which shots were the best out of each shot we'd taken of a scene to use in the film opening, Not much actual editing and shortening the clips was done on this day considering we were only pulling together the first rough edit, just placing all the un-edited clips in the right order and making sure it followed our story board before we started editing anything.

 Above: Shots of the clips after being uploaded and placed into the right order

Production Logo

Here is the design I came up with for the production logo for our film opening

 

For each production, a logo is required to show who the producers of the film are, and to show that we understand and have the skills to create a logo and adapt it into our film opening. For our logo, we tried to keep it to the more old fashion look, using an old 1940's style type font I downloaded and textured background. The company name is simply our group members initials (Lewis, Jamie, Lara) as it clearly distinguishes that it was our film

Filming - Final Day

Lastly, we filmed the scene that took place in Dawson's office and the title sequence for the film opening. We used one of the staffs offices for this so that we could have the setting look as realistic as we could make it out to be, so that it would somewhat resemble a detectives office, We finally decided upon using Mrs. Curtis' office which led to Dawson sat at the round table in the center of the office.

 The final, finished suspect board that was used to film the title sequence for the film opening which included the actors that were played in the film, a few volunteer suspects from our class to pose as other possible murderers, and a list of the filming crew, and who did what role etc. The whole idea of the suspect board using the string to link up the pictures is to give the board the feeling that Dawson has been trying to link up all of the cases to try and figure out who out of the shown suspects could be the murderer.

We were also planning to film a scene with the murder weapon found next to Samantha's body at the crime scene. This would show the weapon (Planned to be Lead Piping) clearly to the audience and would lead to Dawson indefinitely finding the muderer. Due to restrictions of the full film opening time (2 Minutes) we had to cut the idea altogether so that we wouldn't run over our set time. Prop production was also a problem, as making the prop proved to be a more difficult task than imagined, and didn't get done in time for the filming.

Filming - Day 4

For day 4 of our filming, we went into Willingham Woods where we filmed Dawson looking for any clues/leads on the murder case regarding the murder weapon that was left behind at the last scene

 Jamie and myself as we set up the scene for Dawson to walk across the field towards the nearby building, this took a few takes to get right as it was hard to keep Lewis in shot of the camera because it was taken as a still shot, not a tracking/panning shot

 A shot of the building that Dawson describes in his narration. During this, Dawson is shown walking around the building looking for clues or leads

 A small, brick space we found attached to the building, we used this to film Dawson walking from the side into the middle of the archway for the final of this scene.

Filming - Day 3

Our third day of filming was set at the Train Station in Market Rasen so we could film our third murder victim (Ella) who played Samantha Scarlett, the main murder victim out of the three victims

 This was where we had planned to have the body of the victim at first, but we switched to the location of the picture below because of lighting issues

 The establishing shot that was used to film Dawson and the victims body

 A still shot of Ella playing the dead victim Samantha Scarlett, fake blood to indicate where the wound was made, killing her.

Filming - Day 2

For our Second day of filming, We went into Lincoln to film two of the three murder victims (Jamie and myself)

 Myself and Jamie as I put fake blood on his shirt to make it look like he has a stab wound

 Myself angling the Camera to get a Close up/side shot of the first victim

 The Position of the Camera for the first establishing shot of the first victim

 The scene for the second murder victim and the position the Camera was in.