Final Club Song

Molly and her brother Joe have finished the song that we are going to use for the dance sequence. Using Logic, they were able to incorporate everything we were looking for - a house beat of around 130bpm, an interesting bassline and most importantly a slow climax in the music which would alert the viewer that something wasn't 'quite right'. I think we achieved this through the minor synth which kicks in half way, and also the increase of reverb on the vocals.

I am really pleased with the end result, I think it's realistic (something you could well hear in a club) yet fits the scene exactly and the feeling of unease.

Final Title

-If it doesn't play first time just reload it After many trials, creating the title on motion, we found it very limiting as we liked the font however we were unable to change the green colour, and so I tried other ways of achieving it.
Our final film title I created straight onto Final Cut, which I found much easier to use. The text and backgrounds were still images that I cut up and repeated. This created the strobe effect we wanted and allowed us to keep to minimalistic colours, to prevent distraction from the action.

Filming Day 2

For our second day of filming we filmed the beginning beach scene and then the final scene at night. For the beach scene, we looked at the tide times and found that low tide was at 4pm, this worked well for us as we were able to capture the sunset in the scene. Access to the beaches on the Thames was limited, however we did find an area by festival pier that we could use. The space under Golden Jubilee  pedestrian bridge offered the perfect place for our filming. All the filming went according to plan however we found the sound hard to record as under the bridge, sound from local pedestrians walking past echoed, which in turn distorted our recordings.

For the night scene, we found it hard to coordinate the seven people involved and ensure that everyone arrived at the right time. In future we would ideally have used less people to make it easier to plan. 

We filmed, the actors leaving the 'club' out of an office building in clapham. We later filmed the alleyway scene near Wandsworth common station.  We were rushed in filming this last scene as some of our actors hard other commitments.

We later found out that the camera we had used throughout the day had not recorded any sound. This meant that we will be solely relying on the external mic recorder for our sound.

Planning filming day 2

For our second day of filming we need to be on a beach on the thames. I looked at high and low tide time to help us work out when would be the best time to do it. We found that in order to be able to use the most of the exposed beach, we would have to be there at around 3am or 4pm, in February.  We wanted to film when the sun was either rising or setting to achieve the reflection across the water and to minimise shadow under the bridge. At the calendar dates around February 15th, we knew that we would have to be there for filming from 4pm onwards, as there would be no light at 3am.

For the scene at night, we are looking at filming at an alleyway near Wandsworth common station, as we thought that the available light and the effect of the high walls would look good.

Strobe Dance Clips-Version 1

This is our first cut of our dance scene that we filmed. We combined the video with a sound track we composed, to try to match dance/club genre of the scene.
I am very pleased with the overall look of the first cut and I believe it will fit in very well with the other scenes.

Ident Ideas

One of our first ident names we came up with was "Johnson Productions" as Molly and I, coninsidently have the surname Johnson, this seemed fitting.
We created the Ident in Motion, and we particularly liked the spherical movement of the animation
I created another, under the title "solar edge". I liked the way that the movement of the circles make the overall effect more professional.

Filming Day 1

We began our filming with the second scene in our piece, this was the party scene. We wanted to achieve a club like feel and so we kept lighting to a minimum. however we did use key lights that we constantly changed from red to blue. We also used a strobe and laser to add greater visual effects to the shoot.

We had 15 extras including our three main characters (the woman on the beach; the friend and the unknown man) We positioned one camera on a dolly, and we used one handheld. For the handheld camera, the key was to allow the viewer to feel as if they were part of the crowd. it was very challenging trying to coordinate every one in the scene

After shooting, we found that the film from the camera on the dolly, was overall less in focus and was more distant which showed that there weren't that many people present, when we actually wanted to make it look like there were 30+. We mostly used shots from the hand held camera as they gave a more intimate, close up feel.
These are some screen grabs from our film: