Directors Commentary

26/02/09 Final Lesson Before Deadline For Thriller

In today's lesson we completely finished our thriller. Our filming, editing and credits were all finished before today's lesson so all we did today was finishing off the music and creating the title to add the end of our thriller. Since there was only me and Ayse in today we decided to assign the music and title to one another, so we decided that I will finish off the music while Ayse does the title, we already discussed on what the title should look like and decided that it should be flashing on a black background. Before we started our individual jobs we decided on what to call the thriller and eventually decided on 'Retribution', which means punishment. I managed to finish the music and helped Ayse with the title, we added the music and title to our thriller and I was so relieved to have finished.

23/02/09 Second Lesson Creating The Music For The Thriller

In today's lesson we continued creating the music for the thriller we decided to add a base line at the start because it sounded plain. We decided to add a different track over the base line when the car starts moving to show to the audience that there is something not right with the car. When it gets to the shot of inside the car from the stalkers point of view we had the tempo increase, as the clip went on , and as Elaine gets faster the tension increases. We managed to get most of the music finished today all we need to do now is the end part of the music and the title next lesson.

12/02/09 Creating The Music For The Thriller

In today's lesson we started to create the music for our thriller in Soundtrack Pro. Since the credits were finished and so was the filming all we had to do was the music and title and we were done. The music we created today created tension, it starts of very quiet and as the scene goes on the music gets louder and the tempo gets faster. We showed what we have so far to our teacher and she gave us some feedback which was mostly good. She pointed out that our music does create the tension and that the film came together, good. There was one shot she said that needed to be cut down and that was the pan of the reflection of Elaine because it goes on for a bit to long and she gets too small at the end which is unnecessary.

05/02/09 Last Thriller Filming Session

Today was our last filming session as Elaine, the main character in the thriller, was going to be at drama all next week. We didnt have to film much just a couple of shots including a pan in which Elaine is reflected in a window. After we had filmed the few shots we needed we match cut it with the footage we already had and realised we had finished the filming part of the thriller and all we had to do now was the music in Soundtrack Pro and the title in LiveType. Since we had finished our task for today I decided to catch up on blogging.

29/01/09 Second Thriller Filming Session

In today's lesson we still had not heard anything from the people at Liverpool Street Station so we unanimously decided to film the car shots we needed. We had Mickey, the technician, driving the car in the shots. I filmed Elaine walking and eventually breaking into a run when she realises she is being followed by the car. For our long shot of inside the car we had Elaine walking down many different streets while I was in the car filming all the time without stopping I decided this would be best and we could cut which part we wanted when we came to editing. The hardest shot to film today was the shot of the rear view mirror because of a mixture of:

• Elaine being so far away from the car at the start of the shot
• the mirror having to be adjusted to the perfect angle to see Elaine
• the camera having to be held perfectly still and in the same position, otherwise the angle would be off and would not be able to see Elaine

When we had finished filming Mickey drove us back to college and as we had some time left we decided to edit the footage we had filmed now. I decided to stay at lunch to get it finished and as Elaine and Aziza never had lesson's after lunch they stayed on a bit longer as I had to go to lesson. We managed to match cut the footage and played it with the footage we filmed two lessons ago, and saw it coming together nicely with just a few shots and final touches needed. Through lunchtime we managed to create half of the credits and eventually I had to go to my next lesson but I later caught up with them and they told me they managed to finish the credits and added them to the film.

26/01/09 Editing Footage From First Thriller Filming Session

In today's lesson we edited the footage we filmed last lesson. We carefully cut and pasted each shot and match cut it. We fiddled about with the footage and basically to get the footage to flow we used trial and error until we were happy with the results. In the lesson everyone took turns editing at some point and we also set a task to anyone if they found themselves not doin anything and that was to think about potential titles for the film some that we came up with were:

• Dead End
• Tenacious
• End of the Line
• The Stranger