Week 6: Filming

First Lesson: 27/02/17

On the first lesson of the week, I showed to Mr Andrews the rough edit so far. The feedback he gave to me were that the rough edit was good. However, there are some changes to be made such as at the beginning, it is a bit jumpy since I edited shots in one seconds. Therefore I need to make it longer. Also he told me that instead have the newspaper o the wall, I should spread it out on the table. It is to establish my character in which she is desperately finding the culprit of the murder. Furthermore, he told me for colour correction, I should go for blue tone to show the sadness of the trailer. Also, I need voice-over to establish the narrative in which I will do that later on.

Later on the lesson, I looked at the film to see anything that needed to be changed. I saw that shot no. 2, I should have the character in front of a white background instead of a room to control the lighting and also creating a shadow on her. On the shot of "Two victims killed", I decided to not change focus as I did it previously; focusing one word to another. I have to either change the position of the camera or focus on one word only. On shot "Authority", I either make the word clear by making it bigger. Also I needed to fix the letter scene by making the words in bold as it muddled up with the other unnecessary words but I need to first film the coat and hat scene. I also needed to reshoot the last shot as my actress accidentally looked at the camera.


Second lesson: 28/02/17
Keep editing and planning for the next shot
In this lesson, I kept on editing the film that i had so far by colour correcting it.  Meanwhile, I also planned when I will shoot the missing shots but also redoing the other ones. Also while editing, i have decided what colour scheme I am heading for. I am going for blue/underexposed/desaturate as it gives this cold feeling because the story line is dark.


Later in the afternoon,  I refilm the fools letter scene with bold letters. I was happy of how it turned out and I will overlay with the hat and coat shots in editing later on. Afterwards, I did the voice-over with my actress and I did a quick voice over to see how it goes. It was not as dramatic as I have expected and it was not good so I knew I had to redo it later on the week. So far, I am happy of the shots that I had so far.

1/03/17
in the afternoon, I reshoot the newspaper scene again and I have added the case M.A.22 scene. Unfortunately, I ran out of time for the aunt scene so I rescheduled for Friday or the weekend. I was not satisfied with the shots I have received from the newspaper scene as I have not imagined that the camera moved a lot. It is because the fixed macro lens does not have the stabilization therefore the camera shakes without tripod. I knew I had to reshoot the whole beginning later on.


Third Lesson: 2/03/17
In this lesson, I showed my rough edit to my classmates. This is their feedback:

• Voice-over: can hear the person's breath 
• Shaking at the beginning use a tripod
• The first shot: put the cassette in the middle with the light colour at the background
• Less words-one word or two for sticky notes
• Newspaper scene: The Fool killing people-Blur the other words with only focusing one word as confusion to what they read-use effect on Final Cut or reshoot 
• When Claire grab the cassette in the drawer and put in the middle and have a lighter background

Fourth Lesson: 3/03/17
In the fourth lesson, I continued editing and try to solve the feedback that I received. Later on the lesson, I finally found the effect I wanted from Final Cut Pro which is called Focus. It blurred out the rest of the image expect on the subject you wanted to focus on. I also continue on my character outline.


Weekend
This weekend I filmed the rest of the missing shots and the shots that I needed reshoot. After having all the footage, I added into my rough edit and edited for the final edit. While editing changed mind in the order of the film. I then delete the first shot due to timing and added a logo at the beginning which I wrote Netflix for TV production (why not). I then added the title of the film at the end which is called "The Fool's Game" and plus the coming out soon phrase.

(Shot list 2: Change the beginning from panning to still to be inserted soon)

(Shot list 3: finalised to be inserted)

Script for voice-over:
23 November 2016, a fire broke out in a neighborhood in Chicago. This tragic incident killed my parents. I suspected it was an act of murder but the authority tells otherwise. I try to prove them that it was a plotted murder but no one believes me. I feel this murder connects to this case my parents have been working on. People around me ignore me when I mention this case. It seems they are hiding something from me. I guess I have to solve it myself. I see the killer wants to play a game with me. I will I will play along. After all,  I will do anything to stop him.