WE'VE FINISHED

After a lot of editing, and chopping, and coming in our free's, we've finally finished our 4 minute film.

It's 5 minutes 1 second, to be exact.

It took a lot of extra recording, and using videos from youtube.com.
Some of the footage was either too long, or too short, so we sometimes had to duplicate scenes; making our sequence very complex.

Here is a photo of the final piece on final cut

We are editing the sound now and taking some sound clips from youtube to use in our film. We have used a clip from family guy, a chris crocker video and charlie bit my finger.
Other sounds we are using include some of the special effect sounds that are ready made, like gun shots and sirens.
We also completed the script and recorded ram, rachel and james performing it, so now we just need to match the sound to the film.

Final cut

As Rachel is editor, she has been editing our piece to make it all the linear narrative we want. We're using mostly cuts, with no fades. There will be very little editing techniques used. Sound will play a big part in the piece.

We have to have our completed film by next wednesday, so we'll most likely be working in our frees to complete it.


YAYYYYYY :)

Filming stills

Here are some stills from our film so far.

ITS GOING VERY WELL!! :)

FILMING

Filming is going very well.

We're currently at 3: 20, with not much footage left to film.

The spoof's went very well, we've currently done:
- charlie bit my finger
-chris crocker
- rambo
-twilight
-snakes on a plane
-famiy guy (stewie and louis scene)

we're planning on doing the lonely island song (cool guys don't look at explosions) at the end, as a finale. we'll do all of the characters walking toward the camera in slow motion with an explosion behind them. this is a cliche scene for action films, and also incoporates the spoof of the lonely island song.

NEW STUFF

At the moment of filming, we're finding it really difficult to come up with a good story that'll last 4 minutes.
So we've decided to do spoof's of mainstream films and popular youtube videos.

Our first one was of rambo. and we're got lots more ideas.
We're feeling positive about this idea, as it's fun, and something that the majority of our intended audience (male and female, 11-22 year olds) will recognise.

Here are a few ideas we had:

- rambo
- twilight
- charlie bit my finger
- salad fingers
- the matrix
- chris crocker
-charlie the uncicorn
-perez hilton
-lonely island track (jizz in my pants)
-snakes on a plane
-myspace and facebook
-peanut butter jelly time
-stewie from family guy
and lotssss more.

Here are a few videos from youtube, with the spoof's we're hoping to achieve.

Filming Continues

Filming is progressing well and so far we (Mikayla, Ram And Rachel) have recorded our main character meeting his love interest, the news report, the main character and love interest's first kiss and they have met up with another surviving bear.
Filming in stop motion takes quite a long time and some things are difficult to show, like when the zombie bears turn over the news desk, which is quite jumpy.
In order to make our film last over 4 minutes we have had the idea of referencing more things from popular culture than just zombie films, like for example, the other surviving bear that our characters meet is wearing a headband modeled on the film Rambo.