Weekly Production Log 5- Unit 22 Single Camera Production

My team had finished reoccurring all the scenes needed. We then started to edit the films by our selves. We used a program called final cut pro, which allowed me to edit the short clips.  I began by putting intro of just the title, which was called The Happy Family. I also added a hollow yet dark sound over the title to brings some fear to the audience making them get prepared for the movie as a message to the audience that movie isn't fait of heart.  

I realized that there were a few mistakes my team and I did while recording but there was nothing we could do about that. An example would be one of the actors holding a cup in his left while holder a knife in their right and the clip that follows is the actor holding both objects in the opposite hands. Other than that there were no other mistakes I could find. What I deiced to do was to make the story none linear while my team made linear. What I ended up doing was using the last clip and putting it first which was of a man kneeling at a graveyard. What I then did was do a black and title it a few weeks ago to notify the audience the film will go back in time.  

By doing this I added some sort of miseries and for the audience ask them selves why is an old man at a graveyard in the middle of the night.  By there the film goes forwards to get to where the film first started were the old man kneeling before the graveyard is kneeling at his daughter graveyard after murdering her.  There is also a little time skip in the middle of the movie the where one of the family member just saddest disappear. What I did by time passing by I did only black with a giant clock ringing symbolizing time some time has gone by even though it's still in second scene.  I added as much atmosphere I could by putting in sound and clips that matched with one another as some didn't make any sense, which I was having differently with.

Weekly Production Log 4- Unit 22 Single Camera Production

Me and my team has started filming now filming we first started in house in the diner where our film would start this would be our first location and introduce the family of three.  My filmed 2 scenes in house the diner and the kitchen. The kitchen would take place after scene two where there would some of horror atmosphere and suspense as there would be knifes in the second scene.  The first scene would take place with all free character only for another to disappear the second scene only takes place with three of the family member showing how much of the character is a psychos. My team experimented a lot on what position the camera positions would suit for the scene to correlate what what’s going on in scene. My team deiced to start with a basic medium close up and angle of eye level camera.

For the second scene in the kitchen it was suspenseful so we wanted one of the actors to act scared about to be killed.  My team  used a camera high angle so the audience can pity the character being killed off and to feel sympathy. 

For the second location my team recored in park in the middle of the night. The only real problem was that the park was closing soon. It also started to rain so we the camera lens could have gotten wet while recording for our short film and we had no umbrella to cover the camera lens from getting wet while recording.  My team deiced there would only be one voice playing throughout the short film so the tension increase with a serous narrators voice. 

Weekly Production Log 3- Unit 22 Single Camera Production

From the end of our dissection in our last meeting we knew that we needed to change something’s, as they just wouldn't work so we had to change a few more things. At the end for the discussion my team deiced to start off fresh we would still have the genre aspects and the characters but we deiced to change the plot. We also deiced to remove the ghost and rename the story the happy family. After awhile my team came up with the idea that this family was falling apart and was really unstable and that’s why we renamed it as it would have different plot.  

My team and I chose to remove the doctor from the short film entirely we just wanted to concentrate on family of three only we get more of intent ration between the three. We also removed the hospital scene as some of my team member just thought it was possible to pull off. 

My team thought that this other idea and changing would be easier and convenient I thought the total as I thought that our ordinal story was more solid but the minority of vote was that we change the story.