Human Imput 3 with Ending

After looking over it again we decided we wanted the extra human input for the ending so we re-shot the ending and this was my scene. The idea was for me to walk past the character whilst holding a drink and just as im about to take a drink; the character takes it off me and throws it on the floor. Unlike the shot with Michael, this scene we decided to make me react in a harsh way so after the character throws the drink on the floor. I spin him around and head but him, this time the character retreats and we continue the scene and film the ending. The character goes around the corner and ends up at a “Danger of Death” sign; the character starts to shake and eventually falls to the ground.

By Paul Strafford

Editing the ending

Although we planned on having another human input we realised the original ending we made without the human input started off at a car park which is where the scene before ended. We managed to make it look as though it was all one shot and after adding some small effects the video seemed complete.

By Christopher Mckeeney

Editing

When we edited this shot we added a lot of effects over the clip because of the beats in the song at this time and then the song completely slows down with lots of short beats. For this we reduced the speed of the shot and did a jump cut for each individual beat. Because there was so many small beats this took a long time but eventually we got it how we wanted it and it looked very good.

By Paul Strafford

Human Input 2

We continued with the filming the following lesson and this time it was Chris’ scene. In this shot we made it look as if he was homeless on the floor with money in a hat, the “possessed” person then comes over and takes some of the money and carry’s on and ends up in the car park, unfortunatly because of the increased speed of the video, it was very difficult to get a shot that you clearly see him taking the money. We got a lot of strange looks from people doing this shot but we just re-assured them it was just part of the video and we wasn’t actually stealing.

By Michael Sabti

Editing

The next two lessons we spent editing these clips but it was clear it made the video look more professional. We had to make a lot of adjustments to the restaurant shot because of the time it was shot, it looked a lot darker than the other clips but eventually we got it close to the colour of the other shots.

By Christopher Mckeeney

Filming with Human Input

With all 3 group members available we decided to film the shots which had a human input, as there are three people in the group and no “main” character we all played a part as the human input. The first was Michael, his scene was to knock into the possessed person and shout at him/her for not watching where he/she was going, the character doesn’t respond well to this and hits Michael and he quickly leaves the shot (We use jump cuts on this to give the same effect as the first ‘Bar Shot’). After shooting this it started to get dark so we decided to shoot one more while there was still some sunlight, this shot we used a takeaway. We took this idea from “Smack My Bitch Up” as in the video the character entered a fast food restaurant and eats a kebab very fast and leaves. We decided to use the same concept but with chips. This was actually a lot more difficult than we first thought; we wanted to make it seem as if we were eating the chips extremely fast while keeping a steady camera, after several shots we finally got it right.

By Paul Strafford

Delay

This week, unfortunately we couldn’t film because two of our group’s members were unavailable with the flu and the other on a college trip. As we are a 3 person group we couldn’t add the human input. This was a little set back but when we returned we knew what had to be done.

By Michael Sabti

Editing

When it came around to editing, the shots looked good but after watching the whole video over it looked very boring because of the POV aspect and the shots just consisted of going around town “possessed”. It was very repetitive and we knew we would have to add something to give it an extra edge. We finished off editing the clips we had and knew the next couple of lessons we would have to film more with some human input.

By Paul Strafford

Shooting & Editing

At this point we knew what had to be filmed, where it had to be filmed and how we were going to edit it. The next lesson it was dry so we continued to film and we got a lot more footage, we got back with time remaining and put the clips on the timeline, ready to be edited the next lesson.

By Michael Sabti

Editing Bar Shot & More

We put all of the clips on the timeline and edited the bar scene aswell as some of the main scene. Whilst doing this it was clear we didn’t have enough clips for the main scene so we would have to go out and film again. At this point it was November and the weather was pretty wet, all of our other clips were in dry conditions so we had to wait for these conditions if we wanted to film. Because of the situation we were in we put all of our effort into editing when it was wet outside.

By Christopher Mckeeney

Bar Shot

Thankfully the next lesson we knew the bar would be open so we went to film the first shot. The bar was pretty empty so it was a perfect time to do it, we did multiple shots to be sure it was perfect and eventually we had it finished. Because the weather was good and we had some time left of the lesson we decided to film more of the main shot around town as we knew we didn’t have enough to fill the whole timeline.

By Paul Strafford

Re-Shooting with Fig-Rig

Knowing the bar wouldn’t be open at this time we decided to edit. When we put the clips together we realised the tripod on wheels didn’t give us the realistic effect we wanted, it just didn’t look human. This was a problem because we had done so much with the tripod but we spotted the problem quickly so we decided to go back to town and re-shoot it with the Fig-Rig. We did a shot and played it back and thankfully it looked a lot better with the Fig-Rig so we re-shot the 40 minutes we had shot previously with the tripod on wheels.

By Michael Sabti