26/2/09 - lesson

Today was our last chance to edit our thriller openings, so we had to work as hard as we could to make sure everything was right. We all worked together and accomplished a very successful thriller opening which we all liked. We fixed certain things like adding different effects, and putting iin our 'credits'. Although our 'credits' where very basic and simple it suited our thriller perfectly because our killer is very neat, sharp and sophisticated. Not everything was identical which was one of our purposely thought ideas. Finally myself and my group could relax noing that our thriller was edited, now we have to hold our breath and anticipate what our final mark will be.

23/2/09 - lesson

In todays lesson everyone in the class where all trying to finish anything that needed to be done for there thriller. My group decided that we should go out and re-film certain parts for our thriller opening but unfortunately i had a dentist appointment meaning i could only stay for half and hour of the lesson, and that was definately not enough time to film anything. So we edited what we had as best we could, then i had had to depart to my appointment.

16/2/09 - Editing over the half term

Unfortunately i was unable to attend todays editing because i had to attend a family occaision in essex, which ment that Tony, Nichole and Rebecca had to edit by themselves which went very well as they told me.

13/2/09 - our planned filming day out

Myself, Tony and Nichole arranged to meet for 11:00 today to complete all of our filming. But funny enough we met at 12:30 instead because Nichole was having health problems, and couldnt attend till abit later. So myself and Tony had to start filming by ourselves until Nichole was able to come. Apart from it being very cold everything went fine for the couple of hours we spent filming, and then Nichole showed up and everything continued to run smoothly and we where able to finish our film.

9/2/09

Again unfortunately we experienced bad weather.It was raining very heavily, so this ment that we were unable to film again, because in our previous shot the weather was very nice so even if we did try it wouldnt make any sense because the shots wouldnt match. So instead we decided to stay inside of college and practice filming different shots to give us all a better understanding of what we wer doing. I started taking different shots of Nichole and Tony walking across and over the camera to see what effect would be given off. So the lesson was not wasted and we did learn something new that we could use to better our thriller. In our next lesson we all agreed to take some shots of scenery that we would like to incorperate into our film and also we wanted to book the camera overnight for friday 13th because we had no college and we could use his to our advantage for a chance to completely finish our filming.

Going to watch thrillers at Vue Cinema

The following Thursday after watching our thrillers in class, we went to the cinema to watch the whole AS media thriller openings. We all meet at the Vue cinema at Angle, we did not wait long before we entered the cinema and took our seats. As we waited for everyone to take their set, we sat there talking about who’s thriller would be first. Once everyone was seated, the lights went out and everyone went silent. Once the screen came on everyone began to cheer. The first thriller opening to start was one from our own class. I then knew that our thriller would be on soon, I was a bit nervous as to what people may think of my thriller. Finally, when our thriller did come on and people began to cheer my name aloud it gave me the confidence not to be ashamed of my work and be proud. After the cinema had finished I asked people what they thought of our thriller opening, many people said they like the twist of the woman killing the man rather than the man killing the woman. This was our intension from the very beginning, to make the audience surprised at the end of viewing the clip.

2/2/09 - Marys lesson

Unfortunately, because of the unexpected weather we had, college was not open meaning we lost a 3 hour lesson which we could have either been doing filming or editing. Due to this not only was my group unable to film but so was the rest of the class, meaning that we could all be at risk of falling behind schedual. This only means that we have to work extra hard to ensure that everything will be finihed by the 27th of Feb.