Costume, Sound, Lighting and other relatively important things...

Costume:


For the costumes, we are just going to use our school uniforms since the film is set primarily in our school. Since we are all in Sixth Form, our uniform is not going to be distinctive to the school's uniform for younger students. The killer's costume will be so distorted in the moments he is involved, it is not worth putting time or effort into.


Sound:


There is no special equipment that accompanies the cameras for sound, therefore we think we will dub over the footage we film to make it sound professional. There is little dialogue in the film, but the dialogue there is we will have to do well as to dub over it, especially the scene where the protagonist finds his dead friend, as dialogue may be frantic as part of keeping the realism.




Lighting:




Hopefully the natural lighting will be good enough to make the film seem genuine and of half decent quality, but on top of these we will try and add some filters to the film, to add our own personal atmosphere for the film and additionally to improve the quality of the footage.




Editing:




The editing is just as important as the filming, in my opinion. We will need to work hard as to make sure the footage is continuous and not jumpy with technical excellence, as well as making sure it isn't cliché or just generally poor. In our previous project, we used editing to import humour into the film by making it purposefully cliché, but now we are working on a serious project, we need to be extremely selective and precise.




Progress so far:




We will begin filming today, leaving the dilemma I mentioned in the previous post for the next session of filming. During filming today we will be aiming to set a precedent for a quality story as well as quality camerawork.