Final Synopsis:

A student reporter and a student camera man go to look for the truth behind the attacks of Yellville woods that have taken the lives of 5 students that attend the near by Yellville college. Many rumors and supposed footage have emerged from the woods, but the two reporters want more than rumors fake footage, they want the real thing. Little do they know literally risking life and limb could be a chance they wish they never took because maybe the truth needs to be left alone, very alone.....



However after a lot of thought between the group this idea was scrapped. The idea then changed to:

A teenage boy is being stalked. He feels out of place due to the naturalistic surrounding around him. He runs through a forest in a great sense of panic, he seeks a way out of the woods, such like a refuge. He reaches a path were his friend then sneaks up behind him and scares him. Due to the protagonists’ state of anger and edginess he reacts with anger, he then hits his friend when he tries to calm him down. His friend then walks off and they both depart. The protagonist is seen by the stalker walking to a tree. Here the protagonist sits by the trunk of a tree, here he realises that he has dropped his iPod which was picked up by the stalker. Seconds after realising he has lost it, he is chocked. He is then picked up by the antagonist and put next to a grave stone. The final shot is when you see the antagonist throw the iPod on the protagonists lap. However it is not known the protagonist is really dead.

Initial Ideas:

Our initial idea for our film is based upon a horror type genre, the idea consists of a 'stalker feel' about the clip. The idea entails two students going to a piece of woodland near where they live, the woodland has a mysterious secret behind it. The students set out to discover this secert but they got more than they bargained for. They discovered the secret behind it, but it leaves off where one of the students is on the floor awaiting there doom.

In our preliminary task we were ask to make a short clip involving the two elements, 180 degree shots and different sources of camerea angles, this is what we learnt and found out along the way: Firstly we learnt how to frame a shot on the camera properly, to do this we knew you had to use a tripod. This kept the camera steady for filming which was useful in the making of the preliminary task.

We also learnt how to pan or track a shot, by holding the camera and following the person being filmed which created the effect that the character was being followed. When using the editing programme (Final cut pro) on the Apple Mac computers, we learnt how to capture the final piece from the camera on to the computer.

After capturing the final piece and then installing it on to the Mac we could finally start editing, by doing the we highlighted a part of my scene and then cropped it down, deleting unnecessary bits that are not needed. Whist using Final cut pro our group learnt how to fade in or fade out a scene in two different ways, by adding an editing transistion or using a 'pen tool' which done the transistion manualy. We also learnt how to add music via garage band by converting it into itunes then adding it into the scene, these are all the main things that were learnt.

One thing that went well was the co-operation that the group showed together, helping out and adding ideas which helpped towards the final production of the pleminary task. One thing that could of been improved was probably the location, in the location was too noisey in the sense that alot of uneeded background sounds were there, apart from this everything went good. In our clip there was only one element of shot/reverse were two people in our group are having a conversation about having a sip of a drink that was bought. This was the only part that included shot/reverse shot. At first we broke the 180 degree however we learnt how to correct it, so next time it was needed we knew how to do it.