Newspaper Thriller

Over the last couple of lessons we have been split into groups to create a thriller. Our first task was to create a short storyboard for a thriller sequence which had to include and relate to a newspaper. First we planned what would happen in this short thriller and how the newspaper would relate to the storyline. We did this by creating a storyboard and taking pictures to show what would happen and what camera shots would be used in this clip. After we done this we were ready to film.
The next lesson the class watched a video of instructions of how to use the video camera and equipment. This tutorial was useful as it showed us everything we needed to know to start filming. Unfortunately, it was the day of eid so some of my group members were absent leaving myself and another member of my group to film all by ourselves. This became difficult at times because we were both the actors and made it hard for both of us to appear in the same camera shot but we were able to manage. We explored a range of camera shots and took as much footage as we needed. However time did not let us take most of our last shots.
Editing was harder than expected and caused confusion of which shots to use but became good at the end. We managed to use a range of camera shots to create particular feelings in the scene. This was very time consuming and left us with a short time to add music in the clip. By this time it was the next lesson so we were able to gain back our group members and this enabled up to speed up the process of editing. Also the other members brought new ideas of how the editing would come and as soon as we finished in it we were pleased with our production.
Lastly we had to add music to our clip and this took a lot of time because we wanted to find suitable sound what would create tension in the thriller scene. Most of the music was very sort of happy positive vibe music so we had to put the right sounds to relate to the mood of the camera shot. Our production is uploaded on the blog but the music editing was not finished because we ran out of time. We learned that we needed to speed up the process of editing and production and this should be easier in the future as we are now familiar with the camera equipment and editing software.