Newspaper Thriller

A few lessons back, we were all put into groups to create a thriller where the storyboard sequence had to relate to a newspaper. My group consisted of four members, Ola, Henok, Selma and I (Sevin). We were firstly assessed to create a brief storyboard of our ideas and thriller sequence. To create our storyboard, we took pictures of what we were going to film. We took pictures of each scene for our storyboard with the digital cameras we were given. When using the digital camera we took pictures from different angles and shots; close ups, wide shots, over the shoulder shots etc. Also in our first lesson to creating a thriller, we were given an introduction into how to use the Final Cut Pro software to create our thrillers on the Macs. In this introduction we were shown how to insert clips, soundtracks on the timeline, cutting in between shots, pasting in relevent clips together.

Unfortunately on our second lesson of filming and creating the newspaper thriller, Selma and I were not present due to a religious celebration. However, bearing in mind having two group members absent, pur other two group members; Henok and Ola did a great job filming the shots on their own. As our two other group members had successfully taken all the shots needed for our thriller, when Selma and I (Sevin) returned, we got straight on with editing the shots using Final Cut Pro, putting the shots in their appropriate orders, cutting out irrelevent shots i.e if a shot was too long.
Constructing the thriller was considerably time consuming, especially that two members were absent at one of the most important time. We were racing against time. We had minimal time left but we managed to successfully complete editing the shots by combining all the group memebers' ideas and creating a great thriller sequence.
Selecting the soundtrack for the thriller was the most challenging, difficult and time consuming to choose from. We were trying to find the perfect sound effects which related to the scenes and created the best tension and atmosphere of the shots, as the tension of everything relied on the sound. Fortunately we found the correct sounds for the majority of clips, however, we were unable to fully attach all the sound effects to our thriller because we had run out of time.
Althought all our group members are pleased with the outcome of this thriller, despite falling slightly behind on the soundtrack, we know that if we didn't have group members missing and a bit more time to work on it, we definitely could have created something even better.