6th December 2012

Today Sophie and I had media for two periods out of five today which meant that we had two hours of time to progress with our film. In the first hour we started to adapt our shots to make them more sophistaicated and personal to the film by shortening the shots. We did this to make them more tense and to add more to the climax to make the audience feel more engaged and focused on what might happen next. We changed certain shots by using specific tools on Final Cut to drag in to the focus on Ellie so that it made two shots instead of one, we used this when she walks in to the shot, we found that it was too long and broke the tension slightly so this made it flow better. We then looked at the black and white contrast on the film we have used to keep the traditional look, we started to look at the level and making sure it was equal colouring so that it didn't look wrong for the viewer. Whilst doing so, Sophie and I realised how important it was that this film is in black and white because it really adds to the effect of horror and eerie feel. We watched the beginning of the film in colour and it really didn't give the same scary effect that the black and white did.

In the second hour we spoke about what music we want to use in the background of the film and we came up with a final decision that it would be a section of music from the Woman In Black, called Voices In The Mist. We still need to send a letter to the company that produced this film to get permission to do so but at the moment that is the music we will hopefully use. We felt this music would be appropriate for our film because the background noises link in very well with the noises you would hear around the setting we are filming. We also feel this would work very well in our film because of the high pitched sounds you hear most of the way through with the contrast of minor key sounds. In this hour we also chose the name of our film which is 'The Locket'. We felt this name would work well as it links in with the main prop and idea of the locket that the actor Ellie holds and focusing on mainly in the opening sequence. This locket plays a bit part in the opening sequence because Josh who plays the Villain will be holding the sisters matching locket from when he took her whilst down at the Blue Lagoon. We feel this name will not give too much away and it also doesn't give off a positive or negative emotion when the audience read it which is good because it again doesn't let the audience know too much as to what will happen, only that a locket will play a big part in the storyline.