26th February

Today we went outside again to film the trail for the second time. This time it went much better as we had more of an idea of how we wanted it to look because we had attempted to film it before and we weren't please with the filming that we did. We realised that we wanted the camera to be very close to the 'blood' trail so that you could nocibly see that it was there and we wanted it to be a tracking shot so it felt like the viewer was following the 'blood' trail and it would make them feel excited/nervous to find out what was at the end of it. We needed it to be quite long to build up suspense so the view gets apprehensive about what is going on. The piece of filming that we did is what we wanted in all aspects so we are pleased with the clip. This means that we wont need to redo this part of the two minute clip again, this helps us out because the editing of our clip is gogin to be the hardest thing as we are not completely sure how to do it. We are a bit worried about not being able to see the blood as it isn't a bright red and some of the leaves on the floor are red as it is filmed in a forest and it is that time of year. We are going to solve this by editing the colour balance on final cut. Also, we want to make it look like it was filmed in the dark we will either edit the colour balance or make it black and white on final cut. If we cant achieve this we will get the IT technicion (Ricki) to help us with this effect. If the effect we want can not be achieved, we are not sure how we are going to portray the 'blood' in the way we want it. We may have to try another technique to create the look we want.