On Wednesday 12th November, it was time for each group to showcase their two minute shorts. A total of seven films were shown. It turns out we were not the only ones going with fear as our main emotion.
Between our rushes and this presentation I went out and recorded different Foley sounds including The duvet, the light, footsteps, and several sounds to create static including the fuzz from an old school TV, pressing a knife against a plate and the rattling of thumb tacks. Kieran merged these and made a decent static sound for the phone. And removing a couple of shots that were not relevant to the story progression to make space for more tension. As a result we got an improved version. We had some technical difficulty's with one export so we had to play an earlier edit, but their were only one or two differences between them. The feedback was generally positive as people liked the idea of not knowing what's coming up the stairs at the end, and how the piece builds up through out the piece. We were basically told to polish the piece off.
Me and Kieran met at the end and discussed ways to improve. I was asked to grab a few more sounds (door handle and extra duvet) which I carried out, and also improvised a few extras just in case, whereas Kieran will be grading all the clips to make it look nicer on camera, particularly the darkest parts where the protagonist is just a silhouette. I have delivered the sounds today and Kieran says he will have the edit completed by this evening, as he will have no time afterwards.
We are still waiting on Lawrence to complete the script and treatment for the 10 minute piece. As soon as that comes in I have a few actors I can contact direct, and I am part of a few groups of Facebook, which can be used for networking and finding actors such as 'Actors UK' and 'Northern Filmmakers'. With nobody really set as the out and out producer, I believe we are all going to be executives to the piece, and I will gladly take on actor hunting.
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