Preliminary Task: Editing

 After we finished filming it was time to edit. We had to cut down many scenes as they ran for too long so we spliced the bits we wanted.once the scenes were cut we began to put them in order and used a dissolve effect for the magic transformation parts.

After that was done it was time to add sound. Putting the sound in we found many problems. There was a lot to be and some bits even needed to be muted like when the camera is focused on the card on the wall. It took half a week but finally everything was done and hopefully when we come to do our thriller, learning from our mistakes and experience of editing, we can have better and sharper editing.

Source Code

Director: Duncan Jones
Writer: Ben Ripley
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Famiga


Source Code is an action thriller about a soldier who wakes up in the body of another man and discovers he is part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

Box Office

Budget:$32,000,000 estimated

Opening weekend: $14,812,094 in the USA with 2961 screens showing film

Gross: $54,696,902 from USA on the 10/07/2011

So what makes this is a 'thriller'?

There's non-stop action as he only has eight minutes each time on the train to find the bomber, there's a twist as we find out that Jake Gyllenhaal's character is actually injured and on life support as he lost his arms and his body below the waist. And suspense is built as we start to question: is he going to find the bomber and stop the other attack from happening in time?

This is also an unconventional thriller as the main character dies and the people on the train can not be saved.

The film also has an element of a psychological thriller, constantly questioning what is going on? As the film is unclear at times, the main character doesn't know what's going and neither does the audience making you feel on the edge of your seats. The end of the film especially is interesting as it is unclear if he has re-written history or is the ending all in his mind as he has died.

There is a detective element as the main character is trying to find out who is the bomber, and will he find the bomb in time.

Preliminary Task: in the making

When we started to film the preliminary task we noticed that it was going to take alot of editing  to produce the idea/story. So decided as a group to change the story completely. The new story is character A walks into a room where a group of boys are talking, he gets their attention by performing a magic transformation into another person! He then introduces his next trick, a pack of cards he performs the card trick but despite being overly confident the trick doesn't work, to keep his dignity he transforms back to his normal self and leaves the room. 

So above is the storyboard, and hopefully soon the video of the preliminary task will be uploaded!

Preliminary task: in the making

So on Friday we started to film a couple of scenes for the task. The story is about a magician who goes on a talent show and performs a magic trick that doesn't go to plan, he throws the card at the judges then storms out the room, the judges pick up the card and realise that's the card. Magic!
So we so far have filmed couple of scenes, we filmed when Ezekiel walks into the room and demonstrating match-on action here. When he enters he stopes and looks at the sign, here we used eyeliner match and now we have to film couple of more scenes then edit away!