Jack the Ripper Tour Review

Last night Jess and I went to London on the Jack the Ripper tour walk and we literally made it by the skin of our teeth. We found the experience chilling, but useful for research for our film. The tour lasted for 2 hours and in this time we went to all the destinations where the murders took place. We were also told how the women were murdered which sent a shiver down my spine and made me feel a bit sick. It was also surreal to know that in 1888 Jack the Ripper stood in the same place as we stood. I also didn't realise how gory the murders actually were, especially the last murder which took place, that was the worst.

Lamppost

When we were experimenting with the camera and different shots on Friday, I started filming our shadows and I filmed a shadow of a lamppost, which looked really effective when we watched it on the computer. I think we could use it in our film, maybe as an opening and if not as the opening, we could include it somewhere in the film or even a shadow of a person.

Film research

We found some extra research for Jack the Ripper and it is a cartoon sketch these images are pretty useful and we can see from above what men used to wear at that time such as a top hat and a cloak which will help with our film.

Practice

Today we practiced filming with the camera and we did some shots of our location and of some shots that we are going to use in our actual film. I also tried to shake the camera so that we could experiment with stabilising the shot but because I shook the camera so much the shot was not completely smooth. I found filming today very useful because I now know how to use the camera a bit more and I'm really looking forward to filming our 2 minute film.

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Evaluating preliminary exercise

I thought our group did quite well in this task as we did it quite quickly and we found the editing quite simple. However some mistakes we made whilst we were editing were that when we did a pan shot of me, my head was cut off and when there was an over shoulder shot of Michaela, some of her head was also cut off which tells us that we needed to have the camera positioned a bit higher. What we didn't realise was that when we did a shot-reverse-shot, Michaela's hand was in a different position and we didn't even notice this when we were editing. This has taught me that we have to be more accurate when we edit our 2 minute film. What also happened was that the audio repeated, so Michaela ended up sayin Em twice. Although we made these mistakes I think it is good because we can now learn from them and make sure we do not make them in our 2 minute film.

Our preliminary exercise video