Some photos of us filming...

These are some photo's from our first trip to Ashridge Woods to film. When we got back into the classroom we realised that we only had about 30seconds of useful footage. However, we realised that on our first outing we were more or less unprepared so decided to get our act together a bit and go out and film again. Although it was a bit of a hassle to get everyone, producers and actors, out on a weekend i'm glad we did because we got some really good quality footage using an HD camera, and we were much more organised this time - I think its good we did it this way rather than doing it in lesson time because we had all day to focus on the task in hand.

Thankfully, the original 30 seconds we taped did not go to waste. We used it to begin experimenting with different effects on FinalCut Express, such as 'bad TV' and various ways of making the lighting lighter and darker. We were so pleased with this we are going to attempt to use this short clip on repeat as our DVD menu.

Synopsis for our film - 'The Youth'

'Youth' - Synopsis

Based on a true story. In 1998 a group of ill-fated teens were camping in a tyrannized woodland and were never seen again. Lifelong friends Alex Jones, Tom Harris and Nikki Smith were celebrating their last night together before going to university. Alex, 18, has been longing after Nikki, secretly, for years. Nikki, unfortunately is in a long term relationship and Alex has to put on a façade, for the sake of their friendship. Tom, the cynic, is Alex's best friend. When they unwittingly stumble upon another group of teens, Alex feels obliged to protect Nikki, while Tom refuses to submit to the Youth's reign; the Youth that are hunting them down, like lambs to the slaughter.


The 'Youth' are a gang like no other.

Trying to sell our film:

This is a short film of us presenting our ideas for our film:



In the video you can hear us talking about a cult - this was our original idea, but in the end we decided to change it into a gang of youths because we felt it would be easier to pull of without becoming a cliché and also enable us to place the film in a much more modern context, and relate with our primary audience of teenagers.