The Myth

First we all got into our groups of three.

We then had to choose an object to be the focus of the story in the short clip, we chose the key and then it was time to decide what the story was going to be at first we had a few confusing ideas until we came up with it being a mystery based story. There was a joke about it being Scooby-Doo but that was just a joke.

We then thought of the story plot and the characters, there were three characters, Connor is a curious mystery loving person, Alex is the leader of the group and likes trouble and Taylor is the reluctant follower who likes recording things, she is also the one with the video camera. We were going to have a ghost or Slender Man hiding in the background off every location but we ran out of time.

The plot was the characters are a group of friends at college who look on the internet and find a mystery with clues; they then look in a park and a castle for the key that will open the mysterious Tardis-looking door, it then ends on a cliff-hangar with the video camera going out with static.

We went to film at the castle first because we thought we should do all the out of college places first to conserve time but due to dinner time and the fact that the park was full so we went back to college to film the beginning parts off the video. We then used the garden-like area at college as the park and filmed some searching there. At first the ending door scene was going to be at the castle but we decided that suddenly teleporting to the college after the castle wouldn’t work so we used the Tardis door instead.

Sometimes people would walk in on us just before or after a recording but luckily it never happened while we were recording. During the video I realised that the group of friends looking for a mystery were not talking to each other at all, it was all just silence except from a bit of background sound so I improvised lines to add a bit of talking and then while editing we added subtitles and then also text that was Taylor writing about the events after it all happened.

We all edited 30 seconds of the video each, it was 90 seconds and we also added end credits. The music we added was a heartbeat that phases into suspenseful music as the key is found and then the music is cut off by the door opening sound and the camera static.