Editing on the final day!

Today has been a complete day of being in the mac room editing our short film for as long as we can and have managed to get all our shots and have made our short film, however, we are going to need to make it shorter as it is only supposed to last 5 minutes and at the moment it is 6 and a half!
I think we are going to stay after school tonight to finish editing our film, we need to add in our music and make our film fit the time that we are allowed. This should be possible as we can both stay as long as we need to.

we lied...:)

okay so before when we showed our final desings, we were lying. we managed to get some feedback on them and so things have been altered again, but we are much much happy with our changes. these should hopefully now be the final ones!

Comparisons

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final designs

here is a print screen of our final magazine poster and magazine film review :)

Finale

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Filming... can it possibly be finished!?

Yesterday Laura and I were trying our hardest to find a boy to star in our film and after being let down three times we thought this would be hard, we found this was the case as Laura asked two of them and they both said they had other plans. After some thought, and trying to get hold of every boy i knew, someone said yes! :)

I spoke to him and arranged with him to meet me and Laura to do some filming in the morning, when he arrived we got all the shots we needed and a few extra because he was very cooperative which was such a relief as our short film needs to be finished by Friday and we are now on a very tight schedule to get it finished, our boy has also agreed that if we need him tomorrow he should be able to come in. :)

After finishing our filming we had planned to get a camera and import our filming onto the mac, this is where we struck another problem! there was another group using the mac we needed and the camera too, we then decided to get on with our preliminary task (the poster).

Whilst we were filming in the graveyard we also got some photos of the background we wanted for our poster and a photo of the boy to use for the silhouette, we needed more photos because the ones we had didn't achieve the golden spiral rule and we needed the silhouette to be the main focus of our poster, so when we found we couldn't start editing we decided to make our poster and finished it before the end of the day, this means we are now one down.. two to go! then our media is finished :/

Tomorrow... because we couldn't get any editing done today we have decided that we are going to edit our film and finish our magazine film review for the best part of tomorrow and if it comes to it we will have to stay after school to finish it as it needs to be done by friday.

designing poster and review

we have begun putting together our photos and experimenting on photoshop. please can you let us know what you think to the designs. one thing we must say is that we are going to try using a different photo of Amy on the reveiw so that we have a different photo from the poster.

photos for our poster and review

today me and Amy went out and took lots of photos that could be used in our poster and magazine film review

Photos

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poster designs

here is a slide of a few designs we drew up for ideas of a film poster. trying to follow some similarites as the 'Warp' films posters i researched and following the golden spiral rule for the composition.

Poster Ideas

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Preliminary tasks

We have been drawing some mock ups of our film poster and our film review today, we have looked at many different posters and reviews to get some good ideas.
We have drawn lots of different mock ups so we have lots of different ideas to try out and can achieve the best for our project.
We will scan in these drawings and find out which looks the best, then get some pictures to make our poster and film review.

Editing

Editing today showed me a few more errors in our shots that we need to re-film.
I was editing the bathroom scenes and found a continuity error as the girl is brushing her teeth, as she goes to brush her teeth she turns the tap off and in the next shot the tap is back on so we will need to re-film one of the shots again to show she leaves the tap on rather than it just magically being on again.
I think we may need to film most of the house scenes again as we want our film to be perfect.

Re-filming

Whilst editing our film today we found that a few of our shots didn't work out so we are going to re-film them.

The first thing we found was that in the scenes of the graveyard we had broken the 180 degree rule so the scene didnt have continuity and had to get rid of one of the scenes we wanted to include so we will have to get some more footage of the graveyard scenes to fill the gap.

The second problem we found was that we didnt have enough footage of the girl looking at the gravestone and the gravestone looking bake up at her and we are going to need more scenes like this if we want to create a connection between the girl and the grave, we will re-film this when we film the scenes with the boy at the graveyard.

Another part of our short film we need to re-film are the scenes as the girl is waking up in her bedroom, we need to do this because the lighting is not right and needs to be lighter and the mise en scene is not right in some shots either as it contains things in the shot that shouldn't be there, we shall therefore need to re-schedule a time for re-filming this soon at laura's house.

Also with the scenes at laura's house we have spotted that in the kitchen scenes there is a shadow that shouldn't be there as she is supposed to be home alone, another thing we need to change is the food in the fridge as there is too much food in there to show her mum is never there and things in the fridge that a mother or daughter shouldn't have in there if they live alone with no father figure, we will also re-film this when we film other things again at laura's house.

I noticed that the cereal box that we were using had three happy children on the front which i thought would ruin the illusion that our character is sad and lonely, however, we thought that this was just being to picky but after speaking to our teachers about it i feel we should use a differnt cereal box so it carries on the feeling of loneliness, from this mistake i have learnt that when we are filming next time to take more attention to details like this so we don't have to re-film again.

Filming again

On Friday we went to Laura's house to film the house scenes, we managed to get all the footage we needed and think it went quite well as we also got some extra footage just in case we need it when it comes to editing.
Today we are planning on filming the scenes in school with our boy character and hopefully getting them all done so then we only have to film the rest of the graveyard scenes with our boy character and can get on with editing and finishing our short film after this week.
Considering how many problems we have had i think that our short film is coming along quite well as long as we can get the filming finished this week.

Laura,
I have written about how our filming is now going, do you want to write up times we have now decided to film because you did it quite well last time and then we have an official plan for filming written down.
Amy x

Filming has finally started

Yesterday we were really unsure about our film and were even considering changing our idea, however, we have decided to stick with it and try and get it done, also whilst having these thoughts we decided to do some practice shots around the school which we were not sure of how to film or if they would work but after doing them we now know how they will work in our film and are quite confident about filming them.

We have made some changes in our film, one of the changes is our main character, as we were let down many times by two different people we have just decided that it will be better if one of us was the main character and I have said that i will be her, the only problem with this is that i will not be able to film the scenes that i am acting in so i am going to film all the other scenes that i can and help laura set up the shots and give ideas to how they will be filmed. Also because I am now going to be the main character in our film we could use some of the practise shots of me in the school in our film if we need them.

Today we actually got some filming done, although we couldn't get our boy character available to film today we got most of the graveyard shots done and we got a few more shots than we may actually need but i think this is a good idea because then we will not need to go back to film any more and will have more shots to include when editing if we find we do actually need them.

Filming hazards

When we start filming we need to think of the hazards our settings may have which could endanger us, so i have thought of a few;

Graveyard scenes:

• One of us may trip over or slip on the ground, Likelihood: Medium
• Filming may offend or upset some people visiting the graveyard, Likelihood: medium/high
• Empty holes or uneven graves on the ground may trip us, Likelihood: Medium

School scenes:

• if we film at the end of school clening will be being done so floor may be wet and one of us may slip or fall, Likelihood: Low
• doors or gates may get locked and we may not be able to get out if we do not ask permissions to film, Likelihood: Low
• People in school may make filming difficult, Likelihood: medium/high

Home scenes:

• At home you are generally off guard so may not be expecting anything to go wrong so if it does it will be a shock, Likelihood: medium
• Knives in the kitchen, Likelihood: Medium
• slipping in the bathroom scenes, Likelihood: Low/ medium

Bus scenes:

• Some members of the public may not cooperate and make filming difficult or even get offended that we are filming, Likelihood: medium/high
• Their is a hazard that the bus may crash as we are filming, Likelihood: Low/medium

Now we know about these hazards we will have to be careful as we are filming and make sure we do our best to avoid these dangers.

Film poster

This is the picture i will use for the film poster. I am not sure what our film is going to be called for sure yet, i will just make a mock up of the poster for now untill we have a definate name for our film, i will then re-make the poster with our chosen name on it.
I have chosen this picture as i feel it represents our film quite well, the main plot of our film includes the setting of the graveyard, and this is where the twist in our film happens so it may be quite an iconic scene in our film which the audience will recognise, I also think that a picture of a graveyard is quite interesting because it will trigger different feelings for different people and some may be able to relate to this picture in some way.

Let down again

Today we were again supposed to get most of the filming done but unfortunately laura is ill and i cant even start filming because our actress cannot be filmed today!
I am therefore going to make a start on the other element of our short film task, the task i am going to make a start on is the film poster, although we were going to use a still from our film this is now not possible as we haven't been able to film yet, I am now going to use a picture of the graveyard we took last week for our ideas of settings.
Amy x

Shots and ways of filming

Our film has got quite a strong story line now and we have decided what each scene is going to include, however, now we need to think about how each shot is going to be filmed and what shot types we are going to use, I have had a few ideas;

With the scenes including the school we should film the building as though it is towering above our character to give it a daunting look, because our character is not going to see the school as a good place because she has no friends.

I thought that because our main character is feeling lonely we should film with a slight angle to show that she is not happy, we will do this by having the camera looking down on her and making her seem insignificant. This angle on her could then change to looking straight on at her towards the end when she meets the boy, this will show things are looking up for her.

In the graveyard scene as she is walking towards the grave i felt that we could make this scene quite interesting by filming her at all different angles and when we come to editing it we could cut it so that she is walking then it jumps forward a bit then carries on walking and show it from a different angle, we could even pan around her as she is walking and show her walking past and then seeing her walk from the back and finally getting to the grave.

When our character is stood at the grave we could film as though the grave is a character, we could do a match-on-action shot so the camera looks at her from the grave and is looking at her then a shot from where she is stood and looking at the grave, I think this will be effective because it will show the connection between her and the grave.

On the bus scene we will have to film more footage of our character on the bus because then if we need to show a long time we can use the footage we already have rather than having to film more, also this footage may come in handy in case we need more and we dont have time to film or have more problems like we already have.

Settings and descriptions

Settings For Our Film Powerpoint

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pictures of settings

Pictures Of Settings

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Problems with filming again

As I wrote yesterday we were going to start our filming today, however, we were needing to film outside and the weather has not turned out the best for this to be successful, also we were planning on filming the whole of the opening sequence because then it would look better in our film when the starting and ending where the same, as the lighting and weather would all be the same, we can no longer do this because we need our boy character to be in these shots and we have recently found out that he cannot do it today, so we are going to find out a time when we can all film and get alot done because then our filming will run smoothly, also the corridor where we were going to film in school has had a smashed window so we cannot film there.
Apart from this we have planned which shots we need to film at one time and when we are now thinking of filming them so even though this let down has not been a help we are going to find a way around it.