Re-Filming

Also in today's lesson we made a list of the shots we must redo and why we feel we need to redo them.

• Zoom in on dress - this shot is good as it works well in the sequence, however we need to get it to be more smooth as the shot we have of it is a little awkward and unrealistic.

• Establishing shot - after watching back the original shot that we have to establish the whole film we do not think it is good enough as it seems a bit nothingy.

• Close up on Ruby's phone call - our whole idea is that we only show close ups of the main female character until the big reveal at the party so that the audience feels as though they are seeing her for the first time with Michael (the main male) and one of the shots of her on the phone reveals too much of her face and so does not fit into our idea.

• Opening the door (arrival of Ruby) - the shots we have of Ruby walking to the party are when it is much lighter outside and so it poses a continuity problem as when Iveta answers the door to let her in, it is suddenly extremely dark outside and so does not work.

• The reveal/arrival of Ruby - this is a very important shot as it is the first time the audience properly gets to see Ruby and so it must be perfect. The shots that we currently have for this are not good enough as in one shot she is looking at the camera and in the other the camera suddenly jolts just as we are about to see her face.

• Putting on shoes - this shot is not good enough as the lighting seems some what orange and also the shoes are not framed correctly in that they aren't in the center and are cut off toward the top of the frame.

• Blusher - we all really liked this shot, however we are using this shot before the girl has applied her eye make up, and in the shot she already has eyeliner on.

• Michael shots - generally we just need more of these.

31/ 01/ 2013

Progress-
Today we spent editing our opening sequence and continued working on making the footage flow together nicely. We need to still re-film some of our footage because of lighting issues so we will hopefully do it on the weekend.
Overall, today was successful as Nicola and Kirsten spent time finding the right music and have tried to create something on GarageBand which would fit when the girl and boy are getting ready. We have all decided that it would be best to have different types of music on the boy and girl so it appears like realistically what they might listen but also looks like diagetic sound i.e. they are actually listening to this type of music whilst getting ready.
Meanwhile, me and Natalie carried editing the sequence together; I think that the graphic match from the girl's red dress and his red bottle works really nicely and is visually entertainer/ creative. 

 

 

Editing

Whilst putting our footage together we have decided that the opening will not only be romantic but also a teen like film more fittingly a coming of age film as we don't feel the emotions we have created are strictly what you would see in a serious romantic film such as The Notebook they are more relate able to films such as Mean Girl or Clueless.

29/ 01/ 2013

Today in lesson we were beginning to edit all our footage together. We split our group up so half of us were editing our opening sequence and the other half of us were trying to create some music on Garageband. While editing some of our footage we found out that some bits were good but too dark so we shall need to re-film those over the next couple of days using the lights this time in order to see the characters more clearer.
Here are some pics: 

Editing opening sequence

On Garageband

At the end of the lesson we managed to complete a rough draft of what our music for the party scene would be like which gave us all an idea of what it would sound like, what we need to improve/ add in future lessons. 

Our first draft of music we completed

Progress

Today we've started editing all our clips and started creating our own music for the party scene.

Progress

28/1/2013- So this weekend we have managed to film all of our footage and this lesson we were looking through it to make sure we have captured everything we needed or whether we need to re-film. We have started to edit some of the bits of the footage and some of us are using garageband in order to create the music for this opening sequence.
We are planning to edit as much as we can all week, swapping around so everyone gets a turn to edit and have an input in this project. 

Cast

We used a girl and a boy to play our two main characters and had other people who were in the party. Here is the girl we had used before filming her getting ready:

Ruby

Here is the boy we had used for our filming: 

Michael

Filming Day 2

On Sunday we completed out filming by managing to film the boy's and girls parts with the party scenes. Overall I think it was a successful day because we managed to get a variety of different camera shots and varied them in order to apply what we had learnt.

On Saturday some of the girls in our group had to 'dress' a room in order for the mis- en- scene to look like it's a boy's room. I think this was effective because we wanted to make sure that all the details were correct and it was realistically a room which a boy would be in. Here is a pic of the room: 

 

For the girls part, again we tried to stereotypically create a room which would be ideally for a teenage girl in order to fulfill out genre of a romantic/ coming of age film. We made sure the props were suited for this so we placed a lot of makeup, magazines, perfume, etc which helped us achieve this aim. 

 

For the party we had to dress up a living room again and make sure that there was enough props in order to make it look like a real party. Here are some location photos:  

 

Overall, this weekend of filming and setting up the rooms was successful because we managed to get a lot done and the pre-planning (pre-production stage) of storyboards, costumes, lighting  was helpful because we know what we had to do or the types of shots we wanted. Now we will be editing this and hopefully we have done a great job! 

Shooting Schedule

As we are filming a lot of our sequence this weekend we have made a schedule.

Saturday

• Buying food and items to set the party
• Dressing a room to use for guy

Sunday

• 9-12am Filming the guys scenes
• 12-1pm Lunch
• 1-3pm Re filming the girls scenes
• 3-4pm Setting the house for the party
• 4-8pm Filming the party

FIlming- Party Scene

We have planned to film the party scene during the weekend starting the 26th and 27th January. We will also film the guys parts of getting ready and then finish off with the girl also getting ready as we didn't complete all of this the 1st time we started filming. These type of shots will show his full costume and details of his face etc compared to the girl who we will only see close-up details i.e her eye, parts of her dress. This would be effective in order to create a sense of tension and when she arrives later, she is finally revealed to not only the guy but the audience also.

Example of  shots of the girl would be something similar to these:

Costume

The costume most appropriate for the girl would be something not too smart but girly at the same time, maintaining the stereotypical image of a teenage girl that is often being presented to us in romantic or coming of age films. The girl would wear something like this:

We think a graphic match would be appropriate for one of our scenes to make it more visually interesting for the viewers. A graphic match  occurs when the shapes, colors and/or overall movement of two shots match in composition, either within a scene or, especially, across a transition between two scenes

In our filming this will be used where we see the girl getting dressed into her red dress and then zooms out of the guy's red tie/ bow. The continuity editing smoothes over the inherent discontinuity of shot changes to establish a logical coherence between shots.

 The guy will wear something like this:

Audience Research

Refilming

We have to refilm the parts of the lead female walking to the party because of the snow as this will affect continuity.

Casting Issues

Recently we've had an issue with casting, in that the guy that was meant to be playing the lead has pulled out and so we are currently trying to find a new person to take his place.

Progress

Today we uploaded yesterdays shots and decided which shots were good and which we would need to re-shoot.

Filming Day 1

We filmed our first bit of footage yesterday, on the whole it went well. However there were some mistakes with using the camera and so some of the footage was not recorded, but we shall just re-record it another day.

Feedback - Love Actually

After the audience surveys its became clear that a favorite with the target audience was the film - Love Actually.

• This film follows all the conventions of the romantic genre and also includes an element of comedy. 
• The unique selling point is that it follows several different couple instead of just one couple.
• There is also an all star cast.
• It is set around Christmas linking love and a certain time of year.
• The comedy also makes it better for a younger audience.

Target Audience

As this film has romantic/coming of age genre our target audience is teenagers; primarily female as we think young femles tend to enjoy this genre more and our audience research has also proved this.

Audience Research Surveys

Test Lighting

From the lighting test we found that the best time to film the outside shots would be 4:30 to 4:15 as the outdoor light is dark enough to portray evening but light enough to get a good shot. Also we thought it would be best to use some clear tracing paper over the light to make it a bit less harsh.

Rough Storyboard

Script

We are unsure yet if to write a script as our idea does not include any dialogue.

Ideas