Finished Blog and Evaluation

ALMOST DONE

Well our deadline was the last day of our term and although we're not QUITE finished, we're nearly there.
All that needs doing is a short piece of voiceover recording and adding to our nearly complete film.
There is a large gap in our film so we are recording the voiceover to fit into there, hopefully everything will be done today
I'm quite proud that we managed to (near enough) get our film done in time as coming up to deadline week we still had quite a lot to do, it took quite bit off effort to get the last bits recorded and edited but we did it and hopefully our hard work will be rewarded with a good grade
Becca

Update

In Mondays lesson we got all of our filming completed, however, after editing, there may be some other bits that need filming and adding in.
Although, up to now, we are confident that we have all the footage we'll need.
We now have five lessons until deadline, which, as we still have most of our editing to do, will be a push but i think it is manageable as we have all filming and planning out of the way and all we have left to do is put together all our pieces and, hopefully, be left with a finished product of a high standard.

Becca

Yesterday we managed to film quite a bit :)
With help from extras we managed to get a good scene with goths and geeks and the first shot of our 3 main characters that will appear in the film :)

However we still have quite a bit to film.
We got some group shots of our "bitches" but as so far, all the footage we have captured has been a POV shot we are going to do a few different angle shots to add more variety to our film and hopefully gain more marks.
In tomorrows lesson we will shoot some upward panning shots and closeups of the main characters as they are the focus of the film and we have to establish them as the main characters.

Yesterday we also rerecorded the voiceover as part of it didn't make sense, however now it works better and sounds better now that it has been reedited into the final cut.

Some of the POV shot has to be reshot as when edited together it doesn't fit properly.
Hopefully our filming will be done by the end of tomorrows lesson so then all that we need to do is edit :)

We were also thinking of adding a scene with the different cliques by shooting a series of headshots and editing them together so that they all appear to morph into each other, we asked about ways of doing this and have decided to film it against the white background of the studio so that the background does not change constantly

Becca xxx

Filming

We hope to have finished all filming by the end of tomorrows lesson, with some help from our extras.

We have recorded the narration and we are currently editing it into the video, having to change the volume so that you can hear it over the song, pot kettle black.

hopefully tomorrow we will be able to film and capture everything else needed so there is only editing to do left.

thanks
Jordan :) x

Filming

We began filming last lesson. We started outside the front entrance and walked through the canteen focusing on different groups sat around tables.
we watched a video from last years AS which did a similar thing;

We still have some progress to make with filming as we need to film the outside walking towards media when the area is busy. Aslo we may need to re-film some bits as occasionally Becca's reflection is visible in the glass.
We captured what we film last lesson and begain to do a tiny but of editing but more filming is needed

:)

Jordan :) x

Greetings

We have planned to start filming on Monday, probably in a break or lunch as to get the shots we need, the canteen needs to be full of a variety of cliques.
for example,
emos -
Chavs -
Skaters -
and geeks -

hopefully we will be able to include these in our shots providing the canteen is full of life :)

we will update on monday

Jordan :) x

Wednesday February 10th

As Wednesday is our long session we were going to start filming the very beginning of our film, which is a POV shot walking through the college that we are going to speed up during editing.
However, as it is last lesson, the canteen is deserted so we couldn't film as we need a crowd. We've decided to start filming on friday morning so the canteen hopefully won't be empty :)
But that means that now we have nothing to do, so we're going to do some more work on the script to develop the content from 45 seconds to the minute and a half that we need.
Although we're annoyed that we can't start filming today this means that when we do start filming we'll be better organised and the script won't need to be padded out at a later date :)

Also, last lesson we narrowed down a few of our possible song choices to;
Lily Allen - Back to the start
Tilly and the wall - Pot Kettle Black
Marina and the Diamonds - Hollywood

Becca xxx

Our first week (planning)

We started our first week by planning our opening scene. We decided our plot, title and basis of our film on the Wednesday lesson and decided to film our opening shot on the Friday. Due to unforseen obstacles, we could not start filming Friday as planned.

For our project we got our inspiration from "mean girls" and "90210." We want to create a British version of the the typical American bitchy chick flick.
To make it more modern we decided on a sophisticated costume with a black and grey colour theme for the main charactars. Simalar to St Trinians but without the uniform style.

We decided that our film will be narrated by a voiceover that we wrote in wednesdays lesson.
However we recorded it and discovered it is only 45 seconds long, so more content will have to be added to make it last at least 90 seconds.

Throughout our opening sequence and titles we are going to have a pop/punk song playing, although we haven't decided what that will be yet.

I feel that we have had a productive week of planning as now everything is sorted out and organised for us to hopefully start filming in Wednesdays session.
:) Becca and Emma xxx

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