We all met up outisde Fleet Building on Wednesday 10th March and Sarah drove us to her house. Once we got there we set the camera up ready for our first shot and put the props in places they needed to be. As i missed the filming of the preliminary exercise i was looking forward to the main exercise filming to see what new things i could learn. Naomi was the camera operator so she filmed all the scenes, even though she was filming we all had our input to say if it didn't look right, we crossed the 18o degree rule or if the actor was to close to the edge of the frame. I think it was good that we all worked as a team and said if something wasn't right because it would make the final outcome stronger.
Once we started editing it all started to come together, the filming we had done looked good. We took a couple of shots for each scene, picked the best one to use and then put it in the right order. We noted down how many shots we took so we could make a paper edit to show how many shots we took and in what order it goes in. We cut the scenes down quite short because we wanted it to be quick and flow right with the other scenes we were going to film. Then we added the music, the song was very upbeat and it fit in really well with the whole 'chick flick' genre. Whilst editing we noticed that our shots with diegetic titiles weren't on the screen long enough to read for our audience, so we decided to take a still of it on 'Windows Movie Maker', saved it then put it back into our whole clip so it stays on the screen for longer and is able to be read.
We met outside Fleet Building again on Wednesday 17th March to film at our second location. Andy wasn't there for our filming, but it didn't affect the rest of the group or the filming. We had abit of trouble with the camera at the start of the first shot, but then got it sorted. When we got back to college we showed Lee our footage and he said it looked a little dark. The lighting wasn't right because in 'girlie' films it's normally bright and colourful, we said that we wanted to show the differences between the two girls though so it wasn't really a problem. We used the same actor because we decided that if the film was carried on they would end up knowing they were twins but very opposite. We also made a paper edit for Wednesday 17th March to see how many shots we took and in what order.
We started to edit but Andy the editor wasn't here so we all helped with it. We cut from the first location to the second location on each scene which looks like two girls getting ready in the morning. We found out later on that we wasn't allowed to use any music because of the copyright. We had music throughout the whole clip so needed it to find someone to do it for us or we was allowed to pay for the song. Naomi knows someone who writes music and she asked him if he would be able to do us a music piece similar to what we had before and he agreed to do it for us. We carried on editing even though the music was an issue. Lee looked at it and said it just needed tightening up so it would flow better. We just need to tighten it now and add text for the title of the film which is going to be 'Matching Opposites' because their twins but don't know it and have very different lives.
Today we found out we could use our original track we decided on from a soundtrack from the library. We had to include track information such as name of producer, name of composer, track number and how much of the track we are using. We had decided to stick to using our track because the lyrics fit really well to our sequence. We tightened up our clip today, we cut the shots down shorter and it flows a lot better now. Tomorrow we just need to add our title of the film to our clip, make sure all our paper work is in our folder and up onto google documents. We couldn't do what we planned to do because the computer system was down. We all decided to do our blogs and finish off what we needed to do in half term or when we came back after half term because we didn't have much more to do.
After we came back after half term all we had to do was add the titles to our film. We used 'Adobe Premiere Pro' which is easier for adding the titles. We put the title at the end of the clip but you couldn't really see it because of the lighting, so we moved it to the start of the clip and we all preferred it there. Whilst Sarah was adding the titles i went and got the music information for our soundtrack and put it up onto Google Documents. The lesson after that we wanted to finalise our film and make sure everything was right. We noticed that the titles didn't go in the right order because the first ones would normally be 'starring' or produced by', but couldn't do anything about it because our titles are diegetic. We showed Lee our film and he said it looked more like a music video because we only had one bit of diegetic sound at the end of the clip, we decided to add more diegetic sound throughout and it was a lot better.
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