Today we filmed the last bit of footage for our film opening. After planning the shots that we wanted to do and grouping together some of our friends as extras, I got into costume (bearing in mind continuity) and we headed off to the bus stop. We managed to get some great shots so a big thank you to everyone who helped.

Charlotte imported the footage during break and I edited it, adding the new footage to the rest of our film opening. After roughly piecing together all the footage I had to extract the audio from different clips to get the sound of the traffic the same throughout so that it doesn't chop and change in every different shot. However I had to choose carefully which audio to place over the footage to make sure that the sound of the cars driving past is not heard when there are in fact no cars driving past. That would have looked really odd, however it all still needs a bit of adjusting. When editing I really liked the idea of having the end piece of music move with my feet right at the end, and when I tried it, it worked out really well. The only problem now is that our film has gone over the time limit so I'm a bit unsure about what we are going to do.

Here is our sixth draft...

Here is our fourth draft with all the new footage. I've roughly put it all the clips together and put the music in over the top however the sounds still need to be adjusted and the music needs to be edited in places. This should then make sure that the song lasts until the end of our film opening. We also obviously have to write in the actual credits and also put our production company animation which we have made in at the beginning.

When editing we had to delete some original footage as we have gone over 2 minutes and we also decided to keep the snorricam footage minimum which seemed to look more effective.

In todays lesson we managed to add in our bumble bee animation to our film opening as well as placing a bumble bee sound effect over the clip which we downloaded and converted from Youtube.

We also added in the credits using a similar order to the film opening of Mean Girls so that our work is of a professional standard. We also used similar transitions and font styles to Mean Girls so that the style of our film opening matches our genre of a chick flick comedy. We then made the decision of deleting the bus scene footage as we felt that all the new footage was a lot better making the old footage look less successful.

Everything seems to be coming together. We will hopefully be shooting one last scene at a bus stop on friday afternoon to avoid finishing our film with me walking off down the road as it seemed like too much of an ending. But other than that we are almost done!

Here is our fifth draft with all the new stuff we added in today...

Recently we've been doing lots of editing on our film opening, putting all the new footage from Saturday together.

Here is our third draft before we added the new footage to it obviously makes no sense however it shows all the bits which we have re filmed.

Here's our second draft.



We spent Monday's lesson piecing together the rest of our film opening. Now that we have most of the shots put together we can start to look at things in more detail like audio and the credits. We are most likely going to have to shoot some more footage perhaps using a snorricam, which will be a good effect to use when I get out of bed, showing that I am still half asleep. As a group we discussed this idea, we would really like to try it, however we are worried about continuity, getting my hair and makeup the same, which will be difficult. Also we have to think about how we would make the snorricam, which we are hoping to do as a class. If I think of any idea's I'll post them on here.

A SnorriCam (also chestcam, bodymount camera, bodycam or bodymount) is a camera device used in film making that is rigged to the body of the actor, facing the actor directly, so when he walks, he does not appear to move, but everything around him does. A SnorriCam presents a dynamic point of view from the actor's perspective, providing an unusual sense of vertigo for the viewer.



Here are some pictures to help us think of ways to build one, although we wont be able to make anything quite as technical.

This one (above) looks quite strange however it is something more along the lines of what we are capable of making.

Our day of filming over the half term..

Our day of filming was extremely long and tiring. We found continuity quite difficult and complicated. We decided not to film our opening in order because we knew some shots would need more time than others. We also wanted to wait for some sunshine for the outdoor shots which we luckily managed to get. Another reason was because for the shot when I wake up in the morning I'm suppose to have back-combed hair and smudged make up, therefore we left this till last in order to avoid wasting time trying to re-do my makeup and fix my hair.

Picture of me in my pyjamas, big messy hair and smudged mascara under my eyes..this was my costume for one of our shots..

We had some difficult shots to do for example the shot of the alarm clock flying out of the window. Obviously the only way to do this was by actually throwing it out of the window, however we had to avoid it getting broken so Valentina and Alice stood outside with a blanket ready to catch it, while Charlotte threw it and I filmed it.

Here is a video me and Charlotte made on imovie showing us practicing throwing lots of  different objects out of the window before attempting doing it with the clock.

Also the shot of Charlotte lying outside on the ground after being hit with the alarm clock was difficult as we had to make sure that she stayed in the same position for the sake of continuity. This meant that we had to film all the shots of her on the ground in one go leaving her lying in the same position for around 15 minutes.

As a group we made some unexpected decisions on the spot, for example at one point we asked a dustbin man to be in one of our shots. Luckily he was quite happy to join in and take part..thank you dustbin man! As a group whilst filming, lots of different ideas seemed to just come to us. We even at one point decided to put the camera into the fridge to film my hand accidentally taking out the orange juice instead of the milk. We liked the fact that there was darkness when eventually the fridge door closed, perhaps a space for us to put the title of our film opening or some credits.

Filming on the bus was also challenging. Unfortunately we were unable to use Valentina's dads bus meaning that the bus driver wasn't as nice as we'd hoped. However we still managed to do what we had to do, as luckily there were no passengers seated on the top floor of the bus. Keeping the camera steady was very difficult to do on the bus and so we decided to use the small gorilla tripod which we wrapped around the bar of one of the seats. This meant that the camera movement went with the suspension of the bus, which we thought added to the realism of the film. Acting wise, it was very difficult to keep a straight face for one of our last shots, however after a whole journey from Enfield Town to Brimsdown we managed to get at least one good shot. Also for one of our long distant shots we filmed from across the road, the bus driver thought it would be funny to wave at the camera and so this ruined our shot. Hopefully we'll be able to somehow edit the shot cropping that bit out.

We used lots of different types of shots, over head, under head, close ups, long distant shots etc. Although it was a very long day, filming from 10 am to 6pm, it was still really fun and a great experience. I think we worked really well as a group despite some slight disasters (leaving the tripod clip that connects the camera to the tripod on the bus). Considering we've never done anything like this before I think overall we did amazingly well.

After a hard days work..