Editing and our first draft

Today in our lesson we uploaded all of our new footage onto the macs to look at what we had and what we still needed. So far we have only really filmed some parts for our flashbacks but we decided to put them together to see what they look like and see if we liked them.
We started off by putting a long clip of when we were driving in the car onto imovie and speeding it up. We also put the clip into black and white because we want to have all of the flashbacks in black and white and then the person waking up in colour to show the time difference. This is simlilar to what happened in Casino Royale when all of the scenes before the opening credits were in black and white to show that it was from the past and then after the credits it went back to colour to show it was then present day.
After speeding up the clip of Enfield Town through the car window, we then started putting random very short clips of other things we filmed all the way through the car scene to break it up. We started off with the traffic lights turning from red to green but as the clips are all in black and white we are hoping to find a way that we can make the background black and white but make the colours from the traffic lights stand out.
After adding a couple of other shots into it we decided our shots were too long still so we started adding more and more in until the whole thing was very fast paced and choppy.
Some of the shots we added were:
* A person's eyes in the mirror of the car
* Sarah running into the phonebox
* The public footpath sign
* Sarah's point of view running through the field
* A point of view shot of someone walking through branches
* A close up of the steering wheel
* A close up of the radio and a hand changing the station
* A low angled shot looking up at the sky when a flock of birds flew over
* Me running over the camera into the distance
* Sarah from above in the phone box
* Some different people just walking through the street that we filmed from the car windows

This is our very first draft of our new film:



Our group was really pleased with this draft and I am already enjoying this film a lot more than our original. We need to film a bit more footage, including when the character actualyl wakes up which we are planning to do one day next week after school as we were unable to all make it on Wednesday.

First day of filming our second film

Yesterday after school our group met up to start filming for our new two minute opening. As the lighting was not what we wanted for the part of the character waking up, we decided to film the shots that we wanted to put together for our flash backs. We wanted just short random shots to put together in a snappy way just to give a background of what the character was doing the day before to show the lead up of why they are waking up in a forest.
We were driving in a car and decided to film our journey around town and other roads through the front, side and back windows which we can speed up on imovie and hopefully create a good effect. Also, although this shot was in daylight we are going to do it again when its dark so we can play around with all the lights from shops and houses and put the two different clips together. As we stopped at traffic lights we also thought it would be a good shot if we filmed the traffic lights changing from red to green.
Whilst we were driving we passed a phonebox which we thought would look good for another one of our clips so we filmed Sarah running from behind the camera into the phonebox looking stressed and desperate and typing in a number.

We then did the same shot but from a different angle across the road so we can cut up the clip. We then moved the camera to inside the phonebox and filmed Sarah frantically dialling numbers from underneath and again from above.
As we were filming this we spotted that one of the street lights was flickering so thought that would be an interesting shot to fit into our flashbacks, unfortunatly just as we set the camera up the light stopped flickering but we still decided to film the light just incase it looked good when edited into the flashbacks.
We then went into Hillyfields to complete a few more shots. First we had Sarah running and holding the camera so it is a point of view of her running through a field and then we placed the camera on the ground at a slanted angle to give the effect that the camera had been dropped. I then ran over the camera and into the distance so you can only see my legs running away.

I really enojoyed filming these shots and hope that hope that they look good when we upload them onto the macs and start editing.
We're going to have another filming day tomorrow when we can film our character waking up in the forest and maybe some more of our flashbacks.

Filming schedual

We have decided on different filming times which are suitable for our whole group.
As we now have the camera for 2 weeks we had to think about a few different days that we can all attend where we can film all of our footage.

We have decided that on Monday after school we will start to film some of our flashbacks as the lighting will just be starting to get dark and will look eery and effective.
Some ideas for our flashbacks are:
* Shadows of different people in alley ways and on walls
* Different points of view of somebody running, from behind and from the person running's point of view
* The camera left on the floor with grass in focus and a girl running past the camera slightyly out of focus and falling over
* A clock which we can film for a whole hour, or a couple of hours and then speed it up to represent the time through the day
* Different home video clips, for example someone filming their friend talking to the camera
* Shots of a person coming out from different buildings and places

All of these shots will show the persons day and what they did, leading up to them waking up in the forest.


Next Wednesday is another day our group has agreed to film as we have an academic review day at school, meaning we are only going in for 10 minutes at a time. This will mean we can film the shots of the person laying in the forest during the day in daylight.
On Friday's lesson we have also been told that we have the morning to edit, so for our group we thought this would be a good oppertunity to upload what we film over the previous days, see if there is anything we are missing and if so, finish off some of our filming.

Our new film idea - final

Over the Christmas holidays and the new year our group has been carefully thinking about our new film idea and have almost finalised the ideas for it. We recieved the cameras today and have been allocated them for just 2 weeks before we must hand them back and finally start to edit. We have also completed a storyboard for this new idea which I will upload a photo of shortly.

Our final film idea is:
* We will have a person (most probably one of our group members) laying asleep in a part of a forest we found at Forty Hall and thought looked effective
* The person will have flashbacks of the day before which will start to explain why they are asleep in this random place
* The person will then wake up and we will see their confused and bewildered expression of why they are there

The camera shots we aim to use are:
* A close up pan of the body on the floor so the audience can see the person is asleep but can not see their location
* Close up and extreme close ups of the person and different body parts such as their hands and feet twitching to show they are asleep or dreaming
* A zoom into their eyes just before the start of the flashbacks to let the audience know they are about to see their dream
* A range of different camera angles including wide, medium, long, low angled and high angled for different parts of the flash backs
* A zoom back out from their eyes to show they are coming out of the dream and shows their eyes opening
* A series of 3 shots getting wider and wider out, keeping the person in the middle of the shot to show their location and to represent their realisation of where they have just woken up

We also discussed the idea of having the flash backs in black and white or some kind of other effect whilst keeping the actual sleeping person in colour to represent the difference in time and to show it is a dream. We have decided to film it all in colour though and edit it in imovie so we have a variety of options when editing.

We feel that this will be a better film opening than our first idea and think it will look effective. It will also be more of a film opening than a mini 2 minute film which is what we did before as we concluded our story.