Final Piece

Editing

We decided to put our credits over the home video at the end and just have them appear on screen in random places. We tried to get them appearing all over the screen but i only managed to get them to appear at the bottem like a subtitle but all together i think it looked very good. At the end of the opening sequence we had the title 'Charlie's Story' appear over a black screen which finished it off nicely.

Editing

At the end we wanted to put an effect on to make it look as if it was a home video. We originally wanted to put a recording screen over the top of the footage to make it look as if it was recording but on iMovie there was a very good aged film effect which we both liked and so decided to put that over it instead and personally i think it looks more effective.

Editing

After everything was in the right order we wanted to add transactions between cuts eg. fades and wipes. This again was easier then i imagined as all we had to do was drag which ever transaction we wanted into where we wanted it in the time line. These made a big difference to our flash back as it made it more obvious and more interesting for the audience.

Show Case

This was our first working model of our opening sequence. We still had a lot of work to do before our film was finished but this gave everyone a rough idea of how our film was going to look. We showed this to the class to get some audience feed back to our work. The feed back we got back was very helpfull and gave a few ideas to make sure our film was the best we could make it. From doing this it made us realise how much work we needed to do to make sure the narritve was clear and to make it look like an actual opening sequence. Because i know what the film is about i understand it but as we found out from our audiences replies, it was not made clear enough. Also we need to add a voice over which helps explain the narrative, a sound track to set the mood of the film and a flash back which she has every morning of the night when Charlie dies.

Problems During Filming

We had started our filming with Harriot and James as the main characters. But when we next planned to film our media work James was very ill and was unable to come and film so we had to completely change our film from being a story of a wife who'd lost their husband, we made it a sister who had lost their big sister. This did not make many changed to our film apart from the dialogue had to me different and also the voice over. Once we had filmed our new footage we realised the lighting was better then our old fottage anyway so overall it was probably a good thing that this happed now rather then when we were nearly finished.

Editing

Apart from the preliminary exercise i had never used iMovie or any other editing station before so at first i was very slow. We did get shown how to edit our footage but we got shown how to on Final Cut but because of lack of equipment at school, we were unable to use this. After i was shown how to cut parts of the footage out and move them around it was very easy so i was able to get a rough idea of the order i wanted the clips in.

Problems During Filming

We filmed most of footage but when we uploaded it onto the computer so we could edit it, the lighting was very dark and we could not use this. We also had a bit of trouble at the beginning of the with our group as we split off into a different group which has made us rushed for time. We are planning to film all of our footage this weekend so we will be ready to edit next week and will have out opening sequence done for the dealine.

Context

Our film is about a girl whos sister was murderd and taken from her but she still wakes up everyday imagining her there. She remebers the night it happened every day and she is looking to find the reason in which she was killed. She is determinded to find the killer of her sister and find out the reasons for doing it.

Response to Idea

I really like our idea of an opening sequence of a film. I think that its believable as an opening sequence and i can imaging the film being real. I have liked the idea right the way through and with both of our ideas we have produced a very good opening sequence. I think it was a good target audience to pick as it is aimed at people our age so we knew what we would like to see in a film. Also, both of us are interested in these sort of films anyway so it made it more enjoyable to create and make it.

Inspiration

Our main inspiration for our opening sequence was 'P.S. I Love You' as in that film the woman looses her husband but still imagines him with her and we got that idea from that film.We chose this film for our inspiration as it is a very good film and the target audience is the same as ours and also a similar genre. The story line of our film is completely different and it is less of a romantic and more of a drama but still a tear jerker film.

Initial Idea for Group

My first idea for out opening sequence was to do a chick-flick with 4 completely different girls who all get put together for an assignment at school. i really liked this idea but when it came to it, it wouldn't have worked as there were only two of us in our group and we would have had to rely on so many people to get it done and we didn't want to risk it.

Then we came up with the idea of doing a sad film. We had the idea of doing a boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife laying together in bed but the audience would not no the boyfriend/husband was dead and it was just the girl imagining him there in her hear every morning. But due to certain circumstances we had to change this idea to having a girl who lost her sister.

How Planned Opening Fits With Research

We looked at alot of opening sequences to try and get a bit more information about the codes and conventions. We noticed that almost all of the opening sequences start with and establishing shot that either pans or zooms. We also started our opening sequence of a pan of the charater Lucy's room as this is where the film starts. Also, they normally start with a sound strack or song over the top to give the audience an idea of the mood of the film. Again, we chose to put a classical sad soundtrack over our opening sequence to make the audience wonder why the character is sad which makes them want to watch on. The flash back in our story makes the narrative more exciting as it is not the classical way to start a film but this makes our opeining sequence more interesting. The main way our opening sequence fits with others is having a voice over, this gives the audience all the information they need to know and gets them more intersted into the film.

Planning Disscusion

Genre - Comedy
          - Horror
          - Chick Flick
          - Romance
          - Drama
          - Sci Fi

Audience - Teen
               - Children
               - OAP's
               - Male
               - Female