Editing day 6 and final product

This is our end product. Today we showed the group members that were unavailable last night  the changes we made and discussed them. We then made some last minute changes and added in what we felt we needed, we also ensured that our shots were consistent and all in the correct aspect ratio before uploading to the schools youtube channel.

Editing day 5

Today, we worked in lesson and again after school to get the sequence finished/mostly finished. We realised that our sequence would exceed the time limit of two minutes if we included everything that we had wanted. In the end we decided to put the whole sequence together anyway so that we would be able to see what we could cut out without loosing the humour or making it seem cut off.  We decided to get rid of our party montage and also all of the flashbacks, We removed as much dialogue as we possibly could- which was not a large amount. In the end we managed to get as close to the two minute limit as was feasible. We finished the titles and sent them over to the mac with our production to add them to our sequence, we also added in the production logo that I had finished creating the night before. We added in our last minute effects and sounds/music and were fairly happy with the end result.

editing day 4

Today we began to put more of our shots together whilst some group members were working on the titles. We began placing transitions in between the shots that we were using in order to make it flow more easily, we thought that doing this now, before we'd finished piecing everything together would work as it meant that we would have more time later on to get the more important parts of the editing process completed as we would move through placing transitions faster due to having experience. We finalised the appearance of the titles by the end of the lesson but felt that they might need some type of sound effect to make them even more interesting.  Next lesson we will begin piecing together the last of our footage and placing effect over the shots as well as sorting out sound on our titles.

Editing day 3

Today we reviewed the party footage and began to integrate it into what we had by this point. After reviewing the footage and changing the brightness/contrast on a few of them in order to show some progression of time we had one group member break off and begin creating some initial ideas for the titles. In the mean time the rest of the group was still piecing together the footage we had and neatening up the sequence we had, which at the end of the lesson was still unfinished but making progress.

filming day 4 (final)

Today after school most of the group was able to meet up at Jamie's house and film the party sequence, we invited a few friends to act as extras in the background and created a space that looked like a party. I had however forgotten a few of the props so as I went home to get them, the other members of my group filmed some establishing shots of the outside of the house and people arriving for the party. Upon arriving with the props we had lost a few extras but were still able to film. We got the shots that we needed and were happy with our progress overall.

Editing day 1

Today, my group began our editing of our final sequence. We decided that the first thing to do would be to review our footage and decide which shots we thought were the best. We then chose to begin deciding on the order our shots would be in and found that in general the shot order matched the storyboards. We were only able to organise a rough order for our shots as we still didn't have the party sequence filmed we also decided to leave creating title and sorting out the music/sounds/effects until another lesson when we would have more time to create the titles and add sound. (This would all happen at the very end of creating our sequence)

Filming day 3

Today, my group went through the same prepatory processes as we had in our previous day of filming, we gathered equipment, organised the time off from form with our tutors, and met at our location, unlike last time the weather was fine for filming. We managed to re-film particular shots that we decided hadn't worked particularly well, such as the reaction shots to the props. We were then able to film our conversation a total of 3-6 times, 3 for each character. As a group we took turns at filming, and the actors would film the small parts that they didn't appear in. Overall today has been successful and we will be using our time next lesson to begin our edit, while we arrange the best time for filming the party sequence (the only section we have left to film)

Filming day 2

Today, my group gathered our props equipment and costume and decided to meet at our location before school, we organised this with each of our form tutors and were able to get to our location with plenty of time. However upon arrival we found that rain would be an issue, we thought that we might be able to work around it by keeping the camera/equipment dry using an umbrella and trying to get the work done as quickly as we could. However we found on reviewing our test footage that the noise of the rain was too loud and as such we returned to school and instead planned out more thoroughly what we would be doing during our next lesson/next filming attempt.

Reflection- 23rd January

So today we began our filming for the opening sequence we intend to create, we used periods three and four after gaining permission for group members to miss out on their single period enrichment lesson. We encountered a few minor setbacks when filming. Firstly we got to our main location for filming with minimal problems, however upon arriving we realised that our camera had very little battery and we wouldn't be able to film, so we sent one member of our group (Ryan) back in order to get another camera and in the mean time began to set up for our filming and waited for  Ryan to return. Upon his return we managed to film what I deem the most difficult part (Ryan's fall from the tree) In all I'm quite happy with what we managed in what turned out to be only am hour of filming. We intend to go out tomorrow during our media lesson and continue filming.