Lesson 2: Me and my partner filmed the rest of our opening sequence ( shots 8a, 8b, 18-28), because the weather was changing during the weekend and for continuity reasons could not film. Instead we quickly filmed from break to lunch time, as well as using the media lesson time which was inbetween. We finished filming everything!
Lesson 3: Today my partner and i uploaded all the footage, while it was importing, we completed all our graphics of our production companies, except the one credit (our production company) 'Milk Films Production'. Once the footage was off the memory card and onto iMovie, we started to watch all our clips and decided which shots we would use, at the same time we were discussing whether the shot was framed correctly, if the camera language was good, if we had a good range of shots and lastly what the shots itself connoted and what we wanted to portray to the audience, as we wanted each shot to have a deep meaning. Once we had our chosen shots, we put them in order of which they were to be seen and to guide us we used the shooting script.
Lesson 4: This lesson consisted of starting with the actual editing. Me and my partner, started to look at each shot and cut them to what we thought was relevant in terms of what is shown and how long it lasts on the screen, since every shot had to have a meaning that would engage the audience and raise enigma codes, as well as setting up themes etc. The full length of the opening sequence was around 5 mins, but quickly we got it down to 2 mins exactly, which reaches the expectations of the brief. We then watched our sequence back and made further changes, the biggest of changes was actually taking out shots 24-28 as even though it sounded like a good idea on paper, visually the shots we felt gave a bit away of our narrative but instead we wanted to leave the audience with questions. Moreover, we also felt it just dragged on and bought no relevance to the themes we wanted to set up etc.
What have been the key issues for your production and post-production this week?
One key issue in production stage was just trying to get the filming done, so we had plenty of time to edit before the draft deadline. So due to continuity reasons in the past we could not film on the weekend like we planned, and our the actress that plays Leah does not go to our school, therefore we had to find a time that meant we were all available at the same time. This was difficult as the only day she is free is Wednesdays during school time and this obviously clashes with me and my partner as we go to full time school.
There were not any issues in post production, everything went smoothly and we did not need to re shoot anything as we made sure in the production stage that we had a variety of shots, for instance, we shot one piece of action from different angles and shot types, so that we did not have the issue of continuity just in case we need to re shoot the shot. This technique of ours came in handy because when we visually saw the same action but filmed different, in most cases they looked better then what we said we would use in our shooting script, for example in our shooting script we specifically stated that we would use the movement of a pan for the establishing shot of the flats. However, when filming we did the establishing shot with the pan and then an establishing shot static. So when the sequence was roughly put together, it came to our attention that it just did not look right as a pan, since we were trying to achieve a smash mouth opening and the pan was restricting the technique we wanted to portray, therefore we replaced it with the static shot and reduced the duration, as well as placing the establishing shot before shot 18 ( see shooting script - http://kalkidanbrook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/shooting-script.html) as well felt it had more meaning, as it portrayed the theme of poverty and shows the audience what Leah is striving to escape from. Making this change meant it lived up to the expectations of a smash mouth opening, as the narrative jumps straight into the action, grabs the audiences attention, raises enigma codes like who is she? why is she packing? and this is what me and my partner wanted to achieve.
What decisions did you make about the issues and why?
The key issue in the production stage was resolved as me and my partner realised out media lesson was positioned between break and lunch, therefore meaning we could film from 11:40 to 2:00 and also Amber Quadling who plays Leah was available at that time. We presented out thoughts to our media teacher and he gave us the permission to shoot the rest of our remaining shots.
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