EVALUATION 8: What targets will you set yourself for G324- When making trailers?

Targets in which I will set myself for next year's course (G324), is that I would use a tripod when filming, as this will help me to stabilize the footage, and will improve the quality of the footage, which will make it look more professional. Using a tripod would allow to edit the film or trailer for next year, as the footage will be better , and it would be still and the quality of it will show a clear meaning with each movement whilst filming.Also, by using a tripod we would be able to move it better without the footage becoming shaky and look out of focus the whole time. Also I would trial different cameras to try the quality of it and experiment with them as we didn't do that in the first place so ended with a less quality one which effected the overall quality of the footage.  

Another target that i would make is that I would make sure to complete planning and and make sure we know what we are doing before it all gets to much as I found that we were rushing to get the film made this year and that we could have made it better having given ourselves more time. However,  filming in the sixth form, we need a crowd and busy setting to create the appropriate setting and the week which we were filming was the last week of school and so we did have to rush to finish it. Also we could of filmed more before this week but our characters in the film took different subjects and so during free periods meant that filming was limited as we had to negotiate time with them as well.  Another target could be of using actors who both have time on their hands to make sure that the filming could have been done over a longer period of time allowing us to actually have the time to sit and plan each and every shot we were using before going out and filming the part of the film.

    Another target would be making sure the lighting was correct, so making sure the contrasting was right  in the camera before recording because it would allow us to not have to re-film other parts to fit in with other clips.As during filming we had areas in which which the lighting was very dark. So we could either add lighting or film somewhere the lighting was bright enough to show up on camera. We could also make sure the sound was correct in the camera before recording because we assumed that it was okay but when it came to editing, we found that the sound was much to loud and that it was hard to hear what the characters are saying. So next time we would make sure film things more than once and replay it before finalizing the footage onto the CD. Having said this, the common room was quite busy and so we wanted the background noise to make it seem like it was a busy collage setting therefore suggesting why we left it in. When adding the soundtrack music, we had to make sure it  was lower than the dialogue but in order to successfully do this, we had to lower the volume so it could barely be heard and then increase the volume of the characters speaking which made it seem like they were shouting and also the background noise in the common room was too loud.

    Next year we would make sure that the setting would be quieter and if we needed the added background noise we would add this as a voice over as it would mean we could control the volume of it, Also making sure that the voice over fitted with the relevant actions in the film or trailer.

I would personally set the target of making sure I fully understand the editing software so it does not take as long to edit our film. We found that both of us were trying to figure out how to use certain tools in the first few hours of editing that we actually lost those hours of editing, so by this we could take more of lead when it came to practicing tools. Having used Adobe Premiere Elements 10 this year, I think that when it comes to editing next year, I would know where tools are and the best layout for the editing process. I would also know how to fade sound in and out and also the appropriate transitions to use on our product which will make it  looks theatrical and the best quality it can be.

EVALUATION 7: Looking back at our preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

PRELIMINARY TASK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjvP7OfMLr4&list=UUWiH3yYi97qF-XFKRKco3iQ

 These three frames are from our preliminary task, showing different shots and angles and editing that we have used. In the first frame we see in the preliminary task we use match on action as the closeup of the door being pushed opened. This is effective as it allows the audience to continue to understand on what is going on in the scene. So that the audience can taking along with character, so they can experience the what is going at the same time. The second frame shows a medium shot, showing a conversation between the two characters, this allows the audience to find out what is going on, and allows audience to understand the story line. The last frame shows an over the shoulder shot establishing a different conversation between two other characters and it also shows the facial expressions on each character as they are talking to the other character, shown in the over the shoulder shot.

PRACTICING SHOTS

These frames have been taken from the practice shots, of a short scene that we created on the theme 'what you doing here'. The first shot shows a long shot of the character walking down the corridor. This allows the audience to to follow the character so they will feel apart of the characters experience.  The long shot also establishes the setting of the scene, and allows the audience to identify where the setting is, which is in a school, this allows the target audience to to aimed at a younger audience as they will be able to relate

The second shot shows a cut from the previous shot from walking down the corridor, then cut as the character starts to walk down the stair. The medium shot with a side angle of the character as she walks downs the stairs, allowing the character to see from a different perspective of the scene, allowing the audience to be apart of the journey of the character. It also allows the audience to continues to following the character.

The high angle has been shown of the characters walking down the stairs. This allows the audience allows to get another perspective of the character and allows them to be a part of the scene as they will continue to follow the character. Usually a high angle shout would used to portray the character as powerless and seem vulnerable towards the audience, if put in appropriate context in terms of setting, mood and what effect its trying to create for the scene.

A two shot has been used to establish a conversation between two characters, and allows the audience to engage in scene as the dialogue takes place and allows more information to be given to the audience, to understand better about the scene. The two shot also presents new characters to the audience, allowing them to find out more about them. It can also show the relationship between character through having a two shot.

Peer assessment and Evaluation

After we presented our overview of our film we show them our opening tow minutes and afterwards got some feedback on what they thought the strengths an weaknesses were of our film.

The strengths of our opening 2 minutes were from the feedback:

- We were able to meet the conventions of a romance film, as the audience were able to easily identify the genre of the film, for example the slow music going over the top, and the two protagonist looking at each other occasionally. I would agree with this feedback as we tried to stay with the conventions of a romance film so it makes it easier for the audience to find out what type of genre the film is and so being able to identify this would allow them to build certain expectations on what should happen in the film, so having the calming music allows to creates a calm atmosphere which allows to show bit of personality of the protagonist

-  The camera was professional and said that that there wasn't  much jump cutting, however I would disagree as there were a few jump cuts in the middle of the opening scene. But this is from someone's perspective.

- The cutting from going up the stairs and shown in a high angle where the two characters come up the second set of stairs.

- Liked the fact that the camera followed the female protagonist as it allows the audience to follow along with her and her experiences and her journey. I would agree with this as our aim was that the camera should follow the female protagonist as it will allow the audience to be apart of film and go along and get to know the female protagonist, as she will be someone to focus on throughout the film.

- The setting suited well with the film. I would agree with this as we decided to have a school/college setting, a this will attract a younger audience, and they would also be able to relate to some of the thing that happen in the opening.

- Over the shoulder shots, showing her perspective of what is going on, allowing the audience to see in the same perspective as the main character.

- Introducing the main character at the beginning and she has been portrayed as a innocent and would appeal to younger audience who are starting school or college and would be able to relate.

The weakness of our opening scene were from the feedback:

- That there should be more of a conversation or have a moment in which shows the glance between the two characters. Taking this advise to improve we could have more of a conversation between the main character to establish there meeting.

- That we should should of used a tripod to avoid shaking whilst filming, and that could increase the quality of the film.

-  Have more of a wider variety of camera shots such as closeups of the characters and longs shot of the setting.

- The background noise was very loud as the dialogue took place, so it made it difficult to hear was was being said, so we should have dipped the music background music more so that the dialogue could be heard.

Having this feedback would allows us to know what to differently for the areas of weaknesses, to improve the audience's viewing of the film.

Presentation

Here we did a presentation on how film talking about initial ideas, and about our changes in our current ideas and the reasoning behind it. We gave a short overview on what our opening is about. We also talked about the location in which we filmed and why we decided to film in these locations shown in our opening scene. Also we mentioned about our target audience and how it would appeal to them. We also mentioned about the strengths of our film as well, and some of things that we would next time.

EVALUATION 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 The things that we use to produce our film, include of:
Adobe premiere elements 10

We used Adobe premiere elements 10 to edit our film, as I have learnt how to use the program and tools, and experimenting with the software as I tried out different transitions which we have used in both the opening film and the preliminary tasks and the practice shots task, it allows us to to crop out footage, experiment with adding transitions so for example the black fade in, so putting them in different areas of the footage. Also using this software I learnt how to put titles into our film, so we experiment with different font styles as they gave us varies option on what font we should choose. Also I learnt how to add music into our film and being able to fade it in and out using this software. I have also learnt how to control the volume of the soundtrack, when we put it with the footage. so making it quieter or louder in the appropriate areas in our opening film. Also learning how to crop footage if its too long, as it has a crop tool in which allows us to control the length of each footage that we had filmed. Also when we finished editing our film, we were able to directly upload from the software onto youtube.


YouTube

YouTube is another source that I used in order to help create my film and the research and planning part of the film. This is because it gave me ideas and inspirations on what I could possible do. I also used it for looking up current film openings scenes an analysed them to find out the convention of particular genre films. Using YouTube helped me with the production setting looking up tutorials either on makeup, hair as this would give us suggested ideas how we should present our cast. or a particular editing video that would help with the editing with the film. We used YouTube to upload the preliminary task, an the practicing shot types and our opening two minutes so we were able to access it quicker on Blogger.


Adobe Photoshop CS4

I also used adobe Photoshop, which helped with cropping photos, such as the storyboard frames, This was useful as it gave the pictures which were cropped a neater frame and looks better when posted onto the blog. Also this software was useful as our production titles were created using this software, being able to create the frame in which introduces the film so 'The lost locket' frame was created on Photoshop, along with our production titles of 'Clouds Productions' was also created and used the drawing tools to create the white smudged section underneath the title. we also created the blank frame using the paint pot, giving us a selection of colors to choose from.

Microsoft word

We also used Microsoft office and PowerPoint as to create mood-boards for our chosen genre of film, as we couldn't create the mood-boards on Blogger as we had difficulty in arranging the pictures, so we put the pictures on to Microsoft word or PowerPoint and then screen shot them and put them onto Photoshop and crop them out and then save it on my computer and then uploaded it on blogger, then analysed them on blogger. Also I used this software to create the questionnaires for our my public analysis of types of films, then I uploaded that on to blogger along with the results.

EVALUATION 5: How did we attract/address our audience?

We added annotation to our opening scene, and it will shows the reasoning in which we put certain music, dialogue, talking about both the male and female protagonist, and how we how we have represented them. Also it will show how presented them to allow the audience to get a sense of idea of what the film is about and will get a sense of what the genre of the film is.

EVALUATION 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

 The target audience for our film is for teenage girls aged 12-15. so taking a stereotypical view of what the target audience would like look,in terms of who would come and watch the film. There main interests would be shopping and listening to pop or main stream music so they can keep up with the trends keep up with the trends, so having similar interests as there friends. TV program's in which they are more likely to be watching are reality TV shows, this is because they would be eager to know a lot about celebrities life. Social media is another thing in which is becoming more and more popular as it allows people to file share online, so gaining a wider audience, in promoting our film. Also by promoting our film on social media will help attract more a wider audience so more on a worldwide scale. Our audience for our film will also help promote the film, through word of mouth as this will inform be about our film. Our target target audience would most likely to watch romance, stereo typically as they are more interested as romance films can also a sense of expectations in which are shown in romance films, as they may get advise or show how a relationship should be, showing that they would build upon there expectations. They would also be able to relate to the female protagonist and her experiences maybe similar to hers, so watching the film may show how the female protagonist deals with certain situations.

EVALUATION 3:What kind of media institution might distribute our media product and why?

The production company in which our film would likely to be produced by
- Newline cinema
- Metro Goldwyn Mayer
These are owned by the distributor company Warner Brothers.
Warner Brothers is distributor company, and is an American media company. They are a vertically intergrated company who own different companies such as:
- Warner bros. interactive Entertainment 
- Warner bros Television
- Warner bros Animation 
- New line cinema
- own half of The CW television networks

A production company helps to create the film, so work in varies different areas such as budget, scheduling, scripting and choosing cast who will be appropriate for the film in terms of what roles should be in the film. The production company will also look for a suitable director, and within that they will be responsible for for any problems that may occur within the set production. 

Warner brothers would be the suitable distributor company for our film because in the past they have distributed successful romantic films such as, 'If i stay', 'The lucky one'. So choosing to distribute our film with Warner brothers will allows our film to be with a company who has already experience producing a romance films, also they would be able access a more worldwide audience, when they distribute our film. 

The money or the budget would usually be given by the British film institution, as they would want to make sure they have a British film which would be released, and so they can keep up to date with having British film going, so the audience can have more updates within it, attracting more people within this specific area.

Clouds production is the the title that we choose for our film production company. We choose it to be a British production company instead of an American company as this would change the genre and how they display it, so this would make it change in perspective of how the audience would see this and there interpretation would different,so having a British production company can allow to fit within the story line and the audience would be able to relate. its important that we have a British production company , as this will help to keep it alive and still noticeable as it can get drowned by huge American Blockbusters, so making sure that its still running and is noticeable.  

EVALUATION 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Similarities

The similarities between these two frames in terms of representation is that Leola from our opening scene has been represented as innocent as she she is shown as she enters into her new school, also Mia from 'if i stay' has been represented as naive as her facial expressions is shown through this. It also shows her as she is talking to them. The close up used in both these shots shows that the audience can relate and relate to go through the same experience as them. In our opening scene we have a voice over which complements what the female protagonist is doing and gives the audience an insight. The two female protagonists have been represented as young which would appeal to a more younger teenage audience as these are stereotypical convention of teenagers can relates to the experience school life and things which they will undergo, so making friends, going to lessons. The recognizable setting is also another similar feature as the setting will allow to show the audience to be familiar with the location in which the film has been set in. This would attract a young teenage audience because they would be able to relate to the scene and be able to reflect toward it to there own lives. The roles in which both female protagonist will play will be similar, as it they both romance films and will be expected to be shown with the male protagonist. In our opening we have shown an introduction of the male protagonist, who will then notice the female protagonist, and will start to create enigma codes for the audience about there relationship. The film 'if i stay' shows that both the male and female protagonists will meet in school, and will develop a relationship during the film. This adheres to the conventions to a romance film as the both male and female protagonist will meet and will show how they come together. This allows the audience to find out more about both these relationships and how they come together. 

Differences

The differences between these to characters is the costume of both these female protagonists, Mia from 'if i stay' is wearing a dark blue top with a burgundy red cardigan, this represent her personality and also gives the audience a sense of what she could be like, like as it shows that she seems innocent and relaxed as she is having a conversation. However our female protagonist costume is shown as Leola wearing a coat, in the medium shot shown in the frame. This shows the audience the female protagonist hidden personality, which they will have to watch the film in order to find out more about her and what she is like.

Reading of our film/ Directors commentary

 READING OF OUR FILM

We introduce the opening to the locket by the production credit, which was called 'cloud productions'. It was then complimented by G321 FILM as the secondary title, which was the image of an old camera from black and white fading into colour. We then added paired titles to introduce the film; with this it shows production credit showing the audience on who was involved in the production of the film. Whilst the production credits are shown, the non diegetic sound also starts to play. We have decided to use the acoustic guitar, as it allows the audience to identify the genre of the film being a romance film, so this would be conventional toward what they would usually expect from a romance film. To introduce the titles of the film we faded them in and out for about 2-3 second, as this would allow the audience to identify the main characters of the film and who else has been involved in the film. The non-diegetic sound continues to play throughout the opening and then the audience are introduced the title of the film ' The lost locket', The font used to create the Caslon bold italics in the size 54, We thought this would a suitable size for this frame as this would allow audience to identify what the film is called. The colour red which has been used for the word 'locket' leaves an enigma code for the audience, as this will be an important feature in which the audience will have to focus on as this will a feature in which will be involved the protagonists relationship. The words "The Lost" has been shown in the colour white in bold, as this would represent calm and innocence's which would reflect on the main prop which will be significant within the film. The title then fades out into introducing the opening scene.

The opening scene begins with a the long shot of the female protagonist entering in to the pathway, this allows the audience to get an glimpse of what the female protagonist is like shown through her appearance and costume and presents herself, giving the audience sense of what the female protagonist is like, so with the coat is allows to show the audience that she has a hidden personality in which may be reveal throughout the film, which is then followed by an over the shoulder shot, however the female protagonist the walks away from the camera, We have used this as it starts to shows some of the protagonist personality, of not being overly attached, and allows the audience to get involved with the film, so as the female protagonist walks away from the audience, showing that she doesn't really want to get too attached. Then another long shot is shown of the protagonist as walks toward the camera, this shows that camera tries to get back in contact with the protagonist and find out more about her, the non diegetic sound fades out as the voice over is introduced. The voice over introduces the protagonist and starts to give an overview of what she is like and gives a background of her past. This allows the audience to find out more about the protagonist and her background. A small introduction is shown of the male protagonist as he looks over the road toward the female protagonist and the female protagonist does it as well. This leaves an enigma code for the audience as it start to show connections towards other characters in the film. Alongside the voice over the female protagonist continues her journey to college, we then cut to shot where the female protagonist signs into college, and this is shown through a close up shot of her signing in, allowing the audience to relate to the film as they will have experienced doing this thing when they come in to school. The medium shot of the female protagonist looking at the display boards allows to show the audience how she tries to show interest in the school as she is new will try to find out as much as possible as doesn't know that much about the school. The voice over starts to fade out and brings back the non diegetic sound of the acoustic guitar creating a calming atmosphere and portrays the female protagonist as innocent along with her costume of her coat allows to show that she is nervous and shy showing that she has a hidden personality as she starts a new school, the audience would be able to relate to this, as they may have experienced this before. As the non diegetic sound continues to play we are shown a close up of the female protagonist looking directly at the audience making them feel apart of the film as she takes them along with her on her journey to college. 

We then cut to the common room as the female protagonist enters, complementing with a long shot showing the location of the common room. The audience would be familiar with the setting as they may have experienced it before, so they will be able to relate to the protagonist as she enters this location. Along shot has been shown as the female protagonist makes her way to sit down on a table on her own, this allows the audience to continue to understand what is going from a different perspective. Then we cut to a table where its shows a group of people talking, allowing the audience to be introduced to new characters in the film. We then see a medium shot of the new character who will make friends with the female protagonist and will take her along with her and show her around the school. The non diegetic sound fades out and the dialogue starts between the friend and the female protagonist. However the background music is too loud making it difficult for the audience to hear what is being said. Then the two characters come out of the common room and the camera follows them out, this allows audience to follow with them so they can be apart of experience as well. We then have them going up the stairs and the cut to a high angle of them coming up the second set of stairs so it shows that the audience understand what is going as they follow them. Match action takes place as friends opens the door and we get a close up of the hand pushing the door open. The audience would be able to continue with understanding with what is going on. Then as the medium shot shows the two characters entering into the room, there is a slight jump cut as the friend invites her to come over and sit with her and so the female protagonist joins her. We then cut to show an introduction of the male protagonist as he enters the room takes a few glimpse at the female protagonist, and the female protagonist does the same and we are shown by the cut in the scene. This meets the conventions of a romance film as it starts to show the connections between these two characters, and leaves an enigma code for the audience so that they can continue to watch the film to find out what will happen between these two characters. A two shot has been shown as the friend and the female protagonist start to talk about the guy and the female protagonist take interest in him buy asking about him.


DIRECTORS COMMENTARY

We based our directors commentary on our reading of the film, however we shortened it to make it more of an overview of the film, as it would go on for too long, The commentary will include some of the features that we have included in our film and talk about the story line briefly. So what we did is that we took turns in talking about a feature, then after we would upload it onto computer. Then we brought up our film and deleted the audio, music and voice over and replaced it with our commentary.

EVALUATION 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The first frame shows the title of the film. we placed the title on the bottom left corner. we used white for the first two words, "The lost" This connotes innocence and purity, This gives the audience an insight on into what the film could be about as the the colours may represent the loss of a crop, which will be important within the film. We decided to make the first two word in bold as this will symbolize the female protagonist's innocence, This would conform to the stereo types of romance films as it starts to reflect the emotions of the film into the titles, allowing the audience to find out more on the film and why the title has been chosen, as it relates to a certain part of the film, so the audience will have to watch the film in order find out and relate back to the film title. This would leave an enigma code for audience to find out why the locket is an important aspect of the film, and how it could relate to the genre of the film. The "locket" in red italics, connotes love and relationships, This will be an key aspect of the film as it shows that the locket will represent a relationship which will bring the two main protagonist together. This would conform to the stereotypes of romance films because the title alongside the colour which we have put with it will associate with a relationship, allowing the audience to knowing the genre of the film, because of the titles, and the font used to help the audience recognize the genre, so being able to attract the right audience. The italics which compliments the 'locket', shows importance of the prop, allowing the audience to have a focus on a particular prop, which will be shown during the film. When choosing what titles we should have looked up some titles relating to the romance genre, for example The holiday, the title is shown as two women swap homes in different countries, where they will meet guy which they will eventually fall in love with. This shows that the titles being chosen suit to the storyline of the film, so the audience can have brief idea of what it could be about. We choose to put the title on a blank shot, with black background, as this conforms to a typical introduction of the film, as the titles are presented through blank screens, allowing the audience to find out more the production on the film.

This frame shows the location and setting of the film, we had chosen to begin the opening with the female protagonist walking to school, so showing the path way in which she travel through. we had chosen this setting to open the film is that relate back to the storyline of the film, as the female protagonist is taking the audience through her journey to college. The right pan camera movement, is started with as the female protagonist is walking passed. The road shown in the long shot of her walking to college shows her journey to college. The audience would be able to relate as the target audience will consist of  teenage girls, who will have experienced there journey to college and the voice over which will complement this, will also be relatable to audience. We also used the sixth form common room, and this will make the audience familiar with the college setting and make audience make relate to the film and the event that will occur within it. The stereo types conformed in this frame is that the opening begins with the female protagonist, which shows that the main focus will be on her, as the rest of opening will consist of following the female protagonist, on her journey to college. The long shot represented through this frame allows the audience to be shown in as hidden personality, and the female protagonist costume and appearance is one of the most important part in representing her personality to the audience so they can find out a bit about how the female protagonist is presented and will allow the audience to build expectation on how the protagonist should act.

This frame shows the costume of the female protagonist, and how it shoes her personality. The female protagonist is wearing a black coat, tights along with black boots. We have chosen this outfit for her because it will allow the audience to show the female protagonist and her personality. Her personality will be shown as hidden and shy as this will show her feelings as she starts a new school, so her personality will show that she wont get attached with people as much, as this is also addressed in the voiceover. The conventions which would suit this long shot is that the opening follows the female protagonist on her journey to college, ad tracking shot is established as this allows the audience to feel apart of her journey.

 This frames shows us a close up on a side angle of the female protagonist as she looks towards the male protagonist in the opening. This adheres to the conventions of a romance film, as there is build in connection between the male and female protagonist leaving an enigma code for the audience to find out what connection there may be between these two characters. We then cut to the male protagonist who enters in in the study room and make a slight glance at the female protagonist. This shows that the conventions of the romance film has been met as we have introduced the two main protagonist and have started to create enigma codes for the audience about these two characters as it will show the audience that there is a connection between them and they would have to watch on to find out what happened in relation to there relationship.

The next frame shows some of the titles that we used to in order to to show the audience on who made the film, so including director and editor. We originally had the idea of having the titles with action during the opening so as the protagonist is walking we would introduce this then we decided to not put all the titles in the action scenes. So we created a blank background and decided to put the titles diagonal form each other. The font that we used suits the conventions of a romance film as it as the white connotes innocence which will be reflect in the opening as the it will involve relationship, alongside with white italic bold font which allows the appearance to better for the audience, and shows clearly who are involved in the film. The italics represent a feminine side and will gives hints on who might begin the opening.

This frame show how the Opening begins. The opening begins with the female protagonist on her journey to college and a tracking shot is showing at this point, allowing the audience to follow her on her journey, the voice over, compliments this frame as well as it the audience will get an insight on the female protagonist personality and life and the audience could relate as they will have experienced there first day at school and college and will be able to relate in terms of emotions and feeling of entering school or college on the first day. We decided to film at the end of the road, showing the journey of the protagonist, from this we have subverted the expectations of a romance as the setting may not reflect hugely on the convention, however some aspects such as beginning the opening with the female protagonist.

The frame shows an aspect in which will hint the audience on the genre of the film. The medium shot of the male protagonist entering in the room allows the audience to show that he glances at the female protagonist and gives the audience an immediate hint that there will be a connection between the two main protagonists,leaving an enigma code for the audience to find out more about them and there relationship. The convention would relate to this situations as the both male and female protagonist will will have brief meet in the opening, and shows the audience that there may be a development in there relationship.

OUR OPENING 2 MINUTES: The lost locket

Day 9 of Editing

During day 9 of editing we re-filmed the voice over but with another persons voice, so that it wouldn't clash with another characters voice. whilst filming the voice over again, we had to film it a few time as some of  pauses were either too quick or too long, so we had to film it a few times, so that it would fit well with the opening. We filmed the voice over on a voice recorder, then uploaded the footage onto our email and downloaded it onto the computer then onto the film. After we uploaded the footage, we then had to decide where to put the voice over, in which will fit with action shown in the film. we decided to put the voice over when Bronte is on her way into school and stops just before the closeup shot of her walking down the corridor. However putting the voice over  does making the timing out of place, because as Bronte introduces herself, she walks along out of the shot too quickly, losing focus on the interaction between the female character and the audience. Also the timing in which Oliver enters into the shot, the voice over doesn't really connect with the male protagonist as shown, and this will make the audience bit confused on what to focus on. However the voice suited as the she started to talk about starting her new school, and this is complimented by her signing in, by writing her name in the book, and as she explores the displays shown on the wall, showing her interest. Also we had to put our non diegetic soundtrack in as well so that it wouldn't overpower the voice over, by this we kept the soundtrack playing, all throughout the opening and just adjusted the volume so that the voice over and the dialogue could be heard at the same time. To adjust the volume of both soundtrack and voiceover, we had to go on the side with icon where next to the where the soundtrack and the voice over was place in order a yellow line to appear which helps to control the volume levels of the soundtrack and the voiceover. so in this we made the voice over really loud, so that it would be the main focus could be on the introduction on the female protagonist, and the non diegetic sountrack would be complimenting it at the same time.

Day 8 of Editing

During day 8 of editing, we filmed the voice over first hand by Hayley, and we put it into our opening scene, when putting it with the opening, we had to adjust the volume of the other footage in order to make sure we could hear the voice overtaking place. we also decided to place the voice over near where the protagonist started walking towards the camera with a closeup shot. we decided to put the voiceover there because it will allow the audience to engage with female protagonist and it will let them in on personal level on her life and what has happened in the past. This will also let the audience be involved in the film. The voice over lasted for about 30 seconds, so we faded them in and out in order to let some of the dialogue to be include when the non diegetic sound will be playing quietly in the background. We then render the footage to see how the it looked overall in the film. However we had to re-film the voice-over because we thought that it sound too similar to another characters voice, so filming it again but with another voice so it doesn't clash with another characters voice during the opening.

Day 7 of Editing

During the seventh day, we decided that we had to add in the soundtrack to make sure we had picked the right one. Once placing it into adobe premiere elements 10 we had to find the best place to put it. We decided that we were not going to start the music straight away but as the female protagonist starts walking to school. We had to fade in the music so it wasn't abrupt. The difficulty which we experienced through this was trying to get the background noise to not be as loud. We spent around 10 minutes trying to find away to lower the volume. Once we eventually found the way to do this, we made sure that the volume of the background noise could still be heard but also so the music was still the main feature. We then had to stop the soundtrack in a certain place so that when the characters begin talking they could be heard. We done this by fading out the music in time for when the first character begins to talk. This proved quite effective but was also a difficult task at the time. We then had to place the soundtrack back into the film once the dialogue was finished. Seeing as we had previously done this it wasn't as difficult this time. Once we had added in the soundtrack and thought that it was in a suitable place we had to create production credits. We found a picture on Google of an old camera. We saved this image and put it into two frames. We then added the effect of black and white onto the first frame and added the transition additive dissolve where it changed the black and white image to colour. We then had to add in a title underneath the picture so we had our own production credit. We were pleased with the outcome and finally rendered the footage to make sure it went well with each other without any jumps.

Day 6 of Editing

During the sixth day of editing we continued with adding titles into our footage on top of the black shot. This meant that the titles would be clearly seen. We adapted the titles into different font and different sizes to make sure we felt that the titles were suitable. We also changed the colour of the font back to white because we felt like white could be more effective in fitting the conventions of a romance film. White could represent innocence and purity which is what we are trying to portray in our female protagonist. We moved the titles around on the black shot to see if they were placed in the right place. We then had to faded them in and out, each time making sure we were rendering the footage so it was not jumpy. We then had to add in transitions to the story of the film to make sure each clip flowed into the next with no jump cuts. We found that adding in the black shots made the film run over the allocated time and so had to crop some of the footage down. This involved making sure that the film still made sense with some footage being cropped. We found this part quite difficult because we had to still make sure that the film would make sense but also so that it was in the time limit. We ended up having to crop some bits out but also adding them back in and cropping another section out because we thought that it seemed better with the original clip.

Day 5 Editing

During day 5 of editing we continued to experimenting with displaying the titles in our opening 2 minutes. We had decided to create some black blank shots so that we could display some of the titles for example introducing the director and editor, then introduce the character. The font that we used for the titles was adobe casalon pro, using size 54 as the font as this look most appropriate for the display in the shot. We decide to use this font because it would suit the conventions of a romance film,by having this italic bold font. It would also make the appearance of the titles easier for the audience to read and identify the production behind the film. We then looked at different colours which we could add to the titles. The first colour choice was black for the titles because we thought it would show up well for some of the titles which will show up on the location of where we have filmed, However it would suit the convention of a romance film as the black would present as more sharp and so we changed it white as it represent innocence and purity, so this would link to the storyline as it will show the atmosphere of what the audience should be expecting. We then decide to add a hint of pink to represent the the couple who will be shown in the film, it represent more of blossom of love will occur between the couple which the audience will expect to see.    

Camera

The camera which we are using to film with is the Sony Handy-cam DCR-DVD92e. This camera comes with basic features but it has a good quality of filming. Some of these features are:

•  Zoom
• A back light
• A built in speaker
• Microphone
• Option to take pictures
• Flip screen 
• Playback mode
• Disk -No memory card

By having a disk, this could cause some problems because if the disk is not properly installed then the footage will be lost. I know with the camera that you have to finalise the footage which means that you cannot record anything onto the disk after. This means that everything which we film must be right whilst on the camera. 

The other features will help us to get the best quality that we can because we will be able to add more lighting if necessary and also try out zooming. The speaker will allow us to hear what we have recorded straight away and also the microphone will help us get a clear sound.​

Day 4 of Editing

During the fourth day of editing, we had to swap the layout of the titles so they could fit in with the genre. We chose to use the font Adobe Caslon Pro with the effect of bold italics. This was an effective way to show the titles whilst the film is playing. We changed the colour of the titles to white because we thought that this was the best colour to represent innocence and the characteristics of the protagonist being naive. We added more titles into the film to show the cast and also the points of who directed it and edited the footage. After we done this, we decided that adding a plain black shot would be effective to get the titles to stand out. We created the black shot using photoshop. We then placed the black shot into our film to the place where we thought it was suitable. We also used the black shot for the main title of our film because we thought that if we done it this way, we could fade the text 'The Lost Locket' in and out of the film. Once we had faded the text we rendered the clip to prevent it becoming jumpy. 

Day 3 of Editing

During day 3 of editing we continued to trim/crop our footage, so that it fit within the time of 2 minutes. so we cropped our small parts of common room and some of the stairs scene so that we get a cut, so as the protagonist walked up the stairs and the cut to when they they enter the second set of stairs. After we went onto adding titles, so at the beginning when the protagonist enters to start the opening we added the title ' Directed by Fahmida and Hayley' at the beginning, so when we were positioning the text, we decide to have the 'directed' part of the text in the middle, and the name on a separate line directly below the first line. The font style that we used was italic bold we use this font style because we thought it would complement well with the opening as it will help inform the audience on more information about the opening. the size of the font that we used was 53, as we thought it would be the most appropriate font to use, but we did trial different fonts to see which would fit and would look more appealing to our opening. The colour of the font that we used was black as we though it would show up well when the opening begins. using the colour black connotes a mysterious, which would link to what happens in the opening as the is an unknown relationship, which will show the introduction of the male and female, so during the opening its will leave an enigma for the audience to find out about there relationship, and the colour of font contribute it. Also we made the smaller titles to introduce the cast in our opening and we placed, where there was empty space in the shot, so in this case, when Bronte was walking one side, then we put the smaller titles on the right hand corner, on the other side of her. so we decided to fill up the shot, but not make it too crowd in the shot. When making the titles we had problems with adding the animation to the title, we wanted to have a fade for a duration of 5 seconds, so we went onto you tube and looked for a video, which will show us what how to add the animation. (Youtube clip start from 2:07) from this we tried to apply this to our opening. However when doing this found out that we could  edit the animation on the timeline and apply through it as well by right clicking on the fade out button. We then rendered the the whole opening so that it would play more smoothly.

Day 2 of Editing

Day 2 of editing we continued to crop our footage and separate them from the behind scenes and the consent parts of the footage. By this we had to render the footage so that it play back more smoothly. during this the opening was still over the time limit of being within 2 minutes. So we had to cut some of the footage out so that it fit the timing requirements. We decided to take out some of the journey scenes, as it took a lot of the time, and there was a lot of it. So we took out some of the beginning where Bronte was walking into school. We also cropped the distance of how far Bronte was walking, so instead we had to cut from the street, to when she entered into the school building. We also put a transition of a dip into black to show her entering and when she sign in. We also cropped parts of of her walking, as she looks at the display, so we made that shorter and show a cut into her close up shot of her walking. In that scene we shorten this scene and then we we get a cut into when Bronte comes out of the green doors. The common room room scenes were shorten and trimmed, we had to crop the parts where we just started filming, as the Hayley (protagonist's friend), because at first she was stood alone waiting to be filmed, so cutting this out,and showing her directly going to the protagonist. During the dialogue between the Bronte and Hayley, the lighting was a problem as Hayley face was very dark during this scene, so we added some enhance to the background, in order to fix this. However this still had an impact on lighting in the opening.

Day 1 of Editing

After filming out opening scene we had to put our film together. We had to finalize the footage on the camera, then connect the a USB to the computer, then change the format to put it on a disk (CD). Afterwards we used the adobe premier elements 10, to edit our footage that we had filmed. When we opened the software, we had to change the setting so we had to change to the format to .... and then made a new folder for a our film and gave it a title of our film, "The lost locket". When we opened the software we uploaded the footage and we found out that the footage that was filmed in two clips or parts, so we had to separate all the footage and the behind the scene main them separate, so that they would be easier to put all the relevant section together to make our opening. So in order to do this we used the same footage a few times to get each shot out, and repeated that process again to get all the footage. Afterwards we added the dip to black transition on our opening, we added them at the beginning of the opening and at the opening and one at the end. This would allow to show a start of the film and where the opening end, with out showing a harsh cut.

What went well was that we were able to upload the footage and start to crop the footage, so it was relevant to our opening. We also trailed some of the transitions as well to see which one which one would fit well with our opening so we trailed dip into white, black. so we decided to use the dip into black as it looks better and fades well as it introduces the opening and closes the scene.

To improve we could crop more of the footage so that it fits the 2 minutes that we have been given. Also add the front title and the production title in, and add the transitions which will help fade the into the opening. So also adding these titles would fit to convention of how a opening should start.

Day 2 of Filming

During day two of filming we filmed the scene where the protagonist meets the friend and  journey towards their next lesson. before starting to film, we started by getting consent from people in the common room as there were a lot of people in the common room and needed permission to film them.

We started to start where we finished off from the last filming which was when Bronte entered into the sixth form block. To film this we took a medium shot of the sixth form block title. We decided to shoot this because it would allow the audience to recognize where the protagonist is going, and the audience can also relate to the experience of the protagonist, as the opening shows the protagonist first day at college. We then filmed the female protagonist entering into the common room, we used a medium shot, and using a tracking shot of Bronte, as we followed her until she goes sits down. In this scene the voice over will stop and will focus more on the common room crowd, so the non diegetic sound of the voice over and the soundtrack will change to diegetic sound of the crowd in the common and the start dialogue between the characters. After following Bronte, as she goes to sit on a table on her own, the camera cuts to introduce the friend, with some other group of people. We introduce the friend with medium shot of her talking to her other friends, and starts to see the protagonist on her own, then we cut see a the friends perspective of of the protagonist. we then filmed the meeting of the protagonist and the friend starts the dialogue which then after we film a shot reverse shot of there dialogue. We then filmed them walking out the common room and towards there next lesson, and we filmed a medium shot of them coming out and going up the stairs and the we cut to when they are coming towards the second set of stairs and we filmed a high angle shot of them coming up the stairs.

What went well is that we were able to to get the dialogue in this filming scene, so we thought that the shot reverse shot went well as we were able to see the characters clearly and so the audience will know what is going on and who is talking. Also the the high angle shot that we had filmed came out clearly as the lighting was good within this scene as the footage was clear or the characters showed up well in the lighting. However to improve we could make sure that we get the dialogue bit clearer, so that the audience find out what is been spoken about, so that they can feel apart of the film as well.