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.