blogging health check 2

18 posts - CFC issued
As you are aware from our discussion you are very far behind in the coursework and you will need to do a lot of work in order to catch up. Have a look at the blogging checklist, see what posts you have completed and get the posts you need to complete done!
2 or 3 good, detailed blog posts per week. Make sure you blog individually, if you have ideas for planning then you can blog about those even if they are not used in the final title sequence.
- Be more creative with the blog design and ICT use
- GIFs will bring your still images to life without having to create videos
- Group posts should reflect the work of 4 people, some posts lack sufficient detail
- Slideshows should be used for lots of photos

Rough Cut Edit 1

After finishing our rough cut, Marisa gave us some feedback on our scenes. To begin with, we need more match cuts and different shots for all or scenes. Because we're being marked on the smoothness and quality of our film, we shouldn't really follow characters and just have many different shots instead.
She gave told us to have Lily fall into a shot, because that would be a good shot for us to have in our film.
There was a shot that Lily went out of the view of the camera. Marisa advised us to reshoot that section.
She also said for our first bedroom scene we shouldn't do a 360 pan, it would be better to just have different shots in the scene.
We will need to figure out a way to integrate titles into our film.

Planning Post 22; Initial Ideas

The Sub-Genre we decided on was YOUTH DRAMA;This is because, we as a group felt that it would much more fun and interesting to create a youth drama as we enjoy many of them such as:

 These films are all centred around conflict as a young adult which is what we wanted to incorporate into our film. 

Our initial plot was to begin the film with the ending and show our protagonist dead or unconscious in a bath. 

As there are only three of us in the group, we wanted to limit the characters in our opening to only one or two. This meant that our social groups that we had to introduce were only going to be troubled teens (the main character).

Day 3 of Filming

Our group was assigned to film during the half-term because we didn't get through any filming during the weeks before. Marisa was quite worried about how we would manage to finish our film but we were determined to make a good opening.

Initially our bedroom scene was going to be a 360 degrees pan, however after careful consideration we decided against it because we wouldn't be able to be still and smooth enough for it to look authentic. 
We decided the filmed scenes in the bathroom and bedroom would consist of still mid shots of different feminine objects to create the character of our film.

Our feedback was positive.

On this day we were also meant to shoot the outside of the house and shoot and traffic scene because we didn't want to run out of shots. However, we didn't because the weather on that day was very poor and we didn't want to get the equipment wet.

Planning Post 30; Location For Our Film

We thought this location would be a good idea because it looks dark and could be quite mysterious if filmed in the evening. At this location, we filmed the bloody death and our character getting blood all over herself. 

Our improvements for this scene would be to add more cuts and different angles to make the film look more professional. We could also shoot later in the day to make the film look more authentic or add a filter when it comes to editing our film.

Pitch ideas

technology skills

- We will use JVC camera to film the entire opening

• we will use motion for our title sequences 
• We will be using garage band for our sound design
• Then final cut pro to edit the the film  

Planning Post 27; Sound Activity