We have kept a production diary of every day our group have been planning and filming the film opening.
10th November: We sat together and discussed our indiviual film pitches. We combined some of our ideas together and also came up with some more ideas as a group, we came up with a girls holiday, pregnancy, abuse and a scrapbook with memories. We tried to incorprate bits of each idea into our final idea. We talked through about how we could make it work and what locations we could use.
11th November: We put our film ideas onto a powerpoint to get ready to present to the class, we each did a slide, we also came up with the final name for our film opening which waqs amnesia.
12th November: Frankie wasn't here today so Libby and I started to work on the names of characters and the different locations we could use. We decided that Libby would be the main character who unfortunately gets anmesia and her name would be Daisy Blackman, and Frankie would be a friend called Naomi Waters and also I would be a friend called Elyza Thomas. The voice of Doctor Peters is going to be played by Daniel Amato. The locations we thought of was Broomfield Hopsital, Southend; Theme park, beach, amusement and the arcade. Also the Chelmsford train station.
We also looked at similar films for inspiratiobn, we looked at the notebook which was distrubted and produced by Time Warner Company and the New Line Cinema. Also we looked at a film called Memento which was distrubted and produced by Summit Entertainment and New Line Cinema.
13th November: We indiviually watched the film opening to a film that relates to our film. I watched the Notebook, from, doing this I made a list of the times when the distrubtion and production titles came on and also the credits; casted by, starring, music by etc. This gave us a better understanding of how simple we need to keep our film opening and not to have much going on in it.
14th November: Frankie wasn't here. We got set a task of looking at different titles created by Saul Bass, this was to give us inspiration on our own film titles.
17th November: We assigned different tasks to each member of the group. Frankie started on the script and Libby started on the storyboard and I started looking at the different shots that we could use. We decided that we're going to use a voiceover and we're not going to have much speech. Libby set out the storyboard by using postit notes so we could see each shot visually, this enabled us to move the shots around. I looked at long shots, medium shots, close up shots, the 180 degree rule etc.
18th November: Libby carried on doing the storyboard. Frankie started doing the shooting schedule and worked out when we are going to shoot and when. We also bought a sketchbook to use for our scrapbook. I looked at different music covers and wrote about why it would be suitable for our film opening.
19th November: Frankie has started on the moodboard and Libby was testing out different title fonts and writing about why she chose them and why they would be good for our film.
20th November: Frankie carried on developing the mood board. We prepared to film our titles on Monday. Libby continued Researching into different styles and fonts for our film titles. I looked into what props we would need in our film opening.
21st November: We continued what we were doing from the previous lesson and finished them tasks.
24th November: Today we filmed our titles, Libby wrote them out in our scrapbook, we filmed each letter individually. At first we wrote one word to see what it would look like when we edited it. When editing it on premier, it didn't work so we decided not to do it. We decided that libby would write the word as we film it which worked out well but the writing was boring and plain so Frankie suggested that her mum could write our titles as she has a good style of writing. Frankie filmed this at home that night.
25th November: Frankie showed us the footage of the shots she filmed of her mum writing out the titles. We all decided that it still looked boring as it was just writing and it had no colour or excitement in it. We then said we would re shoot the titles once we had decorated the scrapbook to make it more realistic and to make it look more like someones personal scrapbook.
26th November: We started decorating the scrapbook by adding pictures, stickers, glitter etc. From our teacher Mr Amato we got the feedback that our genre was unclear, after discussing it we realised that it wasn't obvious, we wanted it to be a mystery/drama but after our planning of music, titles etc, we needed to change it as it was more of our girly film so we decided to change it to teen drama.
27th November: We continued decorating our scrapbook. Frankie bought in some colourful stick on letters and we decided to use these to present our titles. Frankie and I continued to draw out the storyboard. We also started on the marketing campaign and Frankie finished our film titles timeline.
28th November: We got everything ready and finalised everything ready to film on Saturday. We recorded the voiceover that will be played over some of the footage. We filled out a risk assessment and completed our storyboard.
29th November: We met at the station and filmed our shots at the train station and on the train, we then got to Southend and filmed a range of shots through the high street and on the viewing platform, we came across a problem which was the adventure island was shut so we couldn't film one of our main shots. But we improvised and went on a tea cups ride in the high street. We filmed in the amusements and on the beach. Along the way we also took recce shots.
1st - 5th December: We uploaded our footage and began editing it together, we added in the music we wanted and the voiceover. We used different transitions and effects on our shots. We discussed where we are going to put the titles. We used Adobe premiere to edit our film opening, we gave in our first draft and we are going to improve it next week for our final draft.
