During the preliminary exercise my group was quickly able to decide on one idea quickly. The decision of the genre and idea for filming for the main task took alot longer. We finally decided on using the Umbrella genre of "chick flick". We spent alot longer on the initial ideas blast, this mean't that by the end of it we all had a clear idea of what we want the final opening sequance to look like. Despite this we still haven't definatly decided on the name of the film that it will be for. I think that this will be the most difficult thing to decide on.
From the intitial ideas blast and Genre Research we produced a Draft script. This script was basic in the way that we haven't described in depth what will be seen visauly. We decided to base the whole initial sequance on music having no diegetic speech at all. Also from looking at other opening sequances such as Se7en we decided that it would be interesting to make the tittles Diegetic, including them in part of the film. This means that we are going to have tittles for example on books as they put them in thier bag and scralled on mirrors.
For the main task it is more important to make sure all the pre-production paperwork is complete to a high standard. Each of our group are going to do some of the paperwork outside of class. By doing this we should be able to achieve the paperwork to a high standard and all the research should be indepth.
From the intitial ideas blast and Genre Research we produced a Draft script. This script was basic in the way that we haven't described in depth what will be seen visauly. We decided to base the whole initial sequance on music having no diegetic speech at all. Also from looking at other opening sequances such as Se7en we decided that it would be interesting to make the tittles Diegetic, including them in part of the film. This means that we are going to have tittles for example on books as they put them in thier bag and scralled on mirrors.
For the main task it is more important to make sure all the pre-production paperwork is complete to a high standard. Each of our group are going to do some of the paperwork outside of class. By doing this we should be able to achieve the paperwork to a high standard and all the research should be indepth.
One of the opening sequences we looked at was New York Minute. It has a similar feel to what we want to achieve because it aims to reflect two charactors parrallel lives, even if they are both in the same house. It uses split screens, but this would not be possible to achieve because of the equiptment available to us. The use of sound is key in the opening sequence and we plan on doing this by using music as the main sound.
We also looked at the Devil Wears Prada opening sequence. This was the closest opening sequence to what we aim to produce for our film. The main sound is non-diegetic music. It shows successfully what is happening in several peoples lives in parallel. It does this to show what is different between the 'mode' girls and the 'new' girl. This is something we want to achieve, showing the difference between the 'poor' girl and 'rich' girl. This format will be appropriate for this.A stumbling point in the preliminary task was the editing of the film. The person who was the Editor missed alot of college after we filmed. This meant that between the other 3 of us we had to edit it. This time we have discussed it as a group and we are now all aware of how important it is to have good attendance. Hopefully this will mean that all of us will have a productive input into the editing of the film.
I want to improve the standard of editing of the main task. In the preliminary task the editing was quite loose. This was partly to do with the fact that we had never edited before. Anouther thing i want to improve is the organisation of the shoot. For example establishing camara positions for a whole set of shots as in the preliminary exercise we made the mistake of trying to shoot the shots in the order of the edit. This made some of the over the shoulder shots look from the wrong prespective. Because we now have some experience in using a camara she shots should be steadier and less shaky.
I want to improve the standard of editing of the main task. In the preliminary task the editing was quite loose. This was partly to do with the fact that we had never edited before. Anouther thing i want to improve is the organisation of the shoot. For example establishing camara positions for a whole set of shots as in the preliminary exercise we made the mistake of trying to shoot the shots in the order of the edit. This made some of the over the shoulder shots look from the wrong prespective. Because we now have some experience in using a camara she shots should be steadier and less shaky.
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