New script

This is part of the extra conversation between the two characters, we thought this conversation would show the audience an insight of what the film is going to contain, as Zoey says "Why can't I find Mr Right?" and knowing the film is going to be called "Where is Mr Right?" the audience knows this is what the film is going to contain. We added a new script at the end because we wanted to make sure we said the exact same things every time as in previous tasks we haven't gone off a script all the time making the speaking off because of the different shots we wanted to use it helped a lot with having a script which didnt include a lot of lines. We wanted to create different positions from the characters to make it look asif the characters have been speaking for a while to show the friendship between them both, the script helped us because we would have to take different shots in the different positions by repeating the script  making sure we got the speech right every time! 




Donna: You are so depressing Zoey.

Zoey: Why can't I find my Mr Right?

Donna: Just stop looking and be like me, I'm still having fun in life.

Zoey: But I want to settle down my wild child days are over, and all my relationships have ended in tears. I just want to be happy.

Extra footage

Today in our lesson we finally got our footage onto the computer from our shooting off Saturday. We looked through all of the shots we took and deleted the ones that were no good to us. We are all happy with the way the new clips look and they look much better than the old ones that we had to get rid of. We started to edit a few of the clips adding the clip of Ellie walking out the car and into the house and walking up the stairs. We decided because on one of the clips of Ellie opening and closing the door her hand is on the door but the next clip her hand isn't which is a continuity error, because of this we decided to add some more slide transitions which we think looks really good. We have the slide transitions appear on the screen of Ellie walking in the house and walking up the stairs while we also have the shot of Catherine's reaction shot in a slide transition also on the same slide as Ellie's feet walking up the stairs, giving the idea that Ellie is about to walk into the bedroom. We will add a clip to show what we have added. 

Today's lesson

Unfortunatly we didnt have the camera today to put our footage we shot on saturday on the computer as we lent the camera to Kelly and Louise straight after filming on saturday for their shooting and they have forgot to bring it into school today. We will have it tomorrow hopefully and we can get on with editing. Today we will do the opening credits and adding our institution. 

Extra Filming 25th Feb

We filmed on Saturday to do the extra shots we needed to do. Before filming we planned out which shots we wanted to do and the script between the two characters so we werent making something up everytime we filmed. We managed to get every shot we wanted and are all happy with the way they looked. We filmed: a reaction shot of 'Zoey' when 'Donna' walks through the door, conversation between the two characters, shooting in different positions and then a re-shoot of 'Donna's' entrance to the house. We remembered the 180 degree rule and made sure the continutity was correct as we didnt want it to look like we had been filming on two seperate days. We didnt have any problems with the camera or actors while filming. In our lesson tomorrow we can final get on with the finally stages of editing!

Text

 These are some of the texts we liked as they are both quite girly and match the romantic genre. We want the colour of the text to be quite simple like a light pink colour which conotes love.

The second image is the one we are thinking about using as its quite feminine and young.We think it suits the film and it would look good flowing into the shots. We decided that we will use the colour white throughout the opening untill the final title appears at the end which will be pink because we think this will show the theme of the film and it will lead it on to the next scene. 

Extra filming weekend

This saturday we are meeting up to do our extra filming to improve our shots which didnt have very good continutity. We are meeting at around 3 as this is around the time we filmed last time as we will hopefully get the right lighting. We are going to do a establishing shot at the beginning either to show the location it is set or to show Catherine pulling up to the house, we think this will be a better shot than the original shot of Catherine just getting out the car. We need to improve the ending as our shot just jumps to the next one and the continutity isnt very good. Once we have completed our shooting on saturday we can finally get on with finishing for the deadline.

Music email

This is the email from the girl we emailed on youtube who has agreed to let us use her cover of 'Two Birds' as we never got an reply from the Regina Spektor we had to quickly find a good enough cover to use and luckily she let us use her cover which we all really like. We really like this song as it matches our theme of film as its quite upbeat and bring that theme of love at the opening. The song fits well with the two characters as the song is about finding love and that is what our main character 'Zoey' wants and as it the song is quite upbeat it also matches our other character 'Donna' because she has a very lively personality. We have fitted the music onto our editing and it fits quite well as it flows right with the different scenes of our film, which we are all pleased with. The next step to do is to edit the volume of the song when the characters are speaking, we still want the song playing in the background but only quiet we need to make it flow in and out of the volume so it doesn't seem like it is jumping. 

Costumes of characters

These are the costumes our character 'Zoey' and 'Donna' will be wearing in the opening scene. We wanted to create two different looks on them because they both are shown to have two different personalities. We wanted to portray 'Zoey' to be quite sad and to kind of 'Hate her life' so we put her in a big jumper and leggings to show she cant be bothered to look good because she is depressed with her life! Her outfit contrasts with her best friend in the film 'Donna' as she is shown to be loud and out going compared to 'Zoey'. We put her in bright colours and high heels to show she is loves to party and likes to have fun compared to her best friend. 

These are pictures of behind the scenes of the day shooting. This is us filming Catherine getting out the car and Ellie in the car doing the speaking.

Extra Filming

We are going to film more pieces for our final piece as a few of our shots could be improved including an establishing shot of either the setting or the car driving in. A shot Ellie leaving the car and showing her walk through the door as we didnt have one beforehand and the shot jumped from ellie outside to her walking up the stairs. A shot of Ellie walking up the stairs as the shot jumps and its a bit off balanced.We also need to do the dialogue again in the bedroom of the two characters as we didnt have the right shot of Ellie walking into the room and the end shot just stops, we need a shot that ends the opening scene.

Rough Cut

http://ellielouisesnowdon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/rough-cut.html 

Our rough cut can be found on Ellie's blog. At the moment on our rough cut we havent included music or titles and we need to re-shoot our last bit of the opening as their is a few continuity errors and the speaking needs to be completed. We will re-shoot adding extra shots and a better script as all of us aren't happy with it, more shots of ellie turning up to the house will make the opening flow more as now we only see Ellie in the car and then suddenly walking up the stairs. We need to also add our institution and logo at the beginning to make seem more proffessional but they are the last pieces we will be doing as we need to focus on re-shooting, music and titles. Once we have included all of these hopefully it will flow more and we will have a much better outcome. 

Logo - Snowdon Studios

This is one of our ideas for our production logo, we have done three design ideas. The other two are on Ellie's computer so we will post them on here soon. We had some different ideas, but the one we are using has a film reel in the background behind our text. We have named it 'Snowdon Studies' as we have used this on all of our other pieces of work and we wanted all of our names on the final piece, as Catherine is the main actor and i was the director. We havent quite decided how we are going to having it coming in at the beginning of the opening, we want it maybe like the parmount or 21st century as we think it looks good.                                       

This is the logo we want to use on our opening of the film, we like this one better than the first design as it has more of a film look to it with the film reel behind the text. We used this text as it simple but stands out behind the background image.

Our slide transitions

From seeing the slide transitions at the beginning of 'Defiantly,Maybe' we wanted to do it at the beginning of our film as we like the effect it gives. We found this quite difficult to do at first as we would forget how to do it once we were shown, but we got the hang of it and we think it works well with our shots we are using. We weren't planning on using the slide transitions twice in the opening but because of a continuity error we didn't realize until editing, the slide transitions helped us make the error less noticeable and it still makes it flow. We like the effect it gives when showing the different events happening in the opening scene such as when 'Zoey' is greeted with 'Donna' the slide transitions help show the audience that 'Donna' has arrived and the reaction shot of her best friend when she does enter her room. Its all effective at the beginning when 'Zoey' returns home and it shows her entering the house and the different stages she does when she returns home such as, take her shoes off, getting changed and entering a new room. We wanted to create this so it flowed in and out but also making the little bits like taking her shoes off and getting changed a quicker process in the opening. 

Music

We had some problem with our music as we wanted to use the original song by Regina Spektor 'Two Birds' we emailed her mangement but unfortuantly we never got a reply back from them. We searched YouTube to see if we could find a good cover we could use for our final piece, we emailed a singer on YouTube to see if she wouldn't mind us using her cover of the song, thankfully she said yes!


Here is a video of the singer we have choosen covering Regina Spektors song 'Two Birds' she has a great voice and really fits with the film.

Fridge shots

This is a shot that we did in the fridge, we did several shots of this to try and get it right. This is the best shot we achieved while filming these shots. We put the camera in the fridge because we thought it would be a different angle which would look good and showing the character in a different position. The shot is really effective as it shows what the character is getting out the fridge (comfort food) and it is effective when the door closes on the camera leading it to the next shot of 'Zoey' leaving the kitchen to eat the ice cream. This is one of my favorite shots in the film because its different and we haven't seen this shot in a lot of films so it seems quite original and different. We all pleased with the final outcome of this shot even after taking a lot of them to get the right one. 

Review of footage

We finally got to look at our footage on the computer and we looked at every shot we did filming to see which take was the best and which one wasnt so good! We did several shots of 'Zoey' walking from the car to the house to make sure we got it right, the only problem with the shots that were taken outside is the wind but for the first shots outside we are using music over the top. We are very pleased with the shots of 'Zoey' on the bed as we think we will be able to edit this the way we want to making it look as if time is going by quickly. We also did several shots of the camera in the fridge and we are very happy with the final shot, which we will post on our blog soon to show what we wanted to achieve. We are happy with our opening shots of 'Zoey' walking out the car, taking her shoes off and putting her hoodie on as we think these will be good shots for our slide transitions. We have used several camera angles which we wanted to use, my favourite is the shot of 'Zoey' opening the fridge and closing it!