Preliminary Task

This is our Preliminary task:
"Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
I worked in a group with Phil, Matt and Kayla to complete this. We decided on the idea of a strange man purchasing a keyboard in a music shop. 
This was our first real opportunity to use the cameras to film and then the editing software in post-production, we had very limited knowledge on film at this point.

Below is the finished product..

Feedback-Coursework prep

I posted our opening on Facebook to receive feedback from our target audience, its all positive which is great, it particularly focuses on the contrasting lives of Emma and Oscar which is what we wanted! Overall we are all pleased with the outcome of it after alot of hard work has be put into the process of making our 2 minute film opening 'In Another Life'.

Films that have black and white scenes- Coursework prep

We decided to edit Emma's parts of the opening on black and white, this was to expand on the contrast of the boy and girl. i found it quite difficult to find a film what has a black and white scene in it while all the rest of the film is in colour. In James Bond Casino Royale the opening few minutes is a black and white fighting scene, this was a great example as it was at the start of the film, which is what we have to create, here is the video.

Rough Cut!!!- Coursework prep

This is a rough cut of our final 2 minute opening, we still need to add the music in, and for Emma s parts we decided on changing it to black and white to show the dullness and problems she has in her life, this is also a great way to contrast the 2 characters. The start of the 2 houses will fade in and out, we may also take away some shots to make it shorter.

Location changes- Coursework Prep

As part of our film opening at the start we panned up and down onto both of the houses, we used a random house in Wymondham as the exterior of Emma's house, this was because Laura's house was too nice and pleasant to film the outside of a poor persons house. For the up stairs of it we used Natalie's spare room because it was quite bare, to film the downstairs of Emma's house we used Laura's kitchen which originally was where it was going to be filmed this fitted in well with our idea of a run-down kitchen.

This was the original location (top), the exterior wasn't what we wanted so chose a different house in Wymondham we got permission from the owner (bottom).

For Oscars house, all of the interior filming was done inside our initial location (my house), but for the outside shot of the house we needed to use a different location (Natalie's house) because we didn't shoot the outside of our original location.

This was the original location (left) we filmed the inside shots in here but the exterior was done at Natalie's house (right).

Change in Music- Coursework prep

We changed our song to ' Absolutely (Story of a Girl)' by Nine Days because we felt it fitted in better with the introduction and sounded better. This song has been used in numerous American Teen Films such as 'American Pie', we felt this worked well with our audience, as its aimed at Teenagers.
This is the YouTube video for the song its from their 2000 album 'The Madding Crowd'.

  Nine Days are an America rock band from Long    Island, New York. Its was formed in 1994 by John  Hampson and Brian Desveaux, and released three  independent albums in the 1990s before their  mainstream debut album, The Madding Crowd,  released in 2000. The band scored a hit in the United  States from the Madding Crowd, with the single  "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)", which reached  number one.




LYRICS

This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looked so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her
When she smiles

Now how many days in a year
She woke up with hope
But she only found tears
And I can be so insincere
Making her promises never for real
As long as she stands there waiting
Wearing the holes in the soles of her shoes
Now how many days disappear
When you look in the mirror
So how do you choose

Your clothes never wear as well the next day
And your hair never falls in quite the same way
You never seem to run out of things to say

[Chorus:]
This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looked so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her
When she smiles

Now how many lovers would stay
Just to put up with this shit day after day
Now how did we wind up this way
Watching our mouths for the words that we say
As long as we stand here waiting
Wearing the clothes or the soles that we choose
Now how do we get there today
When we're walking too far for the price of our shoes

Your clothes never wear as well the next day
And your hair never falls in quite the same way
But you never seem to run out of things to say

[Chorus:]
This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looks so sad and lonely there
I absolutely love her
When she smiles

[Guitar solo]

Well your clothes never wear as well the next day
And your hair never falls in quite the same way
You never seem to run out of things to say

[Chorus:]
This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world        
And while she looks so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her

This is the story of a girl
Whose pretty face she hid from the world
And while she looks so sad and lonely there
I absolutely love her

This is the story of a girl
Who cried a river and drowned the whole world
And while she looked so sad in photographs
I absolutely love her
When she smiles
When she smiles!

Songs in Teen Romance Openings- Coursework Prep

These are all opening scenes from American teen movies, all the songs are quite upbeat which is what we want in our opening. 


The Breakfast Club opening (1985)- Don't You (Forget About Me)//Simple Minds










Easy A opening scene (2010)- Change of Seasons// Sweet Thing

Clueless opening scene (1995)- Kids in America//Kim Wilde