Getting it donee :)

I am going to write about some of the problems and things we have done whilst putting our project together.

We set our film in my house, but was believable that a young adult could have lived there. We wanted to bedroom to be all pink and girlie so we could establish that it was the girls room so had to be the girls house that he was being kicked out of. And, embaressingly, my mums room is just like that, so it had to be done. The pink-ness and girly-ness of the room made it more believable that she would be the type of girl to have her friends over to comfort her when she was upset also the pink PJ's that we told her to wear emphaisized this. We made the boy wear just his boxers and a tshirt as this is what most men wear in bed. We made him wear a black top to give the connotations of evil and to contrast with the innocence of the pink, also the slogan on his top made him look like a bit of an idiot, lmao. We diddn't tell him to wear that top, so he's just an idiot, LMAO! Love you really james :). The friends wore high heels as this was essential for the shot of them running up the drive. Also, heels have connotations of being worn by proffesional young women, who dont need men! and this is a convention of a rom com, and we this also showed that the characters are middle class, as they weren't prada heels, but they weren't tacky either. They wore scarfs and cardigans to make them look young and fresh but more grown up, costumes were decided by our one and only Hannah! We dressed the living room up to have loads of bottles to look like they had been drinking all day so the audience would get that they were slowly getting drunker... although really it was just ribeana! and some of it went on the carpet, my mother was not too impressed. The girls we chose were perfect for the part aswell (and they were amazing when we were filming, although they kept getting the giggles, ily Kirst and Sinead!) because they looked like they could be friends and the same with the cheating lad as him and the main character. The boy and the girl was a tricky decision between the group, but we knew we had to have two people who wouldn't be uncomfortable lying in a bed together. So we chose an actual couple so they were comfortable around each other so it worked really well! The bra we used was also good because it was black which matched the colour of the top James (the main guyyy) was wearing conoting that this was bad too, we initially wanted to use a pair of really slutty knickers but we forgot to bring them so we had to compromise! LMAO, and the Bra was actually kirsty's, as I diddn't want to use one of my mums, so she was bra-less during this fimimg section, luckily she wasn't in that bit, LMAO!


How weve managed so far....
Firstly we didnt get off to a great start as we had a problem with the filming on the 18th of january so we had to postpone filming untill the saturday afterwards... lets not go into it, its better that way. But we managed to get the whole thing filmed in one day! There were a few problems on the day... we found out a few shots didnt work as well as we'd hoped for example when filming at the door the sun was so bright it shone through the window and ruined the lighting, so he had to have someone block the light outside for us! (Sinead with two place mats) We also added in a few shots that werent on the story board such as the extreme close up on her mouth of the main girl (Nova) we thought it would be really useful, and it was used in the final piece. Aswell as this we had misplaced the knickers we were originally supposed to be using for the beginning so we used a bra instead (Kirsts Bra) LOL! We spent approximately the next 3 lessons getting to the stage where we could put the shots together, having to fill out both the recording logs and the edit decision list. Next we had to log and capture which took AGES, a whole hour and a half due to the large amount of footage we had shot! This amount of footage however soon became a problem as we found when we came to piece the film together, as I wasn't there when all the clips were named, and lauren and hannah weren't there the next lesson, so it was a bit of a nightmare finding all the shots! We had followed our storyboard and had pieced together the first half of out storyboard only when playing it back it had run to 2 and a half minuites, and the whole thing has to be no more than 3 minutes. This meant that we had to look over what we had got so far and start either getting rid of shots or shortening them. For example the shots of the couple at the beginning when they were happy, we shortened down to about 3 seconds each and scraped the idea of panning across the still life pictures. We also shortened most shots to make it seem a lot sharper and more fluid than when they run down the stairs, instead of them starting at the top we had them already slightly down the stairs as this looked much better and the audience would know they had to of came down the landing. When we had finished with this, the time had been reduced by about a minuite. We had to be cut throat and leathal with it, and once we started cutting down, i'm surprised we had any film left!

One of the day's THE SNOW HIT! But it wasn't too bad here, and we did have some trouble with getting to some of the lessons, so this was a bit difficult. On the first lesson I took over final cut pro and did some editing whilst the other's gave me a helping hand next to me, but we all took turns and distributed the editing between us. I edited the section where Nova roll's over in the bed and kisses james on the cheeck, roll's back over and finds the bra sits up and screams, the WHOLE of this section is match on action, so was quite difficult to do, but I think we did it quite well, even if I do say so myself! lol.