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Preliminary - Jessica, Eric, Atiyah & Chyna

High School Drama Title Sequence

	Examples from Prelim	Examples from Final Film	How does this show your development?
Planning and research – choose 3 examples of planning that you improved upon	Storyboard in pictures	Storyboard in detailed drawings w/ shot types            Used a production schedule	We actually planned the whole sequence for our final film, so it would be so much more of a success.
Use of camera angles,shot types, distances and quality of framing	Medium shot Close up shot Rule of thirds	Close up shot Extreme close up shot Medium shot Wide shots Establishing shot Over the shoulder Earth worm angle Low angle Camera Pan Camera Tilt Tracking movement Rotated frame to make straight	My group and I learnt that we had to show we properly knew all the shot types, therefore showed a variety of angles, shots and framing types for the final product
Compare lighting	Great lighting Natural lighting	Good lighting (could have been improved) Tungsten lighting
Compare your use of sound	Camera microphone	GarageBand soundscape Foley sound x1	We made the music for the sequence by hand for this project, unlike the Prelim, which we didn’t think about
Compare the editing skills used (from match cutting to adding transitions)	FCP used to cut clips (very seamlessly)	FCP used to cut clips Add music More match cuts Use transitions x2 Change colour of picture to merge with other clips Motion used to create titles	We used FCP to the best of our knowledge and made sure we used a lot of different techniques whilst editing, including experimentations with Motion
Compare the mise en scene	No special outfits. Wasn’t taken into consideration	Outfits that suited each character Shot in a school building Toilets Childish conflict between teen character	We had a proper, thought-through story-line
Compare the use of titles	None	Moving titles-effect titles Coloured titles	We used Motion to create titles, something we hadn’t ever used before the Prelim.

Target Audience Feedback (2)

Target Audience Feedback (1)

We asked a member of our target audience who was stereotypically a girl (Amina) as our movie is mainly addressed to that gender and she is also 18 years old which is roughly around the age we want to aim our movie at. Overall, she had given us excellent feedback after watching our title sequence and gave great comments on the particular aspects she had like in the way the characters are presented and by the use of camera work 

After listening to Aminas feedback, it has given us the realisation that we have in fact presented a well edited high school movie title sequence and a better knowledge and a great insight in presenting different ideas when making a sequence. We also feel a lot better knowing that our hard work has been proven to be a success.

Technical Skills Learned

Message from the group

We done and finished our final edit on 06/03/15, within the time given and before the deadline. Now it's ready to be showcased at the cinema. We hope you all enjoy our high-school teen drama opening title sequence. We look forward to your feedback.

Editing - Finalising our title sequence

Today we started to conclude our title sequence by adding the final touches of editing. Jessica used the software application GarageBand to finalise our soundtrack and increase the sound where it needed to be increased, and then used the timer on her phone to calculate when to increase the sound so that it matched the footage.

finding sounds that suited our title sequence

We spent approximately 45 minutes of our lunch adding the remaining titles to our film. Adding the soundtrack and voice over to our footage continued after lunch, which involved a lot of file converting,rendering footage and embedding media into our FCP file.

audio converter was used to convert the MP3 music files to AICs

Editing - Making Titles in motion 2

Second Lesson:

We used this editing session to make our film's title, 'Mates'. We experimented different templates to find a suitable template that would look nice when introducing our title, but none of them satisfied us. The template we used for the title of our film was the same as the other titles. The title fades in, stays on screen for awhile, and then fades out. We placed the title of our film at the center of the screen to make sure our audience knows it's the title. We made the title larger than the other titles because it's the most important title, and decided to make it pink since this suits our website and blog style.

Towards the end of this session we began adding the titles to our film using Final Cut Pro. We created a new folder in Final Cut Pro and imported our titles. At this point, we just dragged and dropped the titles into the opening sequence.

Teacher's feedback

Our teacher Rebecca provided us feedback on our titles. She told us to keep the colours of our titles consistent. This is because we started by making the colours of each of our titles gender based - titles that contained a male name were given colours that were considered sterotypically "boy colours", such as blue. Titles that had a girls name were given colours that were considered sterotypically "girl colours", such as pink/purple. In response to Rebecca's feedback, we made the colours of our titles consistent (same colour). We didn't make each title a different colour based on gender. We decided to make all of our titles the same colour as the first few titles we made - a light mixture of pink and purple.

We finished the titles in the second lesson of that day. We spent part of the second lesson finishing the titles, approximately the first 15 minutes.

Editing - Making Titles in Motion 1

Date: 04/03/2015

Today, we began to create titles for our film using the software application known as Motion. All the shots and scenes for the opening sequence were in order, but we needed to create and add the titles to our film.

We chose a template where each letter for each title faded in slowly at half second intervals. The titles would be on screen for a short period of time then fade away again. After we chose our template, we experimented and discussed the different styles/fonts we could use for the titles. Eventually, we chose 'Microsoft Tai Le' - a simple style. Then, we discussed the colours we wanted the titles to be. We experimented different colours and tones. Eventually, we chose a mixture of light purple and a even lighter shade of purple. We used the 'color' circle/wheel tool to pick the colour for our titles.

Next, we began discussing where we wanted the titles to appear on screen. We decided the titles that show the name of the three main female characters should each appear at the bottom right-hand side of the screen. Titles of the main male character would appear at the bottom left-hand side of the screen. Titles that show the names of the people that were involved in the production of the film appear at the bottom center of the screen, such as director, producer, music supervisor, etc. Titles that show the name of minor characters appear at the centre, but on the right-hand side of the screen.

The titles were too thin and didn't have an option to make them bold. So we decided to add an outline to the title using the same colour as the title to make it appear as though it is bigger and bolder.

You can create an outline by using this tool. Go to the 'Style' option. The two things I circled in red are used to add an outline to make the titles appear thicker. First, tick the box that says 'outline'. Then click the drop down box to pick a colour for the outline.

Pictures of the rooms we used and could have used to film Kate's bed scene

These are pictures of the room we used to film Kate's bed scene. We chose to use this room because it has a feminine vibe to it. The walls and curtains are a light mixture of purple and pink - colours stereotypically found attractive by girls. Most girls are fans of stuffed cuddly animal toys. This makes the big cuddly and stuffed bear sitting on the bed appropriate for our film, more specifically the bed scene involving Kate. The room is clean and tidy which is sterotypically what people expect of a girls room.

There was another room we could have used when filming Kate's bed scene. It was also a good option, but we didn't use it. There are two pictures of the alternative room we could have used below:

Production Diary No.9

Our Last Lesson:

In today's lesson, we had a great amount of finishing touches to do. This had consisted of creating our soundtrack for our title sequence on Garage Band, adding titles to our sequence by using Motion and finally adding a characters voice over. We are really happy about our outcome of today because it we have successfully finished and created a very well edited title sequence based on a high school teen drama.

Creating Titles in Motion 

Creating a soundtrack in Garage Band 

Individual Roles:

Jessica- Main creator of our soundtrack
Atiyah & Rizwana- Supervisors to Jessica while making soundtrack
Eric- Creator of titles

Our Movie Website

Here is our official site for mates the movie:

http://artyrayban3.wix.com/mates-the-movie

Production Diary No.8

In todays lesson, we have all been busy with a huge amount of work. After finishing all of our filming work, we have been editing our last shots, finishing creating our movie website, creating our title credits in motion and updating our blogs.

Atiyah- Creating website
Jessica- Finishing editing
Eric- creating title credits
Rizwana- Updating blog

Production Diary no.7

This is the last day of shooting.
We re-short the scene where Eric's character knocks Atiyah's characters lipstick out of her hand, and then him and his friends walk off casually. We also did the photo-shoot for the film's website.

Jerk/Jock and stuck-up friends walk towards the 3 girls; Jerk 'accidently' knocks the lipstick out of hip-hop girl Kate's hand; The three girls turn towards Jerk and friends as they casually walk away and continue their banter; Camera tilts up and to girls shocked/angry faces; Kate character outburst, where the scene ends

 

Surprisingly, we were able to finish all the scenes today, despite the change in characters (Eric's friends weren't available to shoot again). We didn't face any delays or technical problems today, which is why it went so quickly. We only had to do around 12 takes, which is a record for our group.