A few pictures from todays lesson

Order of the titles

Second editing lesson

Editing lesson 

For this lesson we are going to edit the rest of our scenes. We will add music and some title sequences within the three hour lesson, then finish the title sequences in Monday's lesson. While Abdul and Curtis work on editing, myself and Nikita will be working on blog posts and feedback. 

Second filming session

Our second filming session that we completed was very successful as we managed to refilm all the parts that needed to be refilmed, and make it better due to the better weather that we had and our group being more dedicated to complete all the filming that had to be done so we didn't have to go back out into the cold.

Production-Rough Cut of Visions

Rough Cut of Visions

Here is the first rough cut of our teen drama title

sequence called Visions.

Feedback on rough cut

Feedback

pace

match cut on point

fading 

long gaps 

out of focus on the book 

add music to speed up 

add voice over 

get rid of long tracking and change for short cuts

Pace:
She told us that the pace of our title sequence was too slow and made it seem like it was dragging on. However, we will increase the pace of this by adding the titles in and adding the voice over, making it more interesting and easier for the audience to understand what is happening.
Match cut on point:
Marisa also told us that or match cuts that we included in our title sequence are on point and they match completely making it continuous and not jumpy.
Long gaps:
Marisa said that the gaps that we have in the rough cuts are too long. However when we add in the titles the gaps will be shorted they are just there for us to remember where we are going to add the titles in. We will add our titles on to a black screen but we will also add a few of the title on to the moving image.
Out of focus on the book:
The clip where we have the main character writing in the book is out of focus. To resolve this we plan on re-filming this part of the title sequence to improve the quality.
Get rid of the long tracking and change them for short cuts.
Marisa told us that we shouldn't use the long tracking shot as it is not steady and it is too long, we will change this by using the short clips that we filmed of the classroom scene making it better quality.


To improve our title sequence we will take up the feedback that Marisa gave us. We will also add in some titles and fix the fades in to the title sequence to make it better. 

Our lesson - 11/02/2015

Filming and Editing 

During today's morning lesson we filmed in Islington Green to get a better shot of our tracking of the main character. This only took us 15 minutes so we headed back to college. When we got back to college we began editing and creating the soundtrack using Final Cut pro and Garage band. While two of our group was busy doing that. We decided to record the voice over so we had all of our elements together. 

After that was completed we took it back to the group were it will soon be edited. In the next lesson. 

By the end of this lesson we hope to have all clips put together in order and have our rough cut complete with a few titles. 

 

Filming and Editing lesson

We had to go over the beginning scene of tracking because our other clips were too shaky.

Recording our voice over with Marisa and Dan

Editing begins with Abdul using Final Cut Pro

Curtis starts to make the backing music using Garage band

Pictures from our second filming session

Here are a few pictures that we put on licker from our second filming session

Research Extension - Who makes title sequences?

                           Dan Perri

Dan Perri is a very experienced film and television title designer who has been in the occupation for over 30 years. He has created titles for over 400 films including the famous Star Wars, Airplane and also Taxi Driver.

Dan Perri had a good relationship with the director (George Lucas) of Star Wars IV. This was very important because this allowed him to be the designer of the titles which were widely praised for his great effects. Without George Lucas the owner of Lucasfilm selecting Perri to design his title they wouldn't be praised for their titles. This suggest that they had a good relationship because George trusted Dan Perri's capabilities.

Production - Our first filming session

This is a prezi I've created about our time filming our title sequence for the first time.

Planning-Script

Mother: Dr.Willis, it's my son again, he's scaring me now, I don't know what to do...

Dr.Willis: Calm down Mrs.Middles, what has happened now?

Mother: He left the house at 3:30 this morning, sat down on the road and started screaming. I can't take it anymore, he needs some sort of medication.

Dr.Willis: This is the fifth time you have come for an appointment,  he needs to seek serious medical attention and the only way he can receive this is by staying at St. Anns.

Mother: I am not sending my son to a bin full of lunatics, he just needs some medicine, give him anti-biotics, give him a vaccine, just give me something to cure him.

Dr.Willis: A serious mental illness like that isn't curable with anit-biotics or vaccines or any type of medication. He need to be treated with therapy and St. Anns will give him the best therapy that he will get and your worries will be gone. 

Mother: I have told you many times, that I will keep my son with me at all times and that is final.

Dr.Willis: Well if you keep him with you then I can do nothing for you and you will have to treat him by yourself.

Mother: Fine, I will and he will live like a normal teenager should and he will do things an ordinary one will do!

Dr.Willis: Ok, but if I hear anything bad about your son, you will give me no option but to call St. Anns and your son will be taken to the hospital.

Mother: No that's not going to happen under my watch!

Dr Willis: Well it will happen but look after the boy and he should be fine.

Mother: I will doctor, he will be cured.

Dr.Willis: I'm sure he will.

Mother: But..

Dr.Willis: Yes Mrs.Middles?

Mother: I'm still very worried.

First filming session

For our first filming session we found it hard because of the weather conditions. Our first problem was the sound on the camera wasn't working which meant we had to call up college and fix the problem over the phone.The second problem we had was it started to rain heavily which meant to we had to wait under a cafe shelter until it had stopped. After ten minutes and when the equipment had dried we began to film again. However we didn't have very long as the rain took up most of our time. Once we got back to college we had to put it on a video drive before we could leave lesson.

Production- First Stages of filming Evaluation

In this screen shot, we found out that we couldn't use this clip for our title sequence because Abdul's head soon became out of the screen.

Secondly we can't use the footage from this clip because Abdul's head because out of focus and out of shot.

Also we will not be using this clip because there is a transport in the background which ruins the mise en scene as it takes the main focus away from the character.

Due to mise en scene, again, we cannot use this footage as the continuity had been ruined because Abdul's hood was down.

Lastly we cannot use this clip as there is someone in the background and the characters head goes out of shot. 

When we next film, we know to look out for these things and adjust our filming skills.