Final Product

During monday after school and tuesday Jordan and I edited all the new film and recorded a voice over on it. We also put a soundtrack on the film. We thought that our second attempt at the opening was much more of a success than the first as we applied more codes and conventions of a romantic comedy, for example costume and voice over.

In todays lesson, Friday 27th March, we handed in both our preliminary task and film opening burnt onto a disk, and I handed in my portfolio of work. I think having to re-film made it much more difficult as we had to produce a new storyboard.

Filming of our Rom Com

After school thursday last week, our group got together along with the entire cast and filmed all of the footage we needed for out project. We found it difficult to stick to the storyboard however once we got everything done it was okay.

However the clips we filmed from thursday didn't make sense to the conventions of a romantic comedy as the costume and plot didn't seem right. This lead us to having to completley re-think our idea and film again today on Monday 23rd march. We managed to get everything filmed within the school and i took a camera home to film certain elements we needed.

Tomorrow we will hopefully put our footage together again to see if this is more of a success than the previous attempt.

Wednesday 11th March

In todays lesson as a group we construced a casting list of people we want to feature in our clip. We tried to use people availble around our scheduling time and people we know who will be reliable to help the filming run smoothly.

We also constructed a filming schedule of times and places when we will film certain shots. We deicded to try and get the majority, if not all, of the filming done in one afternoon because we felt different filming times would be difficult as people may have different costumes, the setting and weather might not be the same etc.

Completed storyboard

In mondays single lesson, we completed our storyboard as a group. We decided to split it up into 3 main sections. In total, we have 26 shots. Predominantly set in school within a class room.

We tried to make it realistic settings to film in and contain a range of camera movements/shots.

Friday 6th March

In todays lesson we delivered our pitch on our romantic comedy "The date" powerpoint presentation. I think we could have gone into more detail with the synopsis however i think that after summarizing the ideas it made it easier for us to begin to storyboard. 

Also, other people suggested a few ideas for our film to make it better and we took these in to account. We have made a brief plan on our storyboard and then we will have to put it into diagrams next lesson. 

Friday 27th february

In today's lesson after completing our preliminary task, we were given a new task of planning a pitch for our film. We had to include:

• A complete film synopsis
• Script for the opening scene
• Detailed description of the opening scenes
• Character profiles
• Power point presentation on the summary of our ideas

We worked well as a group and decided to plan first on paper, and then type up our ideas on to the powerpoint. We typed the script up separately on word. I think the task was helpful in getting all our ideas together and finding the strengths and weaknesses of the codes & conventions we had chosen.

Evaluation of preliminary task 23rd February

When given the preliminary task, i had ideas that the exercise would be fairly easy and straight forward, however during the task i found elements such as places to film and times to film more difficult than first anticipated. Also we came across problems when we had to re-film because of the tape not working properly.

During pre production, as a group we constructed a storyboard, however when the filming was taking place i found that we rarely referred back to it which we probably should have. We tried to ensure that we had planned the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot in our video. Also i think that our ideas were much more unrealistic to the props and setting we would be able to use for example televisions, coffee tables and kitchens were not available to us within school.

When filming, the room we chose to film in was not as spacious as we first planned and it made it hard to use the tripod. Also we found it difficult to work out how to connect the camera to the tripod. However once we had started filming it was fairly easy to keep going. The 2nd time we re-filmed due to the tape getting stuck in the camera, the room was bigger and i found this a major help and it was much easier to get the shots we needed. When filming we tried to ensure the framing was correct and that when we filmed shot reverse shot that the characters were still in the same place as before. I think overall our work was much improved the second time we filmed, and we worked well as a group delegating tasks.

In todays lesson on the 25th we uploaded our video onto the computers and edited. We found it difficult to get the shots in order and to make the video flow at first, showing us we needed to refer to our storyboards more. We did have enough clips to choose the best out of them and this was a major help. We found that cutting most of the clips shorter was something we had to do repeatedly and in the end all the clips flowed. However, overall we thought the video was a success and decided not to use any effects, such as fades in, as it was fine without. The general editing was fairly simple to do and the video has been uploaded onto youtube.

The Video:

Url:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxFegm5E7A