Drum role please...

WE FINALLY WENT OUT FILMING... After deciding we would get all the shots needed in the Christmas break, we finally decided to go filming after delaying it for so long. Unfortunately Hannah could not make it as she was working but Taneshia, Leanne and I had a very productive day filming. We went around Enfield and got the shots needed here and re-recorded many shots also. Here are a few images of yesterdays work:

Related Films...

I have been looking into some Gang cultured films like 4.3.2.1, Adulthood and Kidulthood. These are all similar to the genre of film we are choosing for our opening. It gives us an insight into how our film will turn out and also gives us a few shot ideas in order to represent the protagonist in a mysterious similar to how we are wanting to show Leanne as it will come across she has a big secret.The film 4.3.2.1 includes a running scene, much like the one we need Leanne to do with various shots and angles like panning across with a close up of the feet and a wide shot in order to see the panic in her face, leaving us with wandering why she is running after hearing a siren.

Research

Here is some research to help us with the opening of our film opening. The first page includes information on the reasoning for joining a gang with info on how to join and leave gangs, helping us with a guideline to why our protagonist will join a gang. We then outline our storyline including information on why we got the idea to do gang-culture, which is mainly due to the article down below of how a girl was involved with a boy who was in a gang which resulted in her being involved in the London riots even though she is from a privileged background, much like how we want to represent Leanne. We then include information on depression as Leanne is going to be a depressed character, with sad emotion. We highlight key aspects in relation to our storyline also making it easier to identify how we want to present Leanne.

RESEARCH 2 Min Opening

Group Vlog

Last Wednesdays lsson we had a group apdate on where we are at so far. Everyone is now up to date on everything an we have finally buckled down and started to film.

Vlog update...

Here is mine and Taneshias most recent Vlog. We are updating you on our filming and any adjustments made. We our thinking about a plan B incase the filming does not work out, for example if our time lapse does not look great in Trafalgar square we will move location to a better suited one and also, as we have been told we need a permit to shoot on trains so we may get shots of her on the bus on the way home rather then risking getting caught, but we may find a way to work around this.

The Music

We have been thinking of a few ideas for the music in our opening. Considering the genre of our film will be 'Gang Culture' we are wanting to play an urban, gang style song as we believe they will fit well together therefore identifying the genre and feel of the opening clearly. Playing the song will be copyright so we have decided to show that leanne is wearing headphones and that is why the song is playing even though it is done a lot in these types of shots moreover getting Leanne to rip out her headphones so we here the muffled sound of the music playing allowing us to put ambient sound in the background also. Here are the possible contenders for our opening:

First Time-Lapse

As we have decided to start with a time lapse in the opening of a film we have decided to to a practice run to see how it turns out. By doing this it gives us a chance to see how we can edit it and how to arrange the things like the positioning of the camera. We placed it in the class on a cabinet to see if it is difficult to speed up while preparing to film the time-lapse even though we want to get the change from dark to light. This is how it turned out, it's a bit boring but not bad for our first attempt: