Les Miserables

Last Saturday I went to see the film 'Les Mis'. I thought it was an amazing film however some scenes in the beginning were quite long winded although it concluded several scenes in the end. The use of effects were fantastic, especially when the whole cast were together at the end singing the final song, it was a very chirpy ending making me love the film more. Due to it being the French Revolution there were many guns and canons used to add effects which was filmed very cleverly even though it was a tear jerker when Gavroche died. Also the scene where Enjolras was shot then fell out the Window with the red flag was very powerful, a mid shot was used to film it with only him in the frame hanging from the window with the flag to add effect of how tortuous it was also becoming such a powerful heart renching scene.

Group Vlog session

Here is the group blog we did the other day keeping you up to date on our whereabouts. We are also facing a slight problem due to Snow being for cased over the next few days so may have to postpone our last filming sessions, that's british weather for you...

Problem Solved...

Hoorah... due to some help from Miss, we have overcome the time lapse situation. What we did was, put the time lapse to its maximum speed then uploaded it to youtube. We then converted the clip and downloaded it back onto iMovie where we then spead up the clip even more - to the speed we wanted. We then cut this into our final footage at the beginning and continued editing the rest of our footage. We are all very pleased with the opening so far, fingers crossed the rest of the footage looks great.

Slight Problem...

After we had a very productive break, getting most shots needed we were all very enthusiastic to start editing. The first lesson back we downloaded all the clips onto iMovie. We started to edit the time lapse first and all was looking great but unfortunatly the time lapse took most of our opening. The tool used to speed it up hit the speed limit so we couldnt spead up the footage any more. However, all the other shots are looking great and steady which is a bonus.

Vlog on Train

Here is the vlog from the past week me and Taneshia took on the days filming up London:

Short clip in One Tree Hill

Here is a clip from 'one tree hill' that I saw when I was watching it. I am posting this because I feel the various shots used really added effect within the situation and are similar shots to ones we need. I liked the shot of the close up, track of the feet which then reverted to a close up track of Haleys face which is similar to a shot we are needing to film. Several shots and angles have been used and I feel that when I watched this gave me more knowledge of how we need film our opening and what will be most effective... Ignore the French voice over - it's the only clip I could find on youtube

You will not believe it...

After our recording session last week we have finally buckled down and filmed the TIME LAPSE. We went out to Trafalgar early morning to get the shot then got the shots of Leanne on the train on her journey home becoming anxious. We have now pretty much got all the shots needed, now all that is left is to get a tracking shots and a few close ups of Leanne. We are all very happy we have the shots needed. Here is a few pics of  the days hard work: