Progression

Throughout the media course a lot of progress has been made by me and the group. Individually I think I have learnt a lot of new skills and techniques, from using the camera (angle) and editing, I think I have gained a lot of confidence as now I am not afraid to tell the group what doesn't look good. As I haven't used Adobe Premier Pro before it took me a while to get used to it, eventually me and my group got the hang of it, there were still areas where we weren't sure how to use but our teachers helped us and we learnt how to improve it. I'v learnt that it wasn't as easy as I expected. There were many times where we had to re-shoot the scene again, this was very difficult as we also needed to think about our actors as well, as timing was an issue. As we were filming at school we had to fit filming around lesson and after school so it has been hard getting the actors available.
We wanted to create an affect where our footage is black and white but not Jack's red tie, we have major difficulty doing this as it took us ages how to figure it out how to do this on Adobe Premier Pro. However it took us a while to do this, we finally got around doing it, I think it is because as a group we work well together and we all feel comfortable putting our ideas forward.
Since the start of the project there have been a lot of changes but all these changes have definitely made our footage a lot better. Some shots have proved difficulty, as a group we wanted to put as many different shots and angles as we could. As a group we have worked very well, we have all put our inputs in and have done what were suppose to do, however I wished our group worked harder at the start of the project as we have left some parts last minute when our deadline is next week, this means that we don't have as much time to edit our footage.

Props

There are different varies of props for each of our actors, the props show more interest for the audience and also what the character is like. Such as Shauna wears an elegant floral white dress which shows purity and innocence.
We got majority of these props from the drama cupboard as there was a wide range of choice, also some of the props used were borrowed from our friends as it is very important we get all the props correct.

Jack:
-White Shirt
-Blue Suit
-Smart Shoes
-Red Tie

Simran:
-Red Smart Top
-Black Skirt
-Black Fur Coat
-Black Tights
-Black Heels

Shauna:
-White Fur Coat
-White Floral Dress
-Skin Coloured Tights
-Kitten Heels

Others:
-Piano
-Briefcase
-Car
-Knife
-Fake Blood
-Red Lipstick

Our Locations

Here are some of the locations we are filming in:

The first location we used was the halls stage at school, we are using the stage as it fits in well with our first couple of scenes. The location is going to show me playing on the piano and the curtains gradually closing. The music I will be playing will sound very sinister and on edge as it will fit into the thriller genre. I think this location will be great for the scene as the lights will be turned off and shown in black and white, this will have a sense of danger to the scene.

                                       

We will be using the Chikara Centre's drama room as the room is very spacious, they also have the equipment we need. Such as lighting, we need spotlights as it will make the scene look dramatic and evil. The drama room also has black curtains and flooring this will fit in well with the scene at the theatre.

Non-Copyright Music By Emily Hardy

This is a website we can get the non copyright music for our film from:
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

We need to work as a group and decided what soundtracks we want to use in our film. It would probably be something from jazz or silent film as they would fit most into our film noir genre.

Final Continuity Task

Continuity Task- First Cut

Feedback:

Here is the first cut of our continuity task, there are many issues filming it and we need to improve on it. Mr Ford gave us some feedback and gave us possible improvements we could do. We had difficulty filming it as we could not find the time to film that suited all of us. We tried to find the best location filming our continuity task however you can see in 0.40 there are posters on the wall, however we couldn't do anything about it as it is school property. Mr Ford gave us a list of shots that we had to include however we had broke some of these rules. Such as a shot reverse shot, 180 degree rule, top of her head was cut off and needed more varied angles. The 180 degree rule is when two characters should always have the same left and right relationship to each other. We had difficulties filming this as we weren't confident however this is one of the aspects of the task we need to improve on. When Simran informs Prada she is pregnant there is an extreme close up shot of Prada however this didn't go to well as her chin and her forehead was cut off this made the shot look unprofessional, this is another improvement we need to re shoot for out final cut.


There are many improvement we have to do, this includes:

-A shot reverse shot

-180 degree rule was broken

-More varied angles need to be used 

-The top of her head was cut off

Order of the opening credits

In a Motion Picture, television program, or video game, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. Where opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence (such as the familiar James Bond).


Common opening order credits:

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the Studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

• Director's cut  first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodger;s and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name of the principal actor will be shown before the names of the producer, i.e. "The Canon group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").

• (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film.

• FEATURING

Featured actors

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

This research is very important to our film because when editing we will know what order to put our opening credits in.