Weather conditions

We were hoping to film some of our film opening in some foggy woods, to do this we've realised we're going to have to get up relatively early so that the fog doesn't rise. There were a couple of foggy mornings last week and being the early bird that I am I managed to get a few photos:

                        

Practice reverse shots

This is one of the shots we took when we went to Forty Hall!

Reverse shot practice

After much trouble with youtube not working on the school macs, I have finally managed to get this video onto youtube at home! We have edited some of the footage I managed to get on one of the beaches in Wales and decided to see what it would look like in reverse. We were thrilled with the outcome and plan to hopefully use it for the opening credits or production/company name in our film opening. 

Reverse shot practice

We had quite a lot of difficulties trying to upload these few clips onto iMovie, but they weren't compatible so Khadija had to put them all onto her phone. At first she said she had some problems trying to put the clips in reverse because I don't think windows movie maker is that advanced :S. However, from this video I can see that she has put a lot of effort in to making it look good! We wanted to try some reverse shots with people in them and after trying it out with someone just walking we decided that wasn't the sort of look we wanted to go for because it was far too calm and almost boring. So together we all decided that it would look brilliant to record a fight scene and put it into reverse, and by the looks of this video I don't think we were wrong! Well done Khadija, and the song goes really well with it by the way! 

Planning session

Today Khadija and I made up some rough storyboards for our film opening, we also had a discussion with Miss Foster about the concept for our film opening and she seemed to like it *phew*. In the next week we plan to go out Location scouting so we can confirm the locations for each of our shots. We also need to visit some charity shops and vintage shops to try and find a fairly chaep second hand wedding dress. However, if worst comes to worst me and Khadija are textiles students so we could always make one! 

Concept ideas

After school today we had a very intense team meeting in Starbucks to discuss the concept for our film opening. Here we are looking all intellectual with our big brainstorming page and a large mug of energy boosting coffee! Our ideas page was a little messy to say the least, so I came home and wrote it up in neat, hopefully this idea for our film opening is better than the last!

We came up with lots of different ideas and finally settled on the idea of our character having some sort of mental illness. I went and did some research on mental illnesses and what they cause, we then used this to decide what mental illness our character would have. Here are some pictures of our planning:

Mac 3 Pitch

Last lesson we had a discussion with Miss Foster about the concept for our film opening. As you can see we haven't quite come up with the concept, we have lots of different ideas that all sort of tie in together but we have absolutely no idea how we could make a film of any length out of them! Hopefully we'll be taking a rather intense trip to Starbucks tomorrow so we can get it all sorted out. I think we need to redo our concept vlog once we've fully decided what we're doing, obviously there are a lot of changes to be made!