final location

we decided to shoot our footage in a flat, we did this because it then allowed you to see the environment in which the girl was living and show more of an incite to her lifestyle.
We did a range of different shots in different rooms in the flat. The rooms we decided to shoot in were the bedroom,sitting room and kitchen. We decided on these places because it then allowed us to capture her doing what looks as though its a daily routine. By showing her in the bedroom and when she wakes up you can see the confusion on her face from when she wakes up, up until the moment when she realises where she is. By following her through the flat and in to the kitchen it allowed you to see that she was following a daily routine and having breakfast just like you do on an average day. We then cut in to a shot in the sitting room, this then allowed you to see how the girl is addicted to the habit an how it affects her life, that first thing in the morning before shes eaten or done anything else she starts with a line.

Rough Cut ! =) (woop!)

More Editing ideas

Another thing we are taking into consideration in our editiing is our transitions between clips, for the first half of the opening we have used a montage of overlapping, fading and static flashes to create a dream , drunk or high atmosphesre.

We ran into the problem of the secound half ofthe opeing where the main character wakes up and carries on witha hermorning ritual. the clips were a little too jerky and jumpy making it uneven,so we came up witht he idea of keeping the fades and overlapping in to represent the main characters feelings at tha moment. this could suggest that she is till drunk or high and phaseing from " how did i get form the bedroom tothe kitchen? am i still drunk?"

In films and Tv shows there is alwasy a use of fades as the person has just taken drugs and gothigh, we thought we could involve this into our clip.


These our a few examples of drug dream sequences

Human Traffic - at a rave in the 80s after they've taken Pills


Another trippy sequence after taking drugs

Titles

We have decided to do a minimalistic approach on our titles, using only the film title, production name, director, and two actors names. We are going to use a very simple font to represent her lower social class. i think by doing this it gives the impression of working class, like in the TV show Shameless.

We were inspried to do very short titles by opening srequence of Quentin tarantino such as Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, he uses very plain but bold titles almost like a slide show on a power point, this is an example of one....

Bits of Editing Ideas

The reason why we have chosen our film opening to be in black and white is because it gives a very british art house feel to it. We are aiming our production not to be a big blockbuster but to be a low budget, like this...

Control..



Sin City.. Even though this is not a british social realist drama, is shows how black and white footage can be affected with a small splash of colour in either the forground or background.



Sommers Town Clip, this is a clip from shane medows most rectent film in 2008, it is filmed all in black and white untill the very end where the colour merges in and enphisises the climax of the film.



This is the beginning of our editing and we are still deciding how we can play around to make the black and white filter look affective. We are also deciding whether the whole film would be in black and white or just the opening, and debating whether to have colour shots appearing in the footage.
For example in the film memento, the black and white parts of the film is when the main character, Leonardo, is trying to remember where he is and how he got there. This can be related back to our sequence as the main character is trying to remember her very blurred and hectic night out the evening before. Later in memento it then goes back into focus and has colour making the black and white section very artistic and abstract.

filiming

After finishing our planning, we got started on filming our footage for the project. one of our main problems during filming would have to be the jump shot of the alcohol bottles. This was a problem as we had to use my own digital camera for our filming compared to the schools video tape cameras. This meant that for us to be able to create a jump shot, normally we would just have to film then pause the footage then re film without changing the background only the foreground. unfortunately my camera does not let us do this as it films in clips. With this problem we had to leave the bottle scene for another date.

Another problem we popped up while filming would be the lighting for the dream flashback opening. As it is a clip of a stereo being trashed at a house party this meant it had to be relatively dark. We had this trouble in our last project, so we knew that one way of doing this is to film it in the light and then edit it on the computer. We tried different levels of light during filming to get a variation but once again decided that editing the light on final cut would give a better effect for the night feel.

One of the clips that i shot separately was the flashing club lights and the blurred images of drunk teens. we wanted it to be like you were there experiencing the madness of a rave while drunk. these are few example of what we wanted it to be like, but much more blurred and unclear to give the feel like she is dreaming or remembering the night before and trying to make out what was a very drunk and blurred night.



This is some footage of a house party and people dancing, this is a good example of a clearer version of what would have happened at the main character's party. but again we want a more unclear version of this.


This is obviously filmed by a hand held phone camera with very bad quality but the same sort of idea.


This is a good example of what we are going for.

Overall though, the filming of our footage went rather smoothly without too many glitches :)