Editing Part 1

Today we began our editing and here are some photos of us doing this....

 Problems and Decisions

Problem: Our original idea to do cross cutting doesn't really work with the footage we have.
Decision: Our main focus will now be the mystery man ,we will use music to create the urgency we were originally going to create with the cross cutting.

Titles and Credit Research by Nathan

 La Zona-  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00z9t8w/La_Zona/

• The opening credits parallel the seemingly simplistic lives of this community. The credits themselves are used with the moving image to suggest a scene of tranquility. 
• However, the music here is sombre, is something bad about to happen to this tranquil scene?
• Credits are placed away from areas of action and are put up against darkened areas so the audience is able to read them.
• The first shot of the entire sequence is the imagery of the cars canted and distorted by a car window. Although this scene appears peaceful, something is not quite right.

Simplistic credits parallel a simple,easy existence.

Scenes of tranqulity.

• The titling sequence signals a change in mood. The images of tranqulity are replaced with a black background and a metallic sign saying 'La Zona', this title is paralleled by the sound of a Thunderstorm which leads into the next scene.

Signals a change in tone.

 Silk- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yzj1l/Silk_Episode_1/

• Graphics of a red line of silk immediately relate back to the title, it is likely this is going to be one of the key features of the drama.
• Credits of actors names are matched up by images of their character, the audience can begin to identify who is which character. Some images are out of focus, is this character going to be in danger?
• Images appear on screen but are immediately disjointed, suggesting some element of crime or misunderstanding.
• Images are in between the silk, we can see some of the picture but not the whole thing. 
• Once again, imagery is placed seperately to credits (There is not a lot of titling that goes overtop the images) and titling is placed up against a colour contrasting background so they are easy to see.

The silk opens the credits

Imagery of characters is blurred.

Cannot not see the full book case: Unanswered questions?

The 'evidence' is disjointed.

I, Robot

• The first moments feature mechanical titling of 20th Century Fox. This is coupled with low sounding, eery music that is likely to put the audience on edge.
• The titling is reflected in the other things we see in the shot, this outlines to the audience that this likely to be a metal.
• In a flash of light, the words 'I Robot' appear. There is also the sound of some sort of electrical fault when this happens.
• The titling floats away and the sound of bubbling which was originally very low now gets increasingly loud to the point that the audience should realise the action is taking place under water.
• Titling and credits placed in the blacked out areas of the screen. The audience can easily read them and this colour contrasts helps emphasise to the audience the importance of the flash of light.

Mechanical lettering is paralleled by mechanical background.

Titling reflected.

Bright light emphasised by sound.

The title disperses and floats away.

Filming Part 3

We managed to complete our filming today and here are some shots of us doing so...

The mystery man approaches but Nathan is not ready!

Becky tracking the mystery man

Nathan on his favourite seating place!

 Problems and Decisions
Problem: Final shot seems emotionally detatched but really the audience should feel sorry for the protagonist.
Decision: Have a final shot of the Protagonists eyes as they looked shocked at being kidnapped.

Problem: When standing the protagonist does not seem to accept his situation, he still seems to fight it.
Decision: Stan sits down helpless, he realises he means nothing to the Mob Manager and waits, praying that nothing will happen.

Filming Plans and Uploading 'Rushes'

We have decided to film in our double period on Friday 4th March as we had problems filming in half term. Here is the permission to do this from Andrew...

 The weather for friday is looking promising...

We have uploaded our footage we have filmed so far and hoping to finish it on Friday. Here is some evidence of doing this....

Filming Part 2

• Today was the day when we were supposed to finish filming our footage. However, the battery run out and the replacement battery had not been charged.
• We managed to film some of the footage. But in order to complete this we will now hopefully  film in our double period on Friday 4th March if we get permission from our Supervisor, Andrew. 

Filming Postponed

Filming is postponed today (Wednesday 23rd) due to bad weather. This is also coupled with bad visibility.

So hopefully we will film on Friday (25th February)... The Met Office/BBC Weather seems unsure whether it will rain in the daytime or not...

The overall view for the day is light rain.

The daytime view appears to be dry.

Filming Shots By Becky

Today we filmed the 'mob leader' scene and here are a couple of photos to show what we got up to!

Problems and Decisions

• Our original idea to use underlighting didn't work in practice so in the end we decided to use side lighting.
• Problems with Cigarette: We were going to use a cigarette, but we realised that Alex would not be able to hold it along with the glass of whiskey and the telephone. Therefore, we made the whiskey the main focus.

Here Nathan is on lighting duty whilst Shona is filming.

In this picture we can see Alex acting!