Rough Cut

A lot of our rough cut had to be edited although it was only a rough cut. In many of our scenes we had began filming too soon so we had the setting up of the shot on film. Also as we had filmed our sequence in the wrong order due to the weather conditions, this meant that we had to change the order in our rough cut in order for it to make sense. We had a few scenes where the character looked at the camera, which made it seem under cuts the realism which we were trying to achieve. we realized that we have got a few scenes which need to be improved, so we are going to re shoot these on Tuesday. We also want our final cut to be longer so we are going to add in a few shots too, this should not take too long but will improve our final sequence.

Tom's illness

At the moment, a member of our group is ill; Tom. he hasn't been here all this week so we have had to do filming and blogging on our own. However we have coped very well. we have had to find another boy to take his place as he was a main role in our film.

Taking the camera home.

Several of our scenes need to be shot at a house, but as Tom is ill at the moment, we had to include a new character to take his place. We used a table in the refectory as his table at home, and we are going to film at my house and use it as Rosie's house. We had a problem as we all go home before the end of the day, so we can't take the camera home at the end of today. Instead, we are going to collect the camera on the Wednesday of half term and film the scenes we need to and bring it back on the first day back. Once we have filmed at my house, we only need to film a couple of scenes at college which include Rosie and her friends socialising together. When we have done these scenes, we are going to use the final few lessons to edit our scenes and make a rough-cut.

Changes

Due to the icy weather conditions, we had to change the setting of some of our scenes. Scenes 1 and 2 were supposed to be shot on an open green, but we had to change our plans. It is still the same footage, but we had to film in the quad at Long Road because of the solid ground. The only problem we encountered was the people walking across the quad as it is a busy area for students, and the ice made the ground quite slippery.

Locations

1. An open space (school field). This is where we film the first 9 shots. We chose to film the majority of our shots in an open space, this is because it is very stereotypical of teenagers to be out on public greens, such as parks and recreation grounds. Another British stereotypical view of teenagers is that they are out on these spaces causing trouble, for example; under age drinking. This is what our teenagers are doing during these shots, under-age drinking. This is a main convention of a British social realist drama is to have 'taboo subjects' and we think that underage drinking is a big problem in Great Britain and many people try and believe that it doesn't happen as much as people believe it does. We also chose to film outside because we wanted a variety of shots inside and outside to make our film opening more interesting.

2. Inside shots; inside two rooms in a house. This is so that the audience gets an insight into the characters houses and what their lives are like. It also shows the difference between Rosie and Toms home life, and what kind of background they have both come from. Rosie's house is clean and tidy, and on the other hand, Tom's house is messy and not very clean.

In this lesson we are going to go location scouting so that we can see where the best place to shoot our scenes are.

Shot List...

In our opening sequence, we are going to use a variety of different camera shots. here is a list of the ones we are going to use:

- Medium Shot: This is when the camera is around 3-5 metres away from the characters. We decided this would be a good shot to use because we can include all the characters we want to in the shot, and you can still make out their faces clearly.

- Long Shot: This is when the characters are far away from the camera, and sometimes you can't make out their faces, just their figures. We wanted to include this type of shot as it will show the characters, and it will also show the background, and the setting of where they are.

- Close-up: This is when the camera focuses on one thing, normally a persons face. We decided to include some close-ups to show the audience the characters faces clearly.

- Split Scene: This is when the scene divides in to two or more different pictures in the same scene, to try and show the audience separate events at the same time. We have included this type of shot so we can show the audience what Rosie and Tom are both doing at the same time.

- Extreme Close-up: This is when the camera focuses on one object or facial feature, eg an eye. We wanted to include this so the audience can focus only on the thing shown.

- Over the shoulder shot: This is when the camera shows someone or something, with a characters shoulder in the side of the shot. We have included this shot so we can include Rosie and Tom in the same scene without them being close.

Feedback;

One group described our idea as being original, this was good because we wanted our idea to be original because there are a lot of this type of genre films around which are very similar. When we were analyzing our film introductions which fitted in with our genres, we wanted to take some of the idea but without it being too similar to those that are already around. We also got told that our it portrays' people's problems well this is also good because we wanted to get peoples problems across this was one of our main aims as normally issues like the ones in our film are seen as taboo subjects. At the time when we presented our work our mood board was not uploaded, this caused us some problems when presenting because we had to describe what was on it with no visual aid.

Mood Board Analysis of Mise en Scene

We have created a mood board showing the different elements of mise en scene we want to feature in our film opening. We have included a picture of a house. We think we should have the main characters home involved because it sets a scene which people can get used to and which the audience keeps coming back to. It also shows what the main character's home life is like, and shows what class they are, e.g. working class, middle class. Showing the audience her home introduces her family. We also thought alcohol would be a good element of mise en scene to include as most British social realist dramas feature it. It is a big part of youth, and it means we can create some of the characters as alcoholics. We have put a photo of fighting in our mood board because it is going to be a strong feature of our sequence. Violence is a strong feature of British social realist dramas. Violence we want to feature includes domestic violence towards Rosie, which again is a strong feature of this genre of this film. We have included a photo of a school in our mood board because this creates another main setting for the film, and shows the age of the characters.