Rebecca Moorbey's AS Media Blog

Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Changes Made Through Filming (4) - Alice Nutter

Update/ Entry 4- 11/1/17

Today was our second attempt at filming the first scene of the opening sequence with Ash and Darcy riding their bikes down the road screaming “Wohooo!” whilst laughing. We were more conscience of the light we had this time. As we were filming this part of the opening sequence outside, and the sun sets a lot earlier now, we had to be quick and precise with our filming. We chose to film in three separate parts, allowing us when it comes to editing to use the shot reverse shot rule. We first filmed Erin and I, riding side by side screaming “Wohoo!” and laughing, then we filmed just me doing the same actions and looking to my side as if Ash was next to me, and then once again repeated that with Erin but this time her looking to her side as if Darcy was next to her. We did have a few issues with how to zoom in and out of a shot, but after a few trials this issue was soon dealt with.

Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Changes Made Through Filming (3) - Alice Nutter

Update/ Entry 3- 10/1/17Today we started editing the footage we had on the camera. At this point in time we haven’t filmed every scene, but the majority of it has been filmed. All the rest of the scenes have to be filmed outside of school. Therefore, we stuck to editing the footage we had already obtained. Using premier pro, we uploaded all of our footage onto our computer, and made a new project, inserting the media we had already filmed into it. We placed those sections onto our timeline, and began to simply cut them to their right timings so they would flow together nicely. As a group Rebecca, Erin and I were still undecided on the music we wanted to choose. Rebecca had done some research and found three tracks that she felt appropriate to use within our teen angst opening sequence, it’s just left to all of us together to choose which one out of the three would fit our message and our opening sequence the best.

Friday, 6 January 2017

Music Choice

Non-diegetic music -
Bensound - happy rock
Music that Erin created on Garage band

Diegetic sound -
Dialogue between all of the characters throughout the title and opening sequence

Amplified sound -
Kicking of the can

We decided to use the track 'happy rock' at the start of our opening sequence as it is quite up beat and is of an almost rock theme. This was important as the main character has depression so stereotypically they would be listening to rock-type music. We felt like this song reflects the personality of the main character and enables the audience to get a first glimpse at what type of person they are going to be. From here we decided that we are going to increase the volume of the song as the main character is shown putting in her headphones. We decided to do this because we thought that it might make the audience feel more involved in the film, putting them in the main characters position.