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DEADLINE POST!!

Today was the deadline, we all had to be finished by 3 PM! So in order to meet the given deadline, we met  up during lunch break to finalize our last bits and bobs of our editing which is explained in our previous blog. We eventually managed to complete our Teen Film by 3 PM and showed it to Rebecca who also approved it of being FINISHED! 

We are now GLAD to say ... All the weeks of planning, filming and editing finally came to an end!!!

Last Day of Editing!!! :o

Today, we are currently editing the final touches for our teen film, we are first trying to complete all the credits that are going to be shown at the beginning (traveling scene). We are trying to fit in the long list of credits until the 'nerd' is seen entering the college.

Then, we are going to cut some parts off due to the film duration exceeding the limited time we were given which is TWO MINUTES, however, right now, our film is hitting up to three minutes! - This was our hardest task as originally, at first,our filming in total is two minutes and ten seconds while the actual idents itself takes up to twenty seconds!

 However, after speeding up the duration of the idents, it not only looks more professional, but it also helps us reach closer to the actual time limit. After finally cutting some parts of some scenes off making it more smooth yet snappy, we eventually reached two minutes and forty seconds which Rebbecca said would be fine.
 Another factor which we quickly need to fix is the voice over and the background music, we decided to play them both simultaneously with the background music playing quietly in order to make kanes voice over be clearly heard  by the audience.
 Also, another last minute task we had to quickly accomplish on another computer whilst completing the film was the animatic storyboard. We used Final Cut Pro application to put our animatic storyboard together which fortunately, didn't take too long.

Feedback of Our Rough-Cut

After showing Rebecca our rough-cut that we have uploaded on the previous post, she was very impressed with it and commented that she can see the out come coming out very well when it will be finally finished after all the editing is completed.
The technique she was most happy with was our ' match-cuts' and 'close-ups'. She also liked the background music - 'jelly legs' which she said will cut really well with our voice over sound affect that we will be adding on this afternoon. We still have not inserted our credits on which Rebecca said she will like to see by next session and hopefully we will fulfil that. She also reminded us that for our credits we will need to have a different name for each title and not have the same people as it will make our opening look unprofessional and we will loose marks.

Rough Cut

This is our ROUGH-CUT which we completed today. There are a couple of things which are stil incomplete but we will be making time TOMMORROW, MONDAY and TUESDAY to adjust the final touches.

Soundscape for Our Opening

For our opening we have decided to have voice over of the nerds voice talking about how its a new year and talks about trying to fit in with the popular people, while the voice over is playing during the beginning JellyLegs by The Long Now will be playing in the background.
The JellyLegs soundtrack will only playing during the nerds journey to school and will fade out once he reaches the school entrance.

Plan of Title Sequence

This is our plan of our title sequence:

-Production Ident (Maya International)
-Distribution Ident (Artificial Eye)
-Production Title Name
-Distribution Title Name
-Actor 1 (Kane)
-Actor 2 (Fatima)
-Film Title (Nerdella)
-Casting By (Marrisa Provodance)
-Costume By (Jessie Prentice)
-Music Supervisor (Anjuman)
-Music By- The Long Now and The Fresh Body Shop
-Edited By (all of us)
-Production Design - Rebecca Morris
-Director of Photography (Jorden Cowell)
-Executive Producers ( Blake William and Jamie Bill and Jane Black)
- Written By ( Joe Branning)
-Director (Arifa Rahman)


In the edit suite on one of the walls it has order of titles, we used this to help us when we planned our title sequence.

Last Day of Filming

Today is the DEADLINE for the 'ROUGH-CUT!'. Fortunately, we completed all our filming all our scenes and the re-shots that needed to be taken by half way through our lesson, we are currently editing the left over scenes that needed to be inserted such as the 'buckling scene' and the nerd entering the college.

 CHANGES:

We made a last minute change for the location of the buckling scene, it was originally meant to be filmed outside at the entrance of the college gates, however, due to kane finding it difficult to skate on uneven ground, we changed the location to a more suitable and safer place which was the college canteen.

BUT

There is still one more shot we need to do - 'The DOOR' - this scene is going to show the nerd leaving his house. It is going to be the FIRST scene that starts off the begining of our film, it is also the scene where the credits are going to roll so it is a very VITAL scene. however, we will not have time to film it today so we have planned for Kane to take the camera over night and edit it tommorrow.

Third Day Editing

Today we met up after lunch to film the buckling scenes however it was difficult to film as we were on a busy road and Kane does not know how to skate well so instead of filming we decided to edit the locker scene.

Looking back at our locker scene, we realised we did not do enough retakes on certain scenes such as when Kane looks up at Fatima when she confronts him and in some shots Kane and fatima end up laughing. We decided we will film tomorrow  before our media lesson. 

This is how much we have edited so far

Our Script For The Voice Over

^^This is our script for the voice over 

which Kane will be reading out:

"September 7th 2013

First day back from the summer holidays. It wasn't the best holiday but, i took up a new hobby...

skateboarding. Learning how to skateboard is my first step to becoming popular! A step to my plan of having an eventful year! You know ... new year, new me kinda thing . Well, this year is going to start with bang with me- "(buckles and falls over)

AFTER BUCKLING SCENE

Well, that didn't go as planned, but you know that girl ... the one that helped me up, she may seem innocent but DON'T  let her deceive you, that's Lindsay, the schools (beeeep). And hey! Ive got first period with her ... *sighs*

***

Second Day of Editing

Today was our second day of editing, however, we couldn't use the class session time to edit as we were using that time to film one of our final scenes.

So, we took time out of our own by staying in another media room until the end of the day to edit the scenes we filmed earlier on, we also composed the script for the voice over which we will have playing from the beginning of the opening of the film till the 'classroom scene', it is going to be the nerds voice so Kane is going to be reading it out.

 Another point we might take into consideration for our film is an edit of 'slow motion'- this effect is for the part when the nerd buckles and the mean girl reluctantly helps him up.

Also, after watching over our 'rough-cut filming' so far, we detected a awkward/messy/just not right recorded part which was in the 'classroom scene', the part where all the students are leaving the classroom, so we will be shooting that part again.

Our favourite scene so far is the'travelling scene', the part when the nerd is peeping from behind the tree as the camera shots and types cut into each other really smoothly and if played really well.

Fourth Day of Filming

Today we finally filmed the 'locker scene' and were glad to say it all went well! We added an extra scene where the nerd puts all his books and folders and the skateboard into the locker before the class session so it looks more realistic.

We had to take up to 10 shots which include - Medium shots, close up shots, Tilt and Over the shoulder shots from all different angles.

Through these shots we capture the mean girls smirk and her rough shove on the locker and the nerds papers all falling out of his hand.

We were also going to film the 'buckling scene' today, however, the weather was rainy which would look odd as our beginning scenes of the nerd travelling to school was not on rainy day.

What Needs to be Done...

On Thursday we started our editing even though we have not filmed all of our scenes to save time and not wasting a double lesson on doing nothing. We still have a few scenes to such as the Locker Scene, Buckling Scene and The Beginning of the Journey to School Scene.

The original plan was to film these scenes during the double lesson on Thursday however as Kane and Fatima we not in and they are the main characters so we were not able to film.

We will be filming these secnes on Mondays lesson and coming in on Tuesday and Wednesday to do the editing so on Thursday we can show our rough out to the class.

Reflection from our filming and editing

After looking throug our footages, we noticed how much filming left we have of our scenes:

- The 'buckling' scene - when the nerd buckles on the skateboard at the popular girls feet.

- The locker scene - When the popular asks the nerd for help and he confronts her about 'the secret'.

- The flashback scene- 'the secret' the nerd witnessed.

This week is our last chance to record these scenes and edit it a bit before the 'rough-cut deadline' on Wednesday. We also have the soundtrack and credits to insert when editing.

^^ This is how much we have filmed and edited so far.

Also after speaking to Rebecca and showing her our opening, she said our opening was too long and we would need to cut a scenes out. So we decided to cut out the flashback scene where Kevin is supposed to find out Lindsey's secret, as e have cut that out e need to come up with a new name as the title of the film was based around the secret.   

Framing Tutorial

Today in Marissa's lesson, Mikey one of the media techs came and showed as a eight minute long video of all the different shot types and this which are and are not allowed during filming.
He reminded as of all the different shot types and said that most media students forget to do close up shots  and mid shots and not to have head space while filming as that, was another problem that other media students previously faced. Another point also was that to use the tripod and fig rig so none of our footage was shaking, by having footage that is constantly shaking it makes the whole opening over all very unprofessional.

The video also gave examples of the different shot types and tracking scenes from another TV show, which was good as it made it easier to understand and remember so when it comes to filming are are not confused.

These are two different close up shots

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