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.   

First Day Editing

Today, our original plan  was to film the remaining scenes failed as two of the group members have fallen ill. So instead we made use of our time by starting to edit the scenes we have managed to film already.

We were editing our filming using the application 'Final Cut Pro', editing was much harder than we thought, we had to cut alot of parts off from each scene and find appropriate moments in the scene to smoothly merge into the next scene.The problem we are worried about now is the recording being over two minutes after we complete editing as two minutes is our time limit. However, one point were quite happy withis our shot types like 'over the shoulder' and 'two shot'.

THIRD DAY OF FILMING

Today we used the hour and a half session of Media to film the final part of Kane's journey to the college until his left peeking from behind a tree looking at the entrance of the college.We could have got other scenes done but we were missing some props like the nerds style glasses and red nail polish. 
 However, we booked to use the camcorder and tripod as we have planned to meet up on Wednesday afternoon and film the rest of the remaining scenes such as the locker scene, the flashback scene and the buckling scene. This will leave us prepared to to have the rest of the lessons till the deadline to edit and work on our recordings.

Third Day of Filming

During Marissa's hour and a half lesson are original plan was to film the locker scene and buckling scenes, however Kane forgot to bring his glasses which is an important prop of the nerds and as he is supposed to be wearing them at all times during the the opening scene we were not able to film. In order to fit we had to change the opening scene showing the nerds journey to school we decided he would walk but start skating once he is close to the school in order to show his peers that he is trying to be 'cool'. So we filmed different shots from behind Kevin where his face is not shown. The filming was good and easy as we had wide shots and long shots.

Third Day Of Filming

Our third day of filming was done in Marissas 1 hour 30 minute less. Our original plan for this lesson was to film the locker scene and the buckling scene if we had time however Kane did not bring the glasses he was wearing the first day of filming therefore we could not film the scenes we originally planned to film due to continuity problems. So instead of waisting the lesson time we decided to re shoot the scene we done on the second day of filming because we were not entirely happy with what we done and we decided we wanted to change our original plan because of the difficulties kane was having skateboarding. So instead of our original idea of kane skating all the way to the college we diced he was going to walk to the college and just before he gets to the college he starts skateboarding, we chose this idea because we thought the idea shows that he is not good at skateboarding and the only reason he does it is to show off in front of the rest of the college and seem 'cool'.

SECOND DAY OF FILMING

We done our second day of filming in the half term holiday, we all agreed to meet at the college and film the journey scene on 'Ellia Street'. It is located near the college so we got there quite fast.

It was much harder than we thought it was going to be, we had to retake the same shots over and over again making sure the camera was in the right position and only focuses on Kane's legs. We also had to make sure Kane skates in the same speed - not too fast and not too slow. The weather was also really cold and grey and we spent up to three hours filming outside! From 12:00 - 3:00 pm. This was the only day we met up to film in the holidays leaving to the rest of the scenes to film once college opens again, this is because the rest of the scenes requires the lockers and the entrance if the college which wont be such a hassle to film as the journey scene was.

FIRST DAY OF FILMING

Our first day of filming was done in the college classroom, we filmed the scene where both the nerd and the mean are in the classroom having the lesson coming to an end, as a group, we decided they should be sat next to each other so their contrast in behaviour is emphasised, kane is focusing on his work while Fatima is spinning on her chair acting careless.
   I think it was a great start to our project of the opening of our teenage film as our shots came out perfectly being cautious with the 'head space' and 'face grid'. We redone the scene couple of times over just in-case we any mistakes or errors when editing the scene, also taking numerous types of shots such as 'over the shoulder' and 'close up' of the teachers face and serious expressions towards Fatima. Another factor  we were quite satisfied with this particular scene was the setting and props of the classroom which was actually a problem at the beginning. We had an empty classroom at the start with no students or teachers to make it seem like an actual classroom, so this left us with no option but to go the library and politely ask some people to help us by  taking part in the scene playing as students. This really helped the scene result to seem more realistic and build the teenage atmosphere, we were really grateful for them participating.