Planning
One of the first things that we had to discuss in our group was what type of genre our film would follow and how we could achieve this. We all knew straight away that we would all be happiest following the comedic route. Each of us had different ideas on the story our film should follow and so we decided that we would put our ideas to each other to find the best one. We each had some good ideas and so we decided to blend them together.
Our story consisted of the main protagonist who felt he was extremely unlucky in life and that things can't get any worse. We then put all our ideas into a story board on which we would base all our filming around. We knew from the start that we would not be able to reproduce the story board shot for shot in our filming as things change for example, on the day that we were supposed to be filming the main bulk of our clip I was unable to meet with my group due to unavoidable circumstances. This meant we were left with less time in which to film. Our original idea was to have our central protagonist walking to a job interview. He is happy, the sun is shining and life is good. We then wanted a cut shot with the exact same scene but instead of the sun shining and life being good it would be raining and everything would be going wrong for him. So really we needed at least two days to shoot it. However, because I was unable to attend on one day we had only one day to shoot and so this became impossible. This is just an example of the dilemmas we had to overcome to produce our overall film.
Filming
The first step we had to take in filming was choosing the setting at which we would film the first half of our sequence. We knew it would have to be at someone’s house what we had to decide was who had the most suitable house for the film. Once we had established who’s house we were going to use to film our sequence I found out I would not be able to attend as I had to work however my group was very good at filling me in on what steps they had taken throughout the day of filming but it was still very difficult filming with only two of them.
I was told that the weather on the day was also an issue throughout the day, which meant they had to do the filming outside at different time intervals when the weather brightened up a bit.
When we realised we were going to have to shorten our story we decided to add a montage of the protagonist getting up, getting ready and eating his breakfast. This turned out to be very successful and worked well within our film.
Editing
After finishing the filming, we had to edit. This went relatively well as we only had one major problem. Connor was making the music on one Mac and Dom was doing the majority of the editing on another Mac. When it came to transferring the music over, we couldn't transfer it into Garage Band, so we had to sync all of the music with the film, whilst the files were on different computers, and they copy the song over into iTunes and upload it into iMovie. This proved to be very difficult and a lot of hassle, and we had to try it a few times as some parts of the music didn't sync properly.
One of the first things that we had to discuss in our group was what type of genre our film would follow and how we could achieve this. We all knew straight away that we would all be happiest following the comedic route. Each of us had different ideas on the story our film should follow and so we decided that we would put our ideas to each other to find the best one. We each had some good ideas and so we decided to blend them together.
Our story consisted of the main protagonist who felt he was extremely unlucky in life and that things can't get any worse. We then put all our ideas into a story board on which we would base all our filming around. We knew from the start that we would not be able to reproduce the story board shot for shot in our filming as things change for example, on the day that we were supposed to be filming the main bulk of our clip I was unable to meet with my group due to unavoidable circumstances. This meant we were left with less time in which to film. Our original idea was to have our central protagonist walking to a job interview. He is happy, the sun is shining and life is good. We then wanted a cut shot with the exact same scene but instead of the sun shining and life being good it would be raining and everything would be going wrong for him. So really we needed at least two days to shoot it. However, because I was unable to attend on one day we had only one day to shoot and so this became impossible. This is just an example of the dilemmas we had to overcome to produce our overall film.
Filming
The first step we had to take in filming was choosing the setting at which we would film the first half of our sequence. We knew it would have to be at someone’s house what we had to decide was who had the most suitable house for the film. Once we had established who’s house we were going to use to film our sequence I found out I would not be able to attend as I had to work however my group was very good at filling me in on what steps they had taken throughout the day of filming but it was still very difficult filming with only two of them.
I was told that the weather on the day was also an issue throughout the day, which meant they had to do the filming outside at different time intervals when the weather brightened up a bit.
When we realised we were going to have to shorten our story we decided to add a montage of the protagonist getting up, getting ready and eating his breakfast. This turned out to be very successful and worked well within our film.
Editing
After finishing the filming, we had to edit. This went relatively well as we only had one major problem. Connor was making the music on one Mac and Dom was doing the majority of the editing on another Mac. When it came to transferring the music over, we couldn't transfer it into Garage Band, so we had to sync all of the music with the film, whilst the files were on different computers, and they copy the song over into iTunes and upload it into iMovie. This proved to be very difficult and a lot of hassle, and we had to try it a few times as some parts of the music didn't sync properly.
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