Running!

In Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging the opening is of a girl (Georgia) running home of embarrassment as she went to a fancy dress party as a olive! Similar to our opening with the running (but not running home from a party) or in an olive costume !
but I really like some of the shots and I think our group can replicate it like the wide shots, panning shots My favourite shot is between 2.36s - 2.46 when the camera tracks towards Georgia as she runs towards the camera itself causes them to meet at the middle, the camera then pans right and Georgia is central in the frame showing her trying to enter the gate.

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Timelapse!

I feel like we haven't explained in detail why we have put our Time lapse in our 2 minute opening, so here is a Power Point I have made explaining it more clearly.

Thinking of names

My name is... My name is... My name is... Well we are kind of stuck on that one. We really can't quite find a suitable name for our 2 minute opening. One of Alicia's great ones was Taken 3 even though our opening/film has nothing to do with people being taken. Another that Hannah had suggested was Misled. Which I quite like because the girl in our film is misled by gang members. So that one gets a check on our name list from me! However in the time I wrote this blog I have just found that there is a film has been released this year called misled :(

I dreamed a dream...

On Saturday, I went to see les Miserablés with Alicia and some others, and there is one word that can describe it ...Amazing !! The cinematography was outstanding and I have to say it even topped 'The Impossible', which I also watched this year. The singing was brilliant for a cast of actors and not professional singers, and the acting was truly believable! The sound effects were very realistic and at one point when Javert commits suicide, he falls off the side and you heard his body crack. That was very horrific and it was so sad when Gavrosh died! The cinematography was so realistic and believable from costume and make-up to set and lighting! All I say is it is a Must watch however Is nearly 3 hours long !!

Here's some info on the film that I got from wikipedia:

Les Misérables is a 2012 British musical drama film produced by Working Title Films and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the musical of the same name by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg which is in turn based on Les Misérables, the 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo. The film is directed by Tom Hooper, scripted by William Nicholson, Boublil, Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer, and stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and Amanda Seyfried.








If you want to listen to a one man les mis video here it is...
(this man is AMAZING he does the female and male voices, also watch his 1 man Disney medley)




and if that is not enough and you want the trailer, here it is...

Snow !

Oh how most people love snow! Although it is not my favourite of the weathers it sure does look pretty. BUT [and this is a big but !] we were hoping to film on Wednesday (as it is academic review day at school) and this was probably going to be our last day of filming, but the snow has ruined that plan ! and I am frankly very disappointed, happy we got a day off school, but upset we won't be able to film... UNLESS there was an odd day of immense heat due to global warming that would melt all the snow in Enfield... but that is highly unlikely, unfortunately for our group, So we will just have to find a plan B!

Update!

Just a little update on how filming is going !

Watch the Titles - The Borrowers title sequence

Watch the Titles - The Borrowers title sequence

I have just watched The Borrowers title sequence and may I say it is one of the best I have ever seen ! It is so pretty and Christmassy (If that is a word) and it is very ambiguous to what the storyline will be like. It is also so creative and I just love it, and everything about it, in my opinion I can't fault it to be honest.

One word : Brilliance.

Possibly the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life!

I decided to look on Pete's Blog to see if there was anything interesting I could find or any useful information to help us with the 2 minute openings and I stumbled upon this video. *Shudders at the thought* Despite the title, like a fool  I decided to watch this very well filmed video and  it was possibly the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life! I had about 3 heart attacks throughout and I was still slightly traumatised afterwards. This was, however, filmed very well and although slightly similar to ours as it is very urban, its is a horror and it is of not the same genre. But I love the CCTV images and the way it was shot with normal camera shots, handheld and the phone camera, which added to the experience and gave depth to the film and allowed us to see the storyline from different perceptions. Although the several fibrillation's my heart had to go through, I loved it and wanted to watch it again! However, I will warn it is not for the faint hearted or people who do not enjoy being scared!

Different Ending!

Crash also featured this, where the opening is near enough the ending.

We have changed our ending for the two minute opening and this will most likely be our final change, we have decided that instead of the house idea, as we didn't feel it was going any where and it was very difficult to find a large luxurious house that we could borrow for a day. So we have opted for a new idea that we will have Leanne in forty hall by the river, with a photograph of her and Alicia in one hand and a lighter in the other and we will fade out from there to leave it ambiguous for the viewer, we felt as a group this would be best to do as it then has no ending and makes people want to watch more. We did think of putting the lighter to the photo and throwing the photo in the river however, if this was done it would mean that the film had come to an end which we didn't want.

4.3.2.1 also features this.

We have also removed the 1 week earlier scene because we felt the opening would be best to just fade out and possibly just have 1 week earlier. This is to show that our 2 minute opening is actually right near to the end of the film and the one week earlier shows this. So for instance if the film was in 1/4's the opening is in  1/4 and  3/4 and the rest of the storyline is in 2/4 and the actual ending in 4/4, if I'm making sense.

Similar footage!

Hannah has recently found some footage that is similar to our genre. some of the shots look similar to our however we have stylisied our slightly more.

Starting to edit!

We have started editing our for our final film and we are already having problems! on Wednesday we uploading our 1 hour and 15 minute time lapse and had to speed it up, however the speed on iMovie only goes up to (+-)2000% and even with that it only brought the timelapse to 2mins 15 seconds ! which would be our whole film!! So we decided to upload the 200% sped up time lapse to youtube and convert the video back onto iMovie and then speed that footage up , there was a problem however... we could not find a free online youtube to video converter that didn't cause or force us to download all this other nonsense. so we decided to ask miss in todays lesson and she found a brilliant website and we commenced! Now we have about 1 min of the film completed and we are going out on academic review day to film our final forty hall and train shots, which will be our final filming, so hopefully we shall be finished soon! Proud of our group!

Can you believe it ...?

Can you believe it ? We have finally recorded our time lapse ? I know we are in shock too ! It's looks pretty awesome if I must say myself and it was a very Tiring journey! Poor leanne had to sit on the cold ground for an hour ! :( We have done a few Vlogs for your entertainment and I'll post some pictures up!

Mood: Very exciting to start editing !!

5:45 !

Why am I dreading tomorrow? Because I have to wake up at 4:30 so I can be ready to meet Leanne, Alicia and Hannah at oakwood at 5:45 ! Yes you read correctly, 5:45 and you may ask why? All so we can film the long, always put off ...Time Lapse! We are finally going to film the time lapse in Trafalgar Square! We can't believe it too! So why so early you may ask, Well we need the sun coming up on the time lapse.
I shall give you a run through of the day :
5:30- tube supposedly opens
5:45- we meet at oakwood (Piccadilly line)
5:45-6 -we get on the train( while on the train we film so shots of Leanne on the train getting on the train etc.
6-6:45- we change to the northern line and arrive a charing cross station (the closet to Trafalgar Square)
6:45-7 - We walk to Trafalgar and set up the camera and Leanne (making sure headphones are on show)
7 -until it gets light enough - we film the time lapse keeping the camera completely still.
The rest of the day we will film some shots of Leanne running and on the way home film some more shots train shots.

We will probably do a group Vlog and we shall put up a few of the shots up as well as some pictures tomorrow.

P.s Welcome to 2013!! This is the first post of 2013 and the first filming of 2013 will be tomorrow too bad it's so early in the morning !