19/01/2012- Todays Lesson

Did we meet the targets?


Voice Over
We wasn't able to get Lucy to record the voice over, instead we arranged a date of the 26th January so that we can get this done and then edit it into our sequence.


Titles
We started to think about the kind of titles and transitions that we wanted in the piece. We use fade in from black as a transition at the beginning of our footage as you can see in the screen shot below. 

We went into creating and having a go at using Live type as, as a group we was inexperienced with the software. As we was creating a Romantic Comedy, we wanted the title of the film to represent the two types of characters in the opening sequence. With this we decided we wanted the word 'game' to look colourful and like children drew it themselves. This connotes back to the job which Ellie has as she is an art teacher. The words 'can play that' we wanted to be placed above this in a normal font but in a different colour, which we haven't decided yet, and then above this on a slant we wanted 'two' in italics. Having this would connote back to Jessica and her personality as she is quite a formal confident 'posh' person. Below is a rough sketch of the title.   

We each had a go at using Live type and was experimenting with different effects fonts and colours. We wanted to give ourself some understanding of the software before we rush into it to create our actual titles so we can make them as effective as possible.

Ending of sequence
As a group we still haven't decided on the ending of the sequence but we have come up with some ideas such as the voice over ending it, or a fast forwarded clock to show the time passing or just titles but we haven't made a final decision. 


Actions on the beat
We tried our best to put actions of characters on the beat but some parts fit alot better than others. We changed one problem which was a jump cut between two separate shots but using the cut tool we cut one long piece of film and speeded up the middle section so the cut was not showing and it looked more professional. We are going to continue with this.


Updated production Schedule;
Tuesday 24th January- Create titles in Live type. Making sure we consider fonts, actions, direction and relation to the actor in the most effective way to the audience and making sure that it fits with the genre of film.
Thursday 26th- January- Use Lucy as she is available to record and edit the voice over into the piece.