continuity

Whilst editing our two minute opening today I noticed we have a small continuity problem. It is only minor but that can make all the difference. I can now emphasize with big shot film directors who spent a lot of money to set up cameras, pay actors, set up sets etc, to see when they are editing that one part of the film does not match up or is a blip. For example I remember a few months ago I watched a trailer for the film 'The Other Guys' and I saw on there that in a scene there were two men with medals on and in a different shot of the same scene they didn’t have them on, and then the medals appeared again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6WOoUG1eNo

I also did some researched and saw there are quite a few videos, websites and TV shows that show all the continuity in films and television. There is even a TV show on BBC three called 'Great Movie Mistakes' that shows all the blunders and gaffes. It is quite unfair for people to do this. From editing our movie I have realized no one is perfect, that not every movie can be wonderful and they should not be criticized for not trying the best they can.

costumes

This shows the mise-en-scene of the sleepover. Notice how all the characters are wearing pyjamas, tee shirts or vest tops. Also you can see the artificial lighting which indicates the time of the day. Also there are sleeping bags and sweets on the bed and i think we have created the mise-en-scene.

This is Anisha love interest.

This is Anishas chavy sister Amina.

This is our main character Anisha.

This is Anishas little sister Anita.

Anamatics.

This is our Anamatics. It is a drawn out opening of what our film should look like. We researched a few and saw that music producers do these for music videos. I think this really helped us because now we know what to do in each shot; how it will sound etc. we can also see how we have changed this to our final piece.

filming.

I think we represented social groups well in our two minute opening. The social groups we used were chav, girly girl and indie boy. With the chav social group we dressed our actress up in a track suit and her makeup was heavily done with a lot of foundation and eyeliner. We went a bit over the top so you could see in on film. With the girly girl we dressed her up in a denim coloured dress with leggings and her hair in plaits. I think this may have been a bit outdated as when I researched clothes for a 10-12 year old and they wore bright tee-shirts with emblems or 'Hannah Montana' etc. With the indie boy we dressed him in skinny type jeans a checkered shirt with a plain tee shirt underneath and converse trainers. He wore a beanie. This represents our social group as the clothes I have researched about indie boys fit in with what our actor was wearing.

We filmed in the October half term. We started at 10am and finished at 3pm. We filmed locally near a road because we needed a road in our film. Most of our filming was done outside but some was done at a friend’s house. We needed windows at the front of the house to do some of the filming and a lamppost so that was a perfect area to film in. We managed to finish all our filming in one day but once we started editing we realised some part were not right and we have to re-film them.

Some of the difficulties we faced when filming was first of all our main character could not walk into a tree. We overcame this by changing that part for someone knocking her head with a bag. Also for our music because we couldn’t use any copyrighted music we had to make some up or borrow some from an un-copyrighted website. Luckily we have a friend who knows how to play the guitar and she made up background music for us.

we have created the mise-en-scene on one scenes where girls are having a sleepover. We used props such as sleeping bags, pyjamas, slippers, pillows. For the lighting we closed the curtains because it was still light outside and added fairy lights.