Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Wednesday, 5 April 2017
Film Change
Film Change
We decided to change the way we planned the film because originally the plan was too in depth and showed more of the film that we could fit in. With the use of flash forwards and backwards as inspirations, we decided to create the first two minutes as the flash forwards (after the breakup) to help portray the struggle Cara is going through as we only touched on it originally.
Romance films pin-point emotions and feelings, and this is what we wanted to change in our film. the first change we made was adding voice overs -having to re do them a few times to make them sound more emotional- and then changing the shots from what we originally used.
The film change was a big move because we have written this whole blog around the first idea, but the change has been shown through the development of our film and it made sense to change the clip footage that makes a better and easier narrative to follow.
Originally we got too caught up in the whole story and didn't consider how to portray a romance film. It was clear that our film was a tragedy with multiple ending scenarios, full of deep, traumatic experiences that adults try to over look in the 'real world' even though they experienced it too.
Teenagers can't be upset, they get everything.
Young adults cant be depressed.
You cant fall in love at a young age.
These are stereotypes adults persecute young people with, assuming all those feelings are only felt when you're older; which isn't true as the more 'mature' adults decide to become oblivious to their past experiences, where it all happened to them.
We decided to look at our film from another angle, one of emotions and something teenagers can relate too, which would attract more teenagers (from both genders) to watch the film as it becomes more relatable, breaking the wreckless facade teenagers have held against them.
For us it made sense to start the film with the emotions Cara would be feeling after the breakup, it then escalating to the car crash and flashbacks to it happening, conditions happening before, during and after it happening. These different changes in time begins to create a mixed/non linear narrative, piecing together her broken mental state and that's the topic we wanted to focus on and bring out more.
Originally we got too caught up in the whole story and didn't consider how to portray a romance film. It was clear that our film was a tragedy with multiple ending scenarios, full of deep, traumatic experiences that adults try to over look in the 'real world' even though they experienced it too.
Teenagers can't be upset, they get everything.
Young adults cant be depressed.
You cant fall in love at a young age.
These are stereotypes adults persecute young people with, assuming all those feelings are only felt when you're older; which isn't true as the more 'mature' adults decide to become oblivious to their past experiences, where it all happened to them.
We decided to look at our film from another angle, one of emotions and something teenagers can relate too, which would attract more teenagers (from both genders) to watch the film as it becomes more relatable, breaking the wreckless facade teenagers have held against them.
For us it made sense to start the film with the emotions Cara would be feeling after the breakup, it then escalating to the car crash and flashbacks to it happening, conditions happening before, during and after it happening. These different changes in time begins to create a mixed/non linear narrative, piecing together her broken mental state and that's the topic we wanted to focus on and bring out more.
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Final Film
Final Film
After multiple re-editing and changing from all of the feedback we have collected, this is our finished two minutes opening for our film. Uploading all of the other rough cuts and versions of the two minutes helps to show the development our film has gone through which has aided us in getting better feedback as the viewers were able to watch and compare the changes. From this feedback we were able to work on our film, now seeing it from a different perspective due to what others through, which has made it more appealing to different people now that we changed it to focus on aspects that other people like,
Monday, 3 April 2017
Rough edit of film feedback
Rough edit of film-feedback
The YouTube clip attached bellow is the feedback Kat and I filmed about our rough edit of our film. The main things they told us to improve on were to add more clips to help with continuity, re do the voice over, and maybe add more voice-over parts throughout the whole clip.
They both liked how there were black and white scenes along with coloured ones. They recognised that you can interpret our film in different ways and support that unique idea.
They both liked how there were black and white scenes along with coloured ones. They recognised that you can interpret our film in different ways and support that unique idea.
Sunday, 2 April 2017
Saturday, 1 April 2017
Final Edit Of Film
Final Edit Of Film
This is one of our last edits of our film. Taking on board the feedback we were given from our last version of our film, it has enabled us to work on what was needed to be improved. Kat and I filmed a car crashing scene, and changed the order of our film around to suit the non linear structure we were initially aiming for. Another change was adding voice overs. It has changed how the opening of our film looks, making it appear more focused on the narrative of the protagonist, Cara.
These changes have helped us develop our skills in filming and editing as we found that feedback helps us improve allot more than what we initially thought, it has helped us develop the film to our own taste and to our audiences, which is a crucial part of understanding how audiences work and how they can view things differently to how we, as the editors, think its being viewed as.
These changes have helped us develop our skills in filming and editing as we found that feedback helps us improve allot more than what we initially thought, it has helped us develop the film to our own taste and to our audiences, which is a crucial part of understanding how audiences work and how they can view things differently to how we, as the editors, think its being viewed as.
Friday, 31 March 2017
Struggles with arranging footage
Struggles with arranging footage
Through our editing Kat and I have found it hard to properly arrange our footage. We both know what we want, and it happens to be the same thing, but arranging the clips in different orders can change how the audience view the whole two minute opening all together. Our annitial ideas we to have a non leinear structure (something we're still trying to archive) but we have changed our footage around three times, after completing each editing attempt fully before changing it again.
This has caused us to find it hard to keep within our time limit because of trying to find the perfect way to structure our footage.
When we first started to film and order everything in the way we wanted to through the editing, we both followed the storyline/story board, basing the script off our original ideas, and thought that that arrangement was the best way.
Kat and I looked st the way we had placed things and it looked more like a trailer than the opening two minutes of a film (we also had no film idents at the time) and it looked like we were trying to fit the whole film into the two minutes. It was clear that we had to film some new footage and cut some of the original stuff out because it was too long. We hadn't made it clear how Cara was in a bed, injured, and the music being played underneath everything was also copywrited.
Things needed to be changed, when we changed things for the second time we had filmed more footage, more memories between Cara and Daniel and the car crash scene. We needed to move everything about, adding the idents, new clips, voice over and new un-branded music.
Kat and I completed this, almost looking perfect, until we realised that we had moved everything around so much, the only clips that made the two minute opening non linear were the memories, we'd put everything else to the end of the clip.
Once realising that that we had made a clip that was more linear than we'd hoped we changed it around again, starting the film with sad music instead of up best music, putting the clip of Cara laying on the floor after the crash first, then playing the crash after... and so forth with the original lots of film. Using two bits of music in our film, and changing the beginning around and the music around has changed or film allot from what we'd thought it'd be, and the original 'put together'.
Overall we are glad that we have trialled and failed and made ourselves better, we have progressed and improved in not only our clip but knowing how to film and edit. We both weren't highly experienced but we have developed and become better. '
Things needed to be changed, when we changed things for the second time we had filmed more footage, more memories between Cara and Daniel and the car crash scene. We needed to move everything about, adding the idents, new clips, voice over and new un-branded music.
Kat and I completed this, almost looking perfect, until we realised that we had moved everything around so much, the only clips that made the two minute opening non linear were the memories, we'd put everything else to the end of the clip.
Once realising that that we had made a clip that was more linear than we'd hoped we changed it around again, starting the film with sad music instead of up best music, putting the clip of Cara laying on the floor after the crash first, then playing the crash after... and so forth with the original lots of film. Using two bits of music in our film, and changing the beginning around and the music around has changed or film allot from what we'd thought it'd be, and the original 'put together'.
Overall we are glad that we have trialled and failed and made ourselves better, we have progressed and improved in not only our clip but knowing how to film and edit. We both weren't highly experienced but we have developed and become better. '
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