Plan For Next Week.

Monday - Work on the animated Scrapbook/ Soundtrack

Tuesday - Edit the visuals - Soundtrack (Afternoon).

- maybe film the scrapbook turning pages etc

Wednesday - Tutorial - Talk to nick about the animated scrapbook

Thursday - Animated Scrapbook/Soundtrack

Friday - Finish the final project.

Feedback for Tom & Louis

L3 - GROUP 9 (Tom H & Louis) Film Opening Rough Cut from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

I rate the use of location as their strength because it has a really urban and grimy atmosphere and builds a lot of tension and mood. I especially like the use of close ups - like the barbed wire shot.

If I'm being honest, I think their opening is absolutely amazing - there's not much i can fault. If I had to point out one thing it would be, to make their match on action shots a little neater, so it flows much more smoother.

They don't need to change anything, except the match on action shots flowing smoother.

The still need to make the overall project look more professional, because they have all of the titles, soundtrack/backing track and a variety of shots.

Rough Cut

L3 - GROUP 8 (Yasmin & Tilly) Film Opening Rough Cut from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is our rough cut. It is no where near finished because of the schedule we had to work around - it was no body's fault, because we were only at coleridge for a total of about 12 hours, where we needed to do several costume changes; find perfect lighting because our camera messed up; location scouting; editing and music producing.

Hannah and Emma missed the first two periods on he friday of shooting because they had to shoot their own film opening.

So Nick taught us how to make an animated scrapbook and talked to us about our music.

The first part of our film opening is not on our rough cut. The music behind it is also not our own and we will be creating some over half term.

Despite the time we had I feel as though this is a good start, and the only way to go is up from this point.

Explaining our "Perfect Moment" during filming.

This was my perfect moment because at first we had no idea how the 'Tanorexics' would act.

We had the camera rolling as I talked to Tilly and Emma. At last we decided they would act really giggly and ditzy. Emma and Tilly looked at each other and just burst out laughing; we had about two minutes of footage of them genuinely laughing uncontrollably. It looked so good.

That is why it was my perfect moment of filming because an original outtake/blooper turned into actual good usable footage.

Weather For Filming.

We needed to know what the weather is like for tomorrow because we are due to finish shooting - Topshop Girls & Geeks.



It seems to be okay; especially as the rest of our footage is sunny.

The Original Music

This is the original music we wanted for the soundtrack :


This is the original Lily Allen song; it's happy and upbeat.

However we were going to use the instrumental of this song.
Have a listen here?

Soundtrack Tester.

This is our test for creating a soundtrack.
It didn't take too long but this is not the soundtrack that I wanted to use underneath our footage, purely because it builds the wrong atmosphere.

this is our animated test for the scrap book.

Weather For Filming.

Tomorrow morning the weather is grey and horrible. Luckily we aren't shooting until 12ish onwards, because of our extras, and the weather is sunny and lighting will be better.

Title Sequence.

A Sour Hearts Production 

A Colour Flash Production Film

Emma Smart - Main

Hannah Amin - Main 

Zoe Wright - Main

Lola Murr - minor

Daisy Cole - minor

Max Phillips - minor

Josh King - minor 

Ben Morris - minor

Costume Design by Marilyn Williams
Art Direction by Martin Rolf
Production Design by Sarah Johnson
Casting by Debra Bailey
Film Editing by Phillip Hyne
Cinematography by Rose Smart
Original Music by Hans Zimmer
Produced by Yasmin Murr
Directed by Tilly Wright 

The First Pictures:

This is Yasmin (Myself). I am playing the main "Geek" in the film opening. 

I am wearing a polo shirt; high waisted skirt; grey cardigan; braces; tights; black plimpsoles.

Hair and Makeup: Straight hair, fringe clipped back; nude makeup - with blusher; geek glasses.

This is Tilly (who is also producing our film opening). She is playing the "Preppy" girl.

She is wearing a blue jumper; with white skinnies; and white plimpsoles.

Hair and Makeup: straight hair with fringe clipped back; nude complexion and makeup.

This is Hannah. She is playing her alter-ego - the main "Emo" girl. 

She is wearing black vest; black tutu; tights; high knee black socks/purple stars; plimpsoles.

Hair and Makeup: Long black/brown hair; red lips; buckets of black eyeliner.

I am also playing the main "Scene Kid". 

I am wearing skinny jeans; I Heart NY shirt; Hello Kitty Hoodie; and black plimpsoles.

Hair and Makeup: bright pink eyeshadow round the eyes; purple eyeliner; hair tied up, backcombed a little bit.

Tilly is also playing the main "Over the top Topshop Girl".

She is wearing a gorgeous dress, with red heels - a bit too dressy for college (hence the OTT part). 

Hair and Makeup: straight blonde hair, with pale complexion, eyeliner and red lips.

This is Emma who is playing the main 'Tanorexic" in our opening film.

She is wearing pink hot pants; pink vest top; pink 'drama queen' top; high knee socks; and uggs.

Hair and Makeup: straight, blonde hair with orange face, loads of eyeliner and pink lips.

This is Hannah, who is playing the main 'Chav' of our opening. 

She is wearing tracksuit bottoms; black vest top; and plimpsoles. 

The hair and make up: side pony tail with lots of foundation and bronzer, but with concealer on the lips, making her lips lighter than her complexion. 

The Pitch.

This is the story of a teenage girl who had to be moved away from everything she's every loved because her dad got offered a new job. The only memories she has is through her scrapbook/ journal. Starting a new college she has no friends. She looks around and thinks could she fit in with ANY of these groups.
Taking a close look at all the groups she puts their profiles in to her scrapbook.
She makes a map of the lunch/group seating plans and goes through each stereotype making comments about each group.

Through out the film she gets into each stereotype but one by one she leaves because it doesn't feel right.

She is always adding bits to her journal about what the groups say about each other behind their backs.

She ends up with the prep/ jocks.

Everything starts to get back to normal. but then they preps find her journal and all the mean things she's said about the other groups - they find it funny, until they see they're pages and find out all the comments she's made and what the other groups have said in the journal.

Que the main girl as an outcast and starting all over again. She becomes upset and stays home all the time.
She is eventually excepted by a close friend on the performing art team and she becomes a member of their group.

All the groups live in harmony again once the main girl send letters to all the groups at the end of the two years.

Film Opening - Girl flipping through the journal, looking at old photos/memories. There is a voice over explain what the girl is looking at. She homes in on the map and talks through the different social groups. There is a Chav profile and then it turns into live footage of the chavs. This happens to all of the other groups too.

The Brothers Bloom Animatic.

Brothers Bloom Childhood Sequence Animatic from rcjohnso on Vimeo.

Rian's animatic is absolutely incredible! The detail put into this storyboard is just amazing; the drawing, the setting detail and the detail in the script! Next time I take on an animatic I want to do it like this, with close ups in the shots etc.

Look at how similar they both are - hopefully my storyboard will compliment the real opening we'll produce.

There are some more shots added/ interpreted in the actual video. But watch the animatic and then watching the real one was actually mental to see that it was exactly how Rian envisioned it.

Stupid Girls - P!nk Music Video Influence

This definitely is an inspiration for our film opening because of how the girls act in the music video.
P!nk deals with a massive dilemma, and speaks the truth about how girls want to grow up, nowadays.
This is how the "Tanorexics", "Topshop Girls" and the main girl should act like "P!nk" in this because she really doesn't fit in but tries so hard.

Two-in-one: Mean Girls vs Stupid Girls.

All of our Media Influences:

St Trinians.
Clueless.
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
Inbetweeners.
This is England.
Mean Girls.
House Bunny.
Gossip Girl.
Ugly Betty.
Skins.
Kidulthood/Adulthood.
Pretty in Pink.
She's All That.
Waterloo Road.
Superbad.
Napoleon Dynamite.
The Hills / My Super Sweet 16.
Stupid Girls - P!nk

Mean Girls Opening - Film Influence

Mean girls was a huge success with the teenage generation and I have never met a girl OR boy who isn't in love with this film!
It has everything: fashion; music; comedy; high school; bitchiness; fighting; and endless pranks being played on each other.

This is a big inspiration because of the divide between the girls and because of the carefree college/ high school life.

St Trinians Opening.

Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging - Film Influences

Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging is a really sweet opening to a film. We find out about her parents, friends and where she lives.
Her family are caring but do not understand Georgia's personality.
Her friends love her but they aren't always there for her.
Her town is a lovely, colourful, seaside town - but it's no Brighton.

This relates to my film because of the age group it's aimed at.
Teenagers interested in our film, would also be interested in the Georgia Nicholson saga and film, and understand the language used in this film. Also the music used in this film was a massive success at the age group it was aimed at.

Forward Planning.

Tomorrow we are having a photoshoot to make the journal.

It should be a good chance to get most of the work done, and even some footage.

Here are some images of the scrap book so far:

These are for the old memories.

Shot List.

Shot 1 - Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Diary Front

Shot 2 - Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Inside Diary

Shot 3 - Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Inside Diary

Shot 4 - Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Inside Diary

Shot 5 - Close Up - Coleridge Classroom - Main Title

Shot 6 - Close Up - Coleridge Classroom - Map/ seating plan

Shot 7 - Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Chav page.

Shot 8 - Long Shot - Live Footage of Chavs

Shot 9 - Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Tanorexic Page

Shot 10 - Long Shot - Live Footage of Tanorexics

Shot 11-Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Scene Page

Shot 12- Long Shot - Live Footage of Scene Kids

Shot 13-Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Emo Page

Shot 14- Long Shot - Outside Coleridge - Live Footage of Emos

Shot 15- Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Geek Page

Shot 16- Long Shot - Outside Coleridge - Live Footage of Geek

Shot 17-Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Over The Top Topshop Girls Page

Shot 18- Long Shot - Outside Coleridge - Live Footage of Topshop Girls

Shot 19- Point of View - Coleridge Classroom - Jocks Page

Shot 20- Point of View - Outside Coleridge - Live Footage of Jocks

Shot 21- Close Up - Coleridge Classroom - Book Slams Shut

Shot 22- Long Shot - Outside Coleridge - The Eight leaders.

Feedback

More excellent work this week!

Diary Of An Undercover Stereofake - animatic

L3 Group 8: YASMIN & TILLY - OPENING SEQUENCE ANIMATIC from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

Creating Opening Sequence Storyboards.

This is our timeline. Overall we had enough shots to last for two minutes. Most of the shots are of the different stereotypes in the journal/diary. Below is us working on the post-it notes.

Above is the first six frames of our opening sequence. It starts with the diary opening, then flicking through the pages, full of old photos; then the main title is displayed in the journal; then the map is displayed and it homes in on the "CHAV" section, turning into the "CHAV" page. 

The next six shots are of live footage; tanorexic journal page; live footage; scene journal page; live footage; then the emo page. 

Next is live footage with the "emos"; then the geek page; live footage; the over the top Topshop girls; live footage and then the Jocks page. 

These are the last three "main" shots of the opening: live footage; diary shut; the end image of all the groups.

This is Tilly & I working on our storyboard and timeline.

Ginger Snaps Timeline.

Ginger Snaps is one of my favourite films, therefore when I saw the 9-grid photo on the 'Art of the Title' I knew it would be an interesting title sequence to do.

This task helped me a lot with understanding title sequences. They all followed the same pattern (time-wise) and appeared on the screen in the same style - blurred, to clear. 

The titles were a white, clear font; easy to read and see. Their timing was good and had enough time for the audience to read. 

Below are some close-ups of my timeline, so you can see all the different cast& crew involved. 

(The format goes: title number; job; name; time)

Watch the full title sequence here: Ginger Snaps title sequence.

Title Sequence - grid

Grid 1 - The journal - a Sour Hearts Productions presents.

Grid 2 - Canteen/lunch area - a Colour Flash Production film.

Grid 3 - chav group - Costume by Marilyn Williams

Grid 4 - Emo group - Production design by Sarah Johnson

Grid 5 - Tanorexic - Casting by Debra Bailey

Grid 6 - Scene group - Cinematography by Rose Smart

Grid 7 - Jocks/preps - Original Music by Hans Zimmer

Grid 8 - Geeks - Produced by Yasmin Murr

Grid 9 - Main leader from every group - Main Title

Take a closer look at the grid?

This task was really fun. I had to find random images from the internet, flickr and my previous moodboard and patch them together to make the opening of my film.

This is not the entire opening but nine different clips, that will be connected together by a series of other clips.

Take a look at what this task was inspired by.

Our Pitch - Independent category

We decided to use elements from both of our films to create our pitch.

This is a story produced though the eyes of a normal girl and her journal, about her life at college.

Her journal describes the different social groups she faces at college. including: chavs; tanorexics; preps/jocks; over the top topshop girls; geeks; scene kids; emos, and; the normals (her group).

The story is mostly voice over, but there is also a lot of dialogue between the different clashing groups.

The journal is a key element in the opening. There'll be pictures of the different groups and writing about them as the girl flicks through the journal. Close ups of the journal and character pictures, turn into real life footage of the people, at college.

The opening closes with a group shot of the leader of each group, doing a signature stereotype gesture. For example:

Chav - swearing

Geek - adjusting glasses

tanorexics - looking in mirror

emo - hair flick

scene - over the top pose

prep/jock - holding cricket bat/ rugby ball etc

Topshop girl - adjusting skirt/ dress

Normal - Girl with journal (middle)

My Final Ident.

L3 YASMIN-IDENT_FINAL from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is my ident. My ident is the most colourful, compared to everyone else's; so I'm not sure if mine looks professional enough.

Making this ident was quite interesting, but was annoying at times when the transitions didn't move at the same time etc. Overall I believe my ident is fairly rememberable.

Feedback

Very good ! your blog looks ace!

My Short Film Pitches.

A mainstream action film that will appeal to 15-25 year old males.

When experimen 98210, Jake Fisher, escaped from the lab, little did he know what they had done to him. Watch as a man has to fight his way back to the top, with his new electrical powers, to try and change the justice of the other experiments.

A supernatural thriller that will appeal to female audiences.

A widow, Jane Meadows, and her two children, agree to house sit for their sick mother-in-law while she is taken to a hospital, to start treatment out of town. Going through old boxes in the attic, she realises that her mother in law had a lot more children, who also "suspiciously" died. A night of paranormal antics leaves Jane asking were the deaths accidental?

An independent movie featuring a young protagonist.

Pregnant in the 1980's growing up in the world of Skinheads, and racial warfare. How will 15 year old pregnant, Sally, be able to cope with her dad in the Falklands, depressed mother, and the father of her baby, being taken into the skinhead ways.

An animated feature that will appeal to adult audiences.

A manic depressive, OCD man looks for counseling but ends up in the loud and live world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. With his unhealthy lifestyle killing his brain, and ends up spiraling out of control, pushing him to overdose.

Credits For Opening Sequence

A Sour Hearts Production presents
A Colour Flash Production film

(cast) Helen Smith
(cast) John Brown
(cast) Zoe Wright

Costume Design by Marilyn Williams
Art Direction by Martin Rolf
Production Design by Sarah Johnson
Casting by Debra Bailey
Film Editing by Phillip Hyne
Cinematography by Rose Smart
Original Music by Hans Zimmer
Produced by Yasmin Murr
Directed by Tilly Wright 

Main Title

Research - St. Trinian's Makeover

St Trinian's was one of our main inspirations because of the divide between the girls at the school.

Our film is set in a college, therefore the divide is still present. 

During the makeover scene, (screen shots to left), each stereotype takes it in turns to fit, the new girl Annabelle Fritton, to give her a makeover. 

Odds are the year 7s. They're really crazy and messy. 

We used the font 'Black Casper' for the Odds because the writing is all different. It fits their stereotype well. 

Posh Totty are posh, stuck up and clueless. The dress more subtle than slaggish, but they do reveal a lot. The font we used was 'Julie' which is an inspired from a girly journal style of font. 

The chavs are rude and confrontational. The dress with lots of accessories and makeup. They have a lot of attitude. The font is "Urbana" - it resembles spray paint.

The nerds look like something from Hogwarts. They are properly covered up with long skirts. The font was "My First F" - it's really neat and suits the stereotype. 

The emo's are depressed, and also cake on the makeup, but not like the chavs. They wear tons of eyeliner and black clothes. The font is distressed, it looks as though they have drawn it themselves. 

The final result is Normal. She has inspiration from all groups, but overall she is unique; she also takes after head-girl Kelly. The font we used was "Burst My Bubble".

My Video Production Logo

This is my production logo. I got my main inspiration from an Alice in Wonderland, Queen of Hearts, image. 

I chose the different stripes because i liked the clashing style, and to represent the variety the production company can offer. 

I used a polaroid collaboration, displaying the production company name - "Sour Hearts"; in the font "Truffle-Shuffle", because I liked the edginess of the text, and it is memorable. 

The word "production", is in a typewriter font. I don't know why I chose it but I think it's quite effective. 

The kiss mark was the final touch. I used the kiss mark, because it relates to the title. It also adds a feminine feel to the overall logo. 

I chose the production name from the common phrase "sweethearts". I thought "sweethearts production" sounded too corny, and girly; so i added a twist to add a lot of effectiveness and edginess.