Music.

We have had a small problem with our music for our film as 'Our Way' by Christina Novelli was removed from youtube and is unavailable from iTunes. However we were able to contact her manager:

Hi there my mate sent you a email and this is want you sent back. 

I am Christina Novelli's manager. Thank-you for your request to use "Our Way" in your

video project.

I am pleased to confirm that you can use the track for your project.

Best wishes,

Rob King.  

They were very pleased with this but however they are unable to get the song on iTunes or YouTube anymore. Is there any possibility that you could email the mp3 file, or know anywhere else they could get the music from.

Thank you for taking your time to read this, many thanks.

Zoe Tandy

The manager then contacted us back:

Hi Zoe,

I have attached the MP3 of 'Our Way' by Christina Novelli, for you, to this email.

I am happy to let you use the track for your project as mentioned in the previous e-mail. However, you must not upload, use or give the track to anyone else, for any other reason than the agreed project. I hope this helps, and i would love to see your finished project!

Good luck,

Best wishes,

Rob.

This has helped greatly and we are putting the music on our film next lesson, so that we can then do the finish touches and if need be match the video to the tempo of the track.

Editing process.

Today in our lesson we have  been able to accomplish a lot. We have speed up some of our footage so that is seems more dizzy and comical, we have also found a way to put our still images on a white boarder to make them look more like snap shots. So far our footage is at a total of 2 minutes 30, so we do need to cut it down by quite a bit. However we feel that  there is some things missing  and some parts can be quite slow and boring so we are going to try and take some more still images to slot into the longer clips and we have also filmed a variety of shot angels that we are importing. We are hoping to get our music onto an MP3 file as soon as possible so that we can match the footage with the tempo of the song.  We have also started to experiment with adding titles to get an idea on which ones we would like to use in the end.

Still images for flash backs in our film.

Scene of last nights party.

Scene of character drinking in toilet.

These are the images that we are using for our flashbacks in our film. We have decided to edit them using photo shop to make them much darker so that it looks like they are from the night before. They are in chronological order and will appear on the screen with a flash and the sound of a camera flash. We have figured out how to do this on Final Cut Pro from watching a tutorial on Youtube. We did this by selecting Dip to colour dissolve in the effects tab and then placing it at the beginning of the still image. We then changed the flash to white instead of black and increased the time to 3 seconds. To get the sound effect we went to finder, music and typed in camera, it then came up with camera sound effects and we chose camera shutter and draged it onto our time line just under our footage at the same time as the flash effect.

Scene of character eating hash brownies

Scene of couple in bedroom.

scene of last nights party which will appear at the end of the opening.

Our Filming

Our group went out and did our filming on the Saturday 25th February. Unfortunately we only had a short amount of time to use the location but we were able to get our filming done. Each member of our group had a chance to film and we referred to our storyboard quite frequently. We also filmed a lot of extra footage so that for the editing process we have back up and different clips that we can choose from. Overall our filming went really well and we feel that we will not need to go and film anymore, but we will keep it in mind that we might find we have to shoot more during the editing process.

Stage directions for main task.

Zoe is woken up by Louis the dog licking her face, sits up, starts walking round the living room.

(FLASHBACK- of everyone partying in the living room.)

Zoe is surprised at her memory, looks round the room and starts walking to the kitchen.
Walks into the kitchen, sees her friend Zeba asleep on breakfast bar, with hash brownies.

(FLASHBACK- of Zeba 'stuffing' her face with hash bownies.)

Starts walking out of the kitchen into the corridor, turns left.
Finds her friend Nat asleep on the toilet floor.

(FLASHBACK- of Nat possing, drunk, in the bathroom.)

Walks back out into the corridor, moves towards stairs.
Sees her frind Paisley asleep on the stairs.
Walks up the stairs, turns left to her bedroom.
Sees her two friends Kaya and Dean asleep on the bed together.

(FLASHBACK- of Kaya and Dean making out in the bedroom.)

Walks out into the corridor then into the bathroom.
Looks around, looks into the sink then up at the mirror.
She notices the picture on the mirror, grabs picture and looks at it.

(FLASHBACK- of the night before with the whole group partying in the living room.)

Permission to use 'Our Way' by Christina Novelli.

This is an email we recieved from Christina Novelli's manager giving our group permission to use her song 'Our Way' for our film opening.


I am Christina Novelli's manager. Thank-you for your request to use "Our Way" in your

video project.

I am pleased to confirm that you can use the track for your project.

Best wishes,

Rob King.

Rob King

Director

T: 01782-911153

M: +447788812310

E: rob@crownmanagement.co.uk

w: http://www.crownmanagement.co.uk/

Main Task- Storyboard.

This is our storyboard showin each shot that will be included in our opening, we have also shown the timing for each frame and givien detail on what transition the frame will make to get to the next frame.