Production Log - Week 11

This week we completed the final opening sequence. After designing the production logo during the previous lunch time and thinking up an idea of how to put a title in the trailer, we finally completed all of the relevant tasks to make the sequence complete!

The title is quite basic and we would of both liked some extra time to do something a bit more exciting, adding a bit more of a professional hint to the sequence - however due to deadlines this was not possible. This meant we had to settle for a simple and basic title, although we still decided it went well with the sequence.

Here is a screen shot of when we were designing the insertion of the title into the sequence.

Here we were altering the colour of the title and the background to create a contrast connoting the difference between the audience and the ravers in the party.

FINAL PRODUCTION - 'Wasters' - Opening Sequence

Production Log - Week 10

This week on the first lesson we finally came up with an idea for the titles. We were going to print of the names of the actors and directed etc. and stick them to the various parts of a fag box - e.g. where it says smoking kills and on the sheets used to roll a roll-up. This way we can show Robert making a roll-up which will fit into the themes of our sequence and still show the titles.

Our creativity was influenced by our teachers urge to not use basic titles as they are worth a lot in terms of giving our sequence an edge in terms of standing out and making sure our titles actually connote the themes and ideas that we want to connote in our film.

Here is an example of how the titles would of looked:



We planned on recording this near the pizza shop where we shot some of the footage of Jamie and his mates going to the rave to make it seem realistic and make sure everything makes sense in terms of where the characters are and where they are going.


However we decided to use the sheets of a rizzla pack and write the titles on them so that we kept things simple and quick as we only had a couple days before our deadline.

The previous idea was very time consuming with the images above taking around an hour and a half to complete.

Also, we recroded it so the lighting only showed Jamies hands and the rizzla pack with a black background which I thinks looks better than what we originally planned.

Here is an example of one of our final titles:

Production Log - Week 9

This week we edited the first 30 seconds of the sequence together where Jamie has a confrontation with his teacher.

This also went really well and we decided to change it half way through the lesson from really conventional editing to slightly more exciting and unconventional to go with the unconventional theme of our sequence. This response came from the feedback that our teacher gave us informing us that we should not be editing unconventionally half-heartedly.

However once we had spent the lesson completing this first 30 seconds we had realised that we wasted a lesson previously ensuring that the first part was in time with the soundtrack and everything had slightly moved out of place and is still yet to move more once the titles come in.

Production Log - Week 8

This week we focused on the editing as we had most of our footage captured. The first section we worked on was the scenes from around 0:30 to 1:00 where 'Jamie' meets up with his mates and makes his way to a rave.

I felt that this editing process ran smoothly and we ended the week with a good result. Our teacher gave us positive feedback and also reminded us to get proof of permission for the soundtrack we will be using which is good as we need to ensure that the examiner recognises that there are no copyright infringements.

However to this day we still have not got an answer as to how the titles are going to fit in our sequence which means we will have to seriously consider it over the weekend.

Production Log - Week 7

 This week we planned to complete the first 30 seconds of footage in school on the Monday but only got round to it on Thursday due to our actors being busy and having to reschedule at least twice each. Eventually we found a time in the school day where the appropriate people were free to film and record, including me for filming, my partner, a drama student and Miss Aucott, a drama teach - selected for a higher quality of acting.


We used the HD camera provided by the media department and also planned to use the Rhode microphone to get the best sound quality possible. However we ended up using the cameras microphone as the Rhode microphone was new to us and we therefore could not figure out how to both operate it and record everything we needed in such a short amount of time (1 hour). We also used the tripod to make use of a variation of angles and heights. 



Another part of our recording - on the roads and in the flats stairway was done during the evening with friends using the same equipment.

The raving footage was recorded previously in a hand held style on IPhones. We decided this would suit well to add to the realistic hands-on recording style to make the audience feel closer to the action.

Production Log - Week 6

This week we intended to confirm and complete our titles by getting a friend who does high quality graffiti to write them out for us. We then planned to scan the titles in and insert them into various parts of our sequence.

To sum the titles situation up, it has gone pretty bad. As per usual the friend we selected to help us out with the titles is either very busy or just plain lazy and as a consequence we have not completed them.

However through attempting to complete them we have managed to come up with the different titles we will be using and also targeted a selected amount of time to display titles in the clip in order to allow enough screen time for our footage. This information can be found on the 'Titles' post.

As a result of not getting the titles completed, we are not going to panic and rush to get them sorted but leave them for another week - during which we will be finding ways of getting round this problem whilst fosucing on other aspects of the opening sequence.