Opening Sequence Final Draft

Individual Marks

     Group
  members     Draft 1       Draft 2       Draft 3      Final Draft

Alexa                23/24            31/32             33                  37
 
Tiara                 20                31/32              33                 37

Nkechi              23                31/32              33                  37

This are our individual marks for each draft, as you can see since i started this i had in my head that i wanted to get it right since the beggining. The chart shows very well our progression and i think the marks were faily.  

  

Progression over the whole proccess

This chart shows every step we made since we started our pleliminary, and also the grades we got for each draft. This charts helps us to see how we improved from one draft to the other:

Evaluation

After the last Draft of our opening sequence, we got together to at my house to film the evaluation. We had to answer questions about the whole expirience and what have we learnt during this whole proccess. It was fun i had a lot to say because i loved filming,editing, reseraching etc...

Part 1 : 

Part 2 :

Part 3:

Filming the Evaluation was also a nice expiriece because just there filming we realized we learnt so much in this progression.

Forms and Conventions

On our opening sequence to meet our Genre we used forms and conventions:

As you can see we didn't challenge to much the Forms and Conventions of Drama because we want to follow  out genre. 

Changes

If we had the chance to change anything we would change out timeing, our last draft was a bit to long, we couldnt make shorter baceuse as our audience feedback said it could make less effective so we dicided to leave as it was:  

Opening Sequence Final Draft

WWW/ EBI/ Targets/ Assessment :

Final Draft Filming Day

  Today we filmed our final draft of our opening sequence, it was very hard because as it was the final we were very worried that everything should be perfect. We started at 14:00pm and finished at 19:00, we filmed all the flashbacks and on Monday we are starting editing everything.

Continuity

After presenting the 3rd Draft of our opening sequence to the whole class we realized that we had some continuity problems:

• When she is sat at the door there is a cut when she goes to the sink
• At the shower, when she goes down the glass the light and her position changes 
• When she sits down at the shower, in one shoot her hands are in her face and in the other, they are in her legs. 

However we had this problems in some parts of our other drafts, so i decided to research about continuity and learn how to improve for our next draft.


What is Continuity???
Continuity in terms of props costume and locations, and the same rule applies with actors. It is the consistency of characters props and making sure that things are the same, at all times when filming.




In this videos we can see very well the mistakes made with continuity:










So after researching and looking at different ways that people can make continuity problems, i realized that even in TV they make this mistakes.They all professional they have more cameras, and they don`t have to repeat the shot 3-5 times to get different angles and they still have difficulties to get it right, we have only one camera, and we still learning how to film etc...so its more likely that we will make this mistakes.


What are the ways in which we can prevent continuity errors?  

• Write a list of props and costume
• Take a picture or a video of what is happening- as theremight be intervals (days) between time of shooting.)
• Also noting down the time of day as this may effect continuity as to what is taking place and when. Example:If we film our first scene in the evening and then our next scene which is suppose to continue from this in the the late evening. This would confuse the audience as to what is taking place and when it is suppose to take place.
• Make sure the actors are in the exact same place they were in the previous shot.

Opening Sequence 3rd Draft

WWW: (what went well)



• Good match on action when she is going inside the house
• The music and the sound effects on the flashbacks work realy well with each scene.
• Follow the rule of flashback > Reality & focus in her face before and after a flashback, so the audience doesn`t get confused.

EBI: (even better if)

• Shots are to long
• Add more flashbacks at the shower scene

Teacher Assesement:

• With more flashback the pace will get faster and it will show she is frustrated.

Target:

• Film different flashbacks
• Improve continuity

3rd Draft Filming Day

Today Tiara and Nkechi came to my house so we could film the 3rd draft of our opening sequence. Firstly as usual we sat down to plan what we had to improve from the previous drafts. However we were really exited because after so long the toilet was finished and we manage to start to film again, the only disadvantage was that we lost the chance to do a draft, but while the toilet was getting ready we were thinking about different ways of improving our next draft. Overall it was a really good day we manage to film the whole opening sequence we just hope that the editinggoes fine aswell.

New Location

Location

Problems with our Location

Unfortunately we had a problem with our location, just after our 2nd draft my father had to re-build the bathroom, and instead of a bath we are going to have a shower, its taking more time then we thought it would. Therefore we are cant film our 3th draft before everything is finished, this made as stay behind in our work, but we are working very hard planing our 3th draft as is going to be our final one.



We thought about 2 solutions to this problem,

•  Change the location to another bathroom, but then we couldnt find a bathroom that had a lot o sun light coming in.
•  Change the idea completely and start from the beginning , but we didnt have time star again and get a good grade.
• After all the solution is to wait into the bathroom is done so we can film.

We hope this gets done as soon as posible so we can carry on working in our opening sequence.

Meeting with Miss Connell

Today i sat with Miss Connell to discuss about the mistakes we were having on our second draft. She said they were very simple to fix and she advised us with some help:
Add more Flashbacks
Make the shots as shorter as possible
Establish the character( maybe with a voice over at the beggining)
Have more match on action when she is going into the house and when she is going up the stairs.

I found her help very useful because it always guides us to the right direction, and we are always focusing on making things better.

Opening Sequence 2nd Draft

Teacher Assesement:

Overall level: 2

Overall Mark: 32/33

WWW: Good range of shots

              Slow motion on the flashbacks

              Story is clearer

              Good Location

              Panning shot (leaning against shower)

EBI:  Some scenes could be shorter

         Angry when thronging boots she should be sad

         Change musicon the flashbacks

         Flashbacks dont relate

         Scene in the bathroomis to long

         Noises Alexa makes are too whiney      

Target: Imoprove match on action

             Always focus on her face before going to a flash back

             Try mo make scenes shorter

Short Term Plan

Draft 2 Filming Day

Today we went to my house to film our 2 draft of our opening sequence. 

First thing we sat together to make clear the changes and improvements we had to make since the 1 draft. 

After planning the step by step how we were going to film, we started to put the tape on the camera, do the actors make up, prepare the tripod etc... 

We started at 11:00am and we decided to film all in one day so we have more days to edit, so we finished at 2:00pm. We felt that we improved a lot from our 1 Draft as we had some really good shots. 

Opening Sequence 1st Draft

Teacher Assessment Improvements:

WWW:

• Good layout of tittles, considered genre
• Very good her facing away when he is touching her
• A variety of shots, considered match on action

EBI:

• The music is so wrong
• Too long
• It should be Flashback, reality, flashback, reality......
• Establish the character first (coming up the stairs)
• Camera: shaky and inconsistent. The zoom was done very badly.
• Voiceover was so whiney, cant really hear it and too repetitive

Target:

• Establish the character at the beginning
• Research a music that follows the genre
• Improve the camera shots, and zoom.

Assessment:

Group level:  1/2    Group mark:

Individual effort/contribution:   4    Individual Mark: 23 out of 24

Filming Techniques

To start filming and editing i felt i did not know much about this staff so i decided to research about how to use the right shots and techniques to edit something properly. In the internet i found so many things tutorials on how to use imovie, garageband, cameras, tripods.....and many other:

Final Idea

This slide shows all step by step of the first draf of our opening sequence.

Flashbacks

After watching several films that contain flashbacks i realized tha there are many effects that can be added to a scene to make it look like a flashback:

• Back and white effects
• Ecco sound
• Brightness and Contrast
• Flashes
• Slow motion
• Blurry

Save the last dance :







Butterfly Effect:

This two films present flashbacks really well, you can get various effects, and from this movies we where inspired to use flashbacks on our opening sequence.

Inspirational Films

Shows flashbacks throughout the hole film, with interesting sound and image effects



Flashbacks



The way she is isolated helped us to build our character



The aggression the mother has with her kid help us understand what was really domestic abuse 

Research & Planning

This was presentation of our final idea for the opening sequence,


WWW:

• The style of music match with the opening sequence (depressive)
• Connotations of costume
• Clear storyboard
• Research on abuse
• Good still images
• Good time managerment

EBI:

• Put the Job allocation into the powerpoint instead of just talking about each job. 
• More details of inspiration films, have a slide for each film and add still images and what they mean to you. 
• Label and number the storyboard.
• Have a slide for each actor explaning personality and representation
• Consider Titles and Fonts

Job Allocation

Preliminary Task

Filmed & Edited by: Alexa Ranussi 
Actors: Tiara Morris & Nkechi Chukwumuah

Assessment