Bloopers from Southend

Believe it or not we did get some good shots from the day! We are now in the process of editing our shots together to create the opening.

Filming

Me and Lucy made the trek to Southend today to film the main parts of our opening. We managed to get it all done and tomorrow we will see how it came out! Despite it being extremely windy and cold, I think the shots came out well and hopefully it will all look okay. I'm really looking forward to editing them and seeing the final piece. We got a few bloopers and kept a little video diary of our day, so as soon as they are edited I'll upload them to my blog.

Heres our proof:

Experimenting with our flip

Our Prelim Video

Lesson 8th Oct

In fridays lesson we pitched our opening idea to the class , in the hope that we'd get the green light, and be given our equipment. After hearing our pitch all of the class agreed on giving us the go-ahead and we were finally given the equipment! Our group is really excited about starting filming, I think we're all going to really enjoy this project. We also got the chance to hear everyone elses pitches, all of their ideas are brilliant.

This was our pitch:

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Monday 4th October

In todays lesson we were left to brainstorm ideas for our films in our groups. My group came up with an original idea of a Brit film, based around a young, troubled girl. However after watching the opening to the film 'The Hole', we decided to scrap the idea of the young girl, and make something more straightforward, but equally as effective. We're still unsure about some aspects of our opening, but we have the basic plot.
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Lesson 27th Sept

In mondays lesson (27th Sept) we looked at film genres, ones we may consider for our coursework. The genres we focused on were:

Comedy:
Superbad
Hot fuzz
Youth in Revolt
Sean of the Dead

Chick Flick:
Mean Girls
Sex and the City
Wild Child

Horror/Thriller:
The Exorcist
Paranormal Activity
Blair Witch Project
Hide and Seek

Alternative:
Juno
500 Days of Summer
Happy Go Lucky

Action:
James Bond
Bourne Identity
The Matrix

Brit Film:
This is England
Tormented
Kidulthood
Shank

Period Drama:
Atonement
Pride and Prejudice


The genre I am going to do for my coursework is Brit Film. I chose this because I think it will be different to many of the other groups, and it'll be fun to do.