Media has ruined my life

Well, not so much ruined my life but it has ruined films for me! I can no longer enjoy them without analysing every shot or angle. I guess you could say I can now appreciate the work that goes into them, but it does get quite frustrating... It's what I signed up for though, and it's a small price to pay for all of the other enjoyable things we get to do, like write essays! I'm kidding, but I do love the filming and editing process, and of course , blogging, although I know that isn't evident by my blog. I watched the film 'Never been Kissed' last night, it was showing on E4, and although it's a film that holds no depth, a typical RomCom really, it was fairly enjoyable. Anyway, the reason as to why I am writing this babble is that I LOVED the introduction, there was this single brilliant shot, something that I think would be fantastic to have in our intro, but I don't see that happening. Anyway, here it is, it's so long because this is the only one I could find! 1:14 is the shot I'm talking about:

Our set!

We think this looks like a pretty typical teenage girls room... right? Just what we're aiming for!

Finally

We have an idea at long last... I've been absent from my blog due to a lack of inspiration. After a good group discussion, we've come up with an idea we all think will be successful. We are hoping to use Lucy's bedroom as our set, and she's letting us write on her wall! There will be paper stuck on it, but still, very generous of her. Our idea is that of a girl struck with cancer, writing her 'bucket list' as such, on her wall. Inspired by the book 'Before I Die' by Jenny Downham. We are hoping to buy a novelty needle to get a great shot of her injecting herself, and we are going to try and find an oxygen mask that we can place somewhere in her room. All to create the illusion of illness. Once we have these we should be able to crack on with filming. Hopefully all will go well this time!

Rethinking

We reviewed our shots from southend and edited a few of them together, we're not entirely pleased with them. They didn't come out as we had hoped! This has made us think that the idea of using Southend may not be the best one. This is what we edited before we changed our minds:



we are currently in the process of storyboarding our new idea. I'll post our new idea as soon as we're sure about it!

Se7en - The Film

In Fridays lesson (5th Novemember) , we watched the film Se7en, directed fantastically by David Fincher. With an excellent plot and gripping ending finding a flaw would be a challenge. The shots were unique and extremely interesting,the film was put together perfectly. The characters were played exceptionally well,especially that of the psychotic murderer, played by Kevin Spacey. Some may even say it was the making of his career. I will definitely be looking to this film for inspiration for my opening.

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: