Research and Planning- The Title Font

When it came to picking the font for the title of our film we were really careful because we didn't want to font to go against the genre of the film, as a group we decided we wanted a font that was quite fun and went with the "teen" element of our film. We went on the website Dafont and we looked at a verity of different fonts. The font we decided to use was called "Mental freak" (the circled font). We think this was the best choice of font for our opening.

Research and Planning- The Song For Our Titles Take 2

When we originally planned our opening sequence we wanted to remix the song She's Got You High By Mumm-Ra however when we remixed it we felt it didn't really go with the edited footage. We then came up with the idea of recording the song with just the guitar riff and perhaps the underlying bass riff and when the recorded guitar was played with the edited footage it fitted really well and everyone within the group felt very excited.

Research and Planning-Font for the titles

For the titles of the film we wanted to something playful and fun to look at. With the help of the website Dafont we saw a font called "Green Pilloww" and immediately we wanted to use this font and we think it works well in context with the genre of the film.

Problems With Editing

One of the main problems we had with editing was the split screen feature. The reason this was our main problem was because we weren't familiar with the editing programme. At the start of the editing process the boxes of the split screen were not the same size.

Research and Planning- Changing The Title's

As we were filming our opening sequence we deicided that our idea for having the titles interlinked with the scene was too difficult to execute because most of our shots were outside. As a group we have now decided to have the titles displayed on each half of the split screen. For example on the half of the screen where "Poppy" is we will have the girl's who will be staring in our film and who were part of making the film and on "Josh's" half of the screen we will have the boy's who will be staring in our film and who were part of making the film.

Editing Our Opening Sequence

The programme we used for editing was Final Cut Pro. The reason we used this programme and not I-movie was because of the spilt screen element to our piece couldn't be achieved through I-movie. At first we experienced issues with getting to grips with how to upload footage and how to cut our shots down so they flowed nicely throughout the piece. Eventually we got to grips with the programme and managed to edit our piece with ease.

Filming Of Our Opening Sequence

These are a selection of On Location images taken on Saturday 24th January 2010. We decided to take shots of us filming just so we had a lasting memory of it.At first we were a bit disappointed with the weather because we really wanted it to be a clear sunny day in order to get the best lighting in each of our shots but in the long run the weather was only a small factor We began filming at 10.30am in Laura's house as a group we all decided to get to Laura's house half hour before just so we could set everything up and not to feel rushed. We decided to film in a methodical order because otherwise it could all go head over heels. When filming in Laura's house we tried our best to stick to the storyboard just so we knew exactly what we were doing, this system worked very well because as a group it helped us see our opening sequence come together shot by shot which for me was a really exciting factor. We began filming in Jack's house at around 1.00 Jacks shots we're considerably easy too shoot because according to the story board there weren't as many shots of Jack getting ready than there were of Laura so this gave us opportunities to re-shoot and experiment with various shot types.

One of the hardest elements of filming was when we were walking whilst filming because we didn't want the shots to become out of focus or too look rushed and when we looked at the filmed footage we didn't feel this came across and we felt we had some steady shots and if the shots were abit bumpy it worked in context with characters walking.