Chloe Jones 8113 - Brentwood County High School -16121

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Educating Katie - AS Media film opening

After our 1st edit, we had fixed and changed all the problems that had actually been found within the edit and when finalising our final edit we solved them all successfully.

If i was to do the film opening again, I would definitely plan to be more organised and back up all work/shots when possible and after every day of shooting. As we came across our shots had been lost and couldn't be recovered, when filming again we have learnt from this and will also back up when needed. 

I would also consider the research side of our film opening to be much more developed, doing this will allow us to gain a wider knowledge of the genre. I feel that although we done loads of research before producing the film opening, it may have helped to gain further amounts of information and research.
Lastly, lighting is a big aspect to any film/film opening. I feel as though we didn't focus enough on this when producing 'Educating Katie' as we could have done. If i was to redo the process of filming the opening I would take into account the lighting more, to make some shot more brighter than they are and to improve the focus/quality.

Research Into Costume, Lighting and Make Up

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Costume:

For costume we want our main girl character to be wearing something like this as it would be something someone would wear in everyday life and we didn't want them to look overly smart as it wouldn't look realistic.






Make Up for the Main Character:

We chose natural makeup as we wanted our  main character to come across as your ordinary girl, she has to look simple but elegant at the same time.The natural look helps keep our character realistic and relatable.


Other Female Character:

we wanted our other female character shown in the romantic couple to be less natural as we wanted to show the contrast between the two characters , we wanted this character to look more focused on her appearance and more complex then the main character.











Lighting & Setting

We wanted natural lighting as its supposed to be a relatable film based on day to life so its needs to be realistic for the audience. We wanted our opening to look as real as possible so we set it in a normal location you would associate with everyday life.

Film Openings - Titles Research



Down With Love



Young and Wild



Moonshine Kingdom



Napoleon Dynamite



Meteo+

For our film opening we research many different film opening and found a mixture of things.
Our findings:
- Colour schemes to fit with genre- Speech/Dialogue used- Upbeat music- Colouring to show time that set (Moonrise Kingdom) This was done by using a filter- Key links to the character and story

Educating Katie 1st edit

Evaluation of our first edit-



The first obstacle we came across when filming for our film opening, happened to be that our filming was lost due to difficulty with technology. This happened due to the fact that we used our home camera for the first filming and that we had some problems with the camera. We found that we had lost all of the filming that we had already done and we had to re-film all of the shots. This made us learn to back-up the shots after every filming session due to the fact that it could get lost again. Saving it twice on two computers allowed us to ensure that we would never lose the shoots again.

Once we had finished editing our first edit of 'Educating Katie' we found that the film opening was too short and that we would have to make up some more shots to have the acceptable time for our time opening. This was because we hadn't planned our story board 100% successfully and found that some shots were shorter than we had planned for them to be.

Lastly, we found that the music used wasn't acceptable for the film opening either as it was a copyrighted popular music track. This stumped us massively as we through that the track chosen was perfect for our film opening, but after changing it and looking further into other tracks we found that we could have a changed, un-copyrighted version of the track which would be suitable for our film opening. 


We found that our titles had not been planned very well. We noticed this when re-editing and watching over that we had not ordered the titles in the way we had planned too and also that we had included two "produced by" titles. This is not what we had planned to do and meant that we would have to reorder the titles and even some shots. 

Research into Production Logos

Educating Katie - Story Boards

This was the our first draft of our initial ideas of shots that would be used within our opening.We didn't use a storyboard to start with as we didn't have a set idea on the order of shots so we put down a number of ideas, which helped us to then set a final storyboard. When planning in more depth we would add different ideas for different shots and went into greater detail about each shotMain Storyboard -.

Here is the storyboard for our opening. This gives the shots we plan to do and the order we want them to appear in. We have tried to make this detailed, so it will make our filming much quicker and easier. We made a storyboard of what shots we wanted because when it came to filming, we was more organise and knew what shots we had to film next and how long they was meant to last.

After knowing that our first ideas of shots wasn't long enough we came up with more ideas for shots that could make our opening longer. We filmed all these shots them uploaded them to Premiere and then edited with the shots that flowed best with our opening.