Moderators Note

Dear Moderator,
Thank you for taking the time to look through my blog, I hope you enjoy it and our film opening.

Lily Louise Bosworth
Candidate Number- 8028
Centre Number- 16121

Final Edit Of Educating Katie

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.

Music used withing 'Educating Katie'

For our opening we chose two pieces of music that completely contrasted. We started with a romantic track to set the genre and make the audience think they are watching a romantic film then we wanted to put our own twist and change the music. For this we added a disk scratch and imported a cover of Teenage Dirtbag . We thought it was a good choice as it highlights the genre shift and makes the audience question the genre. Instead of Teenage Dirtbag we originally had All Star by Smash Mouth and soon realised that we couldn't use it as it was copyrighted. This was disappointing for us as we thought the music really made the opening and clearly represented our characters was feeling.

Foley Sounds

Foley effects are sound effects added to the film during post production.They include sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking ect.
This clip helped explain the importance of Foley sounds and why the industry use them and what they use to try and recreate the sounds.

Research and making of our production logo

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.

Filming Schedule

The first shooting date was when we first filmed our film opening. Unfortunately after editing all our shots taking a fortnight to do it was deleted off the computer by mistake, therefore we had to plan to re shoot all our shots after the Christmas holidays. The third and fourth shot dates were added as we wasn't happy with some of our shots as they looked unprofessional and we didn't want to lose marks because of this, so we redone some of our older shots and added new ones which we thought suited the genre better.

Feedback On Our Film Opening

Once we had finished editing 'Educating Katie' fully, we went on further to get feedback on our film opening. This helped us to highlight what we could improve and changes needed within our work. We told the respondents what words they needed to know such as enigma and also told them we didn't want them to be bias towards us but to be truthful with what they thought about the opening so we could learn and improve more. Doing this helped them to show us an understanding of the feedback to which we would get from our target audience and how they felt about our film opening and ideas for 'Educating Katie'.

Napoleon Dynamite

Young and wild

Down with love

Meteo+

Moonrise Kingdom

Napoleon dynamite

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

After looking further into film openings, we found Napoleon Dynamite and thought that it was an interesting take on a film opening. They incorporated everyday objects/symbols into the opening which created a lot of enigma. The enigma created made the audience want to know more and want to find out who Napoleon Dynamite is.
We took inspiration from this film opening by also using everyday objects including titles which linked/highlighted our main character. For example, we took inspiration from the plate on chicken nuggets but linked it to our character by using a slice of cake.

These are some of our shots compared to Napoleon Dynamite

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.