Roughcut film opening!!!

Rough cut deadline

Today is our rough cut deadline, and this lesson we have been putting the final touches onto our sequence in final cut express.
We have managed to complete the following shots:
skittles
cookies
train
alphabet sweets
playing cards
scrabble
( these were all in istop motion)
Cake shots - ingredients and making and cooking
We had to cut down our sequence because our sound track wasn't long enough for our sequence. it was about 20 seconds longer.

We are planning to re-shoot our cakes scenes using istop motion, and we also need a final shot of the cake with sweets moving around it and a name on it. we also need a shot of a child carrying a teddy bear. Also we need to add the film title at the end of the sequence!!!
we will be able to complete that for our final deadline.
We will also have our sound track sung by a childrens choir to make it more appealing to our target audiences.

Today we uploaded all our footage so far onto final cut express , then ordered the shots into sequence.

We decided that we needed to film some more sequences using final cut express as other wise our footage would be to short.
Tomorrow we are going to add the music ' i like it' by Gerry and the peacemakers for our soundtrack.

Continuing opening

Friday 13th Feb -

Today we continued with the production. After bringing in some alphabet sweets, we used them to spell out the names and words needed like "directed". For effect, we first made a line at the top and one at the bottom of the alphabet in order until we ran out of space on the screen. Then in the middle we wrote out the names by putting one letter down at a time and taking separate pictures on istop motion so that the word is shown building up until it is finished. Also, with the letters around the edge we moved them for each shot so it looked as if they were moving by themselves.

We also carried on with the skittles to make them into another name but wer're not sure if this will be kept yet in the final cut.

Finally, we made a list of all the shots we need to do at home after half term when we have the camera equipment booked out to film more footage.

Start of production

On Tuesday 10th feb (yesterday) we started shooting our film opening.We firstly practiced writing out fonts on paper with icing, as this linked in with what we were shooting. we didn't know what to exspect so we thought this would be suitable. Next we learned and practised how to set up all the equipment (camers, tripod, camera stand, light.) Therefore in future lessons we could get it set up quickly and efficiently without wasting time.
We only filmed one shoot yesterday. This was the cookies being taken from the plate and the directors name undermeath on the plate in pink icing. We filmed it using istop motion witch created quite a childish effect. Also the writing in icing looked child like, this fits in well with the genre of our film.

Next lesson. Friday 6th

This lesson we plan to try and complete shots 2, 5 , 8, 11, 14, 12. ( aslong as it doesnt snow!)

The props we will bring in are jelly beans, scrabble, playing cards, alphabet sweets, toy train, crayons, icing. These shots will be done by using istopmotion so we thought we'd do them first because they will probably take the longest to do.

Shot list

Test Footage - Istop motion

As this is our first time at using iStop motion for a large project. We decided to do a test shot to make sure ,we still knew how to use the programme.

We chose to use skittles as this fitted in with our theme and they are also part of our props. the overall footage looked good although we decided not to use a white back ground as this looks to much like white paper, and not professional looking. We will also take mire time when moving the skittles around.