Journal: 20/01/12

In today's lesson we where able to keep on target and film the shots we planned to do in the previous lesson. This time we had all the group members there so we where able to get what we wanted done there and then. We also found that it was easier to shoot with a script aswell as a storyboard as the actors where able to know exactly when to say there lines. This avoid a lot of mistakes and kept us on track. With the help from our teacher, we where able to keep expanding and improving our intital ideas and therefore make our final title sequeces of a high standard. Overall this lesson helped use get back on track with the shotting stage and we hope to film over the weekend.

Journal: 19/01/12

In today's we where again editing, and experimenting with different timing so our sequence flows. Where using what we learn from the Final Cut Tutorial to edit our footage, and as the lesson progressed we got more confident with the software. Editing takes a long time, and can be quite time consuming so it was hard sharing the editing as both group members wanted to edit. We originally planned to do a reshoot of our opening scene, but because we where one group member down we were not able to do this. Instead we began to record the voice overs and addition voice clips for our sequence. We did this using the Quicktime voice recorder as it is easy to access and use. We had to record the different voiceovers done by the main protagonist (Ronald), which was very frustrating as our actor had no choice but to read the script of the page, which was hard for him to grasp. Overall I think we managed to use the time wisely and we hope to film in the next lesson.

Script

Ronald: Grade ‘A’ Killer

Scene 1

The film opens in a dark room where all is seen is a beam of light vaguely highlighting a young boy’s face. His facial expression indicates that he is watching something but the audience is unclear about what exactly is happening. There voice about halfway into the shot…

Voice: I am feed up with all these perfetic excuses, you have had me wrapped round you little finger for too long…

In the next shot, we are shown the point of view of the character in the dark room peering through a tiny gap where, what looks like, a door opening. We can now see clearly a classroom where a teacher is standing over a student. The student voice cries…

Student: Please I didn’t want it to go on for this long, I just need the answers. That’s all, you understand right?

Teacher: Sure I do (sarcastic), this was all one big misunderstanding. You haven’t turned my life into living hell or anything, I’m just going to let you just walk on out of this room without you being punished…

Student: Yes please just let me go… (Almost crying)

Teacher: Well actually I’m not going to let you go, but I am going to make sure you pay for every bit of misery you caused me. This will be the end for you…

Student: Please I don’t what to die all that stupid stuff I did, I’m sorry…

Teacher: Well that isn’t good enough.

Now we are back to the dark room where we again see the mysterious outline of this young boy where suddenly we are submerged in darkness until the light is turned on to reveal a young smart school boy in his school uniform. He is panicking…

School Boy:(in his head) Oh crap what the hell is happening, more to the point why is it happening to me. I’ve never done anything bad to anyone. Snap out of it Ronald, you need to save that student, you can’t just stand in here and listen to him get beaten to death. I need to find a weapon…

(We then see Ronald vigorously searching through the shelves)

Ronald: Roll of Paper; not the most strong weapon maybe something a little harder, Spray can; not good enough I’ll only be able to get one hit, Lamp; not my ideal weapon but light, this will have to do.

Then we are back to the classroom where the young student is curled up in the corner. The teacher is stand away from the student still shouting fears demands…

Teacher: Right you avoiding this anymore, you are going to die today and there nothing that you cunning mind can do about it…

Then suddenly Ronald appears behind the teacher with his weapon raised high, he has angry face swings for the teacher and just before impact…FREEZE

TITLE SEQUENCE

Ronald: I bet you are curiously wondering how a little small time geek like me ended up in an epic fight for survival, well my started like any day in the small crappie town of Welling, where my life is normal and boring and nothing really exciting happens. I thought I would have to spend my entire life here; well that’s what I thought…

Ronald: As you can see my life is pretty average, there’s nothing special about it, but that’s all about to change, a soon as I step through the gates of Wellington Secondary school…

BACK TO FREEZE

Then we are back to where we left with Ronald about to swing for the teacher when there’s a knock at the door…

Student at Door: Sir, can look at this essay that was due for tomorrow but I wanted to make sure it was all oookkaayy… (Shocked face)

Journal: 17/01/12

In today's lesson we took the time to look over the footage that we had and began to decide what needed to be re-shot and what was okay. We discovered that the shot we took when filming in our school location dead not look as good as we expected when edited together. We debated the possible reasons for this and settle on that we had to re-shot as soon as possible. The main part of the lesson was about how to use the editing software Final Cut Pro on the iMac's. We where given a basic principles tutorial to really get to grips with using it. We then got given the chance to start playing about with the software. I really enjoyed using the software as I was able to use it confidently when I left the lesson. Overall in the lesson I learnt exactly how important it is to get the right shoots but also how to use Final Cut Pro to edit our title sequence.

Journal: 13/01/2012

In todays lesson we had a first shooting session where we began to film the first few shoots for our title sequence. We began by first shooting the shots we had created on our story in order. This was working until changes had to be made to our film but also our storyboard. This due to new ideas from fellow group members and advice giving by our teacher. We where considering better ways that the original shots could be adapted to broadcast different meaning that could be interpreted in a easier way for audience members. This was our first real step in the production side of the coursework and we now know how hard it is to film but also how enjoyable it is.

Possible Locations

Here is our first location shot. This is a possible bathroom that we could use in our title sequence. The colours of the room work with the narrative and genre of our film purely because the black and white connotes good and bad and the contrast between them. This is represented through our main protagonist. This is a good location as it demostrates all the features we need.

This is another location shot of a possible kitchen for the opening sequence of our film. The colour scheme of the room again works very well as the red units connote blood of death in contrast to this geeky charater we would see through out. I really like this location as it demostraites again the features we are looking for in a location for our film.

Titles For Sequence