Our complete opening sequence- Forget Me Not

The final and complete opening sequence:




Editing rough cut:
To make sure that we create a product of a high standard, we decided to get some final audience feedback. One of the things that was suggested was that the second shot (of the camera moving towards the female character) looked amateurish. This was deliberate to what we wanted to portray - a faux-naif effect to convey the character as naive and innocent (similarly to the hand held camera). So we counter-balanced the audiences view and our aims by removing the ambient sound (which was increased in speed), by doing this, it comprimised the audiences and groups views into something we believe has improved our product. We were also trying to incoporate appropriate conventions of romance genres by creating a similarity to '500 Days Of Summer'.

Additionally, a minor mistake pointed out was that 'starring' was spelt incorrectly, which we most definatly needed to change in order to avoid an amateur profile.

Chloe Tetu's Media Evaluation

The following link will take you to my evaluation website which was made for the purpose of presenting my media evaluation on:

http://www.wix.com/chloe_sarah/chloes-media-evaluation-site1

Chloe Tetu's Final Cut Feedback for Mise en-Scène

From showing the final opening sequence to various viewers, my group received feedback on several areas. Because I was the person mainly in charge of Mise en-Scène I took most of the feed back for it, like I did in the rough cut feedback. Most of the feedback that was received was all positive, especially for the costumes and props. Viewers said that the items selected were perfect for the film and worked really well in their placement, much like they did in the comments they gave for my groups rough cut feedback.

Overall, everyone in my group was really pleased with the comments given and the outcome of the project. Everyone who watched the sequence seemed to enjoy it and said that they thought it was really well put together.

Chloe Tetu's Editing Contribution

Throughout the editing phase the whole group worked together to piece the final production together. Each person did specific things but all helped each other during manufacturing. The editing that I did/ contributed to includes: uploading the footage to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 on a standard computer; adding transitions like, cross fading various pieces of footage together, such as the part where the flower the girl is holding fades into the face of the male character and then back again (as you can see in the images provided below); I pieced together parts of the voice over with my group, such as the part where the male character shouts/calls the name of the girl ‘Jade’ and I also helped with the organising of the titles, including putting them on the film and arranging them accordingly. With everyone working together and doing their bit for the group, I think we managed to edit our piece together making it look professional and of a high quality.

Extra Narration

As a group we decided that it would be a good idea to put a piece of narration at the end of the production to show that it is being left open and that there is more to come after. To create a cliff hanger. This is what we wrote down:

1) That's when it all begun
Gradually, the tide crept up on us and swept across my mind.

2) And that's when it all began
Crept up on us like a wave, gradual but persistent, eventually moving over my mind like the water over an unprotected sea bed.

3) And that's when it all began
Crept up on us like a wave, gradual but persistent, inevitable and powerful, eroding our happy lives.

This is the narration that we finally decided on:

This is when it hit us, like a wave, gradual but persistent, inevitable and powerful, eroding our happy lives.

Chloe Tetu's Rough Cut Feedback for mise en scène

On showing the rough cut to other people, we received feedback both praising our production and giving us constructive criticism helping us to improve on our opening sequence.

I was mainly in charge of mise en scène,-costumes and props-, and the majority of the feedback we got was positive. The people that watched the sequence said that the clothes were appropriate for the characters and portrayed their personalities well.

Furthermore, they also said that the props used went well in the set, and were necessary and suitable to the environment in which the characters were in and the actions that the characters were making.

As a group, we were really pleased with the feedback we received as we had worked hard to make the rough cut production the best that it could be. On hearing the comments, we will continue to work hard and make the final opening sequence the greatest it can possibly be.

Rough Cut

Chloe Tetu's Analysis of all of my Planning posts regarding my Opening sequences analysis research

analysis of my blog posts regarding my opening sequences research

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This PowerPoint shows my analysis of all of the previous planning posts, showing you how I came about making decisions while working on the planning stages of my groups production, with taking the Opening Sequences research I completed into account.

Chloe Tetu's Analysis of all of my Planning posts regarding my Survey findings

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Here is my analysis of all of the previous planning posts showing you how I came to making decisions, while working on my groups Opening Sequence Production, regarding my survey findings.

Chloe Tetu's Final Filming Plan- Dates and Order

Here are the main plans that I drew up. The sheet at the very top shows all of the locations we were planning to film in, with the dates which we were planning to film on, and also some extra information to work from. This information includes: the actions I thought the characters could be doing, props for the scenes and the type of costumes being used.

The following three pieces of paper basically show a similar thing but do have other details on them. These included various camera shots that we could try out/ use during our filming time.

As well as these plans being a record to show us when we completed the tasks, they were also a great help to look at if we needed to refer to them at anytime while filming. Because we were so organised with filming and stuck to pretty much all of the dates we had set, we were able to get everything finished quickly and efficiently, and even shoot some extra footage that we could use while editing our sequence.

Chloe Tetu's Basic Filming Plan- Dates and Order

Here is a basic plan of the locations that we were going to film in in a rough order with some notes written on it. However, the more important part of the sheet is located towards the bottom. This is the table that I drew out to see what lessons other members of my group had free so we could use it as potential filming time and use up all of our free time together efficiently. With Dylan and Jade being actors in the opening sequence of our film it was essential that these two, plus one other person, (someone that could film that could film), was free in the same lessons. Unfortunately, there was only one time gap that worked out for only three of the four group members, (them being, me/ Chloe Tetu, Dylan Meade and Jade Carey), that being lesson 4 on a Tuesday, starting at 12:10 and running to around 13:10. Ben wasn't able to film on this particular day, but he made up for it on the days that we all filmed together. Having this free period was a great help for our group as we managed to get some of the smaller scenes done earlier so we were able to focus more on other aspects of our production.

Chloe Tetu's Video Introduction to my planned Filming Dates and Order Information

Here is an introduction where I will briefly be talking to you about how I went about drawing out and organising the filming times and order for my groups production.

Chloe Tetu's Locations- Map for main scene

As a group we had decided that we were going to film the main scene at Southend beach. Because it was our main scene it was the most important and had to be planed for to make sure we could get the most of the location we had chosen. To ensure this, I printed a map of a a birds-eye view of the area that we thought we were going to film in and circled all of the potential places that we could use. This proved helpful as we had multiple sites to choose from, and were able to locate and look at the places quickly and easily.

(As you can see the map at the very top shows all of the potential filming locations and the map below shows the site that we actually filmed at).

I would like to give Google maps credit: http://maps.google.co.uk/ : for allowing me use of their website to acquire the map from.

Chloe Tetu's Locations Mood Board

In order to help out my group with locations, I made a mood board of all of the different places that I thought we could potentially film in. I knew that we had decided that we were going to film in a number of different places, so I got to work collecting images of different sites. Furthermore, I also wrote some notes and ideas around each photo of the things that I thought the characters could be doing in each scene, such as: eating a picnic in the field or holding hands whilst walking through the forest.

I would like to give credit to Google images: http://www.google.co.uk/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi : for providing me with the pictures to use on my mood board.

Chloe Tetu's Video Introduction to my Locations posts

Here is an introduction to my locations posts.

Chloe Tetu's Finished Film Logo

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Chloe Tetu's Film Logos Research

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This PowerPoint shows all of the research I did while I was trying to design a logo for my group.

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Chloe Tetu's Props Information

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This PowerPoint shows everything I completed to do with the props that were used during filming.

Chloe Tetu's Video Introduction to my Props post

This is an introduction to the post on props used in the production of my groups film.