Story Tellig Unit: Screening

In the screening of our work this week my work was given praise and criticism. The criticism of my work I thought was fair and not too harsh, I was told that I had a spelling mistake in my trailer, it says 'when man meets women' but it should say 'when man meets woman' but not everyone picked up on it as its not a big mistake. Some of the praise I got was the audio went well with my trailer and the sound made it good, also the way I used slow and hold throughout the trailer.

Story Telling Unit: Editing

I spent overall 3 days at Maidstone studios editing, it took this long as every time I thought I had the clips together I changed it. I showed Simon after 2 days and he had suggestions so I spent the next day editing again.
I found the music from youtube and I found that the easiest bit of editing, once I knew where I wanted each part of the song to go to it was easily placed.
I found the lessons on Final cut pro very helpful as I had no idea how to use the software before and know I have experimented with I by creating the trailer I am comfortable with it.

Story Telling Unit: Post Preduction

Filming pro's and con's/ reflections:

I am happy the way my filming went, the shots I collected was really good especially the one's of Mark walking by the river and the one where he is waiting for his coffee.

I feel I could have been more organised and if  planned a storyboard I would have been a little more organised with the shots.

I feel that if I could change anything it would to be more organised with filming so I don't go onto a shoot not knowing what to do, also I would keep on top of my blog instead of waiting till the last minute.

I am happy with the final result of my work and trailer.
I realised that I prefer editing than script writing.

Story-Telling Unit: 2 Minute Trailer

The Meeting Trailer.

I have used the first 2 minutes of my script to make a trailer.

Story Telling Unit: Script draft 2

This is the final draft before the deadline, this has the new story line:

The Meeting

Story Telling Unt: Production

The Meeting

These are my characters:

I am using Ruby as my main character Daisy, I choose Ruby as my main character as she fits the character of Daisy well, Ruby can portray a busy fast paced lifestyle and a single too busy woman who sacrifices love for her career.

I am using Mark as my main character Henry, I choose to use Mark as he plays a sexist good-looking lawyer just like Henry quite well. Mark will be able to act just like Henry who doesn't have much luck with women even though Mark doesn't.

I am using Ilianna to play the waitress at the coffee shop, Jane, this character is not really seen much in my film so Illy did not have to do much acting, I choose to use Illy as she would make a good waitress just because se has the look, with long blonde hair and lots of make-up.

Story Telling Unit : Location

The Meeting-

This is the rooms I filmed in:
This is the female- Daisy's room

I used my flatmates room as she was more comfortable in it, plus it also looks lived in and reflects the personality of my character in my script. The room is supposed to be slightly messy and not very organised.

This is the male - Henry's room.

I also chose to use one of my flatmates rooms for the male as I just used the characters room who stars in my trailer, I did this as he is really tidy and also is room reflects his character well.

Story Telling Unit: Idea Develoment

"The Meeting"

The storyline for my idea has changed slightly as my idea wasn't very believable, the new storyline:

Henry know no longer is being set up with Daisy on a double date by his friend Rob.
Daisy is the owner of the coffee shop where Henry collects his coffee from every day. Henry is a divorce lawyer that has routine in his life and has no long term relationship. Daisy is working one day when she spots Henry sitting in her shop by himself, she goes over to him and he is waiting for his date but she sits and talks to him while he waits. Daisy starts to like Henry and asks him to coffee when Henry's date arrives and it turns out to be a man. Dais realises that Henry is no the one for her and she goes back to work.

Story Telling Unit: Soft Trailer

In a session at the studios my class learnt how to create a trailer using the software Final cut pro, we used the short film "Soft" by Simon Ellis.
This is the trailer me and my partner came up with:

https://vimeo.com/78531561

We was given the whole 15 minute of the film and we was told to make a 1 minute trailer, my partner I really good at editing so we worked really well together as we choose some good clips and he taught me shortcuts and some good tips about Final cut pro.