We have our first draft due for the seventh of february therefore, in our lesson today our aim is to find appropiate music, what editing we are planning to do and to edit as much of our footage as possible to ensure we get it to how we ideally want it.

For the basic editing we have begun by using crop and cut- this is to remove anything unessecary and anything that isnt needed. We also started to change the colour- although we thought that we had a good setting for out colour we all agreed that because we are trying to maximise the dream affect to the audience that we would change it. We felt this was a really good affect and we also put editing transitions on for example- a ripple and a circle to make it smooth,

Editing

We have now started to upload our media footage to our assigned Mac- after meeting over five times to make sure that we had a variety of meaningful shots, and too also make it all fit together. When we started to edit we looked at it all together and picked out sections in which would show the dreamy affect. The editing of the Macs were quite limited therefore we had to ask someone who also had a mac but there own personal one at home to put a slow motion affect on, we felt this would maximise the dream affect to the fullest.

Wizard of Oz-- If I Only Had A Brain

As we are doing a dream for our final piece I decided to look at movie openings with the theme of dreams or openings that are mysterious. To get ideas and shots from this, throughout this process someone told me that the wizard od oz was actually in fact a dream so iIbegan to look at clips of the wizard of oz.

As we are doing a dream for our final media piece I decided to look at movie opening with the theme of dreaming with or stuff that’s mysterious, to get ideas and shots from this. Throughout this process someone told me that the wizard of oz was actually in fact a dream so I then began to look at clips of this.

Group talks

After having our group discussion and spending one hour looking at different openings we again had a hard think we decides to have quite a few meetings because we thought this was a necessity to make sure that everyone was completely and everyone’s ideas were being heard. In which they all were, after the meeting we were really happy with our idea, and because we already had an idea we were able to take many ideas from that. For example in our first idea the ghost would whisper, in our new one when the teddy appear there will be whispering with words such as: This is your fault, why did you leave me and where are you? And all sorts of other things. We decided to keep it simple- the field meant that we could get the mise-en-scene perfect what we neede.

Ideas/ Narrative

For our opening, the audience will firstly see Elise playing Rose- she is the actor in our media piece. She’s going to be in a field, but almost looks as if it’s a forest. The girl’s happy smiling like there’s no tomorrow, she’s in her element freedom at last.  Their will be a variety of different shots in the opening for example: Long shots, wide shots, angle shots and close ups.

After we see Rose jumping down from the tree she has been sitting on, we see her running around, almost as if she’s dreaming. However whilst running she looks as if she trying to find something whilst exploring the beautiful nature. She’s so content and private; through facial expressions and body language we know she’s happy.

After foreshadowing the girls looking for something, we move her on in the forest, to another tree she’s standing high and reaching. After reaching we see she grabs hold of a teddy, she hugs the teddy bear holding on tight as if nothing can come between the two. The teddy bear foreshadows lots, in the rest of the story.

We then have a shot of rose running, so happy occasionally spinning around. Running because this is where she’s the happiest in her dream with her teddy bear she doesn’t want to be anywhere else. But as she’s running un-noticeably she drops the teddy and continues to run.  

After the shots in the forest, we then move on to the girl waking up- reality. The first shot we see is of rose waking up, she pushes her self up quickly as if she absolutely distraught she’s woken up she didn’t want to be disturbed at this point the camera is directly in her face for a little while everything pauses. Her dads banging on her door, she ignores this for a few seconds then yelps.

We decided to make the girl have a small dungy room, we got this idea from Harry Potter- When living with his auntie, uncle and cousin he isn’t wanted therefore he has a small room with no space to do anything. Therefore we thought this would connote her type of lifestyle to the audience, and the type of life that she leads.

This is where our story would end, however if it was too continue it would show her life, what happened before the dream she had and what happened after- why the teddy is so important to her.

Recent events

On the seventh of December I was due to go on holiday; therefore I would be missing two lessons- to make up for being away from my group I decided to take short clips while I was away. Most of the shots that I did, were of the sky our new idea is of a dream, therefore ideally it would be beautiful to begin with (the outside) nice and dreamy. One of the particular clips that we might be using is one that of the blue sky with a few clouds just floating, I thought this would be good in case we didn’t have many good sunny days. I would up load this on to my computer or on the school’s Mac- so that we could edit and make this a part of our media piece.

New idea

After much discussion, our group realised that we were still trying to put to much into our video- and took us all a while to realise that it was more about the shots- oppose to what’s in them, of course the mise-en-scene and the meaning of the film is just important.

We decided to go to heading ton hill- we decided this would be our location, after figuring the dream would revolve about mysterious events therefore it needed to be in a small compact space although this would be visible to the audience as it would be in different locations- areas but edited all together. We found the perfect location, and luckily the sun was beautiful and was shining exactly where we needed it. The first shot was beautiful it was of Elise standing in the middle of the tree with the sun hitting the left of her. This looked stunning, she then jumped of the tree and ran towards another dreamily, we also did a shot from a tree to get a high shot. We were lucky to get this filmed, we had some problems with are camera. Connie had informed us that the camera was playing up however Ellie filmed some footage on her way home and the camera was working ok, once at our filming destination the camera screen was black. It took us around 10 minutes to get the camera working, after filming this short piece of footage the camera once again went black, we did what we did in the first place twice and tried to fix it in more ways however after thirty minutes of discussion and trying to fix the camera we were all freezing and decided to leave. It was a real shame, because unfortunately we had everything we needed.

On Tuesday, whilst in media we were trying to figure when we all had a free day but because of our busy schedules with- drama, art and business and psychology exams it was hard to fit anything else in. We decided to go on that day, and get it all done we went to heading ton hill after school and film a lot more that we previously had with a much better quality camera which everyone was really happy about. However it became increasingly dark very soon by this time it was 5 30. We decided to go to South parks- opposite where there was a bit lighter and filmed another short piece of footage. We then decided we would all come out on Sunday to finish completely.