Editing plans : Final editing day plans

Timeline for editing
Monday 1st december 2014  from

 9:00am to 11:40pm: Fahmi 

11:40am to 12:50pm: Sammah

12:50pm to 3:00pm: Fahmi

3:00pm to 4:20pm: Fahmi

As Sammah did most of the filming I have decided to do the editing part mainly. But however Sammah should also do editing as well as during our filming I have filmed some scenes of Essex road south  and Abbott's park. 

Evaluation of our filming

First of all we were put into a group of 2 due to the lack of people in our class for filming.  So me and Sammah teamed up and we had to produce storyboards and mind maps of genre we’d like to do and what our idea was. Once we had  agreed on the our chosen genre, we then had to produce the script but then we decided its better to do without script as we want to portray our film with facial expressions and emotions.After that we then had a group discussion to see if I and sammah felt anything should be added to our storyboard and our ideas. After changing parts of the story such as the ending, we wrote up the final storyboard. Later on in the group we had to assign ourselves job roles. Me and sammah did equally all roles except at the end we decided to separate our roles so sammah did most of the filming but for locations such as Essex road south and Park scene I did most of the scenes.I was editor at the end and sammah was the camera operator.

We faced a few problems when filming, such as the camera lens wasn't focused enough which then led to some shots being blurry. This had a negative impact on our filming as while filming we didn't realise that the lenses weren't clear enough and when we watched our film we couldn't understand. But this problem was sorted when our mentor gave us 1 day to re-shoot as she didn't like some of the parts of the scene. Plus  because members of the group were off often (actress) on filming days it went difficult for us to finish our filming within our specific dates and due to my partner absence( she was ill) I was unable to film without her because the storyboard was with her and I had a late reply from her about when can reschedule our shooting . we had a few problems with the camera shots using too many mid shot or long shots or  cutting out the actors heads, however in the end our hard working  had made it worked well. 

I wasn't experienced with DSLR camera before hence I was really  anxious about me shooting alone and whenever I filmed I kept panicking inside that I might not be still. This issue occurred when i was shooting for the banana scene I had to shoot film rest of the Essex road south location by myself with the actress but then when I did the mistake for not being still with the camera, I learned more about the camera and I got into the grips with using the camera, so it was only the end I felt more relaxed. However if I didn't committed any mistake for our filming then I wouldn't have the experienced needed for a film-maker  then I did before. 

If I was to improve anything it would be making sure that whatever work we do we should have copies of each of our work and its better to have someone  you know for to act as our timing and our actress timing most of the time didn't match. which was a hassle for us since we were running out of time. If I had one more person then I would have made or added more changes to our film to fit our film into the genre of comedy and drama.  But to the bright aspect since it was only 2 of us we had more control on our filming which made it easier for us to control which shots we want and want to miss out. Plus my partner agreed with most of my ideas; if I had 2 more people things could have hard for us to settle and agree on. When it came to continuity, I think it worked out quite well as every time we filmed.

 Another problem we did faced  was the weather changes as one day it would be dry and then the other it would be raining. And this made it complicated for us to shoot our last location which was Oxford street : we wanted bright sunny day to imply and create the feeling of  happiness and enjoyable . when I was free my partner and actress wasn't free so hence Sammah and our actress finished the last shooting of the location without as I didn't had any breaks on that day.

I have enjoyed my filming with my team members. I would say we have worked well along with each other and we learned from each other such as our actress was more experienced with the camera since she did photography as a subject. This honestly aided us when none of us were able to fix the lense or not making it blurry. 

Final filming day part 2 vlog

update of our team meetings

29th november our final filming day

Final shooting part 2

Date:29th of november 2014

Location:Abotts park and Essex road south

Time:From 12.00 to 3:00pm

Today we are going to do the final shooting part 1 of Abbotts park and Essex road south.

My partner Sammah has finished filming on oxford street. Hence in order to improve and make our film perfect we decided to re-do some of the scenes again. 

Ideas for our film: Improvements suggestions

 These are some of the ideas which I have wrote down. All these ideas are about new scenes which we could add. Out of all these ideas the main scenes we picked
were mainly for Esssex road south:

1. One idea was to re-shoot the scene of precious walking clumsy and slowly to imply  the bad luck day she's having before she misses the bus.

1. Add a scene of either a person annoying such as talking to precious even though she doesn't want to talk to anyone. / someone farting next to her.

1. Add a scene of her going next to the bus stop after missing the bus .

1. Out of all these we decided to use the scene of someone farting next to her and then adding another person coming next to her sitting down but then that person think precious is the one who farted.For that scene me and Sammah will act. So when it's my turn to act Sammah will film and when it's Sammah's turn to act I will film. Then we will add the scene of her walking away from the bus stop and going towards the park.

Abbotts Park

1. Re-shoot the scene of precious before going inside the park: add expressions (close up medium shot)

1. Re-shoot the scene of her finding the letter and when she gets up her skirt gets ripped( medium shot)

1. Add a scene of someone looking at precious (2nd day visit to park) when she starts leaving the park (point of view shot)

1. Shoot a scene from behind her when she touches the gate and looks back to see if anyone is following her.

Another scene we want to add is precious looking at the shops especially of her looking at clothes model and then  film her (close up)taking out the envelope from her jacket. Then she starts smiling and walks off. 

Our main target for our shooting is 

• Get out the expressions : emphasise certain facial expression to demonstrate how much bad luck she's having.
• Add more comedy element and drama at the end.
• Do a scene of her looking at her phone and seeing a text from a charity saying thank you to her for her donation
• Try to emphasise comedy element in the first few scenes.

Suggestions for our final shooting

This video is about how and what we should and could include in our film to make it better. One of the main improvement is to add comedy genre element as in to make it more comedy at the start of the film.  As well as to emphasise the character's facial expression and emotion to make it look like how much the character within the film is hating her day since she's having a  bad unlucky day.Other improvements were adding element of day dreaming or voice over for e.g she could day dream about spending money on her new clothes.

Sammah and Fahmi's view: Our film is comedy and drama genre and we understand the fact that we need to add comedy element more but at the same time we also want to add drama genre element. As our film has a moral at the end of the film it wouldn't be suitable to add too many comedy scenes. In terms of facial expressions, this is one of our biggest improvement and hence we will add new scenes to make it more funny in particular scenes such as when the character in the film misses her bus we could add more comedy scenes in that particular scene.  And we don't want to add voice over because our film is based on the facial expressions and we believe that since we are going to add new scenes it would add the comedy element within our film. At the end of the day we want the actress to portray our feelings of anger, frustration etc through her expressions and that's what makes our film unique.