CONSTRUCTION: FILMING THE NEW OPENING SCENE.

Yesterday we filmed the tracking shot that helps the audience to establish that the young girls wants a relationship like she reads in the books, proving that she is in to romance fiction and likes reading. The dialogue we hear the girl say proves that she is longing for love and shows the contrast between "guys" and "men". 

CONSTRUCTION: FEEDBACK.

Today we invited a selected audience to view our film. They gave us constructive feedback that will help to improve our film, ensuring that it fulfils its potential. This included:
- Deleting the music that ran over the library scene.
- Doing a voice over, over the first meeting of the player and the girl at the library as it is difficult to hear the  dialogue.
- Adding  in a short scene at the beginning where we establish that the girl wants a relationship and is into reading.
- Editing the stop motion scene where she is reading the book so that the smile at the end lasts longer to show how excited she is for the date. 

CONSTRUCTION: THE MONOLOGUE.

Today we made a monologue of the thoughts the girl was thinking when she found the sticky notes. We struggled to do this adlib and therefore wrote a monologue which would be said in time with the film. We filmed ourselves using iMovie on the Mac and then split the screen so that the viewer can see the film at the some point as the monologue. The image below shows how the screen is displayed. Here is the finished presentation of our monologue.

CONSTRUCTION: THE FINAL SCENE.

Today we filmed the final scene of our film. This included the girl bumping into the boy that really left her the sticky notes, we do this with a close up shot of the books the boy drops when walking, with a sticky note with the phrase "I see you got my sticky notes", this is the final scene of the film and ends with the tilt pan of the camera that rests on the girl and boy holding the book with the sticky note, gazing into each others eyes.

CONSTRUCTION: RE-FILMING THE DATE SCENE.

Yesterday we re-filmed the date scene as a result of a technical difficulty however due to the fact that we used a different camera we experienced a similar problem in which the frame size was 640x280 whereas it should have been 1280x720, we tried to resolve this problem by cropping the image however the quality of the filming was the jeopardised as the picture was grainy, therefore we shall attempt to re-film this scene next lesson. 

CONSTRUCTION: RE-FILMING THE BEDROOM SCENE.

Today we re-filmed the bedroom scene as we found that at this moment the film seemed to lose momentum and as a result of feedback we found out that viewers were not as engaged in the film as they were at other points such as the date scene. I took responsibility for filming today and used a variety of different shots in order to keep the viewer engaged.  I used shots such as a pan from right to left, a close up shot of the phone ringing and of the main actress playing with the library card.  We took many different takes to give us a wide variety of filming to choose from in order for us to pick the highest quality take. We also re filmed the crane shot for more clarity and so that the dialogue within the scene was short and snappy. When filming we did experience some technical difficulties with the camera, for example the camera was set to a smaller frame size which meant that the the final film take was a smaller size than we had been filming in before, I also found that quality of the filming using the smaller frame size was not as high as the larger frame size.

Therefore we ended up with a frame like this.

Instead of a frame size like this.

RESEARCH: SNAPCHAT STORIES.

When filming today I made a snapchat story of photos showing the process that we undertook when filming. Having followed the work of Casey Neistat, we felt that this idea would too benefit us as it is a breakdown of everything that happens whilst filming. This has been used with large scale events such as the Golden Globes in which many photos and short videos were posted of people turning up, their outfits and the service, giving a breakdown and sharing with the general public what the evening entailed. 

The first photo of my story was three seconds long showing the mise-en-scene when filming.

This photo was three seconds long and the second in my story, it was ken just before filming and shows the cameraman preparing. 

This photo was the third in my story and shows the actress looking at her reflection in the mirror, the camera shows the finished filming of the last scene. 

This was the the final photo in my story and shows the finished item.