Diary Post 8-Editing

I began editing the shots of my film. I decided to use Sony Vegas as I know it better than iMovie. I would have used the Sony Vegas on my laptop but the programme lags which makes it difficult to edit so I am using the Sony Vegas on my boyfriend's computer so I can edit whilst he's at work.
So far I have edited the beginning and several middle scenes. I feel that so far they are successful and I am happy that they didn't take too long to edit.
I still need to film some other scenes and work on my ancillary tasks in the mean time. Hopefully once I get the shots, they won't take too long to edit as I'm aiming to make my trailer at least two-three minutes whilst I have about one minute edited so far.

Diary Post 7- Filming

Today I got a lot of filming done for my trailer. I used the shotlist as guidance for what shots and angles I would do. I changed one of the locations from what was going to be a cafe to my boyfriend's garden to make it easier to locate and film since if we filmed it public the sound probably wouldn't be very good and the acting may have been awkward. To record we used a camera for the shots yet also recorded the sound by plugging in a headset with a built in mic into my phone and recorded the sound this way since it records sound better than the camera itself.
Beforehand me and Kris had our haircut so we did some shots before we had the haircut for the scenes before the switch.
On this day we got most of the dialogue scenes done so that we'd only be left with closeups and easy-to-shoot scenes. There are still some dialogue scenes left in another location which we will have to do soon. Some of our scenes took place in the same location so we had to make sure we were wearing the right outfits beforehand.
Overall the shoot was successful and now I have most of my filming complete.

Location Research

I took pictures of some of the locations I will use. I will mainly be using both mine and one of my actor's houses and my school. I will however crop and edit some of the shots to look like other places. I will mainly use interior shots but will also use exterior and night shots. 

Lighting Research

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Shot List

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This is my shotlist which I looked at my storyboard to write. I used the actors names instead of the characters names to make it easier to understand since they switch. Doing the shotlist helped me reconsider some of the angles, since my storyboard uses basic angles, so I changed some to make my trailer more engaging. Furthermore doing the shotlist allowed me consider my locations and the time of day that each scene takes place, which I hadn't considered much. I feel a shotlist will be easier to print off and look at as it is in a much clearer format, so I will use this when I'm out and filming. Typing this out took longer than I thought and when considering how long each shot would be, I cut out some original scenes to save on filming and editing and not to drag out the trailer too much since many of the trailers I've looked at are surprisingly short. 

Costume Research

These are the initial costume ideas for my three characters. I looked at the costumes used in the films I have looked at and used these as inspiration for my own ideas, especially American Ultra and Shaun of the Dead as they use casual outfits that I can closely replicate. I next found images on google to give myself an idea of the outfits as well as hair styles and any accessories. I considered their characters and how their personalities can be represented through the costume. Next I will look at props involved and what props will be involved with the characters.

Diary Post 6-Filming

I filmed two quick scenes in school today. I considered using more interesting angles such as a birds eyes and POV since I needed to include them which I hadn't planned in my storyboard but considered after. I used the stairs and classroom to film in and considered what Kris would be wearing when he is in Kat's body, so I dressed in a boyish-punk style. I let Holly wear what she wanted as she's not in the trailer as much so I just wanted her to dress casually. We did each shot at least twice so that I can chose between the different angles that we tried to see which works best. This means there's less chance of reshooting anything. To continue I will shoot the quick small scenes before I do the longer scenes. This will mainly consist of the quick flashes of scenes at the end.

Magazine/Poster Draft Idea

I made a draft intentionally for my magazine front cover where I used images I found online then added an artistic filter on photoshop since Little White Lies use art for their covers. I added the barcod and my own text which uses synergy as it's the same text used in the intertitles.

The girl with the sunglasses is representing Kat whilst the reflection of Kris is in her glasses to connote the fact they switch bodies.
 I like the look of the image as it doesn't quite give away the genre but implies drama and some thriller through the dramatic composition and lipstick.

I wanted to add text down the side but the composition of the close up image doesn't leave a good amount of space for text. If I added text I knew it would look too messy. Furthermore the filter doesn't show the reflection of Kris very well and when it comes to drawing the final cover, it may lack detail.
Therefore I want to use this composition for my poster and use another idea for the magazine cover.
For my poster I will take photos and edit in the reflection.
If the edit doesn't work well then I may refer back to using this composition for the magazine cover afterall.

Intertitles for Trailer

I used Photoshop and Sony Vegas to create the intertitles for my trailer. I created the titles by using the chosen font on photoshop and making PNG. transparent files that I could lap over the video I found. I tried to choose carefully what colours were showing, depending on what each intertitle read. For example the first intertitle reads "This Year" as the background goes from bright to dark to connote the comedy/thriller genre. Furthermore when each actor's name is shown, the opposite stereotypical colours are shown for each gender as Barthe's would say is an enigma code for the narrative and character personalities. I also used our middle names as I already used our real names for our characters in my trailer. When I am editing my final trailer, I will be able to drag these intertitles in, as they are already complete. However I will redo the last intertitle as the cropping isn't as good as I'd like it to look. When it comes to the final edit, I will add sound effects in some places, such as when the words slide in.