Rough Edit

Here is our first draft. There are still a few things that we need to add and edit such as the start of the voice over at the end of the clip and a close up of her clicking on 'Music By Highway Five' on Itunes to replace the one that we have currently because you cannot see the text clearly.

Casting Change

Due to some very busy schedules and clashes we have had to change the character Maya to be played by Yaroslava Migur. She plays the part well showing someone who does not like getting up in the mornings at all as well as a playful friendly attitude with her best friend in the photo shots.

Change of Shot Plan

We did a film shoot attempting the idea of having one long shot this took a lot of time as we had to choreograph the movement of both the actress, camera person and directors around the room so that we were able to manipulate props without being caught on camera which was especially tricky as there were mirrors in the room we also had to make sure that the actress was not in the shot when she was not supposed to and how to move the camera to get the shots we want without getting a reflection in the mirror. We then spent a lot of time trying to get a decent shot however when we looked back at them to edit we found that there weere so many unwanted shadows and we found that alot of the time even, with out best efforts to be steady, the camera movements and zooms were still quite jerky.

Because of this outcome we scheduled in another film shoot and made the decision to move away from the idea of one long shot -which had been inspired by 'Delicatessen' which used  a lot of CGI to create that effect- and so we planned to cut it into different shots instead but trying to still keep the feel of exploring closely Maya's bedroom.

Moving Photos

An idea that we had was to have photos stuck around the mirror of Maya and her bestfriend to introduce the relationship which is vital to the plot in the opening sequence while the main characters names come up as titles.

I was inspired by Cher Lloyd's music video to have these photo's moving.

To do this we filmed the characters posing for photos which we could then select sections of to insert into the photo space. We wanted to show their playful attitude with one another aswel as how comfortable they are in eachother's company.

When filming in the bedroom we used cut out green squares where these clips of them posing could be inserted which act effectively as a green screen.

However we were not positive whether we were going to be able to edit these videos in in the time space that we have been given to complete this video therefore we also did a back-up using real photos. But I feel these photos still convey the playful relationship and closeness of the two characters.

Location Shots

We found that Corinna's room was perfect because it was already decorated with photos and artwork and these are thing which we believe would be found in the character Maya's room.

No. 24 - Location

The location that we plan to film the majority of our opening sequence in is a bedroom. This room preferably needs to be light ( with fairly big windows); have a bed and a dressing table with room to put a mirror on top.
For this I have asked a my House Captain, Corinna, if we could use her room and she said that it was fine. I will add photos to this post when we film.

The second location we need is a garden path with a gate at the end.