Flying saucer credit

We filmed our flying saucer credit by filming many extremely short clips of each shot and paused and moved the objects. However it didnt really work out how we pictured it. As we wanted to make it space themed hense the flying saucers flying through space we decided to film on a black baground nd use strobe lighting. I think what went wrong was the the background was too matte and therefore didnt make the coloursof the flying saucers stand out the way we hoped and also it was all a bit messy. We might try and give it another go but we definately wont be using this.#

Music

For our opening a big part of what we hoped to make it funny was the song we decided to use as firstly it would be the last song you expect our character to be listening too as we portray her to be a sweet kind innocent girl. It also means her dancing would be horrificly out of time and not appropriate to the song which is quite serious and sexually explicit. It also subverts stereotypes hopefully making it a bit different which is exactly what we've been aiming for with our whole opening as majorty of the entries will be about a scary stalker chasing an outof breath victim whos running through the woods being filmed by a shaking camera to create that amazing running effect then oh no she falls and in to the close up shot of the victims horrificly screaming. Back to the point we we're worried that we would loose marks due to copyright and so we contacted one of the examiners and the results were good !

Filming

So we finally got round to filming and took out trip to the sweet shops rather nervously. Luckily all was fine and we were pretty much able to do everything we originally planned. We threw in some new ideas on the spot for example we couldnt fdo some of the originally planned credits and came up with a few new ideas.


Overall the shots we managed to get were exactly what we wanted but we did have some trouble with things such as lighitng and time.

Credits

We decided that we would have seperate slides for majoirty of our credits and came up with some really creative ideas of how to do them using the theme of sweets and quirky animation.
One idea we have is to use stawberry laces and film someone creating a credit out of them with their hands and then speed it up and use it between a shots of the girl in the sweet shop. The shot would look similar to this filming just the hands. This opening is also in the same genre as our opening and was a big inspiration when we were coming up with ideas.


Another idea we have is to use a similar style shot but create the credit out of a handful of jelly beans scattered on the floor as this also fits in woth a part of our characters actions working in the shop as she drops a bag of jelly beans. We think this will flow nicely and look really good.

We also want to create another credit by using sherbet and then blowing it away. Similar to this video at 19 seconds and again at 21 seconds. We will also do another credit using the same idea but reversing the film to create the effect of the sherbet beign thrown down and creating the credit. 



Another idea we have is to creating a still image animation where by taking lots of picutes and putting htem togetehr they create a sketchy rough kind of old style animation which we think would be perfect for our opening for this we are going to use flying saucers.

Storyboarding

In preparation for our filming we began to storyboard. We did this by drawing, as best as we could, each single shot on to a flash card and just noting on the back. which was most definately needed with the awful illustrations I produced!


PHOTO OF STORYBOARD

Planning

We visited the sweet shop and then again a second time. Although it wasn't the smoothest of trips we finally got the go ahead and were told we could use the shop to film the following monday.

This is pretty much an exact image of the shop we are going to film in. The location is absolutely perfect for the idea we have. The authentic and traditional feel to the sweet shop really adds to the quirky character of our opening. The colours and arrangments within the shop will hopefully make for some really good shots.

Trip to the bfi

We went on trip the BFI on southbank in central london to a media confrence based on our course. The confrence consisted of various presentations and talks on the media industry and the kind of work it involves.