DIARY- 31st January

DEADLINE DAY

Just our luck, everything goes wrong when we are trying to edit.
We have had problems with the format of our footage because the format is in a format that the macs cannot read, so we had to download a converter. The first time this happened we managed to get the files converted, so today we expected everything to go smoothly as we only have a few hours left.
We started up the macs to find that the converter was no longer on my mac, we then had it re downloaded and tried to convert the files, then we found out, half hour later that we was trying to put the wrong files in the converter, after experiencing that we got the files to work. Then the final cut pro began to crash and we all began stressing. I was on one computer converting while importing files to final cut pro and Hayley was on the other trying to receive the files, this managed to work until we noticed a chunk of the files was missing, so we had to go through the process again until we both had the correct files.

DIARY- 30th January

Today we filmed the last shots we needed to complete our title sequence, the outcome has been successful and we feel with the editing we will do tomorrow it will finally be completed. 

DIARY- 29th January

I feel me and my group have done exceptionally well despite implications along the way. By all of us putting in the effort and time to complete videoing and also spreading the editing out equally we will have something to show to our class on thursday as that is the showing of our title sequences. Even though we have not completed everything I feel that we have pulled our socks up and worked well.

DIARY- 29th January

Today we began editing our title sequence and this went very well, we are pleased with how our situation turned out as we have had to change a lot of our original plans. We have included the 'Working Title' logo and the clips we have into the sequence. The problems we faced was getting the shots to fit together smoothly and not have them jumping. We found the filming of me and the makeup was difficult to over come as we had to cut a lot because that shot was the most difficult.

Diary

Lately we've had a few problems based on our story boards and our story line. We have had countless discussions regarding this problem and have spoke to both Leanne and Shaun, during this we have made various changes to our title sequence and have decided to base the sequence more around the aim of the Fantastagirls instead of the Vilan 'Zorack'

DIARY- January 28th

Today we decided to film the first attempt of our new story boards as our original plan did not work as well as we expected.  We have our shots of the Fantastagirls walking down the stairs, as individual shots.We have also completed our outfits as we felt our outfits before was not very superhero looking. We decided to have our names printed onto our backs to show the audience the main characters during the title sequence. We have now filmed us doing our daily routine and have snippets of our faces to give away parts of who we are. Throughout our filming things did go wrong, with me, the makeup shots we first planned did not work. We had to re think our shots and came to the decision that I should change how I do my makeup. Over all we are very pleased we have came to the decision of changing our sequence as we feel it has given us more of push to complete the sequence and to get better grades on this and our blog. I feel I am more happy to post successful blog posts to show our progress.

24th January- changing decisions

After speaking to various people and Leanne we have came to the decision to change our sequence to fit more around the Fantastagirls instead of the villain. After editing our first attempt we all felt like it was not at the best of our ability and we have decided to re shoot on Monday. 

We have decided to include various shots of a daily routine to show us coming together. We have decided when to film this and have organized our time and have realised we need to put in a lot of effort to get this completed within the time given.  so we hope that it will be more successful. The sequence includes each Fantastagirl walking down the stairs after waking up and getting ready without their whole image being shown. We will then have each person doing something associated with their power. For example, me (giggle girl) will be applying makeup which I will then make a mistake and this will lead to making me laugh and will have my name written into the mirror. Hayley (air girl), this includes her getting out of the shower which has been making the mirror steamy and then she will write her name in the steam to give of the affect of steam. Holly, (bubble girl) will be chewing her chewing gum, which will pop and we will edit to write her name. Bobbie, (fire girl) will be eating her breakfast, and her name will appear in the food, which we will shoot hot, and this will create steam, we hope to do this with spaghetti letters . Also in the shot of bobbie we will include a newspaper in the background while she is round the table. This will then lead on to them coming together.

We understand how much work will have to be out in to make this possible and we are prepared to put the effort into making this sequence work. 

DIARY- January

Today we went to Danson park to film the Fantastagirls coming together. We have over 30 different shots. We had a shot of the Fantastagirls by the lake, and then at the end we have a jump cut shot of us all appearing next to the lake, just before that shot we have a shot of a person reading the Fantastagirls newspaper and then says ' its not real ' and puts the newspaper down onto the bench, we then had the camera pan to the jump cut shots.
We filmed the shots over again to make sure we had an option between each shot.
We also re filmed people on benches reading the Fantastagirls newspapers, we re filmed this because our last attempt was not very good as we panned back and forth and it became shaky and one continuos frame. We did not feel that was at the best we could have filmed so we re filmed it.

DIARY- January

Today we filmed shots of Zoracks dad that had recently saved the day and was being surrounded by fans and reporters waiting for him to explain what had happened that day. We filmed this shot several times in different angles to see what shot came out better. After shooting Zorack from the distance he was watching his dad become surrounded by people, this made him angry so we decided to film Zorack dropping his toy down at the floor upset that his dad is neglecting him. 

In the filming we had trouble getting "reporters " for Zoracks dad as people are in lessons or revising after school. We still managed to get the shots we needed. If we was to re shoot we would have made it better planned 

DIARY- january

January 10th

Today we filmed alot. We have nearly completed our filming and can then move on to the editing of the shots.
Today we filmed the four people sitting on the bench reading our newspapers and we got them in an over the shoudler shot. This worked well despite the weather conditions. We then filmed the girl holding the iphone in an office reading the same article about the 'Fantastagirls'.

So far we are pleased with the progress.

DIARY- december

December

We began filming our newspapers and this didnt go as well as we first thought it would do. The newspapers were too small so they didnt look like proper newspapers, we over come this by using the 'dolly' this made it easier to record the newspaper because we was able to move the camera around without it shaking, by over coming the size problem we decided just to focus on the titles of the newspaper and this was alot easier.

DIARY- december

End of December.

During December we started making our props, the newspapers, these went very well and we are pleased with the finished product.