LILY- Filming Our Main Task- Problems and Rough Edits

Part of the filming for our main task involved a scene when Hannah was running outside.
As our genre was horror we wanted to set this scene as it was getting dark, to add to the scariness and tension of the situation.

• However one problem with this was the timing of the filming. 
• It got dark very quickly, to we had to film before it was too dark to see. 
• It was also have been very difficult to film on two different days as it may have been slightly lighter/darker on one day compared to the other. 
• Therefore we had to be very quick and time efficient in getting all our shots.
• We had approximately 20 minutes to get all the running shots we needed.

For example the first time I tried to shoot the scene, I used another friend Hannah R, but it was much too light, so the shots did not have the scary atmosphere intended:

Our other major problem was the shots being shakey or wonky.

• Some of our shots were intended to look like this, as they where meant to be from the handheld perspective of a stalker. 
• However after thinking we had almost coming to what we thought was our final draft, we where given the feedback we needed to have some better, more professional looking shot.
• So we filmed the classroom scene, using a tripod. 

LILY: Making the Titles for Our Film

Here is the process of making the titles for our film.

My aim was to make titles which fitted in with the theme of our movie. This is commonly done in the horror genre, for example the film Halloween has orange opening titles to suit the theme and plot. There for I decided, to relate with the technology theme of our film, I wanted to have a bright blue-green colour.

I wanted our titles to resemble, something like this.

After discussing it with Lulu I decided on using the font OCR A STD as it fitted with the technology theme. 

COLOUR TRIAL 1

COLOUR TRIAL 2

COLOUR TRIAL 3

After testing out various colours I decided on this one.

Even though we wanted to use a blue colour, I decided on having the text black with a blue outer-glow. This way the text would still show if we decided put the titles on a video background-instead of black and it also made the titles more interesting than just being one colour.

Making a title- 1

LILY- Our Film Production Logo, Research and Design

As Lulu is working on the final edit of our film, I decided to make our titles and logo.

Here is all the research, planning and design into our production companies (LULI AND LULI) logo that I did.

Firstly I researched other production company logos, such as the ones below....

What I learn't from doing this research is that:

• Many companies use film/cinema imagery in their logos, such as Rocky Mountain, using a film strip, or Reel Farm, uses a film reel.

• All the small film production logos use simple block colours, instead of using complicated details, this makes the logos stand out more, catching viewers eyes. The majority use black and white, or white or black with one other colour such as Orange Reel.

• Many of them use something natural in the name of their production company, such as an animal, Zebra Films,  Little Bird, or fruit like in Lime Films, Orange Reel. 

Initial Ideas For Our Production Company Logo

• Initially my idea was to use a globe in our logo, this was because it is something associated with nature, like many logos have, and because Lulu and I are from different countries, it seemed appropriate.

• Later I decided this was not a good idea, because I think having a globe would be too similar to major films production company, Universal's logo, and because of this I didn't want it to look tacky, or like I direct copy.

So instead I decided to go into photoshop and start experimenting, firstly writing the name of our company. 

I wanted to use a font that, was bold, simple and stood out, as all the logos researched had this feature. This is in the font 'Impact' 

And here in 'Silom.' I preferred it in the other font, so we decided to use that one.

I knew a feature I defiantly wanted to use was the idea of having a film strip in the logo, so after searching for a photo, of this to edit on the internet, I came across this one:

From this, I could see, the idea of making it personal, by placing our faces in it.

Lily 

Lulu 

We had these photos taken of each other to use for this.

Here is what I did to make the final product:

(screenshots taken from Lulu's photograph)

1) Using the magic wand tool to delete the background, leaving only her profile remaining. After making the back-drop red, to see easier what needed to be deleted.