Fonts
We used dafont.com to find a suitable font for the credits and these were our final three favourite fonts.

This font is really nice and easy to read. It does not look very romantic though and therefore doesn't quite match the theme of the sequence. It is not sophisticated enough.

This font looks too fancy for credits. It is hard to read and may distract attention off the image.

This font seems really suitable because its simple yet sophisticated and suits the final title 'Love You to Death' .

-by Aarti for the group

An update on Sounds

Sounds:
I've been on soundsnap.com again, and i'll link the sound of the man screams to the blog in case you two have a look at the blog tonight and can listen to them before tomorrow.
Click here for man Screaming
I was thinking 8th down, descibed as 'adult man scream' and we could have it loud and use key frames to make it quiet?
Ive joined the webiste and we get five free dowloads - so we can choose five sounds and we're away :) !
-Alice xxxx

Soundtrack

I've been looking on http://www.freeplaymusic.com/ and found some good ones.
I found one called 'abandoned 60' im not sure, it might be a bit too 'intense'
We'll see. Discuss this DEFFO tomorrow.
See you ... xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-Alicee
Oh - i've also been looking at sounds.
I found a mobile phone dialtone thingy
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/mobile+phone+dial/score
i thought the last one on this page could work because it's really quick.
it might look a bit rubbish though, but we can try it out.
On a roll now, found this awesome knife picking up sound.
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/picking+up+a+knife/score
The second one is the best. We could put this in to emphasise the movement.
These doorbell sounds are also quite cool. The third one down is spooky.
http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/doorbell/score

Samples...

These our some samples of our sheets used for planning, and during shooting:




- Posted by Mel, for the group -

Yeah! that's a good idea...Laura suggested Vultra Christophis but I agree with the having normal names. Lets think about it by tomorrow. Here's a picture to help us match names to their faces:



-Aarti

Names for the Characters

I was thinking about what we could call the characters other than 'girl' and 'guy', I know we don't find out their names in the opening sequence but I still think we should give them names. But ye, I thought that Laura is actually a good name for the girl character, another reason why Laura is perfect for the role! And I thought we could call the guy like Daniel or Luke, because I think he should have a 'normal' name but it has to suit him and I think those names do. Let me know what you think.
- Mel -

Photo For Her Dressing Table

These are the shots that we decided look quite good, plus one that I think might work:

In the top two shots they look like a happy couple, which is how we wanted the shot to look.

In this shot (above) they look happy and are laughing which I think would work well if we decided to have her 'hear' the picture as it would mean the sound could directly relate to the shot, however I don't know if the picture would look as could when it is printed out, and in the first shot (two above) hearing them laugh would also relate to the shot.

UPDATE: The shot we chose to use to put on her dressing table is the first shot.

These are the other shots we took:
Although these shots would also work the others are better

- Mel -

An Early Storyboard of Shots

We have changed this storyboard slightly since the test-shoot for continuity purposes and made it more detailed. We completed our final storyboard today and I think it works much better now!
- Aarti

Meeting 28th November

In our meeting today we've ensured that we're completely sorted for our real shot tomorrow. We've taken the picture of the actors that will be in the photoframe on her dressing table and Mel will post these tonight. Also, we finished our storyboard and shooting script, including when we're taking breaks. We have also checked our equipment to make sure it's all ok, and everything's there. We've also agreed on who's bringing what to the shoot. (Mel: napkins, towel etc, Aarti: Photoframe), we're filming at Alice's house so everything she's providing will be at her house already. Now that we're ready, we're looking forward to the shoot and hopefully everything will go to plan.

Ye I thought of that aswel (paying for food for them) so thats fine with me. Also I think the dress with roses would be best but I'm thinking maybe we shouldn't have a ribbon. We don't really need it and I think that continuity is more important than the ribbon.
In the meeting we were having a few issues with the part of the sequence where she lights the candle and he rings the doorbell so hopefully we can sort that out tomorrow.

- Mel -

Costume

Tomorrow we also need to discuss costume properly.
It's all a bit hectic, but did we finally decide on the pink Roses dress for Laura? And then her just tying a ribbon behind her? The only difficulty with this, is that the ribbon may continually fall etc and would make continuity a bit more difficult. What colour ribbon would we want? I have red.
Also need to ask Barney to wear nice smart shoes and trousers. Wrap up warm with a coat etc :)
- Alice

The Script is good :) We'll print it off for Barney and Laura tomorrow.
I've told Laura about the short meeting at lunch, but not Barney yet.
How did the meeting go today? Sorry I couldn't be there :(
Tomorrow - we need to go over the storyboard, make sure everythings okay and we know what shots we are taking, then establish a shooting script!
Hopefully make this as detailed as possible, just to make Saturday go a lot smoother :)
Aarti and I were thinking of ordering pizza Mel, so if you bring some money and we'll pay for Laura and Barney to say thanks :) If that's okay with you?
I can't believe saturday is the real shoot!!
It's all come round so quickly, but everything's planned and ready and we've practised so BRING IT ON :D (hahahahaha)
-Alice

Meeting 27th November

We had a quick half hour meeting today(27th November),although Alice couldn't be there and got further ahead with the storyboard although we didn't manage to finish,and we had some issues of how to do the part of the sequence where he arrives at the house and she lights the candle and picks up the knife. This meant we didn't get a chance to start the shooting script but we have a lesson and a meeting tommorow. In the lesson and meeting we need to:
- Complete the storyboard
- Complete the shooting script
- Take a picture of the actors together
- Organise the props we need and sort out who's bringing them

- Mel - for the group

Sixth Meeting

In the lesson we captured our footage and got a chance to edit some of it. It helped us really think about the continuity of our sequence and we got to see which shots we prefered. This meant that we could start our final storyboard, which we started in our meeting at lunch.
In tommorows meeting we need to:
- Finish the storyboard
- Start the shooting script

Posted for the group by Mel

Final script:
Girl: "Darling - you were meant to be here at 8:00. You're two minutes late "
Guy: "Ahh gosh yes I know, Sorry I'll be there soon. I'm just at the bottom of your road."
Girl: "Okay - well ... It's almost time (small pause?) for dinner."
Guy: "Okay I''m on my way - Love you."
(both hang up)

Thanks for the ideas Alice, I wasn't quite sure what they should say lol, I did change it a bit so let me know what you think

- Mel -

Ye I think 3.30 is a good time for Barney to arrive. Laura arrive at 5/5.30? I love the idea of him saying 'love you' and her ignoring him, dunno if u did that intentionally or not but I think it would work really well. And I think if the pause after time would work but I think we should try it both ways, and in editing we'll see what looks better.

- Mel -

No problem :) I'll txt Barney to double check -
script yeahh, something really simple like:

"Darling - you're two minutes late. You were meant to be here at 7:00"
"Ahh gosh yes i know, Sorry i'll be there shortly. I'm just at the bottom of your road."
"Okay - well ... It's almost time - for dinner."
"Okay Darling, i'm on my way - Love you."
(both hang up)

Maybe a slight pause after time? Actually, i dunno. We'll talk about this tomorrow. And make it loads better. How long did we want it?

ALSO, we need to arrange times. What time do we want barney to arrive? What time do we want Laura to arrive? We need to sort this out cause it's not really fair if we give them really short notice. I was thinking Barney 3:30? We'll arrive before that to set everything up, but the light starts to fall at four, so we can start filming then. We'll have to do all the park shots at once, so if the light does fall slightly, then it's okay because he's moved on in his journey and it will make sence. Hopefully we'll get all those shots done in an hour and a half? We'll have to take at least two/three takes of everything for editing purposes.

I just realised we need to set up the picture that will go in the frame, sometime this week. Alice if you could talk to Laura and Barney and they could come to our meeting on Friday lunch and quickly pose for one. I'm going into Enfield on Friday anyway so we can take it on my camera and I'll print it like a proper photo in Boots.
Also we need a script for the actors, not that they say much but we could put a description of what they actually need to do actingwise as well. I'll do that now and we can give it to them when we take their picture.

- Mel -

More Photos of Test Shoot

Actors

Hi guys - as promised, here is the picture of Laura:

We have decided to cast Laura Christophis to play the role of the male female character (still need to come up with a name for her and the guy!) She goes to our school and we really feel she'd play the character well.

Why we think she would be good for the part:
Number One: She's available on the days! she's penciled in the dates we plan to shoot in her planner and is really enthusiastic about it all :)
Number Two: HER HAIR. her hair is awesome! And we can make it all huge and scary looking for her role. It would really add to the character.
Number Three: HER EYES. She has really prominant eyes, which we can definately use to our advantage. When lighting the candle she can look all wide eyed and .. yeah .. really really scary!
Number Four: She has lots of experience with drama. She did GCSE and was in Great Expectations last weekend. Also - she's been in previous media films for other students in previous years.
Number Five: She's really nice :) and she'll be really fun and easy to work with.

-By Alice