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

More Feedback

Today we got some more useful feedback from Miss Blackborow which means that we need to change quite a lot of things in our sequence. She has said to:

- make the first fade-up to house longer
- get rid of the fade-down from house
- make the cross-disslove to shower bigger
- change the font of the credits to make it more curlier
- take the picking up photoframe shot and clock shot out because they are too boring and not subtle enough
- replace these shots by the lipstick popping shot
- move the tying up dress shot to later on in the sequence so it makes more sense
- move the 'based on a novel...by Sandy Winters' down slightly
- the final title distacts th audience from the knife so maybe we could fade to black and then have the title come on.

We now have lunchtime and after school to work on these changes and i think it will really help to improve our sequence. We may even have time for a screening today which will be helpful!

-by Aarti for the group

Production Name

Kadam Productions

After brainstorming ideas for names for our company we decided to call it Kadam productions as not only is it unique but it is made from the initials of mine, Alice's and Mel's names:

K ing/Kannur
A lice
D iwan
A arti
M el

We also thought it was quite catchy and contemporary in sophosticated yet youthful manner.

by Aarti for the group

The Third Shoot

Today we managed to finish shooting all of the outside Barney shots despite the poor weather.
Hopefully the footage will be fine, and we will be able to edit it into the sequence we've already started, next week.
When we edit we need to take care with putting the recorded dialogue to the image because we will need to get the timing right.
I was thinking we should record the sound of dialing on the phone as she dials the number.
We also need to re-record Laura's dialogue because we changed the time from 7:00 to 5:00.
We also need to record the two laughing together.
Since seeing the footage, i'm not sure if it will work having the laughter as she looks at the photo, but i think it would be a good idea to try it out.
-posted by Alice on behalf of the group

Reflections on Teacher Feedback & on The Second Shoot

Today we managed to edit most of our sequence from the footage we shot last Saturday.
By doing this we were able to see which shots worked, and which didn't and we can therefore re-take the shots. At the end of the day, we were able to Show Miss B our sequence and she gave us useful feedback, suggesting ways of improving it and calming our nerves as we were very worried about a lot of our shots! Especially the outside shots of Barney.
Unfortunately, due to ill health, Barney was unable to come to the shoot tonight so we were unable to shoot what we had planned. Despite this, Miss was able to give us some advice on how to really improve our insdie shots of Laura.
Firstly, lighting. We all agreed that our shots look flat and we re-took these shots with lights from differnt angles in order to provide contrast. I think this was quite sucessful, and we managed to create intersting shadows with the bannisters in some of the shots and we'll see how effective these are when we capture on Monday. We also added candles to the Hallways shots and we think this really adds to the mise en scene.
Miss also had another really good suggestion - a steamy bathroom shot.
Initially we had the outside establishing shot, which then cut to the bathroom window, which then cut to an opening pan of the bedroom.
Miss said this would work, but then after watching the rest of the sequence we all decided that it would be a LOT more effective if we made Laura seem perfectly normal without revealing that she's slightly odd (by showing the candles and photoframe) until later on in the sequence.
To make this possible, she suggested including Steamy Bathroom shots! We managed to do these tonight, and we are all quite happy with the footage. We filmed through the shower screen her showering, with all the steam etc, and then her stepping out the shower. For continuity purposes, we had to make sure the back wall wasn't seen because the next shot is her leaving the bathroom and it's a differnt bathroom, where the walls are white - NOT bright blue.
Other shots we re-took are the last two shots, because we felt they were too dark.
We are lot happier with the footage now, and we plan to shoot the outisde shots with Barney next Saturday (13th) so we have all this week to edit the insdie sequence with Laura.

-posted by Alice on behalf of the group

First Shoot

Yesterday (Saturday 29th) we had our first real shoot and we had some big problems at the beginning because of loads of cars on the road, and other irritating background sound. The worst was heavy rain that you could really hear hitting the umbrella we were using to protect the equipment. Apart from this the shoot went quite well.
We solved the problem of the rain on the umbrella by recording some atmospheric sound of outside to replace the real sound of the outdoor shots. After having a well deserved break we got started on our indoor shots. These worked a lot better than the outdoor shots as we didn't have the weather, or other background sound, to worry about. The lighting all worked well for us and although it meant we left Alice's house at 10.15 (the shots took a lot longer than we initially thought they would) we managed to take all of our shots, exactly as we planned them, which will mean that if anything has gone wrong which we didn't notice while filming, we will have time to reshoot them on Friday.
We were also lucky to have actors who played their characters well and who didn't complain about being cold, although we had them outside in the rain (Barney had to film in the rain without an umbrella for quite a while), and who didn't complain about the filming taking longer than expected.
There are still some things that we need to do (which we will do as soon as possible this week):
- Recording the sound of Laura and Barney laughing together for when she 'hears' the picture
- Recording Barney's side of the dialogue
- Check the lighting, the footage for dialogue and her leaving the bathroom for continuity (we will do this in our lesson on Tuesday while we capture the footage)

- Mel, for the group -

Creating Our Own Track

Although we wished to use the dolly in order to create a track, it was too wide for the hallway we wished to film in. Instead we attempted to create our own track using a wheely chair. Here are a few pictures:

Alice is looking really enthusiastic about this track...

Off we go...

Laura posing nicely...
Oh dear! It didn't quite work haha

- By Aarti

More Pictures from the Shoot

Filming outside before the rain started

Aarti and Alice filming the 'atmospheric shower sound'

Filming the female character leaving the bath

Making sure Laura actually looked like she had just had a shower

Giving Laura some notes

- Mel -

Pictures from the First Shoot

The group :)

The candles, and 'shrine'. This is part of the opening pan.

Aarti enjoying her pizza on a well deserved break!

-Aliceee