Editing 1

First lesson back from shooting we uploaded our footage and sorted out some it putting clips we didn't need into a separate folder as apposed to deleting it incase we wanted it to use it later. However we uploaded the footage to the worng computer and spent time uploading and sorting our footage again on the new computer. We didnt feel this was too much of a problem to our timing as we had filmed quite early.

We continued throughout the week to get our footage in the right order and move unwanted clips. We had multiple shots of each scene and so sorted through them selecting the ones that looked the best.
With our selected footage all uploaded the film came close to an hour long so we continued throughout the week to cut down the footage to a manageable amount.
We also scanned in some of the paper work from shooting, for example the first storyboard and props lists, and updated our group blog.

Week TWO

Throughout the previous week we had been discussing the shed that we wanted to use. I personally didn't like the idea of a shed as I thought it wouldn't quite look right, especially as the only sheds we were able to find were garden sheds. Therefore when we decided to scrap the dog we also scrapped the idea of the shed. I was pleased with this decision. I suggested this crime map be marked out on the ground in chalk as another idea of having it stuck to a wall didn't seem like a good idea to me. The chalk idea was not overly liked and we continued to think. We came to the conclusion that this map would be on the back of a cardboard box on which the tramp would have been sitting.

This week it was suggested by a group member that we add some shots at the begging. The establishing shot that we already had planned was a tramp sitting on the group and the screen fading from black to this tramp sitting on the ground. The idea suggested was to add shots, in which we see the tramp walking to this place and sitting down, so that we could see where he had come from. I did not particularly like this idea as in real life you don't see where the tramp has come from and I didnt think it was important to the story. Also continuing on with the story the tramp would have to stand up again to start walking. We began drawing out these shots before it was decided that the rest of the group had the same view on this as myself and we decided not to include anymore shots at the beginning.  

We unanimously decided on the people we would ask to be our actors and luckily they were willing to act for us. Due to members of the group being away on a weekend that we were planning to film, we had to bring filming forward a week. I was slightly worried about getting everything ready before that weekend. Therefore we put in extra hours to get things sorted. We drew up a props list and allocated a few props to each member of the group. We also drew up a brief for each of the actors so they knew where to be, what time and what to bring. 

Week ONE and response to the brief

This week after finding out our brief I was quite excited to start working with my group on our opening sequences. We started off by sharing our own ideas from our own storyboard, this was interesting and I found it a good way to start sparking ideas. We tried to combine bits of each others ideas as well as keeping in mind other student work that we had seen previously as we found things with previous groups which had worked well and others not so well. It felt like we got off to a slow start but during the first lesson we had decided on the genre of crime as the group liked my idea of having some sort of crime map kind of thing where the credits could possibly be. We had also decided that we wanted to film in London. I had the idea of someone having some sort of obsession with crime and was using this crime map to interfere with crime in some way. As a group we took this idea and changed it to using the crime map to maybe find something. I liked this idea but as I already had a simple story line in my head I found it hard to change it to the new idea, or understand what the other members of the group were trying to put across.

We started storyboarding quite quickly, we firstly did this on post-it notes so we were able to change the order etc. Someone mentioned the idea of having a tramp as the main character to make it different. We all agreed on this and started to think of people we could ask to play the part who wouldn't be offended by the role we were asking. We also decided to use a dog, which i really liked the idea of. This was to add to the character but also be used in the story line of finding this crime map in a shed. As we continued to story board we realised that quite a lot of the shots were of the dog and suddenly it looked as though this was film about a dog. We tried to mix it up with a few more shots of the tramp following the dog.

There were a few shots we couldn't decide on for the tramp therefore we drew out and filmed both deciding we would choose the best one during editing. We continued with our storyboard and also started about thinking about whether our idea was practical, for example a dog walking to a shed and opening the door. We really liked the idea of including a dog and we found a dog that would be able to 'act' as we had planned however we were not sure if it was practicle to take the dog up to London to film for the whole day.