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Juno Opening

The task given was to plan shoot and edit our own version of the opening to the movie Juno. We were to do everything from storyboarding to camerawork. This was great because it really allowed us to make something that was purely ours. We started off being put in groups ours was me, Emma, Christina and Jahmal. We first started by watching the Juno sequence online and doing a storyboard to match the shots taken. This was pretty hard seeing as we hadn’t quite grasped the idea of less detail and more on the angle and position of the shot. The next lesson at Coleridge was when we started the filming. We were first given a quick tutorial on how to use the cameras and the health and safety aspects. After this one person from each of our groups was sent out to scout for a place to film. In my group it was me that was sent out. Finding the location was vital as there was no way we could make the film have the same looking background as in the actual film so only places where the angles would work were the kind of places I looked for. I came back to tell everyone the shots taken then we took a camera and went off. We filmed all the shots until the end of the day. We came to edit the film the next lesson at Coleridge when we were split into pairs within our groups. I was with Jahmal. I play Juno in the opening we made, this wasn’t personal preference but neither of the girls didn’t want to play Juno and I was happy to play the role if no one else wanted to. In the end I found the planning towards making the film the hardest and actual doing and editing it fairly simple. I am pleased with the result we got but I wish I didn’t apply the cartoon effect onto the film as it ruined the quality somewhat. We got the shots we wanted though i especially like the similarity between these two shots.

Finally here's our finished piece with the actual opening

To find out more about the actual film there's a wikipedia page and an imdb page

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Excellent work on the films- good to see all the clips there. You do need to say something more about what the moodboard exercise was based upon. Could you also delete Alex's message please.

This blog will be the evidence of your research and planning for the AS coursework, so there needs to be lots on it and lots of detail to it.

Photoshopping postcard

We were told to make our own postcards using photoshop HERE IS MINE!

To make this i used

• 3 different images
• cropping
• rasterizing
  
• layer effects (inner glow, outer glow etc)
• magic wand tool to remove areas i didn't need

I actually didn't have a plan as to how i wanted the final product to look like so i did it as i went along. I'm not very happy with the text i used but its a bit late now so meh. I wanted to feather the edges of the film strip but i couldn't find how to do this and nick couldn't either. Overall i am happy with my final result.

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Student Film opening

I was told to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of a students film opening.

I chose the first one i found which was another students at long roads film



STRENGTHS:

• Heart beating sequence adds tension well
• Camera shots work well to add urgency to the sequence
• Music works well in some of the shots

WEAKNESSES:

• Music doesn't progress much and gets a bit boring after awhile
• Acting at the end (runner stops and is grabbed) is not very good
• Black and White filter is unnecessary
• Title at the end is a little too big

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3 film openings

I was told to watch three film openings and pick my favourite of the three and explain what's good about it and why i like it.

I chose the opening to
Magnolia


Pineapple Express


and Visioneers


I like the opening to Magnolia the most.

The entire sequence is not aimed to introduce the audience to the different characters but instead to set the mood and overall feel of the film. For those who chose not to watch the intro it is simply a description of three remarkably coincidental events.The narration for the sequence is great because the voice has a michael moore feel to it which makes you think that the events being described are actual fact or based upon (which they very well may be). The opening is great and i would recommend anyone to go and see the whole film.

:D

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Final cut

At Coleridge we learnt to use the razor blade tool and learnt how to fade in and out video clips. Luckily i had used final cut before so found the whole process fairly easy but still fun to do. I like the film opening that we made because its dramatic and it suits well to the city shots. Oh and we learnt to title as well :D

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Film opening!

On Tuesday morning at coleridge we made our own mix up of clips with music to make a film opening/trailer.

Here is what me and yasmin made


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Moodbooard

The other day we made a moodboard for this film called shifty HERE IT IS!

We were shown a storyboard for a scene for the film Shifty. We were told to create the moodboard based upon what we thought the visual style of Shifty would be like if we made it.
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