The Desperate Pursuit final

Final title

Our final choice on the title of our film is the one above. The font is called papyrus and we made the first letter of each word bold. This, to us makes it stand out more. The colour we chose was sort of a dirty white. We chose this because it is very simple, and it will stand out over the top of the scene we want to play it over. We like this title because it is simple yet effective. The font type is very gentle but also quite mysterious, linking very well to our film.

Practise titles- Presentation of the title

Our next test for our titles is to decide how to present our title. We tested out the bold, the italic and the normal versions and these were our ideas. The top three are the normal fonts without italic, but different thicknesses, and the bottom three are all italic and different thicknesses. We found that the fully bold titles were just too much. But at the same time, the ones without bold werent bold enough. To change this, we deicided to make the first letter of each word bold, like we initially wanted. We think that the second from the bottom is the perfect font and thickness for our film.

Practise titles with colour

We tested out lots of different colours for our chosen font, overall these were the ones that we liked the most. We wanted the colour to be simple but stand out at the same time. All of these colours are really neutral and they really reflect our film perfectly. The white versions we liked at first but looking at them more, we decided that they were maybe too bland, and not very eye catching. The grey version really doesnt stand out very well so we dont want to include that in our film.
The version we chose overall was the third from the top. We decided to use this because as soon as you look at the picture, thats the image that jumps out at you. We want our title to really be seen, and as it will be appearing over the top of our actual film we need to to stand out over different colours.
Our next job is to test the thickness and size etc. of our font. Our initial ideas are to make the first letter of each word bold, but we are going to play around and see what we like and what stand out.

Updated shot types

In general each shot went the way we planned for it to go however we have made a few changes to how we want each shot to appear. However we had various issues with timing which affected how each shot went. For example two of us weren't free leading up to christmas, therefore this meant that we had to film after christmas. We needed to have christmas lights in the background of our midshots and for our establishing shots. We had an issue with the christmas lights from building to building, these were the main Christmas lights in the streets and this is what Lauren will reffer to in the monologue with the first line being 'Every year I see these Chrtistmas lights...' We needed these lights for our establishing shot, we found that they were still up however when it got dark they were not switched on. This made us reconsider our shots, we decided to film several shots of any other Christmas lights we could find, these shots would be short and would feature at the start of the film. We also decided to only do one shot of Lauren walking up the street, this was because it was getting dark very quickly so therefore we wanted to make sure that we had enough time to film all of the other shots. Another change was the shallow focus effect we had planned to use to film the Christmas lights, we attempted to create this effect but unfortunately the camera would not focus. The Christmas lights were not on in the streets so we decided to bot use this shot because it would  it be effective. 

Practise titles

For out first attempt with titles we tested out various different texts to use on our film title, 'The Desperate Pursuit.' We both agreed that Papyrus is our favourite because it different to the usual texts such as Arial but it also looks good which is important for us. We decided on a plain white text with the first letters of each word in capitals so make the text stand out more. The font looks as though it has cracks in it which is effective as it could represent her rough life of being in care and running away. We were influenced by the opening to the film 'The holiday' as the title appears in the left hand corner of the screen through a slide transition in a simple white text. We want to create a similar title appearance in our film. The Papyrus font stands out in comparison to the other fonts, we made sure we named them so we would not forget the name of the one we liked the most.  

Animatic storyboard

We created out animatic storyboard using Adobe premiare elements 10. I sketched each individual shot, Molly then wrote the descriptions of what music and dialog we want in each shot and also how long we want each shot to last. We found creating the storyboard fairly easy, all we really needed to do was cut down the length of each shot to be the exact length of time we need it to be for the real shots we will use when editing. Creating the storyboard is handy for reffering back to when we need to edit our film as it shows the length of each shot, therefore when editing we can cut down each shot to the length of time we need. The whole animatic storyboard lasts for , we kept our storyboard within the time limit required for the whole film. We managed this task efficiently so therefore we can now start out editing as we have a completed animatic storyboard to reffer back to.

New software choice

Using Sony Vegas Pro 11 we had decided to practice rendering the very little editing we had done just to make sure that we did not edit our whole film. We wanted to make sure that we would not spent allot of time editing our film then at the final hurdle discover that the film would not render. We soon discovered that the film would not  in fact render, this was very dissapointing as we were both very excited to use Sony Vegas to make our film opening a much better quality. However this did make us feel as though it was a brilliant idea that we practised rendering the film, so therefore we have not lost allot of time due to editing our film. We have haven't really started the editing yet but for our editing we will be using Adobe Premiare Elements 10. We had a few issues using this programme when editing our preliminary task because we found that it would not let us save the work, therefore after spending allot of time editing we were forced to exit the unsaved work. I have researched into this issue and have found a very helpful video on youtube that will show me how to save the work using the updated programme, Adobe Premiare Elements 11.

Video diary 1- After filming comments

After we had completed the filming for our 2 minute opening Molly and I both decided to create some questions that I will be asked in the form of a video interview to represent our thoughts on the filming. My partner Molly filmed me and asked me the questions that we wanted to be answered. We created the questions together to make sure we could show the examiner our understanding of how well our filming went and what did not go entirely to plan. I found this fairly easy to answer the questions allowing every question to be answered in good detail and to express everything we wanted to make clear. We decided to do this instead of writing the interview because we agreed that this will be far more interesting for the examiner to see than an interview in the form of a transcript, this we felt would be boring. We also wanted the examiner to be able to see who we are, we felt it is important to use a video diary as it is first hand. For all we know if we used a transcript the examiner may think that we have copied a transcript from another blog. Also we want our emotions to be displayed, this cannot be done in a transcript. This interview was genuinely quite formal however when mentioning what we think of the filming process you could clearly see that I was happy with the filming.