These photos show the editing we have done a few shots that we have edited for our advert
Also in conclusion with this there are a few stills that we might want to use for our web-pop up
Elliott will be writing about the editing as his role is editor.
On the day of November 26th me and Kim met up at college and went to see Andrea our Media teacher to make sure it was still ok to film and that the camera Kim had brought from home would connect it to the tripod and to the Mac computer which we would be using to edit the footage on.
Also Kim wanted to see if there was any available spare batteries, as he camera was kept changing how much battery space it had left. So we got a spare battery for back up.
We meet up with our other team members Christina and Elliott and Lauren (who was going to be our actress) for the day. This is where the fashion and mise-en-scene started, Lauren started to apply her make-up and style her hair, for what was needed to have the correct look in the advert.
Lauren got ready on the train to Westminster to save time, so that when we got there and had to meet Ben, we could start to film straight away.
When we got to London Lauren had to get changed as it was freezing and she was wearing a dress, during winter. We did not want our actress to get cold as it was down to us to keep the save and fair wellbeing.
We met Ben outside Westminster train station who was already dressed in his suit so we could start to film straight away.
We went across the road to film our first shot, of a man coming out of a train station, where we discover our first problem, that Andreas our teacher did not give us the adaptor that was meant to be with the tripod to attach it to the camera, so had to continue filming throughout the day using steady cam.
A second problem that was quite difficult as camera woman, was to film because of people walking in between and during shots, but we still managed to work around this and get the shot needed.
Although the shot was not as perfect as we wanted it to be because of the natural glare of the sun behind the shot, we had to continue best would could to get the filming completed and on time.
I and Kim worked together on the camera angles best we could without a tripod to create the same affect and picture that we had designed in storyboards together. I tried best to get a variety of angles but without a tripod there is only so much that could be done.
Christina worked very well with our actors Ben and Lauren, she was telling them there role and when I had started filming so they knew when to come on. She also organized costumes and make-up for the actors.
Elliott was not needed during filming because his role was editor but he came along to help with views and opinions that would help us to create the best footage to edit, as we were working as a very tight group all our views on the angles and shots were very important from production to producing to editing, all of our groups needs to have their imput.
During filming on the 26th November it was often cold and even started to rain at one part, we stopped filming gave our actors and umbrella and got them a hot drink so they would not get ill and were well looked after. Elliott also lent his jacket to our actor Lauren so that she was not cold. So all in all we tried to look out for our actors best we could with the resources we had.
I think that without the tripod adaptor we were restricted, looking back at the footage I took, I got as many different shots that I could as steady as I could.
I know that with the adapter the filming I did would have been steadier and of a better quality I did not have this option at the time of filming and had to use all my skills from previous film and media work to the best out of a bad situation.
I could not make filming on the 5th of December due to the fact i was ill, but Kim and Christina continued without me. Elliott could not get the time off work so it was down to the other two members in the group. Although not very practical that me and Elliott were not able to go, the room that was being used to film in was very small and would have been very claustrophobic with four members of the group plus two actors.
Me and Kim had produced the story boards together before hand, so we knew exactly what we needed to create the right representation of advert. We had also discussed the mise-en-scene and camera angles before production so although I was not able to go, Christina and Kim could still film they had all the skills they needed to continue with filming they had used the camera before last year in their media coursework so have good skills.
Christina apparently acted as production manager, in charge of props, actors and mise-en-scene.
Although it didn’t go to plan apparently with the room being very small restricting camera angles, they still got the shots needed and conformed to conventions of the 180% rule. Also as it was a dull day, the lighting was poor and often dark, this is not what was originally wanted, as soft lighting was needed to create the mise-en-scene of romance but still seemed to work well and have got all the shots and footage needed for Elliott to edit with.
In addition although not going to plan, as many filming sessions don’t you just have to work the best you can with the footage you have and try to do something creative with it by the way it is edited either using transitions or cuts. This will be down to Elliott who has had many days experience with final cut pro, the software we will be using.
Producer: This is Kim, in this role she will be in charge of booking equipment, making certain that all forms are filled in before we begin to shooting the TV advertisement, that the actors know when and where they are required. She will also have to check the weather forecast so that we know ifs its a day that we need for a certain mise-enscene and also film for continuity reasons.
Camera Woman: This will be me and I will be in charge of all filming and making sure everything looks right, are creates the spersific mise-en-scene we are looking for as well as also saying whether the lighting is creating the right atmosphere for the scene.
Director: Christina, she will make sure that the story boards we create to film are followed and that the actors are are in the correct position for each shot, she will be in charge of the way they are acting and what they need to do in the scene being filmed also checking that continuity is displayed throughout.
Editor/Sound: Elliott, will edit the final product and researching into the sound we will be using in the perfume advert along with knowledge of what will create the right atmosphere, for example if we are going to be using a romantic mise-en-scence we would need the music to match, and therefore not any music would go with this.
On the 26th of November after all the problems we had with our auditions, we finally had our actors Lauren and Ben, who turned up in the costumes we needed them too. They came in the clothing that is on the moodboard they looked very good and we began to film. It was very successful, we had a great day of filming although we came across a major problem that we had to sort out. We did not have the adapter that was needed for the tripod so we had to film everything by steady cam. Although we did the best we could with filming a lot of it is not steady and we will have to edit round this problem as there was nothing we could do as when booking out the equipment it was all a meant to be there but we did not relies until we got to London that we did not have this.
We had to try to keep continuity, because we did not know, how the whether was going to be. We stopped filming during the rain so that we would keep continuity. Overall we the filming went well. We got a lot of film to choose from to make our advert, we will have to take out the shaky bits so that it looks professional.
When filming, in and out of the trees we needed to make this not cheesy and therefor had to take several shots so that it did not look like, Ben was stalking Lauren but trying to find his love!
Things haven’t gone to plan as first expected, time was becoming very short and we had worries about weather we would be able to film on the day we had planned. This was due to the people who had auditioned no being able to turn up when they said they would or not getting back to us about weather they could film of now.
We still hadn’t heard back from the email I sent to the royal park police, Kim sent another email along with the one I sent a few weeks ago, as it was getting closer to the date that we would be filming but we still hadn’t heard back so we went ahead a filmed anyway and took a copy of the email so that if we were asked about our filming we could show them that we had contacted the Royal park police but not got anything back.
We decided to film during our lesson of media, so that it would be convenient for all of us, Ben Slater, was free on thursdays as he was in our media lesson so this made it easy to film. Filiz Hassan was meant to be filming on the 26th with Ben but pulled out last moment so we had to ask one of our other friends Lauren who’s pictures are on the audition posts. She was very pretty and exactly what we was looking for.
So along with audition being a problem, and us having to get ours actors with in 24 hours, another problem was the weather, we took a gamble and filmed, even though it was in november and you can never rely on the whether, because we did not want to fall behind so we went ahead and started to film the whether was fine for most of the day, until it rained but we stopped filming during this time and waited till it blew over then the sun came out again.
We want to film Bisous on 5th December using Lewis Coventry and Samantha Swingle. Both our actors should be free so this should be fine to go ahead and film.
Scince we have both our actors now it is down to Kim to inform the rest of the group and filming cast where to be and when to be there. We know our location is going to be at Christina’s but we just need to make sure our actors can be there when we need them to and make sure they can get there on time.
Today, we held auditions in a college room we have arranged to suit audition purposes. First of all the turn out was slow and not many people were coming, this could have been down to an earlier poster as people thought the date said the say before. Kim decided to go into the lunch hall to see if any people would be willing to audition for our advert. As a group were particularly interested in getting males to audition, as we already had already considered potential females for our production. We are looking for females that have a certain look about them. This being beautiful and striking. We also need to take into consideration people who have enough time to commit to our production fully with out hesitation. As the people need to be fully committed to helping us because if they are not they could hinder the rest of the project. Elliott made a form to record these details that can be viewed at elliottbasselliottbasselliottbass.wordpress.com. We took details of our auditions so that they could contact if we need them for the film and at all times when we are filming if any one gets lost. Also there numbers are so that we can tell them following the decision. As to whether they are successful or not. Elliott sent a simple confirmation text to achknowledge ‘Thank you for your time. We’re now looking at the photos in order to reach a decision to who is best suited to our advert production. You will receive another text in the near future stating our conclusion. Thanks again, Perfume advert crew. Please feel free to text back any questions or give us a call on this number.’
These are our photos from auditions.
Auditions although we thought were a sucsess they were not, people let us down and could not make the dates they had stated. We had to find someone last minute, less the 24 hours before filming time, so we called on a friend who had done modelling previously.
She was perfect for our advert, exactly what we were looking for pretty and very striking.
These are the perfume bottles that we liked the look of to use in our perfume advert. We have decided that flowery perfume bottles or pretty structure of the bottle would be best for Bisous. As a group we feel that a Cristal perfume bottle would look better for lost and found as they look most sophisticated.
We also thought that the person who would be using Bisous would be younger and therefore the bottle could afford to look more youthful.
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