second draft music

Music for media first draft.

This is my first attempt at creating some music for the montage date sequence and the credits. I think the music is a little amaturish and will attempt to create a more profesional score.

My Edit: The school scenes from Happily Ever After.

Bruce Partleton said that the fades inbetween the cuts are often unneccecery. The tracking shots are also a bit shakey. I suggested putting down wood but Bruce said it was to do with the bumps in the tracking joints.

My Edit: Media wedding sequence

Callum and I decided we would play on cliche and stereotypical imagery. As a result I (as location manager) picked a church with a high roof. This allowed me to do a long tilt downwards  to establish the location.

In the final piece i will use wedding bells as a sound-bridge between to two clips, this will establish the fact that this is a wedding. 

The piano piece is generally known as "Here Comes the Bride" or "Wedding March" and I used it to add the the cliche and stereotypical atmosphere of the film. Our film is intended on being a blockbuster Rom-com. A convention of blockbuster films is simple narrative. One thing that sets British blockbusters apart from American blockbusters is its use of subtlety in narrative and music. Aspects of my film will conform to British Blockbuster conventions but as an overall product it will conform to American Blockbuster conventions.

My Edit: a shot of people at the wedding.

Inspired by Split Screen: A love story. I attempted to fill seats at the wedding with me and Callum to make it look like there were people watching the wedding. This was also going to be used because we didn't have enough actors and actresses. In evaluation, the attempt didn't look as good as I was hoping, mainly because the split lines are quite visable in places and also because I couldn't fill the seats that much because of litterally 'getting in my own way'. The shot also didn't work well in the whole film anyway.

Props and first day of filming

On Wednesday 20th June, Callum and I had our first session with Poppy May as our actress. The filming at school was very productive and all the required filming got done. The school scenes and the bathroom scenes were all filmed there. Looking over the footage we recorded, we have decided to re-record all the audio to put on as an overlay afterwards. We hope that this will allow our film to have a clearer sound quality.

At about 2:30pm, Callum and I arrived at Ramsgate where we looked at props for our Wedding Sequence. Poppy has told us that she has a white dress which she will wear on Wednesday 27th June (our next filming session). We bought a tiara from poundland along with Ballons, confetti and white sheets. We went into several shops to look at things people usually buy for weddings.