Chosen Music - Road Trip (full length) Robert Neary

We have selected a piece that we feel matches and represents the piece well, its called Road Trip (full length) - Romantic Alternative Pop Rock. Pop; Happy. Medium Tempo. Robert Neary (BMI) and its exactly the genre of music we were looking for. Its happy and calm which suits the shots of the couple well making there emotions seem more alive. I tried putting it with the shots we already have in Premiere Pro and it works well but the track itself is very short, using the razor tool I have cut it and repeated the track so that it goes round and round making it sound like someone has it on repeat.

Search for Music

For the opening of our film we have been looking for copyright free tracks. We have found few pieces of music that we liked but when I tried them out with the shots that we have something about them didnt seem right. The type of music we are looking for is upbeat, cute romantic songs that show the story of them falling in love just as well as the opening itself. I think that its important we find the right music because that will help the audience to link in with the characters and feel the emotions that are shown through the video. One problem of the copyright free music is that they are quite short, this may be difficult when editing as we might have to repeat the track to form a continuous song. We will try to look for full length tracks but I think if we do find the right one it will sound good even if we do have to repeat.

Production Name

So far we havent decided on a production name we were trying to think of exisitng film company names that we could base it on but were stuggling for ideas. Our media teacher said that it could be an in joke within our group which made us think of "Oh Sure Studios" because Ellie is addicted to saying this which makes us laugh and we thought could be quite good. We also thought a mixture of our names or intials could be good something like "CMES" for example. We will probably end up deciding once we add the first shot of credits onto the film opening.

Extra Group Member

Today we were told that we had an extra member joining our group (Shannon) which means that we had to fill her in on what we've been doing. We updated her on what we've done and what still needs to be finished so that she can blog about it and fully join in with the group. When filming is finished tomorrow she can help out with the editing of the new material which will help her to understand our film so far.

Animatic - Final Rough Cut

This is our final cut of the animatic, we've edited the colouring of the shots so that it flickers through colours whilst playing. Putting the drawing together like this makes the images look like they are moving and brings across a cute slightly child-like feel to our film. We really like this as it will suit our genre of film but we think it is a bit too fast and short so when putting it together with our film opening we will check it to see if it needs making longer and slightly slower. The pictures in the animatic represent the last scene of the film opening which will be the shock pregnancy scene. Throughout the clip different baby objects appear and also a stalk with a bundle of a number (+1) which ends up completing the title of "Our Life +1" (the couple + baby).

28/03/2011 - Monday's Lesson

Today I looked over the work that the group did last lesson, they discussed with me what they thought worked and what we have left to do, which is to film the rest of our shots which we plan to do tomorrow after college, we also need to plan out the music and credits for the opening. We did start looking for music the other lesson and decided an upbeat happy song with no lyrics would be best to suit the genre of the film.

Last Lesson

I was away last lesson but group filled me in on what was finished. They went through the animatic and checked that the editing was in the right timing so that each image went together properly and they also checked over the edited film that we have so far. Ellie discovered that during one of the first scenes the actress looks at the camera and this had to be cut out but looking back it actually makes the clip look better.