Editing Footage

Editing


We used the Apple MAC computer to edit all our footage using the imovie as this was the best and simplest way to ensure that we could could edit our film opening properly. To do this, we had a person to come in and show us the basics and then we were left to do the rest ourselves. This allowed us to play with the technology and get used to it which allowed us to learn how to edit ourselves.

In this picture above, this shows how we were able to upload all of our footage that we had recorded and we were able to view it all on the screen so we could go through each clip together and see which one was the most suitable, and we were able to delete the wrong one easily rather than going through it all individually.

The photo above shows us the different types of titles and themes that we were able to use. This allowed us to have a large variety of the way that the title will appear on the screen, allowing it to fit in with our film opening well. In the end, we opted for a side transitional title to play at the beginning of the film opening.

This image above shows us the sound effects (this particular photo showws the list of real life sounds) which we could incorporate into our film opening. Most of our film opening is a soundtrack by Matt Lungley so we did not really need to use sound effects.

This picture shows us the transitions that were available such as circle open, circle close, doorway, puzzle left etc.

This allowed us to make sure that all our clips flowed smoothy, making it into a fluid film opening. So in the scenes such going from the house into the road accident scene using the transitions made the clips flow with ease.

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FOCUS FEATURES

*Focus Features 

We chose focus features film company because we believe that this production company will best suit our film genre and do the best job in making our film opening

This company are well known for Brokeback Mountain, (2005), and as we have mentioned before this company its evident this company work majorly with romance/romcom films that, in my opinion, are very much unlike others. For instance, Academy Award-winning, 'Brokeback Mountain',  features a storyline that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West. Considering our films plot is centred around the same issue of homosexuality, we think Focus Features would be the best decision production company wise.



FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES- Suitable for 'Loving Jennie'

FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES- 'Loving Jennie'

'Loving Jennie' befits the genre of romance and the plot is very similar, to movies that have been done before. In order for us to find an appropriate production company for our opening, we filtered through our genre research (particularly the british romance films etc) narrowed the films down and checked the various production companies behind them and which ever one would be suitable for our film:

BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It is considered to be an established company at the forefront of British independent film-making and co-produces approximately eight films a year. Also works in partnership with major international and UK distributors. BBC film like 'Fingersmith' also has the theme of homsexuality featured although situated in a totally different era, than our film.

Momentum Pictures (also known as Alliance Films UK), an Alliance Films company, is one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland. With films like (some 2011 theatrical releases) 'Season of the Witch', 'Insidious', 'Hobo With a Shotgun', 'Limitless' and 'Justice'. Mainly horror and/or action.

Relativity Media (sometimes written as RelativityMedia and Relativity) is an American independent motion picture production and investment company based in West Hollywood, California. Relativity Media filmography include many of the genre in topic, romance, e.g. 'The Holiday', 'Love Happens', 'Dear John', 'Wild Child' and 'Made of Honour'. These films do seem like polished hollywood-styled films unlike our film which we dont intend to give this impression at all.


*Redbus Film Distribution is a British film company. They have distributed and produced many films for the UK, some becoming hits, such as Bend It Like Beckham, What's Cooking?, Cabin Fever, Jeepers Creepers and It's All Gone Pete Tong. The first film released by Redbus was Open Your Eyes. Movies like 'Bend It Like Beckham'

Big Talk Productions Ltd. (stylized as bigtalk productions) is an English film and television production company established in 1995 by Nira Park. The company, located in London, has produced films such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz; it is also known for its British sitcoms such as Spaced and Free Agents.

*Focus Features
With films like 'One Day (2011)', Jane Eyre (2011), It's kind of a funny story (2010), Something New (2006) Brokeback Mountain, (2005), its evident this company work majorly with romance/romcom films that, in my opinion, are very much unlike others. For instance, Academy Award-winning, 'Brokeback Mountain',  features a storyline that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West. Considering our films plot is centred around the same issue of homosexuality, we think Focus Features would be the best decision production company wise.


*Ruby Films
With their film catalogue including movies like 'Love + Hate (2005)', 'Love and Other Disasters (2006)', 'Tamara Drewe (2010)', it suggests 'Ruby Films' could be perfect for 'Loving Jennie' because of their audience base being similar to what we intend aswell.


Others Include:

Summit Entertainment
Gateway Films
Sally Head Productions
Film4


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LOVING JENNIE- Meaning

Loving Jennie


Meaning

Our film opening is titled 'Loving Jennie' because we feel not only do it presumably suggest the genre of the film but also the omission of the name of the person who 'loves' Jennnie, subtly refers to the fact, we have more than one person in our plot who loves Jennie, our protagonist.
We want our audience to understand our title as perhaps an understated summary of our plot.

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MISE EN SCENE: Characters' Actual Costume- Death Scene/Argument Scene

Actual Costume


Roland

For Roland's costume we kept simple but quite typical in terms of what a teen boy would wear. The playful impression of the mickey mouse jumper over the school boy like polo shirt, ties in nicely with the brown chino's. His coat suggests he perhaps is on his way out, which eventually does happen as he storms out after their argument.



Jennie

For Jennie's costume, we wanted to keep it simple with some aspects of colour; the scarf. Natural looking make-up and dark nail polish; we think this subtly suggest she takes some effort in her appearance. With her coat, we again wanted to give the impression both characters were on their way out before the argument flared up.

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SHOOT UPDATE: Sunday 18th December 2011

Shoot 3- Update

 (Bedroom Scene: Re-shoot- Shahnaz and Jennie)

 (Death Scene- Roland after being run over)

(Clips from our montage: Jennie and Roland)

We changed a few aspects:

-Instead of filming some clips in a local park, like previously decided, we filmed it in the same bedroom that Jennie now shares with her female lover (but we changed the bed sheet to imply a totally different time frame). We decided using the same bedroom seems more personal and more intimate, in terms of wanting to the real chemistry between Roland and Jennie.
- We added a quick POV shot of the unknown driver (in the car: showing the dashboard) in the death scene.
- Instead of creating bruises or scars or even using fake blood on our character, Roland's, t-shirt we thought it be would more effective and realistic to scatter the fake blood on the concrete road near his head, to suggest a fatal head injury.

PICTURES TAKEN BY: SHANHNAZ, STEPHANIE, KULSUMA, TOSIN

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We again all took still images of our work and efforts in progress.

SHOOT UPDATE: Sunday 4th December 2011

Shoot 2- Update

We again all took still images of our work and efforts in progress.

(Night time Montage Clip- Location)

(Male character of Roland-Montage Clip)

(Argument Scene- Location)

We changed a few aspects:

-The positioning of the argument scene was decided to be the bottom of some stairs as it will look more forseeably that the character of Roland will easily storm out the front door after that.
- Instead of the aerial shot of Jennie's eye (entering the dream) we decided on a simple close up shot, as it appeared less shaky and smoother.
- We decided to have one of the clips from the montage with a dark night/moon backdrop with just Roland. This was to appear more romantic and almost as if Jennie is the one filming him, as he messes about.
- We also realised we wished to re-shoot the bedroom scene on our next shooting day with a different second main character (the lover).

PICTURES TAKEN BY: SHANHNAZ, STEPHANIE, KULSUMA, TOSIN

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