Making the Film Review

The film review creation was based mainly on decisions of placement and colour schemes and the correct text to include. Our film review progressed from group decisions to include a background image from the film. And adding images from the film. The layout is largley based on Empire's structure.

Editing

Non- Diegetic Sound

We composed our music on a Mac on Garage Band. We made several tracks to fit with our film. The first track to go with Lucas's getting ready for his job interview mainly using acousitc guitair samples and major piano sequences. The second track was for Lucas's wealthy life using delicate piano samples to give a slow sad melody. Furthermore we created one last track for the family life with Grace and for that we used a more upbeat major tune to show Lucas's happiness.

For sound effects we used freesound.org to collect small sound samples to use at points of importance like the flash forwards and added sounds like the alarm clock.

VOICE OVERS

Our voiceover for the beginning:
“We make many decisions everyday without a second thought; whether to have tea or coffee, what clothes to wear and what to have for dinner, but I never knew that the small decision I would make later this morning, would have such life changing consequences.”

Voiceover for the successful life:
"I had the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect lifestyle. It’s everyones dream to live a successful life like this, but as perfect as it was, I wasn’t happy, I was lonely. Getting on the train that day and getting this job has turned my life around. But money certainly isn’t everything, as what’s a great life when you have no one to share it with?"

Voiceover for the family life:
"I may not have had the perfect job or the perfect house, but I had the perfect woman. I was living the family life everyone dreams of and I couldn’t be happier. It was the little things that I loved the most; from walks on the beach to nights at home in front of the telly. Who would have thought that this woman at the train station would end up being my wife? "

SCRIPT FOR ADDED DIALOUGE

OUTSIDE THE TRAIN STATION – LUCAS RUNS INTO HIS OLD FRIEND.

FRIEND: You alright mate, ain’t seen you in a while, how’s things since the redundancy?  

LUCAS: Yeah not too bad thanks, I’m actually on the way to a job interview now, how’s things been with you?

F: well I’m still looking, haven’t found the right job yet but you know it’s been nice having some time off with the missus and kids.

L: Yeah I’m sure something will come up and I bet your kids have loved having you around, I guess I’m lucky I’ve only got to look after me.

F: Oh I bet it won’t be long till you have your own family, once you’ve met the right girl that is.

L: Yeah I hope so. 

F: Anyway, take care mate, don’t want you to miss your interview.

L: Yeah thanks, mate, cya soon, hope it all works out.

Making of the Poster

Adobe Photoshop was used to create the poster throughout a number of stages.We first cropped the image of Lucas and put it with the other 2nd picture. We then adjusted the brightness with the Dodge tool to give the same lighting.

We then came across a problem with the shadows so we used the eyedropper tool to get the exact colour of the bench to use on the shadow areas.

We then used smudge tools around the edges of the cropped images to make it blend in and look more realistic.

Then using the 'Lasoo Tool' we drew around the images of Lucas on the bench and separated it from the background, erasing any background left over around the edges.

From Feedback we realised Lucas's hairline on the wealthy life image did not look good so we fixed his hair line so it was smooth.

Images from filming

These pictures show the difference in lifestyle.

Poster

For our poster we are hoping to portray our split narrative so we gathered a few ideas and wanted to definitely show the two parts of Lucas's life.
Our first idea was to have one person split into two with the contrasting costumes.

However we did not think this looked as polished as we were hoping so we decided to go with a different idea...

For this picture we used Adobe Photoshop to merge the pictures. From now on we hope to white out the background so its fits into our poster layout better.

Pictures before they were merged.



Costume

Juxta position of two characters in costume.

Film Locations

Wealthy Life Location

Wealthy Life Location

Wealthy Life Location

Bournemouth Beach Location

Bournemouth Train Station Location

Grace and Lucas House Location

Wealthy Life Location

Lucas First House Location

Costume and Props

This costume is worn by Lucas for the proposal scene to bring originality we decided the proposal scene would be filmed by revealing a t-shirt with 'Will you marry me?' printed on it.

These props are used to show the juxta position of the two lives. The cards are almost identitcal to show that Lucas has a choice of being alone and wealthy or having a family but having money problems.

Complications with filming

Unfortunately after lots of planning with our filming schedules and dates we came across another problem. Our main scenes located at the train station were all going fine until and duty manager of Bournemouth Train Station did not believe our student identity, so while we were half way through filming we were asked to leave because he believed we were press. We then sent a letter asking permission for a second time to film on the train station. Hopefully if this gets approved we will continue our filming on the train station and complete this section.

Filming Pictures (Our new actor)

Lucas On the beach. Casual Clothing.

Lucas at Train Station, Clothing smart.

Lucas and Grace at the beach.

Complications with filming

We originally arranged to get all our filming done by this time and we were hoping to start our editing today. However our actor has proved unreliable and was unable to do any of the filming dates. So we have decided to change our actor in order to get it finished. We hope to get our filming done in the next 3 weeks. The actor we have chosen now is incredibly suitable for the part and committed to our schedule; Andy Hawkins. We are hoping that he has just as good as on screen chemistry between the actors as we did before. Now we are focusing on re-shooting our previous scenes and doing the main block of filming. It has put us back quite a way, but we hope to finish filming in the next 3 weeks despite the setbacks.

Meal.

Beach Filming day




Grace and Lucas, with costume and Location

 

Lucas's Costume

Grace Costume

Beach Location

Beach Location

Lighting on our first day could have potentially hindered us, just because the angle of which we wished to film from meant the sun was coming straight towards the camera. However we used this to our benefit to create an atmosphere of romance, and the silhouetted images we are hoping are going to be effective and add to our short films quality. We decided to collect a range of shots from different angles and for different lengths to make sure we have enough footage to edit later on. We experimented with different camera positions to make our film more interesting.