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The idents above are the ones we created and they are currently in use in our teen movie opening. We created these idents using the software Motion. Looking at the Artificial Eye ident our ident is not very different because it is about the same length and we also have a background sound to go with the introduction of the ident. We wanted our ident to be a self produced one because we couldn't find a suitable distribution company to distribute our film. This meant that we had to fund for the advertising and the marketing of our film ourselves without the help of a company, our company compared to Artificial Eye also a small distribution company is way smaller than the Artificial Eye because we are a newly based company which has started from scratch.

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The New Skills I have Learn't

I have learn't a lot of new skills while producing our product, as I contributed to everything that has been produced. One of the new software's I learn't to use was Prezi, Prezi is a software just like Microsoft Powerpoint, where you create Slides and write about what ever you want to show the the slides, but Prezi has a different layout which takes time to adapt to well at least it took me some time to adapt to. Another software I learn't how to use was 'Motion', I used motion with a fellow member of my group to create the idents for our film. Finally, the last software I learn't to use was 'Final Cut Pro'. 'Final Cut Pro' became the main software for producing our product because it was the only system on the Mac that was capable of putting our shots together for our film.

Motion:

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Making the Ident

Today we made a ident for our film using the software 'Motion'. When we first started using the software we were really confused in how to do the things we wanted, so we got the assistance of our teacher. Getting assistance from our teacher helped us understand the software a bit more, to the point where we didn't need help as much as we needed it at the start. After learning to use the software we had to choose the name of our ident and our decision was to use  'Thunder Productions' as the name for the ident. I say decision but it was more me that really wanted the name to be 'Thunder' because I thought it was an interesting name and it was a name no-one had used before, so there were no problems with copyright.

The Skills I Developed While Filming,

While we were filming the opening of our film I was also involved in the recording certain scenes. This mean't I had to get to get to grips with the camera quickly and had to learn how to use the camera because I had to film at the highest standard possible, as our film had to look good in every scene. In addition I learn't that I had a very still hand which made recordings easy and perfect, which mean't I didn't need the assistance of a tripod.

Music change

Today we decided that the music we chose for our film was not very suitable so we changed it to something that best suited our genre of film which was comedy, crime and realism. We felt that the song we picked was very suitable to our films genre because it was a instrumental from one of 50 Cent's songs,which of course was copyright free as we downloaded it from Soundcloud. Furthermore, the hook 'I get Money', used in the instrumental, links to the criminal in our film as he makes his revenue from selling drugs.

Editing Final Film - Session 2

After showing Dan our rough cut and after getting the feedback; we decided to cut out a few shots, and add in a few.. We also decided to change the story line of our film - rather than having four seperate characters we decided to bring the three boys together as a group of friends who have created their own gang, but the 'bully' remains to be a bully.

Shot of Mehak, Mirkan and Samet editing - 

Feedback From Dan

Rough Cut

Reminder for our Group

The Deadline is March 12th ONE WEEK LEFT

Editing Final Film - Session 1

Today we all started editing the final film for Wednesday - we're nearly done putting all of it together but all that's left are the final touches and adding the soundtrack which we will do tomorrow. The only problem that occurred today whilst editing was to do with sound, we decided to change the soundtrack we originally wanted to use so we spent time in the lesson looking for it which took a lot of time as many of the tracks we found weren't copyright free. 

Here are some snaps of Shah and Mirkan  editing and trying to find a suitable soundtrack:

Filming Day 2

Today we were outside filming the scenes when all the characters were arriving to shcool. My part was quite easy to film as I was the character that took the bus to college but one of the other characters journey to collge was quite difficult to record because they took the underground to college and the time we chose to record his scene was a peak hour so it was hard to get the right shots, due to the amount of people using the station. The weather was also more suitable for recording as it was sunny and warm which didn't bother us while moving about and filming all the scenes. Below are screenshots of todays filming session.

Filming Day 1

Today we filmed all the shots that take place in college because during the week have a week break from college, as it's half term. The problems with filming in school was that it got a bit too hot which bothered us a lot and while on set the heat didn't help us a bit especially when we got our parts wrong and had to retake the whole scene again. On a whole I enjoyed todays filming session because everyone in our group contributed and gave it their all so we could gain an advantage over the other groups and be ahead of schedule and start editing early, so if anything had to be improved we would have time before the deadline to change or fix it.

Filming

In todays lesson we were disappointed due to the fact we could finish off our filming altogether, a certain indiviual from our group was missing today and another individual forgot to wear the right costume... Therefore this lead to our group delaying the filming to the next lesson with Dan. Today we managed to finish all of the filming for the 'criminal' and 'bully' and we are left with a bit of filming for the 'joker' and the 'jock'. Hopefully we will finish on wednesday !!!

Filming Postponed to Monday 24th February

Because of the weather conditions and we had one of our group member not available to attend today we have decided to finish of our filming on the Monday which our college starts as its the most suitable time and day for everyone in our group.
so we are hoping to finish our filming by Monday 24th Feb. and start editing at 26th February Wednesday at Dan's lesson