A Few Tweaks

Our film didn't upload to Youtube in the end, but it came as a touch of fate as we realised it was not copyright so we had to search on http://freeplaymusic.com/  for some other music...

We found that alot of the music was very synthesised and therefore quite horrible to listen to. Eventually I came across this music called:

MC Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Opus 19 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYEggRrIH50

Which was perfect as the music was very pure and actually quite beautiful. I put the music to our film and it turned out contrapuntal as it did not reflect the imgages displayed on the screen. There was Maxime stealing a bag and walking in a criminal manner along to calm and classsical music and it worked! It also refelcts that there is more to Maxime than people think as he is an incredibly talented writer.

Finally Finished!!!

We have FINALLY finished editing our film. After waiting for about 5 hours to render our movie as it was HD, we edited it. The editing took about 2 hours, which is quite short as most of our footage was in order anyway, so it just involved cutting out the unnecessary footage. We had to edit the film down from 10 minutes of footage to a 2 minutes 20 second film. This was a very hard job, but do-able. We are now waiting for the film to broadcast on Youtube, and this will occur shortly.

Rendering...

It is taking ever so long for our film to render because it is HD, so far it has taken 5 hours...

Finished Filming... almost

We filmed most of our film - very successfully... The light was incredible and very dramatic. We had to change our route a bit as it was not adequate considering the situation. So we just routed it, starting from the ATC Huts down past Hopeman Woods and past the classrooms finishing at Dead Dogs. The light was impecable at Dead Dogs and provided a good revelance to our film. It meant we could film our character in his element of creativity providing a huge contrast to his rough and unsuitable lifestyle filmed previously. The woods provided a potential thinking space and symbolised how our character is poetic and appreciative of beautiful things set apart from the criminal acts he pursues. We also added a few more things to the short 2 minutes that were required. Our actor peers into a broken down van, a van that is trashed and abused, maybe symbolising the boy... He also pushes a young girl carrying an ice cream out the way. We decided to cutout the 'Rah' and 'Easy girl' because we thought it was too obvious to our character so instead just had him stealing the bag from the teacher. The girl who plays the teacher is Charlotte Simes and the girl who plays the innocent character is Dolphin. We tried to film lots of different and interesting shots and we didn't necessarily follow the shot list that was designed. All in all it was a very successful shooting.

Lily and Emily