The main change was the role of Emma. We chose to have a protagonist who came from a different school which caused difficulties with days and times in which we were able to film - and with all the changes and small bits of re-filming we had to do it just wasn't ideal and we would not have got our opening done in time. To resolve this issue we used Katie who is in our group to be in the actual film and play the part of Emma which has worked very well.
After the change in character we found that the classroom scene we originally thought of sounded a lot better in our head and wasn't that achievable with the equipment that we had so we changed the second half of the opening to a school bathroom scene which i will explain next to the storyboard.
Another thing we had to change was the train station section. we found that some of the clips werent all that good and stable and then script needed changing due to it not sounding right or flowing very well therefore i re-filmed the whole train station section with aaron and katie acting.
How the filming and editing turned out:
after all the changes that we made, we had to change around the filming side of things as well as the editing as we had a lot less time and had to divide jobs up within the group.
We came to a decision that me and Katie would film and edit the second section of the opening: this includes the journey montage to the train station, and the actual train station scene and chlaryse and jade would film and edit the fist section in the toilet including the difficult task of voice-overs which we had a lot of trouble with. I additionally helped film some parts of the first section as it was my camera and knew how to focus on separate sections in the frame.
Katie was an actor in the film so i filmed all of the fsecond section and katie edited all my shots together however we helped eachother with the framinig when i was filming and i helped katie with some of the editing too.
Changes to the character
This is the updated character profile for Emma. We didn't have to make many changes to the character profile, the main changes included the appearance of the character, the physical description of Emma. Another thing that we altered was the habits of the character which we also portrayed within the filming. This was that she played with her hair a lot which can give evidence that she is an awkward and socially nervous person. The traits of the character, however have stayed the same as we always had an idea of how we wanted Emma to act.
Script
Firstly we changed the script before we knew about the change we were going to make to the classroom scene. We kept the whole beginning section the same including the voiceover but had to alter the conversation between Emma and Harry. The first time that we filmed the train station scene, we noticed that the quote that aaron read out from the oliver twist book didn't sound right - it didn't sound like a quote from the book at was very udeen to the point that it seemed a bit creepy. Because of this we decided to show aaron saying 'that's a classic, that is' which seemed like a better, less stange conversation starter. This flowed so much better and we managed to include some more shots which capture the emotion when Harry noices what Emma is reading.
The second and final changes that we made to the script was the beginning. Once we had filmed the classroom scene and it wasn't as successful as we hoped it would have been, we changed our idea to the school toilets which helped us stick to the conventional reflection beginning shot. We added in a section where emma gets knocked by one of the other girls in the toilet which reinforces the idea that she is invisible and also a school bell the rings which cuts off the music and establishes the school environment. We were happy with the final script as we felt it all flowed a lot better and the voiceover matched the shots better.
story board
This is the final story board. We updated all the images of the first scene from the classroom to the school toilets and this ensured that we had more of a variety with the shots and camera movement. This scene looked so much better than the classroom scene due to us having a lot more time to film it so that we had stable, professional looking shots. It was difficult to film the scene due to the mirrors, this meant that we had to ensure the camera wasn't in the shot at any point in the reflection and that the background was completely clear.
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