Film Opening Coursework. FOUND THE PERFECT MUSIC.

I HAVE AMAZING NEWS WHICH I'M UNBELIEVABLY EXCITED OVER CONSIDERING HOW LONG MYSELF AND DAN HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR A TRACK TO USE FOR OUR PARTY SCENE..

I HAVE FOUND A ROYALTY-FREE TRACK WHICH COMPLETELY SUITS OUR GENRE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9l8xk5mbeA

It's called Party Ghost - 2.0

I am going to message the artist to just make sure that we're allowed to use it and under what conditions and then the party soundtrack will be sorted!

Film Opening Coursework. Inspirational Music For "Party Scene"

Considering as Spinnin' Records still haven't replied in regards to myself and Dan using one of their tracks as our backing soundtrack for the party scene, I've found several pieces of music we can use for inspiration when looking at copyright-free websites. We are going to call Spinnin' Records by the end of the week to see if we can get an answer that way but if not, this will be useful to us.

This track is called 'Best of House Music - Vol. 1 (1 Hour Mix) [Monstercat Release]'
The reason I have chosen this as an inspiration as it has a really great, party feel about it. It is in a major key throughout most of it and has a high BPM which makes it easy to dance to. It sounds very fun and young which is perfect because our plot is about young people having fun and partying before everything goes wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJk0Tq3JDU

This track is called 'NEW HOT SEXY ✭Electro House 2012✭ 1 Hour Electro/House March 2012 Mix│Mixed By Dj Vick'
I chose this track as an inspirational track because it has a 'Friday Feel' about it. I think most people know what I mean by that but if not, it sounds like one of those tracks you can just let your hair down to and have a really good time and forget about all your worries. Again, major key throughout and also uses popular songs and remixes them. This would help because if you have a more relatable song which the audience know, it's easy to recognise and notice which would help show how much of a good time the characters are having. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l-CpGPtwQ8

This track is called 'Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (CAKED UP Remix) 
This track is a perfect example of how we want the transfer from the 'Getting Ready For The Party' shots to the 'Party' shots to go. From 0:00 to 0:40 seconds would be the 'Getting Ready For The Party' and at 0:40 onwards would be the 'Party'. The drop is very clear and would make for a fluid, amazing transition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHC8Hwq9Eag

This track is called 'Trap Megamix December 2013 | Best of Sickest TRAP MUSIC'
I chose this as an inspirational track because, although it has a slower BPM compared to the other three tracks, it has almost a 'sexy' feel to it. All of the tracks on this video are completely different to the others but because it is Trap, it's very new and fresh and VERY popular right now so it will associate well with the younger audience who watch our film opening (by younger, I mean teenagers compared to adults).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUB8oMr42Og

Film Opening Coursework. SAMPLE EDIT.

Whilst going through all of the footage we got for our 'Party' scene, I decided that I would make a sample edit to practise my editing and see what shots look good together and what music we could possibly use. This is how it turned out. Obviously this is a very small selection of the footage we got but I think this has given us a better idea of what we're looking to do and helps us understand more how iMovie works, which is what we'll be using. 

As a side note, the music in the background of this video is: 

Showtek ft. We Are Loud & Sonny Wilson - Booyah (Original Mix)

We have contacted Spinnin' Records, who produced this track to see if we can get their permission to use it as our background music. It fits perfectly with the sample edit but if we cannot get hold of them or they say no, we will search for copyright-free music to use. We have e-mailed them twice as well as tweeted them on Twitter. This is NOT our final piece again, this is just so that we can get an idea of what we're working with. 

Film Opening Coursework. Filming The Party.

On 24/01/2014 myself and Dan filmed our 'Party' scene. It was a lot of fun to film and we had a good time whilst doing it. We managed to get all of the shots we originally wanted such as people taking shots, laughing on the floor and dancing etc plus a lot more shots which are perfect and suit the 'Social Realism' genre perfectly!

Here is a photo of us preparing Dan's garage for the party.

We painted the UV paint on the actors as they arrived and used it to cover bed sheets with so that the windows were blocked and no light was let in. Dan's family had also saved up loads of beer bottles which we set up on a table so it looked as if we were having an actual party with alcohol. 

The photo of the room is how the room looked like after we had set up for the party with the lights on. When we turned the lights off and put the music on, we were so shocked at how well it had turned out! The video featured below is a video Dan filmed on his phone as proof of what our party looked like. None of the footage used in the clip will be used in the final production as it was filmed with an iPhone.

So that was our 'Party Scene' filming and overall, we have been extremely successful! We got all the shots we needed, all of the actors listened to us carefully and followed all of our instructions and everyone did very very well. We ended up filming over TWO HOURS of footage which we're going to go through every second of it and decide which shots are best for the montage and which shots we can cut. The preparation of it went well and we managed to get everything ready before the actors turned up. 

We'd also like to say thank you to anyone who donated a UV light to us or any bedsheets.. Wouldn't have turned out the way it did without you! 

Film Opening Coursework. Storyboard.

Here is my story board for our film opening.

I think it's safe to say I'm not a very good artist and have definitely struggled to draw the storyboard but everything makes perfect sense to myself and Dan so we're happy with it. 

The reason we have not drawn out every single shot in our 'Party Montage' is because we don't fully know what shots we're going to get. We've asked all of our actors to improvise but we have a few ideas in our heads as to what we want them to do e.g. have a shot, lie on the floor etc. These shots are typical of a party. We have no idea how the editing is going to come together in our party montage as we have no idea what shots and film we'll have to work with, we just have a few ideas in our heads which the actors can go off of and we'll see what we get! 

Again, I do apologise for the EXTREMELY poor quality of my drawings, you can clearly see i'm not an artist.