Group planning- photographs

Throughout the process of creating our film opening, we took photos.

storyboard evaluation

Our storyboard works well because we include details of what we want to happen in each shot and the angles. However, the timings on the storyboard mean that the video will overrun past our time limit. we later reconsidered timings so that our storyboard was the correct length.

The first page of our storyboard works well because we include details of what we want to include and we have also included the transitions that we want to use. However, we have not included all of the information that we could have as we have not included all of the camera angles we used. We decided to remove the part where the letter was posted through the letter box and then Charlotte put the letter in the bin. We felt that this was not a crucial part to the story and since we needed to remove some shots we decided to remove this one. 

This page of our storyboard is better because it includes much more detail and some of the various shots that we are hoping to include. We have also included the transitions that we hoped to use so that it would make the editing process easier. But, we did not have on box for each individual shot/camera angle and so some of them are grouped together. This makes the storyboard a little bit confusing. We also removed the shot where we see the suffragette painting the poster as we felt that it was not vital to the story. We therefore also did not include the transition where the camera tracks into the poster and then tracks out in the next shot. We tried to incorporate this in a separate part of the opening but found that this was too difficult to do without a tripod with wheels. We also decided to have the suffragette sit on a chair with the baby instead of walk through the house. We did this because we thought of a creative way to film this and felt that it would make the opening more interesting. 



The final page of our storyboard is good because it includes detailed descriptions of what we will have in each shot as well as various camera angles we will include. However, like before, we did not put each camera angle/shot in a box on its own which made the storyboard more difficult to read. We also did not include the shot where the suffragette was doing the washing up. We thought it would be better to include a more historical looking object and so had her cleaning a clock instead. We also showed the woman from 2016 looking in boxes in the loft rather than climbing the ladder.



Because of them First Draft- Group self evaluation

what we believed went well as a group.
All footage flowed well.
Footage was in correct order

What we believed should be improved
Fix the volume of the sound and music.

Add foley to the shots where there is speech because it is currently difficult to hear what is being said.
Move the titles from the centre of the screen to around the edge. Make sure that they are all visible. 
 Change the place of the film title. Move it from the start of the opening to further along- after some of the other titles.
We will remove the dissolve transitions.

We will remove the train station shot as our teacher said that it was not necessary to the opening and did not make sense with the rest of the parallels.  

First Draft Evaluation

In this blog post we are writing up the feedback on are first draft of "Because of them".

What was good about our film:

• They was a good range of shots.
• A lot of transitions where good.
• Good shots from the bottom of the stairs.
• A lot of people thought the locations where good.
• Another good aspect was the different editing effects.
• They was also good costumes.

what people found confusing:

• Some people said the scenes jumped .
• One person didn't understand the storyline.
• Someone said it was boring.
• A lot commented on how loud the sound was.
• One person said there was too much enigma.
• Some people mentioned that the titles where in the wrong place.

 How we could improve our film opening:

• The titles needed to be a different colour.
• The sound needs to be louder
• Maybe some speech to make the storyline clearer.
• The titles need to be re-ordered.
• Maybe a suffergate voiceover to make the genre clearer.
• lighting and colouring could have been adjusted.