The Process of Editing

When editing our piece we found it hard to edit down to the finer details, for example when having to slow down sections of the film where we shows titles in order for the audience to see them. Making sure our cuts were smooth was also a challenge, such as the scene between Gordon and the secretary as we wanted to make sure the shot, reverse shot was smooth and clear. Overall it was fun editing our piece especially when we added music and the studiocanal logo at the beginning because it made it more professional and seem real.

Filming and Editing in Process

We've now started to edit our opening titles with the programme 'Final Cut' on Louise's MacBook laptop (screenshot). Everything seems to becoming together nicely and we now just have to add some music and a logo, such as Universal or Warner.Bros into the beginning and get Sam who plays Gordon Twiginam to narrate over the top of the primary school scenes.

Filming the opening titles

We are going to start filming our opening titles this term, however with a few complications and interuptions it might take slightly longer to accomplish but we should still manage to hit the deadlines.

Point 25 - Risk Assessment

 

Here is the risk assessment for when we film the opening titles of our film.

Point 27 - Props & Costumes

These are all the props and costumes we will be using for the opening titles:

PEN & PAPER

 RUGBY BALL

 COSTUME FOR THE SECRETARY

 UMBERELLAS

 COSTUME FOR THE YOUNG SCHOOL CHILDREN
AND THE YOUNG GIRL AND YOUNG GORDON

COSTUME FOR GORDON TWIGINAM

BRIEFCASE FOR GORDON TWIGINAM

Point 26 - Casting shots

Gordon Twiginam (Samuel Reid)

We've chosen this person as he takes A-Level Theatre Studies and so can act well and will be able to play the dorky character of Gordon Twiginam.

The Primary School Kids (Year 9 boys & girls)

We've chosen a group of year 9 boys and girls as these are the closest age to young primary school children.

Younger Gordon (Will Brockway)

This boy takes GCSE Drama and has a very bubbly personality and so loves to act and will be able to play this part well.

The Young Girl  (Iona Simpson)

This girl has the characteristics of being very friendly so any boy would have a 'crush' on her and she is very innocent also.

The Secretary (Louisa Robertson)

This girl is very organised and polite and so would be ideal to play the role of a secretary.

Point 24 - Locations

Aberlour Playing Fields

The reason for choosing this location is because it's a big playing field with lots of room for the children to play around in and really act as if they are in their school playground playing.

The road from Chapel to G-House

This road is perfect for the character of Gordon to walk down because it's a long road and so we can use this to our advantage to have a long clip of him walking down trying to impress everyone while they look down at him and laugh.  It is also the actual road leading to G-House and it can mimick the idea of a busy road in New York city.

Outside G-House (Zebra Crossing)

With the zebra crossing right outside G-House building we thought this was an ideal place for Gordon to fall flat on his face as a zebra crossing can represent a busy street and people will be walking by when he falls as this is the location everybody uses when walking across a busy road.

Inside G-House (Reception area, CB Staircase and Mrs Hawksley's Office)

G-House has the perfect staircase that we need in order to represent an office and the office in G-House looks rather like an office that a secretary would use in our film before you walk into the 'main' office (Mr Barton's).