Making of my teen angst film

My group finished filming, as we had parts that we needed to film at school which me and Tom filmed. We did a load of short pieces of filming that can be put together to form our opening scene. Including when the main character Grace meets Charlotte in the school car park which we filmed a few times in order to get it from different angles to offer some diversity. For example, we used a pan shot to show them walking through the school front doors, then a long shot from inside the school of the same thing. We also filmed a group of students walking into a classroom, shortly followed by Grace and Charlotte who are still getting things out of Grace's locker. This again is showing the audience that Grace takes after her wealthy parents and believes she is better than everyone, therefore not really caring that she is late. We also filmed a pan shot of the whole class after Grace and Charlotte and entered, showing all the different social groups in that class, which is something the audience can relate to.

On Friday we started editing the footage we had filmed. As we only had an hour in the lesson, we transferred all the film from the camera's onto the mac and we started watching all the bits we had filmed. We spent the lesson choosing which shots we were going to use and deleting the ones we weren't. We also started arranging the shots so they are more in the correct order, but as the lesson was only an hour long that's all we had time to do.

We have now finished putting all of the shots in the correct order as well as cutting them all to make all the film as short as possible. We have also added the music i discussed in a earlier post ('Cut and Dry') and sound effects. We added the sound of an alarm clock at the beginning when the girls wake up as well as a song throughout the title sequence and opening scene as it sets a positive mood and this is common in teen angst films. We have made it so the volume of the song is reduced in the opening scene so that voice overs can be heard more clearly - however the music will still be playing in the background.We have split the screen in the title sequence so the audience can see both Grace and Charlotte getting ready in the morning - we got this idea from another teen angst film called Bratz.
We saw that they used a split screen to represent their main characters and we decided it would be a good way to introduce our main characters. It was also helpful for us as we have far too much footage and so by using a split-screen we can show both main characters getting ready at the same time. We are now in the process of adding in the movie title as well as all the credits, then we will add in the production company logo and the voice over before making finishing touches.