Filming & Editing

This week we have been going over the last parts of our coursework in order to have it all completed in two weeks time. This is the final copy of our teaser poster. Firstly, I feel that our tearer poster fits the generic conventions of a romantic comedy poster for a number of reasons. The white background is one of the most common factors, used in the films The Ugly Truth and Love Actually.The pink hearts dotted around the page have romantic connotations, linking back to the romantic part of the film. The colours used, black, blue and pink, also have typical connotations of romance, along with the colour red. The font of 'faith' in the title uses a lower case for the name Faith. This is also typical of romantic comedy films, films such as He's Just Not That Into You and Love Actually both use lower case fonts on their posters.
The two images show the couple when they're younger, and the boy is chasing the girl, and the other when they're older, and the girl is instead chasing the boy. This shows the theme and plot of our film.


Today we completed our filming. Today I filmed the scenes where our female lead is with her friends, and the clumsy boy walks past, drops his books, and they laugh at him. The lead female then hints to her friends that she likes him, and they shoot her down. During filming I found it hard to fit everything into the shot, because the girls were sitting down and our male character is tall, so I had to stand quite far back to allow it to all fit in. I had to think of how we could get the boy dropping his books to flow to the change of position when filming the girls talking about him.

We then filmed the scenes where the boy shows his clumsiness and how much he likes the girl. The first of these was a scene where he knocks over a cup of water on his desk, the second being one where he gets his bag caught on a door handle and the last being him walking through a door and letting it fall in one of the girls faces. We chose not to use the last one when editing as we felt it would make our teaser trailer too long as a whole. The problem with filming these scenes was that we wanted to avoid making them look too fake and staged, but because they were, we found it hard to overcome this. We then filmed a scene of our female lead, Mercedes walking through the corridor doors busy texting, and our male, Alex, is too busy looking at her as she walks past that he walks into the doors. We feel that this is particularly successful because it shows the type of relationship which the pair have.


We then began to edit our film. We uploaded the footage and cut and chose which scenes we wanted to use. We put small fade transitions between each of the scenes in order to make them flow better and to prevent one scene from jumping to another. We then added the captions, 'It had been years' 'He suffered unrequited love' 'But what goes around comes around'.


Over the next week we will be doing the sound track. For this we require a voice over, reading the captions which we have planned for Wednesday, and Tuesday we will be loading the song 'Cheer Up' by local artist Hands Shaped Like Hearts. We also gained permission to use Sam Craddocks song today through facebook.