Re-Shot Opening Credits

Due to comments on our rough cut edition of 'Science Boys' opening, we decided to re-shoot our opening credits. Previously we used a book with our credits written in by hand and flicked through the pages. However, it was a little bit boring and slow. Although we were inspired to film the credits like that because of the film 'Napoleon Dynamite' and they do suite the conventions of our genre, me and Kirsty both agreed we could make them more interesting. Therefore, we re-shot them on Friday (24th) by printing out our credits using the same font we used for the 'Science Boys' title and then stuck them on different locations around the school. We did this my shooting Helen and Kirsty running up with hoods on and sticking the credits on to things like lockers, drinks machines, chalk boards and even people (me!). It looks more interesting, has a faster pace and is quite funny too. Hopefully, when we edit them onto the beginning of what we have already done it will look very effective.

Rough Cut!

Our 'Science Boys' rough cut is finally here. There will be music on the opening credits and voiceovers when we are showing each character which we have not yet put in as this is just the rough cut (so when wathcing it, you don't require sound!) We are really glad that we re-shot our footage as what we now have is so much better, more diverse and more interesting. Obviously, this is just our rough cut so there are some changes that need to be made. What I am really proud of though is that what we have created actually looks like the opening sequence of film.

NOTE TO SIR: should we include freeze-frames of each character with their character name printed on like we saw in 'Trainspotting' or will this look cheesy?

Review of New Footage....So Far So Good

Yesterday, me and Kirsty got to see our new footage on the computer. I'm very pleased with the shot of the four boys walking down the corridor as they begin in darkness and then walk into the light so we can use it as part of our 'spoof' idea. We looked at the two possible endings that we shot: the first of the dopey character Daniel walking into the camera, the second of the character Ashley covering it with his hand. We both preferred the second as it gave us a totally black screen which we were then going to place the text 'Science Boys' over. The short collection of shots we got of each character individually look good and we have a range of camera angles in there too which we needed. My favourite has to be the one of Ashley checking himself out in the mirror as it is very comical especially when he picks up his science textbook at the end (look out for that one!)


Next week editing finally begins....