BFI

On Thursday 2nd December our Media class visited the BFI for a conference. The people talking included Daniel Kleinman, who talked to us about his work on the James Bond title sequences and some of his adverts, and Colin Goudie, who edited the recent movie Monsters. Also there to talk to us was Pete Fraser, the senior examiner for Media A Level, who showed us a few different levels of AS project and showed us a few useful websites, including his own blog for media and a website called Art of the Title Sequence, which has lots of film introductions on  it and is a very useful source for research about a particular genre of title sequence. One of the sequences he showed us was for Catch Me If You Can:

Obviously, this isn't technology we would easily be able to get hold of, but it's interesting to see. The day was very useful and informative, especially Pete's bit, as it showed us what could go wrong with our movies and how easy it is to overlook important things such as good titles and soundtrack.

Update

When I can embed videos again, you will be able to see our thought process behind our video so far on our day of filming. We have now realised, however, that although there's a lot still to do with the editing, we can't really get the higher marks unless we re-film some things. We'll hopefully be able to do this in the holidays, as we have our own equipment that we can use while the year 13s have the school's. This will definitely be worth it, as we can't really progress with our editing until we do it. We're also planning to spend a lesson experimenting with garageband, as we're not sure whether our music is copyrighted or not, and we don't have a way of finding out. We're also going to think a bit more carefully about our titles, as at the BFI on Friday many of the speakers stressed the importance of sound and titles, two things that are usually neglected when people make their AS films. Hopefully all these changes will ensure we get the highest grades we can and make the best film opening we can.

Our day of filming

This is all our flip footage from our day of filming.