Individual Blog - Jamila (:

Our film opening sequence will be filmed over a course of two lessons then edited in one. Our plan is to film the first page of our storyboard in the first lesson then the second page of the storyboard in the second lesson. Hopefully this will give us enough time to get enough footage and also get a good amount of shots so that in the editing process we can pick and choose which footage will look best in our film.
Graeme is the main character 1, acting as a student who gets hurt on his ride home from college and ends up with a magical book in his bag from a witch/mystery person. Charlotte is the person who is playing the character 2 witch/mystery person. Tom and I will probably doing the majority of the filming as neither of us are acting in the actual film, and then the whole group will help with the editing in the lesson. We decided that Graeme did not really need to bring in a specific costume, as he was playing a student who wears normal everyday clothes anyway, so our idea was to have him wearing casual clothes such as jeans and a hoodie. Charlotte however needed a certain costume, and as she was a mysterious/witchy character, so she needed a long black hooded cloak which would cover her up completely. Tom was responsible for bring this costume in, as he owned it. We are using many props in order to make our film opening sequence more realistic. For example Graeme (character 1) needs a bike so he is going to bring that in to use, and also he is using his school bag. Another prop is a magical book, which we are going to simply use a standard notepad and decorate it to look more 'magical'.
We will be filming mainly in the forest area of the Long Road campus, and if we ask permission from the college to film, hopefully there will be no problems with shooting our footage there. Also we are filming a small part in a classroom, so if we ask permission on the day to shoot in the room for a few minutes that should be fine.