Comments on our film product

we showed our finished product to a few people who where the target audiences. we collected feedback :

"Brilliant, couldnt stop laughing, i loved the bit where Ursula flicked her hair and how Katie was portrayed"
salimur 17

"i really liked the camera shots and how you used them to reflecton the characters. i like the choice of costume anc characters"
Giani 17

" i really like the acting, it looks very professional, which is what made is successfully funny!"
Soukina 18

Costumes

A simple grey cardigan and jeans is a good way of representing stereotypical popular males. We chose to use this costume as it suited our characters personality and it matched the role he was playing. The strapped bag also portrays him being confident. We choose a bright orange jumper to represents Katie the geek. We chose to use this costume for her as it highlights her lack of fashion. It also portrays her in being an outsider, in contrast to her sister Ursula. We also used the glasses to portray her geeky, this is stereotypical in order to make her stand out from others, also indicating to the audience she is unknown and unattractive. We found this as a good way to create her character.

Filming: Day 3

April 1^st 2011 – Me and Karima meet up after school at 4pm and went back to her house to carry on filming the other scenes. When we got there, we immediately changed into our costumes and characters. While I sat up the camera, Karima removed all props and objects that where in the way of where we were going to film. Today we decided to finish of the two toilet scenes and corridor scene. We set ourselves a time limit of 1 hour but as 45 minuets past we realised we will need more time as we had to approach many problems when shooting these scenes. Firstly, we were both starring in the corridor scene, and we never had a 3^rd person to help film us. The only way we could recover this situation was by pressing play to the camera and then going into place and start acting, when we finished the acting we had to do I would run to the camera and stop it in order to change the positioning of the camera. Although this was very time consuming and the footage didn’t turn out too go whilst it was on the camera tape I knew there was no need in worrying as all of that could be fixed when editing. We also faced another difficulty, because the corridor to the bathroom was extremely narrow we had such a hard time trying to get the tripod in the right position and get the camera shots straight. After approximately  1 hour and a half, We had completed filming every angle of the scene so it was time to film inside the bathroom; we only had a bit of  battery left so we kept on having to rush through to the camera and back pausing and rewinding scenes to see what needed to be taped again. This scene also took a lot of time to set up as we had to try and fit the tripod inside the bath and out of sight of the mirror; we had to do this because the mirror in her bathroom was covering most of the wall and we didn’t want to have the camera as a reflection in the film.  Luckily we got all the filming of the bathroom and bedroom scenes done, which meant we only had a few more scenes to shoot.

Filming: Day 2

March 25^th 2011 – We started filming the scenes inside the house (bedroom scene) in order to catch the perfect lighting for the appropriate time of our set scene. Before we did numerous exercises to try and get into character, being so close to each other we didn’t have so much of an issue trying to put on the typical sister act however we did have a problem not giggling and trying to stick to the script. After we finally got the hang of being able get into character without being stupid and joking about we started filming the bed scenes, we had to repeat this so many times in order for it to be the perfect opening of the film. In order to maintain a good angle shot we had to place the camera in the corner of the room so that we could get a perfect shot of the bed with her inside. Costumes were easy to get as we could use our own pyjamas and props were also at easy access as everything needed was already set. We filmed the scene from different angles so I was able to have different shots from different views in order to create and edit into my film. After a whole hour of filming we decided to check through the footage we had taped, we wind back the tape from the beginning and watched everything in detail making sure everything was up to standard and as I wanted. After watching the tape and being completely satisfied with the filming we packed the camera and tripod away ready to use for the next time we filmed.

By Duha El-souss

Editing Diary 3

After completing the editing sequence of the footage we had to edit in the credits and most important, music. I left Duha to do the credits and I started on the music; Garage band. This software was very useful. Because we couldn’t use any copy right music, we had to make our own. It would be difficult to learn how to use instruments from scratch, so garage band was the perfect software to let use create our own music easily. After experimenting with the software I started to make the music for the ‘getting ready for school’ scene. I used fast, hectic and clumsy music that represented Katie. When focused on Ursula the music was calm but bubbly. After creating that I moved onto the hair flick scene and used a Spanish styled instrument that sounds sound like a guitar. It also sounded sexy.  Mean while Duha focused on the credits and used the software “Live type”. She then edited the credits to a pink and comic styled colour. I then slotted everything in and made it look perfect. I made sure I included our production Logo at the beginning and the title of the film I created; at the end.

Editing Diary 2

After receiving the tape from Duha , i asked my teacher for a camera and USB wire so that i could capture the footage. I then rushed to edit, due to the lack of time. i started  of with the house scene and chose the appropriate shots. Becuase Duha filmed the house scene, i had to watch the shots carefully to find what i needed. i was happy with the edidted peice and started  to fix  all the blips and made sure it flowed. i then had to start putting in the music , so i started practising in my spare time.

Editing Diary

After the first day of filming i opend the mac and 'captured' the raw footage onto it. only half the footage (the school scene) was uploaded as the begining hasent been filmed yet. i started of by selecting then dragging the footage i needed in order of the film ; the classroom scene. i used watched all the shots we used and chose the best.  when i was about to drag the second part i made sure the begining was appropriate for continuity and all made sense. i carried on editing all the footage i had, fixing any odd blips and watching it over and over to make sure it works out.

By Abdounour Berrah