19/1

Today in class we didn't have anything else to do to our film until we got the music from Amelia who was working on re-composing her work. So after watching through our film, we checked on Amelia. Because she needed some time before she could finish the first section, we looked for Robin Hood songs on youtube that we could use for our credits. After a long time, we decided on two songs, one had a really good and classic Robin Hood feel, and the other was also funny as it was from the Disney Robin Hood animation. We ended up chosing the classic one. It was really funny watching videos of things that reminded us of cartoons we used to watch.

Then we checked on Amelia again and she had The first section (A) ready. This piece was just over 35 seconds so it was easy to place into our film. We just placed it at the begining of the scene and cut a small bit off the music which was silent anyways. After this we just continued to download the music we wantd for our credits. We then timed our credits and then cut the music to the amount we wanted. We found we wanted to include a few seconds more of music, so we cut at the place we wanted and added a small message to the audience to our credits. To add affect, we also faded it out a bit at the end.

Then we checked on Amelia again and found she had the next section (B). We downloaded it onto our own computer, the music was a little short, but we left it as it was still okay and there wasn't much we could do about it. Me and Rachel went back to see how Amelia was doing for section C, and realised she had nothing, unlike what we thought she had some re-composed. So we waited for about 10 minutes before she was done.

When me and Rachel came back, Tiara was finshing up some form of title for our film. We then downloaded it onto the computer as well and foud that there was a small problem with the music as the gong at the end was just after 35 seconds. So we decided to just let the gong continue into the last scne as it provided some form of transition. After giving Amelia back her USB, we saved the final copy of our film and exported it. Also our friend Marisa came to visit us and watched our film and liked it.

We were really glad today when we finally finished our film and were really happy that we created a really good film in just one week. So we were really happy when the pressure was relieved. Today I think I was balanced and reflective today.

18/1 - After School Editting

Today I stayed back with Tiara to do the last bit of editting. Tiara had already re-arranged all the needed clips. We had to cut out unnessary sections at the begining and endings of each cut to make it all fit into 35 seconds. We got our friend, Clare, who was staying after school to watch our film and see if she understood it, as our last film was confuesing as everything was fairly choppy. After watching it, she said she understood and we tested her, but there was the small matter of not knowing what Tiara stole, but it was a fairly minor detail compared to the whole storyline, and the same with Ms. Wong. So after the positive feedback me and Tiara quickly did up the credits before we had to leave.

Today I was a thinker, open-minded, and communicator.

17/1

Today we uploaded our cuts onto the computer. We started to watch our cuts and this took a long time as the cuts were a bit spread out on the tape as we were afraid we'd tape over something when filming (we had roughly 40 minutes of footage). We were quite relieved that we had finished filming so we enjoyed watching our acting, especially when we messed up during the filming or said something funny behind the camera.

Today our music director Amelia had a stroke of bad as her faulty computer crashed and she lost all her work, which consisted of complete sections A and B, as well as 40% of C. So unfortunately something has to worked out for her side of the project, and unfortunately we had to continue editing, assuming each section was 35 seconds long. Tiara stayed after school today so now all we have left to do is cut down footage so each section is only 35 seconds long.

I think today I was thinker, communicator and balanced.

15/1 - After School Filming

Today we filmed the last scene that we forgot to film the day before. Our luck continued with us as we continued to get the same good lighting. The filming itself didn't take long, but me and Tiara argued a bit about the type of angles we wanted and how it would flow. Afterwards we came to a sort of compromise about this. We did a straight on shot of her and also we tried to get a high angle and tracking shot (not bird's eye view). So today I had to climb up a tree and sit in it as Tiara passed me the camera. We chose a location where I would be safe and that I would be fairly steady, so not to drop the camera we had a location where I could hug a extremely sturdy branch.

Today I was a thinker, communicator and risk-taker.

14/1 - After School Filming

Today we continued to film the other scenes in the film. During school, we borrowed a jacket and policeman cap for Rachel's police(man) costume, and Tiara printed out (Robin Hood) wanted posters. After school we headed to Tiara's place, but when we got to the filming location, we realised that we had left the tape at school. So Rachel ran back to school and got the tape while we set up the equipment we had and scouted for locations for the rest of the scenes.

When Rachel came back, we filmed the remainder of one of the scenes, as a part we added in to help the film's storyline flow better. The light was the same type as we had the day before. After that we filmed the scene where Yasmine's character reports Tiara to a police (Rachel) and Tiara is now being chased down. This required us to stick up the posters. I filmed the scenes with Tiara and Rachel in them.

Afterwards we ran out of time and thought we were done, but on the way back to Tiara's place where we had stored the rest of our things, we realised that we forgot the fourth scene. As only Tiara is in this scene, I offered to come and film the next day as with our busy schedules, that would be best.

Today I think I was a thinker, communicator, open-minded and balanced.

13/1 - After School Filming

Today my whole group headed to Tiara's place to start filming. As Amelia hadn't finished composing the music, we had to guess the duration of each scene. So following Amelia's instructions we tried to get roughly 35 seconds worth of footage per scene.

With Tiara's help, we quickly scouted out a location for our scene. Rachel filmed me and Tiara and we created ideas for shots along the way. At the time it was a sunset so there was really good light that we really liked. We then started to film Yasmine's scene on the bridge that goes across a pond in the garden. During this we realised that the camera was on the wrong setting (camera) so we had to refilm the scenes, also we had to wait for the lighting to be just right again as it came and went. We then did the last scene with me and Tiara, and left the last two scenes 'till tommorow film session as we were running out of time.

I think today I was thinker, communicator, open-minded and balanced.

11/1

Today we presented our film presentations. We only managed to get a few presentations in today but I still learnt a lot about Zhang YiMou's different styles. I found that another film also had split styles in the duration of the movie like our had, but this was mainly ro show the time period rather than emphesis on the location. Some of Zhang YiMou's styles were: black and white, grimy, and clear and sharp saturated colours.


Me and Tiara had trouble with our presentation as we had finished everything, but we had saved our powerpoint as a 2007-10 version as we didn't know that Ms Wong's laptop had powerpoint 2003. So we had trouble finding the best way to present our power point that messed up our slides the least and thought to use google docs, but it didn't load our file. So we settled on the old version of power oint and had to apologise to the audience and continue the best we could.


Today I was a thinker and communicator.

Analysis of Zhang Yi Mou-s Film