The Second Blooper!

Thursday 12th March 2009 (What We Did!)

Today was a big editing day for me; I needed to freeze the scene where Arnie gets hit by Hannah so we could introduce her to the audience via Edwardo's voice over. After about 10 minutes of trying and failing, I got some help from Rob the Computer Man, once he had done it for me and I had got the voice over in place the group watched it backed and we thought it was better then just having Hannah walk into the shot and having the audience think "who is that?"

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Whilst I was doing that Sarah found the music we needed from www.freeplaymusic.com she got two pieces of music. The first was a rock/popy song that will be used when Edwardo gets hit by the snowball and carries on into the main titles, its used to show the comedy nature of the film.

The second was a very dramatic song that will be used when Mrs Biggs walks round the corner of the corridor and sees what’s happening, it is then cut off and we see Arnie on the floor trying to be pulled up by one of his gang members, as the scenes cut the music comes back as Mrs Biggs shouts at Hannah. She gave the tracks to me and I put them in the right place of our film and they made our film sound/look incredibly funny.

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After that was done I started on the titles. I chose a font that was colourful and looked funny/ childish, I used a different colour on every title I wrote, I used red on "The Bully" title because that's how Edwardo sees him as an angry person. There was a problem with the timing of the titles I wanted them on for long enough so the audience could read them but not on for so long that it annoyed the audience, so I decided on two seconds. The titles arrive on the screen by flying in from the sides, and some so funny movements on the screen, the titles start after the main titles have appeared because the comic font we used would have looked out of place at the start of the film which has a depressed mood to it so I decided that we should keep the funny to after the snowball hit because that is the first time the audience get a clue that the film genre is comedy. After I had finished the titles I and the rest of the group watched it back and we all felt happy because our film was completed!!

The Updated Script (Scene Three, Four & Five)

Scene Three

Three girls are in a corridor next to a staircase talking, we then see Edwardo walking up the stairs alone, when he reaches the top of the stairs the three girls spot him and start to laugh.

Girl One

Oh my god, look at him! what a loser!

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Edwardo now standing in the corridor with them stops and looks at the girls, after about a second the closest girl to him throws an empty sweet wrapper at him

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Throwing Girl

loser! (hehehe)

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It hits Edwardo in the face, he quickly walks to the end of the corridor to get away, in the background we can hear

Girl Two

(hahaha) What a loser

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As he walks away Edwardo hears what she said and turns around

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V.O Edwardo

See, no one really likes me...

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Edwardo walks out of shot and we are left we the three girls still stood laughing and talking, but now they are talking about Edwardo.

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Scene Four

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Edwardo walks into what looks like an empty corridor from his point of view, but as he gets further into the corridor we see coming from another corridor a tall, strong looking boy walking towards Edwardo. the boy sees Edwardo, Edwardo sees him

Bully

Oh! Loser!

Edwardo panics, drops his and coat and runs off, the bully runs to where Edwardo dropped his coat and picks it up

Bully

Oh! Where you going?

He runs after Edwardo. the bully quickly catches up with him and stands to watch Edwardo who is still running try and escape

Bully

If you want your coat back, get here now!

Edwardo stops running, he turns and sheepishly walks back towards the bully who is stood holding his coat up in the air. when Edwardo is stood next to the bully, he suddenly grabs Edwardo by the neck

Bully

Give me your bag! NOW!

Edwardo screams, drops his bag and runs off.

The bully starts to laugh, he then puts Edwardo's coat and bends down to pick up his bag, he puts everything on looks and himself and with a smug look on his face

Bully

Very nice

He walks off in the opposite direction acting like nothing had happened.

Scene Five

Edwardo is stood in the corridor, he is upset and looking down he doesn't see the point in going to lesson since no one notices him or likes him, so he sees no point.

A group of lads walk out a class room talking to each other. Then they notice Edwardo stood on his own.

Bully 1: Oi! You owe me money.

Edwardo: That's funny, that's what your mum said last night.

Bully 1: You what!

Hannah appears out of nowhere and punches Edwardo's bully in the face. He falls to the ground. It Freezes mid-punch and Edwardo speaks,

V.O. Edwardo: That's Hannah, she's my best... well... only friend. And. I'm secretly in love with her.

Continues...

Hannah stands there laughing whiles the other bullies are checking to see if their mate is okay, suddenly the headteacher walks round the corner.

Mrs Bigg: Miss Smith, step away from Mr Bent, and get over here now!!!!

Mrs Bigg winks at Edwardo. Edwardo shivers as he is disturbed.

V.O. Edwardo: That’s my mom (pause) she is the head teacher of this hell hole. Don't ask about the hair, it just grows and grows and grows, then it all gone.

Update - Who Did What?

I am just going to tell you how everyone is contributing to our coursework so far...

Laura: Story board, Shooting schedule, Helped with script, Helped with shot list, acting (played stupid girl one), edited the film, filmed scene three, one and two.
Sarah: Shot List, acting (played stupid girl two, Hannah)
Matt: Script, Costume, Acting(played Edwardo) and helped edit, Made tiltes
Sam: Filmed scene three on camera two, threw sticks at matt during scene one, Acting (played Bully 1)

What we did today!

Today, I uploaded all the new scenes we shot last week onto the computer, and then put them into their right place in the movie and edited then edited it all together, the movie now lasts 2minutes 19 seconds. It's a bit over 2minutes but I think that the extended version is much better then what we originally had, it is much more funnier then it was a week and a half ago and it also includes every member of our group.

After i did that, me and the rest of the group went to recorded the voice over, we tried to stay to the original script as much as possible but due to all the changes which have been made, we had to get rid of some of the lines and add new ones as well. We did not use "You see i have a dark secret..." But we did added "You see nobody really likes me," and "I don't see the point in going to classes nobody ever listens to me anyway," and finally "Oh crap!"

Then I took them and added them over our film, they made our film very professional and now that we have almost finished the editing process, i am very pleased with the end result because it is funny and I hope people like it.

Bloopers and Extra Scenes!

Ok, now we have almost completed editing our film we have decided, for your entertainment to put some of bloopers and extra scenes up for you to watch.
Enjoy.

Thursday 5th March 09 (What We Did!)

On Wednesday 4th March we edited all of our film and found out that it only lasted 1 minute 28 seconds, so we decided to add 2 more scenes into the film. The scenes will be placed in between scene 2, where Edwardo walks up the school drive and scene three where he gets picked on during the day. We decided to put the scenes here because this way we can show the audience how he got to being in the hallway, what happened to his bag and jacket and it gave us more of a chance to create sympathy towards Edwardo. We see just how unpopular he really is at the school and I think that this is good for the rest of the movie, instead of the audience's reaction just being "aww," it will gain a much stronger reaction and hopefully add to the comedy, cause there can never be enough comedy.

We decided to show Edwardo's typical day at school how he gets picked. The new scene three is now Edwardo walking up some stairs and bumping into a group of girls chatting, (played by Cory, Adele and Kerry) they spot him and start to laugh and point at him. Scene Four, shows Edwardo walking through a corridor and having his bag and coat stolen by one of his normal bullies (played by Sam.) We used two cameras and also shot reverse shot in this scene because we hadn't already used it yet during our film. We have written the script and done a camera map for each of the scenes and it will be posted on the blog as soon as we have edited these into the film.

As we shot the end of scene three a man walked into our shot, before we started to re-shot we realised that you could hear him laughing at the situation, so we decided to keep it in, as it shows that not just the students at the school dislike him but also members of staff.

After that we moved to a different corridor to shot the new scene four, which involved Edwardo getting his bag and coat stolen by one of the school bullies (played by Sam.) We used the over the shoulder shot, as well as shot reverse shot in this scene, we used these because we wanted to show that we did know other types of shots instead of just long/wide/ mid shots. We used the shot reverse shot because I thought that if we kept using ordinary shots it would start to look quite boring so I decided that we needed a change. We thought that everything had gone well, until we watched the footage back and saw that in background of the last scene you could see me standing in the background, and also Sarah as well with the camera. We decided that it wasn't that noticeable unless you knew where to look so we kept it because Matt's laugh was very funny if we did it again we were worried that it would not be the same.