Monday 19th October: We went out filming our shots in the chosen locations, however we were unable to shoot our first scene on the 0bus as we had no time and decided to do it during next lesson. We got back to class and uploaded our film to the Mac.

We change scene 5.

Wednesday 21st October: We shot our scene on the bus. We got the bus from the college stop and filmed on our way to the hospital stop. While three out of four of us were filming, one of us was in the class room practicing making music for the opening sequence.

Thursday 22nd October: Today we filmed an extra two scenes as we realised our sequence was not long enough. We shot both scenes outside.

We did realise that one of the shots we could see the camera in the reflection.

Monday 2nd November: Two of us focused on the editing on Final Cut and the titles on Photoshop. For the titles we looked on websites for a scribbly handwriting type font, and finally chose KidsTypeFont. The other two in the group progressed on with the music, increasing the length and adding in more instrumental sounds.

We then had out teacher watch what we had so far and gave us feed back.

Wednesday 4th November: After getting out feedback front our teacher on the Monday, we then used it to improve our sequence. We cut the lengths of some of our shots and zooming into the main character's face.

We then started adding our titles into the sequence by saving them from Photoshop into our folder and opening then onto Final Cut.

We also made our soundtrack for the sequence longer to fit the whole of the sequence.

Thursday 5th November: We added extra tricks to how we have our titles on screen, and sorted out the background music.

Titles: Tom made two of our titles look like they are coming out of automatic doors by using the 'swiping' font technique to make the font appear and disappear when the doors are opening and closing. This makes the titles in this shot stand out to add atmosphere to the scene.

Plan- 12th of October 2009

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Name Of The Film:
Albert And The Magic Lunchbox

Genre:
Comedy, Fantasy

Plot:
Lonely child who is seen as a 'geek' by all in his sixth form college. He has never had a girlfriend, never even had a conversation with one. He has only ever had one friend, at the start of secondary school who left the country a year later. Ever since year 8, Alfred has been known as the 'lonely geek' in his classes. The film opens with Alfred getting on his school bus on a bright Monday morning to get bullied and pushed around whilst he is trying to find an empty seat.
- Finds something (Cool/popular guy's magic lunchbox)
- Cool guy helps Alfred out, to become cool
- He finally becomes happy.

Characters:
Albert- Will Hall

Cool Guy- Tom Edwads

Bullies- Jez Eden and Rebecca Chivers

Props:
Bus, Paper, Sandwich, milkshake, lunch box- lunch

Costumes:
Albert- white shirt, tie, hat, glasses

location: bus, class room, cafe, toilet, long road.

Analysis Of Film Opening- This Is England

When watching the opening sequence of This Is England we straightaway realised the era and location of which the film is set. We acknowledge the fact the film is set in England, not only because of the name of the film, but we see many patriotic happenings that accured in England. We acknowledge the fact that the film is set in the 80's as the happening also all accured in that era.

We noticed many certain occasions and social habits of which we associate with England such as the riots, polital occasions, youngsters way of dancing and the music that they danced to, the culture of original England and the multiculturalism. We felt that perhaps these clips of filming could show the viewer an insight as to the personality of the characters in the film. For example we see hooligans within the riots, and a few clips of which consist of skinheads. We also saw a lot of pride, e.g a perade with the British flag flying. There were also a couple of clips showing racism, which is a main part of the film. The clips within the opening sequence and that we had mentioned above give us an idea of what is to happen in the film.

The music that plays over the opening sequence is by Toots and The Maytals, a ska band. For people who are knowledgeable of skinhead culture and habits, will know that it was mainly ska music of which they listened/listen to. We think this gives the right feel to the sequence and gives us an idea of what the film could consist of.