Typography

Within our title sequence we used two main fonts, one being 3D stickers that we had bought and manually stuck on the book to create the titles and one that had been added in the process of editing.We found the font in Hobby Craft and immediatley thought it would suit our title sequence perfectly as it connotes high school and particularly old school America. However after using 6 packets of these stickers we realised that it was inconvienient to keep having to go and buy more and therefore we found a very similar font on dafont called 'be true to your school' which we used for the titles of each character.

Logo

This is the school logo that we created for our made up high school that would feature in our title sequence. We chose the colours blue and red as they connote America(due to it being the colours of their flag) which is where our title sequence is set and they are also primary colours and schools often only use primary colours for their uniforms and logos.This is the logo we used on the front of our year book along with a photograph of a high school with welling school edited on to it.

Reshooting

Me Brittany and Jazmine chose to reshoot the Jock scene and the Geek scene( the geek scene being in the science lab and the jock scene being in the sports hall). We chose to do this as when watching these scenes on the macs they seemed to be shaky which made them come across as unfocused but also we needed to reshoot as we had added the stills of each year book photo physically in to our book after our feedback session and therefore the filming needed to be altered to fit in with this.When refilming it was crucial for us to make sure the camera was steady so we used the steady cam and i filmed it as we learnt that i had the steadiest hand out of the three of us. To support our steady filming,Brittany used the stabilisation tool on final cut to ensure that these scenes were as clear and as stable as possible.Reshooting made a huge improvement to our sequence and made it look a lot more professional.

Audience profile

The 'Geek' scene

We casted a male for the geek scene as me wanted to make sure there was no overlapping between the geek and the freak as they are completely different character roles. We set our scene in the science corridor in school as geeks in other high school films we have researched are usually found in the science lab revising chemistry,biology or physics. His costume reflected his character, he wore a chequered shirt, smart trousers that grazed his ankle and glasses with tape (which is a very cliche prop of a geek).We filmed him walking down the corridor and then a shot reverse shot of him walking in to the science lab. As he is the last person to look at the book he closes it and that is where our title sequence ends. Next to his designated page is the graduation page followed by the welling high logo. His page has stickers and badges that support his 'geek' characteristics such as a prefect badge and an A* which Brittany added during the editing stage and a 'success' sticker which we had bought and physically stuck in the book. This scene was successful and I believe conformed to the conventions of the stereotypical 'geek'.


 

The 'Freak' scene

We chose to set our freak scene in the school toilets as the stereotypical 'freak' in american society would not have a designated 'spot' in high school were they could relax, socialise or study due to not gaining acceptance from their peers. This gave us the idea to use the toilet as it is unhygienic and not somewhere anyone would want to hang out, but for our freak who doesn't care to be around their mainstream peers, this would be a perfect place to scour at the year book. When shooting this scene we used an establishing shot to introduce the setting and a birds eye shot when Jazmine(the freak) was opening the pages of the book. She opened the 'JBB productions' page, the 'Directed by B. Humphreys' page and her own 'Freak' page. Initially Brittany filmed the toilet scene inside the cubical and i was in charge of the lighting from outside however due to there being a level of shakiness and graininess when we looked on the computer i had to reshoot this several times using paper to cover the spotlight in the cubical and I used a steady cam to ensure the shot was still. Me and Jazmine played around with the two variables of light and camera angle until we was satisified with how the shot looked although looking back at the final cut there is still room for improvement however we did the best we could with the time restraints. We then filmed Jazmine walking out of the toilet area and throwing the book in the bin to which it fell on the floor and the narrative continues as The Jock picks it up off of the floor to read himself. Although there were some hiccups in this scene i really liked the mise-en-scene elements such as Jazmines make-up and costume which really conforms to the stereotype of her character. She kept her base makeup really pale whilst her eye makeup was very dark and smokey as was her bold black lip. This contrast between the pale foundation and the dark eye and lip make up was very effective in making her look freakishly looking and definitely not the norm. With her costume we kept it to all black as it supported the nature of her character, being quite dark and mysterious. Her hair is very dark which also nicely contrasted with her pale face and tied in with the dark eye make-up. Below are the stills from the freaks year book photos and the toilet setting.

Roles within the group

Me- Director
Brittany-Editor
Jazmine- Cinematography 

These were our original set roles that we all agreed to however there was a lot of interchanging between roles throughout the process as we all benefitted from eachothers help.I found myself helping quite a lot with cinematography as a filmed the freak scene where Jazmine was the actor and therefore wasnt able to film as well as the Jocks videos and year book photo and the Jock opening the book in the basketball court. Brittany also helped with cinematography throughout and Jazmine took on edititing responsibilities towards the end of the process,putting in some finishing touches whilst i sat with her and directed her in terms of certain editing style choices: fonts, colours, animations. This worked out really well as the finishing touches were what made our title sequence polished and concluded the project.