Filming our opening sequence take 1.

On Saturday 20th February we went up to London Southbank at 5am and began to film our opening sequence. We needed to go into london at this time in order to have the adequate lighting which was vital when filming as it was part of the narrative. After setting up the tripod and camera we managed to film some footage, however when the SouthBank began to get busy we realised it was difficult to film as there was people passing buy in the back of the shot. We needed to be in a location where there were not many people present as it would effect the narrative and we wouldn't be able to film the footage we needed. When it got to about 8.30 we were stopped from filming by the Southbank security as we did not have permission to film, this posed many problems as we were unaware that we needed to get permission and it slowed down the whole process. It was also very cold, and as we'd been out for many hours we began to get aggitated however we waited till the person we needed to speak to arrived at the media office on the southbank to get permission. As we were not granted permission to film we have to go back on thursday and saturday again at 5am. After leaving the media offices we decided to take the stop motion pictures of our character eating his sandwhich, this was quite a lengthy task and took alot of patience. Once we stopped filming and taking pictures we looked back upon the footage and realised many problems with what we'd taken, for example the lighting was vastly different in the different shots and somehow didn't match. The stop motion pictures didn't run as smoothly as we'd hoped. The sun light had changed dramticcal yby getting darker towards the end this was certainly the effect we didn't want as it was most likely going to confuse our audience. Below is the first picture we took and the last. the light difference is evident.


From this day we know exactly what we need to do in order to get the footage we need and we are all much more focused now. We also forgot to get the black bow tie for our main character Ibby, so we decided to never use the bow tie.

Behind the scenes:

Stop Motion Experiment

As a group we decided to experiment further with stop motion, to include it into our opening sequence. We decided to go to Marwa's house and spent the afternoon taking pictures of eachother. When we were done we converted the pictures onto imovie, however realised that each photo was 5 seconds long and therefore had to be cut down a large amount. We made each photo 0.03 seconds long, the process was very long because each photo had to be manually cut down, which was very time consuming, however was worth it, as we are very happy with our final product. After watching it a few pictures jumped to the other which has made us aware that for our opening sequence we need to make each movement only have a very small difference to the movement done before. We also made it black and white to give it a certain edge, as the lighting in each photo was quite dark, therefore this effect compliments each photo well. The quality of the photos has been drastically lowered, as we exported the file from imovie to quicktime. We realise that this is a problem and will hopefully use a better software to upload our opening sequence onto.