Preparation for final images

We then began working on the heart shapes that will also be seen in this section of the film.
We drew the hearts ourselves with a permanent marker (we used black so it would be easy to edit). We then photographed our drawings and edited them on photoshop.
The black heart is an unedited drawing, the pink heart has been edited on photoshop. We drew the hearts by hand because we wanted them to be a realistic shape, the colour however we made to look obviously computer enhanced as this complys to the typical conventions of the teenage romcom genre. We used the colour pink as it has girly and romantic connotations.

Preparation for final images

We have started to prepare the individual layers for our final film.

The first image we created was the lips. This image is used when the film pans to the section of the diary about the "hot" boy at the lead characters high school. We got a friend to apply red lipstick and then kiss a piece of paper, we then took a photograph and edited on photoshop.
This was our original photo:And these were the lips finished after editing:

Photographs for final film

Today we took some photos in preparation for our final film.

We needed a polaroid of our lead female character so we took a photo in a polaroid style and then edited it with a polaroid frame.

This was our finished photograph:
We have made our character follow typical conventions through the use of costume and setting. The picture is taken in the library, not to suggest our character is a geek, but to indicate that she doesn't hang around in the "popular" places in college. She is also wearing non-revealing unique clothing. The audience can see that she is a pretty character and that there is potential in the film for her to develop into a more "fanciable" character.

We then took some pictures of our lead "plastic".
These are the photos before we edited them for the diary:These are the photos after editing:

We have made our character follow typical conventions through the use of costume and make-up. The character has long blonde hair, typical of the lead popular character in the teen romcom genre. She is also wearing red lipstick, this represents her confidence and shows how the character sees herself as more grown up than the others. She is also wearing high heels and a short skirt; both highlighting her confidence in the way she looks.

Character Profile: Female Lead

Name: Cany Olsen

Age: 16

Hobbies: Playing the guitar, Writing songs, singing, Hockey, Parties, Drawing.
(we chose these particular hobbies as they present the creative side of our lead character but also contradict the typical 'nerd' image which we want to avoid)

School Subjects: Art, classics, English literature and psychology

Pets: 1 cat (millie)

Friends: Best friend- Max (childhood friend)
(this is often typical of this genre eg. Juno where the lead has a male best friend. We chose for this character to be male because it represents how she doesn't aspire to impress guys, but is comfortable being their friend)

Music: Jason Mraz, Regina Spektor, Kate Nash

Aspirations: To become a journalist

We created a character profile for this character as it will help us to determine the types of images to include in her diary and will add more depth to her character.

Story board

As our sequence includes a lot of panning and zooms, it was difficult to replicate the exact sequence in our story board, there fore we just took stills of sections of our diary, and tried to indicate which way the camera would be panning.

Titles

Whilst we were drawing our storyboard, we began to think about the credits we would need to include in our titles. We listed a group of the most commonly used ones which we found by watching other teenage romantic comedy opeining sequences. We will include:

• Company name: eg. ____ Presents
• A film by _____
• Actors (Main characters)
• The film name
• Rest of actors
• Casting by _____
• Music by _____
• Costumes designed by _____
• Edited by _____
• Production designed by _____
• Director of photography _____
• Co Producers _____
• Co executive producers _____
• Executive producers _____
• Written by _____
• Produced by _____
• Directed by _____

This will help us to time our title sequence effectively and will help us to prioritise the order which the names will appear. This will make our editing overall easier.