Editing of Denton Moor shots

Editing of the Moorland shots
When editing the Denton and Ilkley Moor shoots I had to cut out any sections containing litter, road or anything man made for example houses, wind farms and bikes. All except the final shot of the house which would denote that the girl lives there, as if there had been more shots of isolated houses it would be less obvious that we had intended for her to live in the final house. 

Litter on the fence so  cut this out

 I decided not to cut into the middle of any shots but only crop the end and beginnings of shots as not to create jolted messy cuts. As many of the shots were panning shots I needed to make sure that all were smooth and of equal speed. Therefore I had to crop some shots due to their jolty movements. As well as these, all shots that were shaky or out of focus also needed to be deleted.

Had to edit out due to car

Large man made wind farms ect ruin the natural view so I cut this

This was the re take of the shot above

I had to re shoot this due to  the road running the shot

Road and cars so I had to cut this out

I had to re shoot this shot as a wire was in the way 

SHOOT 1 -Outside Scenes, reflecting, planning

Shoot 1 Planning 

What we wanted
We wanted a range of panning shots across vast Moorland and picturesque 
natural scenery, which would end in a final shot of an isolated house meant to be 
belonging to the main protagonist female character. 
How it went
The shoot went very well due to the lovely weather. As the sky was a main

 focus point in the shoot it was essential that it be clear and free of

 rain. The sun breaking through the clouds added a more interesting

 angle to the shoot which I particularly liked. My mum and Dad drove me 

up to Denton Moor where I shoot as many landscapes as possible

The sun shining through the clouds

Problems

There were limited problems. The only thing that took away from the 
scenery was anything man made for example wind farms in the 
distance which I had to try and avoid filming. Cars and bikes were 

another problem as well as litter, however there were very little of 
both of these so it was easy enough to miss and cut out of shot. 

Cars and road spoiled the shot

Organisation

Me and ben had previously taken some shots on Ilkley Moor so I knew 
exactly how i wanted to frame the shoots, containing mostly sky with 
the land coming 1/3 of the way up from the bottom of the shot. This

made the shoot a lot easier. I had also done a story board to plan with.
I had researched what the weather conditions would be like to plan 
the best day for the shoot as well as organising myself to be taken up in the

morning as I knew that would be the best time to get sky shots as the
 sun would be rising.

I  liked the way A history of Scotland's title shot was framed as the sky takes

Submarines Opening shots also feature a lot of the sky in the framing 

In ours I have also made the sky take up the majority of the frame

Planning

Me and ben had previously taken some shots on Ilkley Moor so I knew exactly how I wanted to frame the shots, containing mostly sky with the land coming 1/3 of the way up from the bottom of the shot. 

These are the previous practice shots taken on the Moors

This made the shoot a lot easier. I had also done a story board to plan with. 

SHOOT 1 FILM INFLUENCES : Psyco, This is England, Kids

How we were influenced by Psycho
The Denton Moorland shots were inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho. As he cleverly and clearly sets the scene and location of the film by panning across a city, denoting that the characters are from the city (most likely they are working men and woman so work in businesses) and that this is one of the main locations for the film, it also acts as an establishing shot. 
What we did
We have done this by panning across Yorkshire moorland denoting that one of our films central locations will be in rural Yorkshire whilst also suggesting that the characters are slightly unusual as well as when we are introduced to the main protagonist she is young. Also even though Hitchcock shows a variety of buildings in the opening shots he finally zooms into one window denoting that this is where the central protagonist must live. From this I realised that if we included more that one building or house that is wouldn't be clear that this would be the protagonists house and we would have to zoom into or use another shot type to denote this. So I made sure that this was the only building within the opening shots and edited out any others.   

What the location indicates about our central protagonist 

Many people relate rural Yorkshire to an older generation so would therefore expect the main protagonist to be older around 30-60 instead of 16 years old. As we would expect a more urban location like a city, (street corners) for a younger protagonist this already hints that are central protagonist is unusual and not fitting of the youthful teen stereo type. Like in This is England youths are seen in city areas hanging around on street corners, this is a massive contrast to our setting and character. Another example would be the film Kids where the teenagers (same age as our central protagonist) spend the majority of the film hanging around Manhattan street corners, parks and state parks. 

Kids 1995 (Larry Clark)

SOUNDTRACK SHOOT 1 AND 3: style acoustic guitar example

Music: Possible Soundtrack Style

This is the style of music we want to achieve in our film opening.

We will get Conor Griffiths to create this for us with our direction. We would like the style of music to be played by an acoustic guitar much like in the film Submarine (which I have analysed earlier in my blog) this style will therefore denote the romantic aspect of the genre like it does in Submarine. Another example would be from Pride and Predudice where the romantic genre is shown through the piano solo and this is what we are wanting to recreate through our guitar piece.