MAJOR PRODUCTION; CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS

The research that I have undertaken upon what a producer does during filming, illustrated how producers should have a hand in the marketing of the film. With our project, it was agreed in the pre-production stage that Katie, our editor, would handle most of the marketing for the film through the posters and social networking sites. This was great because it meant that our advertising was really visual, with lots of posters and teasers that she created. I had the idea, just to add to the advertising that Katie had already done, to create some posts that derive from our character profiles. I thought it would be good to tease the audience more about the characters in order to generate more interest around the film.                        

Marlo: Marlo is a young and intelligent young man. He has everything in life going for him, his education, his future career and his girlfriend of 3 years, Nova. As life moves on, Marlo's world begins to crumble around him.











Nova: Nova is the strong willed and loyal girlfriend of Marlo. She is kind and knows exactly what she wants in life, and will stop at nothing to achieve this. She loves Marlo with all her heart and wants to be with him forever.

Julie: Julie is the single mother of Marlo, he is her whole world and she will do anything for him. She is determined to help her son, she understands what he is going through more than he will ever know.










Mr Shipman: Mr Shipman is Marlo's year 13 teacher. He's the first to notice Marlo spiralling out of control and quickly takes action to help him to solve his problem,











I think that posting these, along with some stills taking from the film of each character, will just reveal that little more about the film, helping to further the buzz and generate more interest around the film. The aim of the sentences are to be short and snappy, in order to inform and engage the audience around the characters

                                                                                 

MAJOR PRODUCTION; FINE CUT EDIT 1

After seeing the previous rough cut, we sat as a whole year group to view the fine cut. So far, we were really happy with the feedback that we had received from both Beth and Simon in our tutorials. We felt that we were practically there in terms of the picture, we needed to just start adding more sound design and perfecting the grade. The main focus of this cut was getting the music right, we had a composer Brandon Sands on board to create the music for us, myself and Laura were keeping in contact with him to make sure it was all going well, and he got them to us in time for the deadline we gave him mid April. The feedback that we got from the rest of the class was as follows -

- Half of the film looks really nice and cinematic, some scenes do not quite match this 

- Really good cast

- Good access to locations (school etc)

- Great editing

- Music needs work in terms of placement

With this feedback in mind, myself and the rest of the group spent the next day in a lecture room trying to collectively sort some of the issues we had. We played it through a projector in a lecture room as this allowed us to hear the audio better, informing us to know exactly which sound aspects need work.  The first suggestion that I had for the music, was that we used a different song for the beginning. I felt like the first song that is played throughout the film is perhaps too sad/slow, I felt we needed something that was slighting more upbeat, something subtle that still fits in with Marlo feeling sad, but something that will be a stark comparison to the more sad and slow music that we will hear further on in the film. I felt as though this needed to happen so that the overall tone of the film wasn't compromised. Katie started this song 'The Walk' much earlier than it was originally and I think that this fit in much better. 

In terms of the audio issues we were having with some scenes sounding very echoey, Katie tried and tested different effects, changing levels many different ways whilst me and Laura gave our opinions as to what sounded better and what didn't. This worked really well, as eventually we found the right level that made the audio sound much clearer and more pristine. In the end there was only one piece of audio that we couldn't quite perfect, so we will need Angela who plays Julie, to rerecord and send us this file.

Overall, I am really happy with how our edit has come along. I think it stays true to the script and is a good culmination of everything we have worked on.