Editing the opening sequence

For our opening sequence, we wanted a stop motion effect. For this, we filmed someone writting the title letter by letter on a mirror covered in shaving foam. We selected a short amount footage of each letter and put it all together to create the stop motion effect.
We sized each frame differently to further suit the stop motion effeft, so it jumps up and down between letters. We also made each peice of footage short, so it moves quickly.

Editing The Fragrance Shop interview.

The interview in The Fragrance Shop appeared to be on a slant as the shelves in the background were not straight. We did not notice this whilst filming, so it had to be fixed in Premier as we would be unable to re-film the interview.
To fix it, I highlighted the clip on the timeline, set it to 25% size, resized it and rotated repositioned it.
We also noticed that we were reflected in the wall behind the interviewee, so we had to reframe the image to cut ourselves out as much as we could.

Footage we are unable to use: Interview with somebody who does male grooming.

 

The footage from both interviews with the person who does male grooming is incorrect. We are editing the first interview so that we can use it. We need to resize the image and lighten it.

Footage we are unable to use: Interview with someone who doesn't do male grooming

We are unable to use footage from either of the first two interviews with the person who doesn't do male grooming, therefore we have to refilm in.
In the first interview (which can be seen top right) the lighting and mise-en-scene were both incorrect. He was dressed incorrectly and looked too neat, plus he was sat infront of a window. The computer in the background also makes him look more formal.

Interview with The Body Shop

We conducted our interview in The Body Shop infront of the men's products. We chose to have the interviewee standing rather than sitting, as we thought the framing was better this way.
They didn't have very many products for men, so we had to make sure that the framing cut out as many of the other products as was possible.
We chose to do the same jobs that we did at The Fragrance Shop interview, earlier that day.
We believe this interview is better than The Fragrance Shop interview as the framing is better. We later realised that the other interview was on an angle due to the way in which the shop was built.

Filming in Superdrug

We filmed cutaways in the branch of Superdrug in Birkenhead, between our interviews with The Fragrance Shop and The Body Shop. We filmed in the Men's ilse, ensuring that we got a variety of different camera angles and movement as well as atleast one shot of each kind of product on the isle. We each had a turn operating the camera, to add to the variety of shots used as we each had ideas for different cutaways.

Fragrance shop interview

For our interview with a staff member of The Fragrance Shop we made sure to conduct the interview in an appropriate mise-en-scene. For this, we interviewed her in front of the wall of men’s fragrances. We decided to do the interview twice, not including the practice run, to ensure that we got the best answers and framing.

We filmed several cutaways for this interview. We filmed a panning shot of the men’s fragrance wall, a few different shot types of the most popular product and a panning shot of the top bar with the brand names on.

We allocated ourselves roles, so each of us fairly contributed to the work and no one was left with nothing to do.

John Hemmingway interview.

We are unable to use the footage from this filming session. We found that the framing was wrong as the interviewee turned around to face completely away from the camera and the questions were not answered correctly. Despite this, the mise-en-scene was good as hair products were visible in the background. From this we have learnt to direct the people we are interviewing in a clearer way, to not be affraid to ask them to do it again if it iswrong and to not let ourselves feel intimidated.