Nostalgia

The film is called "Nostalgia" this simply means a bittersweet longing for things, person or situation in the past. In our film the meaning will link to the story when Harry (boyfriend) wants back Melodie (girlfriend) as how she was before the car accident they were both involved in. 

We came up with this story because my partner and I both love the band 5SOS and favourites one of their song called "Amnesia" so we both wanted some kind of romantic/touching film linked to the song amnesia and recently I've watched the film "The Vow" so I took some interests from the film and try to take out some ideas to add in the storyline of our film.

Out first idea of opening the film was to start of with the band performing on the stage at a concert and then when the song "Amnesia" came on, Harry drops his guitar and walks off stage as this reminded Harry of Melodie and triggered Harry's feeling. However, this would made it very hard to organise as we would find a location that has a stage will allow us to film and with the props, the guitars, mics and drums. So my partner came up with another idea which is to change the opening to the band being interviewed and when the interviewer asks Harry about the song "Amnesia" this triggers Harry to walk off the stage. We sticked to this idea because it would be easier to organise with the props and the location, as we could use the school hall as the studio by decorating the hall with the right things.

I've started to plan the film by making storyboards and brief scripts. When my partner has agreed with the organisation I've made, I started to plan out the costume for each character in the film. After finishing all of the plans for the film, there were only one thing to complete which was the script. At this moment we only had the brief script which was hand written and did not look like a script at all. So I looked up few examples of scripts online and with the helps from my teachers, I made the official script for the film. My partner has searched up some examples from the internet on "What kind of questions to ask a band for an interview" and I added some inspirational questions in the script so this meets the convention of the scene (talk show). 

After organising everything we need, my partner made a group chat on Facebook and added all of the cast members to ask who is free on which date and time so we could agree on where and what to film at what date and time. There were few difficulties in arranging the time and the date as there will be 7 cast members who will need to be available at the same date and time. Also it wasn't just when all of the cast members will be free, we needed permission from the school to film in the school hall and decorate for our film as there are after school classes which will be taking place. However, luckily, we managed to arrange the time and the date where we all could fit in. 

So now we are at the stage where we are all ready to film. This was our first day to film so I was very excited to see the outcomes of the film. I know it wouldn't be perfect, however I was conducted to view the improvements that can be made and develop the process. 

On the film set we had:
•  camera (1)

•  tripod (1)

•  mic (2)

It took us 4 hours to just film around 20 seconds of the film, which quite surprised me because I thought it would roughly take about an hour. However everyone was shy at first and was distracted by the fact they are going to be in our film, so a week after the first day of filming. My partner and I planned what we can do to make improvements which was to change the cast members and have a meeting with all cast members so they know what is exactly going on.

Before we started to film for the second time, I started to work on the opening of the talk show entry on Final Cut Pro. I was inspired by a famous talk show called "The Wendy Williams Show" which is one of my favourite talk show. I was inspired by the design of the show so I stole some of their ideas into our opening sequence of the talk show scene. The process of making this opening took me about 3 days.