Methods which could be used to aid our typography:

As a group we decided that we would aim to come up with an original piece of typography for our film and we aimed to try and make this in keeping with the theme of the genre.  We decided that me and Amy would do some research into typography,  Amy would create the one we used and I would research examples of what we could use.

To make our font:

We decided Instead of using the default font's of a computer our group decided we might be interested in having a more individual font and one which is representative of the conventions of our genre but still created on the internet.  I researched sites which  would enable you to use more alternative fonts for free online.  When I was looking I tried to find a font creator which had a wide range of fonts and specifically one’s which had bold, clear easy to read fonts with a slight bit of individualism similarly to the type of fonts we found used on British drama films. Here are some of the best and most helpful ones available at the moment:

There is a website called: http://www.urbanfonts.com/

This website allows use to use the selected font (the one I've chosen as an example is called abuse and you are able to use the font to make any sentence you want).  As our film opening is UN-named so far I've used the example title of 'Little Riot Girl' to show how the font could look if we decided to use it:

This is the font ABUSE:

And this is how our example title would look in this font: 

Another website that has hundreds of fonts and a whole page dedicated to urban is: http://www.dafont.com/

 

Similarly to  the website urbanfont’s it allows you to  browse through a range of fonts and then choose the favoured font and turn it into the sentence or word you want. However this website automatically gives you two variations on the font so you can choose which colour you would prefer the font to be in. It primarily gives you black and a grey version but you can also scroll to the top of the website and select from a range of colours; which I really useful for our group as we are looking to use colours in keeping with the idea of graffiti or the flames of the riots.

Again as with the other website i tested out a few different font's using our example title "Little Riot Girl" and found this to be the best example as it is quite clear and bold so it is easy to read but still has a slightly individual theme to it. 

This is the font NEOU:

And this is an example of how it would look in two different styles if we used it with our sample title: 

Problems, problems, problems!

We hit a sticky point recently when we were told that no footage of News Reports of the London Riots could be used in our work because of copyright reasons. This meant we had to re-evaluate the clips we were going to use in our film opening.. Because of the violence and use of fire in the riots we had decided to use a BBC news report showing images of the chaos as it would be really hard to recreate the flames, burning cars and great mobs of people.

Obviously there would be copyright on clippings used on the news so now we couldn't use official images from that week. So instead we looked at uncopyrighted material which we could possibly recreate or make use of in our montage. Luckily a lot of the footage of the riots had been shot using mobile phones so it had not had copyright over it. After having a browse at blog posts created after the riots, I found a link to this montage:

 

This montage of different clips is really useful and could be great if we split it into sections using the editing tools on imovie, as it shows images of the the riots from a variety of angles and perspectives . One of the clips within the montage uses establishing shots of the streets to set the location (on the high streets of London) and shows the vast amount of destruction. This is important because our plot is centered around London and although it's mainly all handheld shots so the quality is sometimes poor and the image in some places is pixilated and shaky, this adds to the idea of panic and the speed at which the rioting spread. Conventional uses of hand held shots are usually in horror/thriller movies which are set in a informative almost documentary style such as The Blair Witch project, so our uses of this is in a way juxtaposing this convention whilst still keeping what the purpose of handheld shots was meant to maintain- the sense of danger and fear.

The montage also shows the varying acts of rioting which occurred; it has more handheld long shots of people looting openly in the streets and extreme long shots of buildings and cars ablaze. As well as a good range of mise en scene: including police on horses and foot showing both the resistance from the people involved in the riots and the people trying to control it. At 1:58 there is a grainy long shot of two teenage girls being caught by the police which stood out as it is parallel to our story line and could be used to foreshadow what could happen to the protagonist our film opening follows. 

The downside; One of the problems with this montage is that there has been sound added over the clips which we are unlikely to want to use. But we can solve this when we are editing by muting the sound of the clips and then we can layer our own dubstep track over the selected bits of clip we want it to cover. When we are editing on I movie we can split the clips into individual sections so we can fast forward certain sections and cross cut between this footage and the footage we have filmed ourselves, which should hopefully be as effective as the if we had used our original footage from the BBC. However after this we discovered that we could actually factor in some copyrighted clips, as long as we edited out the brand logos.

Shooting Day 2: The Tunnel

On our second shooting day, we filmed the later scene of our film opening. We filmed at the tunnel location and we thought it worked really well with the scene we shot. We did several takes to ensure we had as much footage to edit as we could and get the best possible shots. We experienced some trouble with the fact it was a public place and we could not control people walking past and into shots. Also we were not sure if the lighting level would be suitable but after reviewing the footage it was fine. Overall the shooting day was successful and we were pleased with our result.

Once again Amy C did our actress Cally's hair and make up which she made sure was exactly like our first shooting day to keep continuity. These on location photos show the hair and make up process.

This is Cally in costume after Amy completed the costuming and make up. After filming we all thought our choice of costuming worked really well.

On our first shooting day however Cally had a bag she brought with her but this was forgotten on the second shooting day. In order to correct this we have decided to add a small scene of her ditching the bag before she gets in London. We thought this was in keeping with the story line as you wouldn't need a bag if you were rioting and hints to her discarding any part of her home character. 

This is our cast getting ready to film and changing into costume. 

Our gang consisted of Amy C, Beth, Harry and me (Amy F).

Here is Daisy and Farah setting up the tripod preparing
to film the gang shots as they did this together.
To the left is Daisy setting up the camera ready to
start filming.

 This is after Daisy actually started to film the part of the scene where Cally runs down the stairs to meet the gang at the bottom. We liked the angle of filming her coming downstairs as previously when she goes down the stairs in the house we filmed her from behind going down and we liked the contrast of the different direction. 

I thought I would get an on location of our main protagonist
in costume and which reflects the theme of our opening.

Amy F