SCORE- CONSTRUCTION

PRODUCTION

Before I started filming 'Score' I did various bits of planning, I started with finding a location to film in. I had heard that a young filmmaker camp in my area was taking place during one of my school holidays.

I conferred with them and asked if I could possibly use their facilities to film my AS media studies project and if I could use some of their equipment and they were more than happy for me to do so.

I filmed the drug production and drug deal scenes throughout the course of the week also gaining valuable experience in how to use some fantastic equipment including a slider and a camera crane.

Following these scenes, I decided to shoot at my school in a fairly isolated area where I knew there would be no people around to disrupt the filming.

Luckily, the weather was perfect for the day I planned to shoot these scenes. It was overcast and gloomy enough to emphasise the mood I envisioned in my product.

I decided to shoot in 3 three different locations in order to offer something else to viewers and provide a few plots to keep them guessing and to complement my piece with different environments.

Furthermore, the three characters all feature in three separate locations making it easier for my audience to follow the story and focus on one character at a time (apart from the drug deal at the end).

EDITING STAGE

In the editing stages of my project, I started by formulating what I believed were my best shots and put these in a separate folder on my desktop. I tried to follow my storyboard and original ideas as much as possible and I believe I did this to good effect.

Here you can see some of my editing on Final Cut Pro. I had to find suitable font to which I would add to a particular scene and also put the clips in the correct order in correspondence with the original story. I chose to remove the white background in the title (seen above) after much consideration and playing around with other fonts as well.

In the early stages of editing I attempted to decrease the pitch of 'This Modern Love', a rough and draft soundtrack idea for my project.

The song was a bit too upbeat and so I attempted to make it more relevant to my product with a moodier and perhaps darker pitch. however, with more research I eventually found the right soundtrack for my opening sequence that I didn't have to edit (Below).