Colour Isolation

When we were planning our film opening we all agreed on adding a black and white filter in post-production to imitate films made in the era our film is set.  However Pip then had the idea to use a colour isolation technique to highlight the ruby in the ring as demonstrated in the 1993 film, Schindler's List.  This excellent idea would instantly make the ring stand out and the with the colour red symbolising lust and danger it would foreshadow the protagonist, Catherine's imminent death.

Bella then suggested using Adobe CS5 to achieve the colour isolation on our footage.  She also said when it came to filming we would have to make sure that nothing else in the frame could show any redness, otherwise the programme would identify those red pixels as well as the red ring and the whole effect would not work. However, when Bella came to creating the red colour isolation in post-production, it was picking up the redness in our actress' hands and unfortunately, it has not worked meaning we won't be able to use colour isolation in our opening.  We are quite downhearted about this as the ring has so much significance in our film, however becuase of this it will lose a lot of that significance we had based our whole film around.

Film Credits

At first, we inserted clips of falling confetti and placed the credits over the shots as planned and  shown in our Lana Del Rey inspired video moodboard.  However after inserting the clips into our film which is nearly completely edited Pip and I felt that the credit sequence wasn't that effective and broke up the church scene, therefore reducing the tension of the scene.  I then had the idea to use still black and white screens to present the credits which was a technique adopted by most films in the 1920s and 30s.  Here are some examples:

Inspired by these credits I created two credit screens which will be placed at the beginning of our film   similar to films in the 20s such as 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' as shown above.  I downloaded many different fonts from websites such as dafont.com and fontspace.com which I felt were reminiscent of the era and then using PowerPoint I experimented with the different fonts, colours and backgrounds to finally achieve what I feel is an effective and authentic interpretation of an old fashioned credit screen.

Once inserted into the film opening we shall experiment with filters to make the screens look older and more authentic.

Evaluation of Filming the Church and Car Scenes

Evidence of Filming the Church and Car Scenes

The 1920's car we used belonging to Pip's neighbour, Donavon, who also kindly starred as a guest in the church scene.

Hadlow Tower - the setting of the car scene and where the bedroom scene is supposed to be set however we filmed in Pip's nan's bedroom instead due to mies-en-scene and convenience.

Pip's parents playing our protagonist, Catherine, and her husband, Charles.

Our bride and groom with guests, Pip's sisters Josie and Izzie, her nan Michelle and neighbour Donavon.