Christmas Opening Scenes

The Grinch

The Grinch starts looking at snow falling then zooms into a snowflake to show a small town. It then zooms into the town and moves around the streets showing people shopping for presents and doing other stuff related to Christmas. The films titles appear on the screen in red and green.

Elf

For Elf the opening titles they appear in a book animated so that the pages turn showing with different pictures next to the names.

Shooting Schedule

This is our original shooting schedule and we got each of the shots completed on the days. We had to re shoot some of the scenes on other days.

Filming Planning and Editing

What we all did

I think our group got on really well together. We all had our own different strengths and weaknesses which worked really well because what someone wasn't great at, someone else was. I believe we worked really well a group because we also had fun whilst completing the filming. It went how it was meant to which shows we worked well together. We all gave what we could to the task before and during filming; Lucy and Bonnie provided the outfits and many props, Tom gave us the Christmas tree which was needed in the film, helped produced the storyboard and was a great actor for his role (Santa) and finally Chay worked really well with the camera and captured some really accurate shots and was also a good actor and helped with the storyboard. 

Editing 

Chay and Tom mostly focused on the majority of the editing as they were best at it, Bonnie and Lucy continued to write up things onto the blog which included the production diary and how well the filming went. Tom and Chay were best at editing because they were good at working on little bits that needed fixing and Bonnie and Lucy set the order of the videos. 

Filming Photos

Filming

Shown below are some photographs I took when we were filming, I took them when we were filming shots, when people were acting and getting ready (e.g. setting up and getting into costumes).

These photos are of us getting ready, myself and Bonnie were setting up props and Tom and Chay were sorting out locations and costumes.

Shown above are photos of Chay having a go at filming, he filmed Tom (Santa) coming from the chimney/fireplace.

Photos of Chay helping Tom with the Santa costume and when Tom was ready to act.

I took these photos to show some of our props we had (left) and some of our costumes we had which were the elves (right).  

Here are some more images to show the filming we did. On the left is Tom practising the first shots and on the right shows where we placed the tripod, it was in the corner of the room so it showed all what went on in the scene. When I had a go at filming, I used to the tripod to put the camera on to keep it still, I then had to pick it up really slowly and carefully as I had to bring it back to show the movement of Chay and Tom in the 'fight' scene. this was hard as I had to move the camera really slowly so the camera remained still.

Titles

Baubles: 

-Lucy Fitch

-Olivia Frain

-Oli Wong

-Katie Jones

-Tom Lee

-Sam James

Books:

Casting by: Dan Amato
Written by: Tom Richardson

Special effects by: Bonnie Johns

Stockings:

Delilah Tulips

Lee Hart

Card:

Costume designer: Lucy Harding

Production designer: Issy Payne

Cookies:

Music by: Phil Carp

Present tags:

Produced by: Bessie Hawkins

Director of photography: Chay Pollinger