Location

Since our film opening is a romantic comedy and in it the main character is getting ready, it only made sense to have the main location as her house. Since Phoebe is playing the main character we decided to use her house and her own bedroom since it is quite a good size and we would be able to add props and make it look girly. We decided to take some location shots in the areas where we wanted to film so that we could have a better idea of how it would look on camera. Phoebe took the camera home with her and took some of the shots we had decided on.

We took a picture of the shower head so that we could see how the first shot of our opening would look. Our plan was to start with the shower running and then have Naomi turn the water off, though we only see her hand, to show that she just finished showering and is going to get ready next. This would appear after the production company logo's which would have faded into this and we would hear the sound of the shower from the very start.

The following shot was going to be a close up of Naomi's feet getting out of the bathtub. We had hoped that this shot would be from straight on and at eye level, however Phoebe found that she didn't have enough room to do this so she took the picture like this so we could at least see how it looked.

In order to introduce Naomi's character we wanted a shot of her writing her name on the fogged up mirror and then wiping it away and pouting at her reflection so that the audience would be able to see her and get a feel for the personality of the character.  We found that this angle out work best so that we don't catch the camera in the mirror.



We had wanted to film a lot of our shots using a mirror and using reflections as it would really help make the film more personal and would be a more interesting way of watching someone put their make-up on rather than just straight on. We would also intersect shots where the camera pans over items in Naomi's room that would show aspects of her life and her personality to the audience, e.g. items of make-up  Vogue magazines, and multiple Valentines Day cards.

When these pictures were taken we weren't 100% sure exactly which angles and shots we wanted to use to show each action. When we have Naomi walking out of the bathroom, down the hallway, and into her room, we had a bunch of ideas on how we wanted to show this but we weren't sure which one to use. Phoebe took a low level shot of the hallway which made us realise that we in fact preferred it from a high level because it felt more personal as if we were with the character; as oppose to what I thought felt more like spying on her.

To make give our opening sequence a girly/chick flick/romantic comedy feel we figured it was only right to show Naomi's wardrobe since clothes are something ALL girls are passionate about! We wanted to have a medium close up of Naomi from behind starting to open up her wardrobe and then a reverse shot from inside the wardrobe itself showing Naomi continue to open the doors.

Another shot we wanted to have was a point of view shot from Aiden looking up at Naomi in her window. This shot was taken outside from a low angle towards the window but unfortunately we didn't find it very helpful because we still don't know whether we would be able to see Naomi clearly in the window from this distance.


The ending for our opening (that's a bit confusing) will hopefully Aiden leaning against the wall in a very "bad boy/cool guy" way, much like Aaron Johnson does at the end of Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, and Naomi approaching him, them conversing, and them walking off together. This brick wall opposite from Phoebe's house seems like the best location to do this for many reason. One, it was a nice and tall wall; Two, we would be able to see Naomi's house from the wall and film her approaching without breaking the 180 degree rule; and Three, this wall as reasonably clean compared to some others!

As well as taking still images of the locations Phoebe also managed to film some footage of the rooms so that  we could get a general idea of what the rooms looked like and how much room we would have to be doing things and setting things up, e.g. the lights.