Monday29th March

Today we added credits and an opening title to our film. We had a bit of a bubble when we first got into uni as our film kept saying it lost media or something to do with not being able to place files, so we had to render everything about fifty times. The film was playing fine but it still said it had lost media and we were so worried so we asked a technician to help us. He was really great and reassured us, although  strange, the file loss shindig was just the computer being mildly bored. We cracked on with the credits and used clips of our model holding the fuzzing television as the opening image. We managed to insert our text (definition of turmoil) into the television and added a fade to ensure the film began smoothly. We then added simple, quick credits at the end of the film after adding a fade. We directed, filmed, produced and edited the film so apart from ourselves, all we had to put in the credits was our model/actress. We wanted it quick, snappy and clean, so the credits are just white font on a black background- no scrolling of fussy effects.
Then we pursued our press release. Normally both Emma and myself are extremely capable writers and have always had success in both journalism and press releases, so we thought this would be excellent. No. It was awful. We were so stressed out from our film nearly being lost (we had to save it three times and render it more times than the pope says amen) that we had moody writers block. Maybe its a case of leaving things to the last minute, but we have never (don’t want to sound big headed!!but..) never had problems or made a bad press release so this was all the more disheartening. We stared at that computer screen for over and hour and I think I nearly shed a tear - it was horrendous. The problem we had was that we wanted to keep the press release short, snappy, slick and to the point, just like our film. We didn’t want to dribble on about how amazing Tempest is and where he went to school, we just wanted to define the connection/inspiration and leave the rest to the imagination (with the aid of clever adjectives and very cool phrases). Our final result probably isn’t as bad as I’m making out but we did laugh our pants off when we got home and read the line that insisted: innovative film makers Emma Harris and Grace Brennan. blowing our own trumpets or what. Well we wet our pants laughing because we sounded so cocky and confident- lets hope our marks support this rather audacious quip, otherwise we will look like complete idiots!! Here’s the badboy in all its glory, sorry its not the right way up, I still havent mastered that skill yet:

We also wanted to make a one-off press pack alongside our press release to add an exclusiveness to our film and it's promotion. Inside a little black box we are going to put:

• Press release tied in black ribbon
• Humbugs (black and white striped mints)
• 'William Tempest' black, laced gloves
• flutter eyelashes as seen in our film

Should be a fab addition.