Narrative Footage

I have finally found out that I can change each clip into black and white all at the same time; before I was changing each individual clip by itself, so that's saved me so much time!

During the scene where I have Stephanie in the street, showing her mum looking out of the window also, I had to change the settings as it was a lot darker than the footage that I shot in the day, so I needed to match them up to make sure that I had no issues with continuity. 

As you can see, I have changed the settings on a number of different shots to ensure that there is no continuity issues.

There is also a piece of footage during the scene where Stephanie is packing to leave home and she hasn't packed the scarf in the bag yet and I can't use that as she has already packed the scarf in a previous piece of footage that I've used before; however that was a different take, so I can't use that due to continuity also. 

Also, during the middle of the song, I have slowed down part of the footage, which you will notice and I think this works well as it allows the audience to emphasise with the lonely, helpless teenager and at the same time, the lyrics are emphasised too, ensuring that the meaning of the song is being portrayed properly to the audience.

My plan now is to add in the singing parts in between the narrative to show a full rough cut and then I will see what the audience prefer - either just narrative or both - then I need to gather audience feedback on the black and white or the colour clips to see which they prefer.

I have produced this to show how my narrative is now continuous, unlike my rough cut during the summer and also show it fits in well with Todorov's theory of how it shows the three stages and then starts to link in with Barthes' theory as it leaves the audience with an enigma at the end:

Rough Cut of Narrative Scenes