Final Video

This is our final film opening sequence:

 

Film Poster

Our film poster is of Jack Frost because he is the main character in our film. It has a snowy background because Christmas films are often represented by snow. It has our film title, main characters and people who were a part of making the film and our film certificate. We have quite a dark background to our film poster to show the danger of Santa being kidnapped and to show that it is set during the night. The North Pole stands out easily against the dark background and shows that this is a Christmas film.

 

New Music

Here is the new music we decided to use because we thought it suited our film more:

 

 

New Font

New Font

One of the main changes we had to make was the handwriting and font of the baubles. The original writing was quite messy and did not look very festive, so we re-did the handwriting so that it matched what we were hoping for. These were the type of fonts we were hoping to create:

For our first film, the name labels were written on pieces of paper which was then stuck onto the baubles. This time we decided to write on the actual baubles instead, which looked a lot better, although they were harder to write on so we could not be as creative, like with the cards.

This was the handwriting we used for the card name labels:

Re-Filming

We found a lot of things we could improve on for our first draft of Saving Santa. We decided to re-film our opening sequence to make it better. We went back to our filming location after school and made our opening sequence better. We used a wider variety of names for the title sequence and added in a fight scene to make it appeal to our target audience more. We used a bigger tree so that it looked much more like a realistic Christmas scene and made sure that when we filmed it, it was less shaky. The labels looked a looked a lot better when we re-filmed it and the lighting was more cosy for the film, with less shadows.

Instead of just dragging Santa out, we thought the Robber could carry him over his shoulder as it would make the scene more exciting. The Elf and tree were shown in a different place and the layout of the background meant the camera angle was a lot better.

 

 

New Titles

We used titles with a wider variety of names for our final film. In our draft we repeated the names of everyone in our group which is not realistic because the names would not be repeated in a real film.

Main actors- Sam James, Tom Lee, Katie Jones, Oli Wong, Olivia Frain, Lucy Fitch, Delilah Tulips, Lee Hart
Costume Designer- Lucy Harding
Production Designer- Issy Payne
Casting by- Dan Amato
Written by- Tom Richardson
Special effects- Bonnie Johns
Music by- Phil Carp
Produced by- Bessie Hawkins
Director of photography- Chay Pollinger