Graphics
This week we started making opening titles and graphics that will be super-imposed for our opening sequence. We started to use Livetype to create our graphics which is another production programme we are able to use. This process has been very time consuming due to teaching ourselves the basics of using a new piece of software. We chose an ethnic font to use as our substantial font for our production to re-inforce the ethnic and realist themes in our production. The font is an Arabic style font but it is not over complicated, allowing the the target audience to read the graphics clearly. Eoin & I felt super imposed graphics stuck to the conventions of the BSR genre, as we did not want to differ throughout and this allows the audience to still focus on onscreen action and events. The only full screen graphics we will have are the Film 4 logo and Compass Films. These two graphics are the most important as they show the Instiution logo and production company. The title of the film 'Faith' will be a superimposed graphic, and it will be super imposed on the last football scene, and will fade as the ball is kicked. We chose this to happen because it keeps the audience drawn to the story and creates an almost enigmatic foreshadowing of what happens later in the sequence. The foreshadow comes roughly about 20 seconds after when Usama in his traditional Muslim attire gets kicked by Ethan, an intolerant attack on faith is transcended through a foreshadow as the word 'Faith' is kicked.
Filming
Filming has been completed over 6 different days, which is a decent time schedule, and has been spread out over just over a month. Sticking to our filming schedule has been hard, as different people aren't always available, so sticking to a strict schedule has been difficult. The actors have all been very helpful and have helped us keep continuity through the film, by wearing the same clothes, as not all continuous scenes were shot at the same time. Filming non-linear has both pros and cons, but it is much easier to do, and work around other people, in some filming days we may have only done two shots, which we could just piece in to the editing sequence. One criticism of our filming so far is that there are some shadows on the fight scene of the camera and actors who are on screen which makes the opening sequence look messy, and the lighting is too bright and early in the day for the scene to take place, so I feel like we may have to refim that scene to make it look more believable. We have stuck well to our shooting scripts, and have also added a few scenes to create a more real storyline which the audience will not just think, "how did the scene change that quickly?" So we"43 giving reassuring scenes that the characters have a developing movement to get from one place to another. 
Sound
Music has been a difficult aspect of the production for us as we have struggled to find a piece of music which suits the themes snd storyline of the film. This has caused conflict and it is really difficult to find a song which connotes some of what the piece explores. Also we have to have permission to use the song in our piece which is difficult, and the Creative Commons soundcloud page is full of wonderful songs but Eoin & I are yet to find a suitable song. A sound effect we may have to use is a phone, because in one scene one of the boys gets a phonecall from Ethan and he just picks up a silent phone, which we will have to do something about.
Overall the production is going well so far and is coming to shape nicely.
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