Thursday, 12 April 2012
Monday, 9 April 2012
Evaluation.
How does your Media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real life media products and represnt particular social groups?
With our opening scene of 'Where's my Mr.Right', we wanted to conduct a feel good film with many realistic conventions of a Romantic Comedy film seen in the film industry today. We did this by the use of characters, settings, props and themes. We used the typical stereotype character of the genre of film we were creating, which was an unloved female who drastically wants to find love throughout the film. We found that this was the typical character represented through the Romantic Comedy genre in our research, with such characters as Bridget Jones unlucky in succeeding in love, and wanting to be loved in return with a depressing attitude. So we based our character in the film to have a depressing tone, and personality throughout the opening scene. Also having the two female characters in the opening scene, links with the research we found in Romantic Comedy films, most females always have a best friend that challenges their own personality represented as being an opposite, creating a loud, bubbly party girl character to be paired with the dull, timid character. We used the typical characters as we all thought that it was going to be the best option in creating an effective opening scene for the genre, as we noticed that these were the two characters that were most noticeable in our research. In our opening scene we portray two different types of women in society, that link in with the the Romantic Comedy genre. The main character being the typical 'depressed', lonely women who is having difficultits in finding a well suited relationship with a man. This character is introduced immediatley in the opening scene, the titles fitted represent to the audience what type of film it is going to be by the typography used, and also by the first portrayal of the character as she is seen to be crying and unhappy. The second social group introduced when the phone call takes place, is the character of a stong, independant, bubbly person. By the phone call the relationship between the two characters is set for the audience, which when conducting our research we found that many Romantic Comedy films do also.
What kind of Media insitution might distribute your media product and why
We chose to have Paramount Pictures for our film institution, in our research conducted together we found that one it's one of the best film insitutions in Romantic Comedy's and found that it was a very popular insitution in the genre. Ten of the top grossing films from Paramount included many films in the Romantic Comedy genre, showing us that Paramount is a top ranked insitution creating a success for our film to be distributed by them. In our research it was very clear that Paramount was a well known film insitution globally, and would be the best one to use as our film company, a fan base would have already been created from previous films and audiences would recognise previous films from Paramount have been extremly successful globally, so that our film must be up with the high status of their previous films distributed.
Who would be the audience for your Media product?
Primary Audience: Our target audience for 'Where's My Mr.Right' is between the ages of 15-25, this is because it is the main cinema audience that would want to go and see a film in the genre we chose, and it's a very feminine type of genre, which would appeal more to this age group than say a setteled down lady with children. If we targeted a wider audience range, it would help bring in a greater audience adding to an increase in box office succes, however with the Romantic Comedy genre the age range we have chosen fits perfectlely, as the film contains elements of comedy, and obviously the main one romance and drama which we all appeal exceptionally well with the primary audience creating a success. The audience that would most likely to watch the film would be women, the film focuses more on the life of a young lady and tries to portray the two most typical sterotypes of women, and how they deal with situations around relationships and love. The female audience can relate to what problems and feelings the film is trying to represent, as they could have experienced the characters problems theirselves.
Secondary Audiece: Would be the male gender. There is a possibility that our film would also appeal to the male audience, as the film does involve males throughout the film durig differet relationships. Also at the end of the opeing scene, many pictures of different males come up representing that the males are just as important in the film as the females, which is how we wanted to reach out to male audience. The film is all about different relationships, and males play a huge part in each relationship in the film. Each man we saw at the end of the opening scene, has a section in the film of their own story focusing on the different types of males and how they deal and cope in relationships. Not only showing how the main femlae character is coping with romance but also letting the males how their input too. Which would appeal to the male audiece as they would be able to relate back to the storyline too.
How did you attract/address your audiece?
The song we used in the opening scene is very catchy, even though it's not a song that is very well known it is the type of song that would attract the audience as it's extremly cheerful, creating an extreme contrast with the atmosphere and the personality of the character during the beginning of the opening scene making the scene unique and stand out to the audience. The name of the song is "Two Birds", representing a female and male character in a strong romantic bond. As the film is about a female finding a male partner to have a relationship with, the lyrics and the title of the song is an excellent connotation of the whole film of being with a partner and having that close romantic relationship. However the title of the song could also link with the two female characters in the opening scene, Zoey and Donna and represent their bond as friends.
We wanted to create something unusual, unique and eye catching to attract the audience, creating the picture college of the characters past relationships at the end of the opening scene was very effective, it's a very fresh idea which when conducting our research we didn't find any Romantic Comedy with the same idea. Throughout the opening scene we are shown this depressing, melancholy character, but when shown the pictures at the end of the opening scene we see the same person but with a whole new personality creating an effective contrast attracting the audience and leading them on to be wondering and asking the question why has this energetic, bubbly girl changed into such a 'plain jain' charcter. Creating the audience to want to carry on waching the film and find out what has happened to this character. The whole story is basically shown through the pictures in a short amount of time, leading on to the depth of the storyline to develop giving the audience a little taste of what is about to come during the film. We also flipped the storyline around in the opening scene, we show the main character of how she is in life now, but at the end of the scene it shows how she used to be, building up suspence as to what is going to happen next to the young lady, setting the narrative to continue.
What have you learnt about Technologies from the process of conducting this project?
The use of all the different technologies if very difficult, and a very long process to get the best outcome possible. However I've enjoyed the challange of getting used to using the technology and being able to create things in our opening scene that we didn't even think were possible to create. The slide transitions we found whilst researching are from the opening scene of the film 'Definitely Maybe', whilst watching that films opening scene we thought the slide tranisitions very unique, and unusual as we hadn't seen them in any other films we conducted our research on. We didn't want to completley copy the idea from the film, so we added our own interpretation to make it more unique to our film. When first starting to create the slide tranitions, we had many difficulties in getting used to the software we were using to create the effect. It took us ages, and we kept on having to practice and go over each step to create the vision we wanted during the opening scene. Having the use of othe different types of technology is brilliant, we had a few continuity errirs when putting our slide transitions into place, but fortunatley with the effects we were using the slide tranisitons fitted into the sequences and disguised the errors we had made whilst filming. The final outcomes of the slide tranisitions came out much better that we anticipated from the use of the technologies we hadn't come across in our research.
Being able to use different types of technologies whilst editing our opening scene, made us able to create a sequence that would appeal alot more to our targer audience, and made it more interesting and exciting. The skills we learnt from getting used to the technlogies, made us able to go back to certain bits in our opening scene and add edits that would create a more effective scene. We the use of the wide range of technologies we were able to fix continuity errors making the different clips flow better, and widen our own range of skills in the editing process.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From the preliminary task, working up to the final project. The main thing I have learnt is to never get a little amount of footage, re shot every shot for the scene in different angles as sometime continuity errors take place, that go un noticed untill the editing process. There was many times, where we thought we had the correct footage, but when putting it together it didn't have the flow we wanted to create. We had to continuously re shot certain shots, such as the car scene, we had to shot a point of view shot, behind the shoulder shot, one from the outisde looking into the car, and from the doorway of the car. When the shot we wanted to create was achieved we had to do the process again but for different footage. From the previous tasks I think teamwork plays a major part in creating a successful piece of work. In our final project everyone got to equally have a go at editing, and filming the footage. Everyone's idea's should be put into consideration, then building upon their idea adding everyones own interpretation gains brillaint ideas and concepts for footage which lead to the final product turning out how we wanted it to be. Also from previous tasks leading up to our opening scene, I've learnt to create and film as many camera movements and angles as possible. You never really know, how well a shot is going to fit in till the editing process so having a wide variety of different shots and movements to use will lead to finding the most sutibale shot to have in the scene.
With our opening scene of 'Where's my Mr.Right', we wanted to conduct a feel good film with many realistic conventions of a Romantic Comedy film seen in the film industry today. We did this by the use of characters, settings, props and themes. We used the typical stereotype character of the genre of film we were creating, which was an unloved female who drastically wants to find love throughout the film. We found that this was the typical character represented through the Romantic Comedy genre in our research, with such characters as Bridget Jones unlucky in succeeding in love, and wanting to be loved in return with a depressing attitude. So we based our character in the film to have a depressing tone, and personality throughout the opening scene. Also having the two female characters in the opening scene, links with the research we found in Romantic Comedy films, most females always have a best friend that challenges their own personality represented as being an opposite, creating a loud, bubbly party girl character to be paired with the dull, timid character. We used the typical characters as we all thought that it was going to be the best option in creating an effective opening scene for the genre, as we noticed that these were the two characters that were most noticeable in our research. In our opening scene we portray two different types of women in society, that link in with the the Romantic Comedy genre. The main character being the typical 'depressed', lonely women who is having difficultits in finding a well suited relationship with a man. This character is introduced immediatley in the opening scene, the titles fitted represent to the audience what type of film it is going to be by the typography used, and also by the first portrayal of the character as she is seen to be crying and unhappy. The second social group introduced when the phone call takes place, is the character of a stong, independant, bubbly person. By the phone call the relationship between the two characters is set for the audience, which when conducting our research we found that many Romantic Comedy films do also.
What kind of Media insitution might distribute your media product and why
We chose to have Paramount Pictures for our film institution, in our research conducted together we found that one it's one of the best film insitutions in Romantic Comedy's and found that it was a very popular insitution in the genre. Ten of the top grossing films from Paramount included many films in the Romantic Comedy genre, showing us that Paramount is a top ranked insitution creating a success for our film to be distributed by them. In our research it was very clear that Paramount was a well known film insitution globally, and would be the best one to use as our film company, a fan base would have already been created from previous films and audiences would recognise previous films from Paramount have been extremly successful globally, so that our film must be up with the high status of their previous films distributed.
Who would be the audience for your Media product?
Primary Audience: Our target audience for 'Where's My Mr.Right' is between the ages of 15-25, this is because it is the main cinema audience that would want to go and see a film in the genre we chose, and it's a very feminine type of genre, which would appeal more to this age group than say a setteled down lady with children. If we targeted a wider audience range, it would help bring in a greater audience adding to an increase in box office succes, however with the Romantic Comedy genre the age range we have chosen fits perfectlely, as the film contains elements of comedy, and obviously the main one romance and drama which we all appeal exceptionally well with the primary audience creating a success. The audience that would most likely to watch the film would be women, the film focuses more on the life of a young lady and tries to portray the two most typical sterotypes of women, and how they deal with situations around relationships and love. The female audience can relate to what problems and feelings the film is trying to represent, as they could have experienced the characters problems theirselves.
Secondary Audiece: Would be the male gender. There is a possibility that our film would also appeal to the male audience, as the film does involve males throughout the film durig differet relationships. Also at the end of the opeing scene, many pictures of different males come up representing that the males are just as important in the film as the females, which is how we wanted to reach out to male audience. The film is all about different relationships, and males play a huge part in each relationship in the film. Each man we saw at the end of the opening scene, has a section in the film of their own story focusing on the different types of males and how they deal and cope in relationships. Not only showing how the main femlae character is coping with romance but also letting the males how their input too. Which would appeal to the male audiece as they would be able to relate back to the storyline too.
How did you attract/address your audiece?
The song we used in the opening scene is very catchy, even though it's not a song that is very well known it is the type of song that would attract the audience as it's extremly cheerful, creating an extreme contrast with the atmosphere and the personality of the character during the beginning of the opening scene making the scene unique and stand out to the audience. The name of the song is "Two Birds", representing a female and male character in a strong romantic bond. As the film is about a female finding a male partner to have a relationship with, the lyrics and the title of the song is an excellent connotation of the whole film of being with a partner and having that close romantic relationship. However the title of the song could also link with the two female characters in the opening scene, Zoey and Donna and represent their bond as friends.
We wanted to create something unusual, unique and eye catching to attract the audience, creating the picture college of the characters past relationships at the end of the opening scene was very effective, it's a very fresh idea which when conducting our research we didn't find any Romantic Comedy with the same idea. Throughout the opening scene we are shown this depressing, melancholy character, but when shown the pictures at the end of the opening scene we see the same person but with a whole new personality creating an effective contrast attracting the audience and leading them on to be wondering and asking the question why has this energetic, bubbly girl changed into such a 'plain jain' charcter. Creating the audience to want to carry on waching the film and find out what has happened to this character. The whole story is basically shown through the pictures in a short amount of time, leading on to the depth of the storyline to develop giving the audience a little taste of what is about to come during the film. We also flipped the storyline around in the opening scene, we show the main character of how she is in life now, but at the end of the scene it shows how she used to be, building up suspence as to what is going to happen next to the young lady, setting the narrative to continue.
What have you learnt about Technologies from the process of conducting this project?
The use of all the different technologies if very difficult, and a very long process to get the best outcome possible. However I've enjoyed the challange of getting used to using the technology and being able to create things in our opening scene that we didn't even think were possible to create. The slide transitions we found whilst researching are from the opening scene of the film 'Definitely Maybe', whilst watching that films opening scene we thought the slide tranisitions very unique, and unusual as we hadn't seen them in any other films we conducted our research on. We didn't want to completley copy the idea from the film, so we added our own interpretation to make it more unique to our film. When first starting to create the slide tranitions, we had many difficulties in getting used to the software we were using to create the effect. It took us ages, and we kept on having to practice and go over each step to create the vision we wanted during the opening scene. Having the use of othe different types of technology is brilliant, we had a few continuity errirs when putting our slide transitions into place, but fortunatley with the effects we were using the slide tranisitons fitted into the sequences and disguised the errors we had made whilst filming. The final outcomes of the slide tranisitions came out much better that we anticipated from the use of the technologies we hadn't come across in our research.
Being able to use different types of technologies whilst editing our opening scene, made us able to create a sequence that would appeal alot more to our targer audience, and made it more interesting and exciting. The skills we learnt from getting used to the technlogies, made us able to go back to certain bits in our opening scene and add edits that would create a more effective scene. We the use of the wide range of technologies we were able to fix continuity errors making the different clips flow better, and widen our own range of skills in the editing process.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
From the preliminary task, working up to the final project. The main thing I have learnt is to never get a little amount of footage, re shot every shot for the scene in different angles as sometime continuity errors take place, that go un noticed untill the editing process. There was many times, where we thought we had the correct footage, but when putting it together it didn't have the flow we wanted to create. We had to continuously re shot certain shots, such as the car scene, we had to shot a point of view shot, behind the shoulder shot, one from the outisde looking into the car, and from the doorway of the car. When the shot we wanted to create was achieved we had to do the process again but for different footage. From the previous tasks I think teamwork plays a major part in creating a successful piece of work. In our final project everyone got to equally have a go at editing, and filming the footage. Everyone's idea's should be put into consideration, then building upon their idea adding everyones own interpretation gains brillaint ideas and concepts for footage which lead to the final product turning out how we wanted it to be. Also from previous tasks leading up to our opening scene, I've learnt to create and film as many camera movements and angles as possible. You never really know, how well a shot is going to fit in till the editing process so having a wide variety of different shots and movements to use will lead to finding the most sutibale shot to have in the scene.
Monday, 26 March 2012
Evauation.
Here is our evaluation of the film 'Where's My Mr.Right', where we discuss important points in the planning and making of our opening scene.
Friday, 23 March 2012
Presentation.
This is the powerpoint we presented to our class linking on with the evaluation we have also done which will be on the blog shortly.
Friday, 9 March 2012
Finished Opening Scene.
Here is the completed opening scene for our film 'Where's My Mr Right?' by Ellie Snowdon, Catherine Kirk and Sarah Hewitt.
Last Editing Lesson.
Today was our last lesson that we had to finish our editing of the opening scene. We looked at our opening scene once again just to check that everything we needed to do was up to a high standard and that everything was professional. We made sure that each credit, dialogue, shots and transitions were perfect to be handed in. We were very pleased with what we had created as a group. We spent most of our time however looking at the music, as in some areas the music was too quiet when it needed to be louder. So we had to increase the volume of the song once the dialogue had been spoken, we did this by using key frames on the audio effect on the programme to improve what we had to do. We corrected each part that we felt needed the volume of the music to be either higher or lower. Overall we did this successfully and our opening scene is completed and ready to be uploaded this evening.
7/03/12 Extra Editing.
On the 7th of March, we again had a free period, so again as a group we decided to join the Year Eleven GCSE class, and get in some final editing before the deadline. In this hour we decided to have a look through the opening scene and see if we needed to make any corrections. Once looking through the film a few times, we decided to correct titles and credits to make the flow of them all the same and the length of time they were on the screen the same too. We zoomed in the Paramount logo, and our own logo so they both sat perfectly on the screen. We also changed the transitions used on the texts making them all the same which will make the opening seem more professional. This was all done to make sure that our opening scene looks professional and correct to our target audience.
Logo
When editing the logo into our opening scene, we found that our original logo was too small to fit in the screen on the movie maker programme that we used. So we tried to zoom in the image, which unfortunatly became very pixelated and unprofessional as it was very hard to make out the image that we had created. Due to this we had to redo the logo, and make it a lot bigger, so the image was clear and professional for our opening scene. We still kept the same idea for the logo design, but just changed the position of the writing and the size on Photoshop, creating an effective logo design for the production. We also added in some extra effects to the logo, to make it seem more authentic that a still image. This will all add to a more realistic opening scene, and crearte a better label for the production company.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Free Lesson
Yesterday we all had a few free lessons near the end of the school day, so as a group we decided to ask if we could join the Year 11 GCSE Media class to continue with the editing process. We managed to get a lot done in the lesson, and it was very constructive for us to be allowed to use the computers as our openign scene is now nearly complete.
Media Lesson
In our previous lesson we finally got our footage onto the computer from Saturday. As a group we looked through all of our shots, when we film each bot of footage a few times so when it comes to the editing process we have a back up if a shot doesnt exactly look right in the scene. So we had a look through all of the clips and deleted the ones that were not needed. Overall we are very happy with the new footage we have it looks a lot better and the continuity is on point. Also in this lesson we started to edit clips of one of our characters walking from the car into the house and also the speach with the two characters in our opening scene. However we did face a problem during this lesson in one of our clips we found a minoir continuity error and this was soon fixed, we used slide transitions to appear on the screen of the characters movements to the house so we could cut the clips shorter taking out the continuity error.
Monday, 27 February 2012
27th Febuary Media Lesson
Unfortunately today in our Media lesson we didn't have the camera, as we leant it to Kelly and Louise at the weekend after we finished filming our shots and they forgot to bring it in. Therefore our footage could not be converted for us to finish off our editing process in adding the extra footage. So instead we finished doing the credits to our opening scene and added in our insitutions for the film.
New Script
Donna: You are so depressing Zoey.
Zoey: Why can't I find my Mr Right?
Donna: Just stop looking and be like me, I'm still having fun in life.
Zoey: But I want to settle down my wild child days are over, and all my relationships have ended in tears. I just want to be happy.
Zoey: Why can't I find my Mr Right?
Donna: Just stop looking and be like me, I'm still having fun in life.
Zoey: But I want to settle down my wild child days are over, and all my relationships have ended in tears. I just want to be happy.
Call Sheet Extra Filming
| Time to Meet | 25th February 3pm |
Location to Meet | Langley Park, Herrington Close |
Location | Herrington Close/ House shown on location pictures |
Description of Location | Housing esate, cul-de-sac. Surroundings have a variety of houses, but also fields showing the setting and how it is an isolated area with a look into the countryside showing the peacefulness.The house used for filming is modern, portraying an everyday household. The bedroom is very fun and girly representing the characters personality. |
Cast | Catherine Kirk, Ellie Snowdon |
Characters | Zoey Hoilday, Donna May |
Extras (if needed) | Sarah Hewitt, if needed could have help to shoot and direct on filming day. As well as Ellie Snowdon and Catherine Kirk, when they film as there is only three people there on the day, two which are acting in the shoot. |
Special Instructions | All props need to be brought to the location, that were previously used on the first day of shooting eg. Clothes, car keys. The main focus is the conversation between the two characters, so the actors will need to have learnt the script ready for shooting. |
Extra Filming 25th Febuary
We did some more shooting of much needed footage to add to the scenes in our opening. Before we even started filming we sat down together and planned out all the footage we needed and kept a log of shots that we wanted to make. We also made our new script for the conversation between our two characters as we needed to make it longer. We managed to get all the footage we needed with time to spare. We got the much needed action shot of Zoey when Donna walks through the door, entering to the conversation. We also re-shot Donna's enterance walking to the house and up to the stairs. We managed to get re do many shots that we had previously as we remembered to keep within the 180 degree rule and widened our range of different camera movements and camera angles. We also remembered to keep with the continuity making sure that all props, clothing, scenery, hair and make up were all used in the same way when we first started filming; so the audience would never know that we had to film on two seperate days. We faced no problelms whilst filming which made the filming process a great success.
Fonts
These are some of the fonts that we are thinking of using on the text for our opening credits. The typography of the writting is very girly and shows femininity with the use of italics on the writing. The writing stands out and is quite busy, so we want the colours of the writing to be simple so the opening credits doesn't look like too much in going on when running through.
The second typography is what we are planning to use for the writing it is very girly and has a fun fitted theme of a romantic comedy, showing the theme of this film is going to be very fun and flirtatious. This stars dotted on the "I" on the font gives off a youthful effect which will link in within the target audience.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Copyright
We emailed Regina Spektors management company a few weeks ago to ask if we could use her song "Two Birds" in our Romantic Comedy opening scene. As a group it was a long deliberation to find a song that we all agreed on and one that will also fit the theme of the scene, after listening to many songs we finally came to the decision to use this up lifting song, sticking to the fresh theme throughout. But unfortunately after waiting for an email back from her management we thought that we were cutting time a little fine with deadlines approaching and no response back. We decided to arrange a meeting and have a look on youtube to see if we could find a brilliant cover of the song, we emailed a young female asking if we could use her version of the song Two Birds. Here is a copy of the email we sent asking if she would mind the use of the song featured in the scene. We soon got a response back, and straight away got to fitting the song along with the opening scene.
Monday, 20 February 2012
Pictures
This is the costumes that we used on the day of filming, as you can see by the items of clothing we used the characters different personalities are shown correctly and a strong difference can be seen, which is what we wanted to portray.
A few pictures of us filming during the day, we thought taking a some images of us shooting the footage would show how we got the different camera shots that are very effective in our opening scene.
Extra Filming
We are needing to improve of opening scene so we can enable a higher grade than we are currently at, we are having to add a few more shots to show the diversity and a few improvements towards current shots that we have already used. At the beginning of the opening scene we need an establishing shot of the scenery where the rest of the scene is about to take place, this would be the fields around the location we are shooting at. This is a very normal element to have in a movie as it shows the audience where the film is set. Also we need a shot of the character driving into the house, adding to the establishing shot, we may have some difficulties with the car shot so we have extras on hand that will be able to help us create the shot we need. When our second character is shown in the opening scene, we need to improve the enterance that is made into the house possibly adding a shot of the character walking through the front door or out of the car onto the driveway. We are hoping to create this with the same way our first character enters the house, representing the friendship between the two. A new shot of the second character will also be shot, of her walking up the stairs adding to the shot we already have of the characters feet walking up the stairs, but we need to reshoot this shot as the balance of the feet is not correct, so we had to cut the shot just unfortuantly there is a jump making the camera flow look unsteady. We also need to add to the dialogue of the two characters in the bedroom, and create a better ending to the opening scene as at the moment it just cuts off in the rough cut.
Logos
Here are some examples of logo's that we have been making for our studio priduction. We wanted to portray our studio as very professional, but at the same time show casing that it is a fun and light hearted production company. Linking in with the opening scene we are filming. The use of the feminine colours, such as red, pinks and light blues as we wanted to keep in with representing the theme we wish to portray.
Here is our final design for the log we are going to use. We did realise that keeping with the red, is only appealing to the female audience and in future movies tha audience would decrease because of this error, but we thought that it was sutiable for the audiences we are currently aiming our film towards. We kept the typography the same as the first logo, as we thought it would work well against the background and be stand out well even though it is plain and simple. The image we have used is very iconic, for filming production film reel and again iconic for movies.
Friday, 10 February 2012
Friday, 27 January 2012
Filming
We filmed on Saturday the 21st for the full day as we wanted to have the full day to make sure we got everything done and in case we had any problems filming we would have time to rectify the situation. We arranged to meet at the location for eleven in the morning, and unfortunately one of our actors was delayed for a few hours. While we were waiting for the actor to arrive Sarah and I worked out how we were going to shoot around the house and any more shots that we could use that would be suitable and unique. Our first shots had to be filmed outside and we encountered a problem with the wind as it kept on moving the tripod, so we had to wait for the wind to die down before we could finish filming. Also we had to film the outside scene quickly as the actors were only in little t-shirts, and it was very cold so we had to make sure the actors were warm before we started shooting again in the house. We also then wanted to film a shot in the fridge, and we wanted to make it very effective so we had to take a few shots to get the shot right. We also achieved the different shots were we wanted the actor to be seen in different positions on the bed to show that time is going on, we are hoping the way we tried to portray this if effective when we come to editing. The camera also ran out of battery a few times so we had to keep on charging the camera, but in all I think our filming went very well.
Monday, 16 January 2012
Call Sheet For Filming Day
Catherine Kirk, Ellie Snowdon | |
Zoey Hoilday, Donna May | |
Sarah Hewitt, needing help to shoot and direct on filming day as well as Catherine Kirk and Ellie Snowdon as there is only three people going to be there on the day of the shoot. | |
Bring all props needed |
Friday, 13 January 2012
Story Board
This is our storyboard for the opening of the film we will me making. We wanted to make sure that our opening scene consisted of different types of shots including, medium close ups, two shots and shot reverse shots to ensure that we can have diversity of shots. We had some difficulty in drawing the different types of angle such as the 180 degree rule and low angled shots, so instead we wrote the type of shots that would be used so we know what we need to include in the shots with the movements of the characters and the angle. Also we made note on the shots and side of shots with the props we will be including and also taking note of when we need to concentrate on the continuity of the shots following through. We are going to try to keep to the storyboard as close as we possibly can on the day of shooting, but we will need to see these ideas in each shot work, and also if the shot is not really working out to well, we will need to see what could be done to make the shot better by using a different angle movements and thinking about the edits on the day of shooting that will link in with the shot. That will give us a general idea of what we want to achieve, and how to follow it easily.
I think the storyboard shows that we have used out location to its full potential, as we are using the outside of the house as well as the inside of the location, using them both together makes the ever so important with each other as it gives a feel to the film at the beginning, by showing the setting of the film straight away, and where about's it is being filmed. It also shows the main characters home, which shows the audience the realism of the type of film introducing the character by the mise en scene. The storyboard also includes the lighting we shall be using which is very important as we will be introducing the lighting in the first few minutes of the film.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Relationships Between Characters
In the opening scene we want the friendship to seem very real towards the audience, so they believe that the pair has been friends for years. With the actors we are using they are already very good friends, so this will hopefully help in the friendship we are going to portray.
In the first minutes of our opening scene we want to portray the relationship of friendship as being very strong. In most Romantic Comedies there is commonly a girlfriend friendship, with the male character. The female main characters best friend is normally seen as the one she can always count on through the duration of her life’s problems, and in our film we wanted to represent this as well as it plays a very important part. As the two females Zoey and Donna are complete opposites, showing Zoey as being calm and collective, shy and a hopeless romantic, whereas Donna is shown to be the loud bubbly friend, mainly known as the party animal. Showing that not only do opposites attract in relationships but also in friendships. Having to characters being total opposites, makes their personalities stand out a lot more as they are shown to be “Chalk and Cheese.”
Shot Sheet and Call Sheet
Shot Sheet
Shot Number. | What/Who is in the shot | Who has filmed this shot | How is the shot filmed | Props and scenery |
1 | ||||
2 | ||||
3 | ||||
4 | ||||
5 | ||||
6 | ||||
7 |
This shot sheet shows notes and actions we have done while filming, by making notes while filming we have an understanding of how we are filming and what we are filming and when needing to film on different days by looking at this sheet we will knows what we need to have in the number of different shot helping us have the correct continuity in the shots we have done and reduces confusion between all people who are shooting. By having the shot sheet is makes everything more organized.
Call Sheet
Time to Meet | |
Location to meet | |
Location | |
Description of Location | |
Cast | |
Characters | |
Extras (if needed) | |
Special Instruction |
The call sheet basically helps the people on set be more organsized with who and what is on the set, invovling time arragements and making everyone who is needed be on time when they are meant to be also to help remember equipment that is needed on the shooting day.
Monday, 9 January 2012
Schedule
Week 1- All pre planning is to be complete, such as script and storyboard. All props should be collected and brought to location of filming.
Week 2- Book the camera out for the days we will need to be filming. Arrange a run through of the opening scene, using our own video camera so we can have a rehearsal of camera shots before the real filming.
Week 3- Create a logo for the opening scene, add any extra preparations before we begin to start filming. Double checking the location is free, and all actors can still make the shooting of the opening scene.
Week 4- Begin filming the scene, hopefully to have half of the sequence filmed before the end of the week.
Week 5- Finish filming the other half of the scene, conversation in the bedroom, and phone call.
Week 6- Hand back the camera, media file conversion will take place.
Week 7- Have a look at the video footage, begin to edit the footage too. Possibly opening credits, and title of the film done.
Week 8- Aim to have a rough finish of the opening scene, with a try of different effects we could use.
Week 9- Add music to beginning of the video footage.
Week 10- Finish editing, add the opening credits and film title effectively.
Week 11- If any problems with the finished edit, fix any corrections needed.
Week 2- Book the camera out for the days we will need to be filming. Arrange a run through of the opening scene, using our own video camera so we can have a rehearsal of camera shots before the real filming.
Week 3- Create a logo for the opening scene, add any extra preparations before we begin to start filming. Double checking the location is free, and all actors can still make the shooting of the opening scene.
Week 4- Begin filming the scene, hopefully to have half of the sequence filmed before the end of the week.
Week 5- Finish filming the other half of the scene, conversation in the bedroom, and phone call.
Week 6- Hand back the camera, media file conversion will take place.
Week 7- Have a look at the video footage, begin to edit the footage too. Possibly opening credits, and title of the film done.
Week 8- Aim to have a rough finish of the opening scene, with a try of different effects we could use.
Week 9- Add music to beginning of the video footage.
Week 10- Finish editing, add the opening credits and film title effectively.
Week 11- If any problems with the finished edit, fix any corrections needed.
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