Group 4: February 2014

Thursday, 27 February 2014

21st filming

On February the 21st Tarjae and Jamila filmed part of the opening of our teen drama at Tarjae's house.
Some of the scene they took were:
.The drowning scene
.Drug overdose scene
.Suicide not scene

Today we given advice on what we should improve on our film to make it better. One of the suggestions was to retake a shoot taken of on the steps of the college entrance with a variety of shots to enhance the film. Using different shots will mean that we will gain a higher mark once our teen film opening is graded. Overall, our film requires adding the new shots that we have taken, editing it all up and making sure everything is synced with the theme tune.

27th editing feedback

Feedback

Today we was given feedback on our film and on our editing so far. There were a thew things we needed to change and a thew scenes we needed to retake. Overall our film opening is going well and we have some great shots, but to reach the level that we expect from us we need to go one step further and make sure everything is in sync and flows well.

Monday, 24 February 2014

Title Edit

Editing

Today i worked on editing the start of our teen drama. In class i constructed an identity for our film, i created this in 'Motion'. The identity i made will be used at the very beginning of our film showing the name of the film and the production company that we invented.

Planning the voice over

We wanted to make sure the voice over was effective and draw the attention of the audience immediately

Diary entry of filming

Friday 21st - filming the drowning

Place - jamillas house

At jamillas we first planned out what we would film that day. We were a bit sceptical of the drowning and planned out how we can do it safely

We re did the drowning a numerous if times as I was having troubles going under the water without getting a blocked nose

After filming the scenes me made sure that the scenes were where up to a good standard and we made sure we had different shots of each event.

Monday, 10 February 2014

Filming 10th feb 2014

Today our group had our first filming session. We gathered a range of different clips that we will edit into our teen drama, we took 15-20 different shoots and shoot types. We filmed many bullying scenes, we filmed this many times so we could chose the best shot to edit in. We also took location shots to show our surrondings. We shot "popular" kids to show how tarjae has a low status within the school.

This is an exmaple of what we filmed today

Thursday, 6 February 2014

Feedback for our pitch

After our pitch we got feedback from Marisa then will help make our teen filming opening.

Advice:

- To re adjust out target audience as it may be inappropriate for ages 12, and doesn't appeal to 22 year olds.
we have now changed the target audience range to 15 to 19 this age is best suitable as the film most relates to audience of this age.

- make sure we have enough footage to cover the 2minutes
we will film enough scenes that will fit 2 minutes even extras.

MEDIA PITCH

Pitch FEEDBACK.

From doing my Pitch i got feedback that would help us to progress into a higher grade.
From feedback we got told that we need to organise our filming schedule tighter so that we have a clear idea of what we need to film, as our dates are mixed up. Also we need to think of what the rest of the film would be about so we could focus on the opening better.
We also got told that we should film more than enough footage so we can fill the 2mins. We should film cut aways, location shots ect.
Also we need to talk about what our target audience is we orginally said 12-22 but from thinking about it twice we need to make it closer together, so from re thinking about it its aimed at 14-19 year olds.
Because 12 year olds are too young to have a good understanding about smoking, pills, bulling and death, so we raised the target age. Our audience will be mainstreamers, in the working class catagory

Presentation feedback

Following our group presentation, we was given feedback about things we can change and update to make our presentation even better.

Changing distributors and producers - Finding an appropriate company to get our film to the public.
Adding dates to presentation - Adding the dates from our timetoast to the presentation.
Lower the age bracket of the movie - Changing our age bracket from 12-22 to 15 to 19 would be more appropriate as our movie will not appeal to who are over 20.
Appeal to audience - The movie will appeal to teenagers and people who have been going through bullying.
Creating extra footage - As our movie will consist of a large amount of flashback , in the situation where we need extra footage, our group will use the extra footage captured as back-up
what will happen in the rest of the movie - Our group will create a storyboard of what will happen after the starting of the teen movie

Presentation feedback

After our presentation we were given feedback from some off our peers.

One of the question asked was how does the film start?

our response was that the film begins with flash backs of events that happen throughout the film, leading to the climax at the ending of the film.

Another question asked was what happens in the film?

our reply this was, the film shows the life of a girl showing the ups and downs. Eventually we see the effect that bullying and abuse has on her resulting in her tragedy.

Media pitch

Group 4 pitch

Ways to improve our film

Improving our film

After our presentation we were given some information on how we can improve our video here are some of them:

. One way we can improve our film is by lowering our target audience. At the moment our target audience is ages12-22, we learnt that this is not a suitable target audience, 12 and 22 year olds have different views on things additionally the characters may not be able to relate to both ages. Therefor we have re-thought the target audience and narrowed it down to ages 15-19.

. Another way we can improve our film is by officially deciding on when we are going to film specific scenes and what dates we will film and edit. We will need to decide on dates that will give us enough time to make sure everything is perfect before our deadline.

. Furthermore another improvement we need to do is to plan the rest of the film. By planning the rest of our film we will be able to have more of and understanding of how to edit and create the opening.