The Final Film

When we finished our Media film it was a relief to have finaly finished putting all the different clips together, editing different areas to try make it look as good as possible. I had fun making this clip and i learned a lot doing so. Next time i would choose to  do a less complicated story line so it would be easier to shoot.

This film is tagged, if you would like to watch the clip without tags you have to click on the red speach bubble in the bottom right hand corner to turn it of.

Looking Back

Looking back at this topic i have learned how to use many different programs such as Blogger, Freeplaymusic.com, Premier Elements  where i  learned how to upload video clips, edit, add effects and add music. I learned how to upload movies to Youtube.  I now understand a lot about how to film the actors and scenes using many different camera shots such as panning, tracking, over the shoulder shots and many more, i found this very useful as it made the film more interesting . After learning all of these different techniques and learning all about these different programs it has made me a lot more confident and it will help me a lot for my next project. 

Directors Comentary

This is the Directors Commentary, we all said one thing about the film .

Audience Research

I asked a few people to watch my opening film and asked them what they thought about the film. I found out a lot of positive and negative feedback and if i were to do this movie again i would know what to do to improve it.

The different technology i used

                                              

The audience for my media product

Before we made the Oppening of our movie, we said that our target audience would be for both boys and girls interest. perhaps more boys as their is scenes of violence and slutty girls, Aimed between the ages of 16- 28 year old's. And i would still say that we are aiming for the same audience.
Our audience would listen to music such as mainstreeme, singers such as Rhianna, David Guetta, Jamie T.

Our Target audience would watch Tv shows such as Two and a Half Men, Friends, Fresh Meet, Inbetweeners, Gossip Girl, Desperate House wifes, Couger Town, 90210, Modern Family, Skins and Misfits, Including channels such as MTV and E4. The movies which our audience would go and see would be Comedy dramas such as Hot Fuzz, Bad teacher, Couples retreat, How to lose a guy in 10 days, Bad boys, Mean girls, Men in black  

Social Groups

Representation of Social Group
In our Media product we can identify different types of social groups in different characters.

Sister

The Sister Gave of the reprresentation of a popular girl, lots of friends mean to poeple outside her cleack and is slutty. The genre reminded me of the american film Mean Girls, as they have the same genre, which ish comedy drama, the two are set in schools, and the girls have the same personality as our slutty girl character.

If i had to relate my film to a Brittish film, i would chose St Trinians. 

9 key shots!

Title of the Film

The titles of our film is shown on a letter, on someones back, on the old camera effect, i think this made it stand out more than in normal  HD.

The Setting

The second image shows the sort of area and setting in which we shot this film.

Costumes

The costumes which we used in our video, were just normal clothes, the costume which stood out most for me, would be the sister with her heels on a white blouse, fish net tights and black high heels. I thought this gave a good idea of what her personality is like, just by looking at the clothes.

Camera work and Editing 

We used many different types of camera shots when filming such as, over the shoulder shots, tracking, panning, zoom in and out. Ants eye views, Point of views. In our editing we cut a lot out when editing and added different effects in it such as black and white. We used the technique jump shot. We also had to fast forward parts especially the envelope flying so we could make it shorter. I picked the picture which shows fading in to another shot.

Font and Style

For our font and style we wanted it to be in the opening tittles instead of being added in later. We put the Font and Style on Envelopes and every time it got to the character it introduced a part of the film crew.

Story / Narrative

I chose to show the picture of the sister close to her boyfriend because it tells you a part of the story of what shes like.

Genre and suggestions of it.

The shot i chose for this section would be, the dad ( post man ) stealing money from the envelope which he is a meant to be delivering, it is quite comical.

Characters

We had 6 characters in our opening titles, all doing different parts, there was The Dad (post man) the Mum kitchen lady, with the baby hiding at the side, the sister and her boyfriend and the two trouble twins.

Special FX

We did not only use black and white through the film, but we also used the technique of old camera, which i liked because it made a bit different.

New Openning Music

Casting Shots

Location Shots!!

lOCATION Shots!!

We are using these following images to film our opening titles.

This shot will be used for filming the Dad working as a post man.

This shot is to film the letter flying down to introduce the other characters.

Letter still Flying around.

This is an establishing shot of where this will be filmed.

This is where the letter flys in to the cafateria, where it will be stood on and carried on by the sisters, boyfriend.

This shot is where the mum is working with baby hidding underneath.

This will be filming the sister, meeting her boyfriend.

point 27

Dad

• postman outfit
• post man bag
• lettters and envalopes
• money

Mum

• Baby
• work costume

Sister

• slutty school outfit

Twins

• same clothes
• and a table

Risk assesment

point 23 & 24 - shot list

Shot List - When filming we will make sure we do not brake the 180 degree rule.

the locations of this film will be filmed outside G house where the letter box is.

• Establishing, long shot of the street of dad walking to post box
• Tracking shot of the man walking towards the post box
• close up of dad getting mail out of bag
• close up of dad  looking through mail searching for money
• mid shot of name tag
• extreme close up of the name tag
• Point of view / pan shot of the street making sure no one is there
•  POV of dad looking at the letter
• focus pull on the letter, showing 1st name
• mid shot of taking money out of letter in to pocket
• zooms out in to long shot

The Next locations will be filmed outside the refectory and inside the refectory

• Long shotof envolope blowing ouside and inside the refectory
• Long shot of mum behind the counter
• close up of glass / name on the glass
• arc shot to other side of counter shows mum hidding baby under counter
• close up of shoe and letter sticking on shoe
• hand held POV of him walking toward slutty girl, with match on action shot of him walking
• Boy meets slutty girl, mid shots of boddies no faces
• whilst making out the envalope gets stuck to her foot, close up
• she sees the envalope and picks it of her foot ants eye view.
• she looks at envalope showing name close up, focus pull of envalope
• Throws envalope away, long shot
• envalope lands on the twins table, establishing shot of the table
• mid- shot of Twins looking  at each other and then look at envelope
• Close up shot of twin picking up envalope
• close up sticking on persons back
• Tracking of envalope with name on persons back

point 22 Animatic of our storyboard

I took photos of our storyboard, and added the music that we are using for our opening tittles.

Point 21 - planing the music!!

We have decided to use one sound track through out the whole opening of our movie. It is upbeat there for links in with our type of genre (Comedy drama). This song will add more atmosphere and energy, this will draw the audiences attention, and keep them entertained instead of using diagetic sounds. We found the song which we will be using on a website called mp3sunsigned.com

Story Arc - Point 18 & 19

• All of the five family members, start fighting (sister, twin brothers, baby, mum and dad.)
• The children go to school, glad to be away from family, pretend they don't know each other at school. Due to different friendship groups.
• Girl is a slut and the twins are bad asses!
• Twins messing around, doing funny things and accidentally set fire to the school, due to their joint. don't care they find it funny.
• Meanwhile the girl is in a cupboard with a guy and they smell smoke luckily they escape. and she goes mental at the twins.
• Mum and baby, win a free holiday all inclusive for a week for all of family in Benidorm. Whilst the mum is working in the supper market. Later on that night tells family she has one a holiday
• no one wants to go because they don't like each other, but then decide to go because flight leaves the next day and parents know rent is due and they do not have the money.
• During the holiday the family get closer together, have a great time and become close. Comical things happen then.
• When they get back they see that the land lord has put an evicted letter on the door. If they don't pay money by the end of the week they will be kicked out.
• Family starts to argue again cause parents didn't tell them, then kids take jobs as well as parents to help pay.
• on the last day when the money is due they still do not have enough. But mum buys a scratch card they win £1000000, and they pay of the rent.

End of story.

this is an example of Todorovs theory as we have the typical narrative structure. We have out climaxes and problems but by the end everything has been resolved.
We also use  elements of Propps theory during the fire scene. The sister is the damsel in distress because she is trapped by the fire, twins are the villains because they are the ones who start fire, the hero's are the firemen, who put out the fire.
We also use elements of Strauss by using binary opposites.
 Rich/ Poor, Happy / sad, funny/ serious, light/ dark.

Key Elements - Point 17

The Key elements which we will need to include in our opening scene to represent the expectations are... 


Genre - drama and comedy, a dramatic opening with elements of comical interests 


Audience  - we are aiming for both boys and girls interest. perhaps more boys as their is scenes of violence and slutty girls, Aimed between the ages of 16- 28 year old's. 

Findin out Which Tribe i was

I found out that that i am in the tribe sports junkie. which i dont think i am, cause im not a fan of doing sprts. 

Point 16 - Film Institutions

     Different Institutions


I looked at many different Comedy, Drama films and which Institutions produced them, many different well known names came up such as, Universal Studios, Columbia, Don Simpson/Jerry BruckHeimer Films, Dream works, MTV films, Warner brothers, Legendary pictures, Paramount. All of these Institutions are very well known, but the institution which came up a couple of times was Universal Studios.