Our Animatic board

We had problems with this when we first tried to upload it this is why we have only just uploaded it now!! We did not keep strictly to what the animatic board said as we realized that we would need to use too many effects which would go against the conventions of our genre, for example we had a lot of split scenes which we chose to leave out, we still used the ideas of the stills but did not have them as split scenes.

Rough Cut

A lot of our rough cut had to be edited although it was only a rough cut. In many of our scenes we had began filming too soon so we had the setting up of the shot on film. Also as we had filmed our sequence in the wrong order due to the weather conditions, this meant that we had to change the order in our rough cut in order for it to make sense. We had a few scenes where the character looked at the camera, which made it seem under cuts the realism which we were trying to achieve. we realized that we have got a few scenes which need to be improved, so we are going to re shoot these on Tuesday. We also want our final cut to be longer so we are going to add in a few shots too, this should not take too long but will improve our final sequence.

Camera equipment

As we began filming today we did encounter some problems with the camera equipment. Firstly our tripod was very stiff, which meant it was hard to move the camera in the direction which we wanted in order to create the right shot type. We were going to try and attempt to hand held the camera but this proved to be harder than we thought. Finally we changed our tripod so our filming was successful. Apart from this one problem everything seemed to run smoothly. We were a lot more confident this time filming because we were more familiar with the equipment.

Prop list

Prop List;


-Cigarettes
In many of our scenes, Tom is seen smoking/with cigarettes, implying he smokes, even if we never actually show him smoking, the audience will get the impression that he smokes if he is always holding a cigarette or lighting up a cigarette.






-Alcohol bottles (which we be filled with water!)Our very first scene features alchol. Our character Rosie and her friends are drinking alcohol. One of our scenes, is just a close-up of the alcahol bottles, therefore we need to use alcahol bottles as a prop.

Coccaine(obviously not real coccaine!). We may need to have a substance which looks like coccaine,such as sherbert. This is because in one of the scenes, which is filmed in the character of Toms house, we may have some coccaine in the background, to give the audience the impression that he is into drugs. But not give too much away. We just want to give an insight into the character.

All the props which we have used are very relevant to our genre- a British social realist drama. As our story is based around a group of teenagers, we have made them a very typical stereotype of teenagers (much like the TV series skins). This is why alcohol, drugs, and smoking are shown a lot in our opening sequence.

Locations

1. An open space (school field). This is where we film the first 9 shots. We chose to film the majority of our shots in an open space, this is because it is very stereotypical of teenagers to be out on public greens, such as parks and recreation grounds. Another British stereotypical view of teenagers is that they are out on these spaces causing trouble, for example; under age drinking. This is what our teenagers are doing during these shots, under-age drinking. This is a main convention of a British social realist drama is to have 'taboo subjects' and we think that underage drinking is a big problem in Great Britain and many people try and believe that it doesn't happen as much as people believe it does. We also chose to film outside because we wanted a variety of shots inside and outside to make our film opening more interesting.

2. Inside shots; inside two rooms in a house. This is so that the audience gets an insight into the characters houses and what their lives are like. It also shows the difference between Rosie and Toms home life, and what kind of background they have both come from. Rosie's house is clean and tidy, and on the other hand, Tom's house is messy and not very clean.

In this lesson we are going to go location scouting so that we can see where the best place to shoot our scenes are.

shooting schedule

FRIDAY 13th February: Around college
-Shot 1; As we need an open space, we are filming on the school field during lesson time
-Shot 2; Following on from shot 1, this is also filmed on the school field
-Shot 3; Same as above
-shot 4; Same as above
-Shot 5; Same as above
-shot 6; Same as above
-Shot 7; Same as above
-Shot 8; Same as above
-Shot 9; Same as above

Out of College filming;
-Shot 10; This is also filmed in Coton (like shot 13). However the majority of indoors filming is in a different room and the outdoors filming is filmed in a different part of Coton, down a small caldesack.
-Shot 11; Same as above
-Shot 12; Same as above
-Shot 13; Coton, Cambridgeshire. This shot is our first shot which is filmed out of college , we have chosen to film this in Rosie's house as her kitchen is currently being re-decorated so it looks very messy and like a building site which is the effect which we wanted for the character of Tom's house. Leading up to the part of the shot in the house, we are filming down the main high street of Coton.
-Shot 14; Rosie's house
-Shot 15;Rosie's kitchen, in her house
-Shot 16; Coton

Feedback;

One group described our idea as being original, this was good because we wanted our idea to be original because there are a lot of this type of genre films around which are very similar. When we were analyzing our film introductions which fitted in with our genres, we wanted to take some of the idea but without it being too similar to those that are already around. We also got told that our it portrays' people's problems well this is also good because we wanted to get peoples problems across this was one of our main aims as normally issues like the ones in our film are seen as taboo subjects. At the time when we presented our work our mood board was not uploaded, this caused us some problems when presenting because we had to describe what was on it with no visual aid.

Research on logos

We decided to go on to you tube and onto google to get some images of some popular logos and to watch some which appear at the beginning of films. Firstly we looked at the 'walt disney' logo, this is because walt disney is a very popular film production. The walt disney logo is a simple design, which just by the logo you can tell that the film is going to be aimed at a younger audience, this is because of the 'fun' font which it uses. The logo is not just plain black, it also appears in multicolour. The castle which features in the logo gives the audience an idea that it is a fairytale type film because castles feature in films such like this. As well as the logo appearing as a still image it also appears at the start of the film as a moving image. During this the castle which is features appears slowly, lighting up from the top to the bottom; this adds to the magical idea which is being portrayed. The music is very dramatic and entertaining, it has a happy element too it which is good because the films always have a happy ending because they are aimed at children.

We then chose to analyse the warner bros logo, this is because it is another logo which appears at the beginning of films so we thought it would help us in designing ours. As this appears at films such as; the matrix. These films do not have a specific genre unlike the walt disney logo. This logo is simple, using two simple primary colours, there neutral so not implying anything, this is because warner bros produce films for all different genres, so there is no need to try and give an impression to an audience. It is a simple shape, however it is still effective as being a well known popular logo.

Conventions of different genres

TEENAGE ROMANTIC COMEDY
- A main female role
- A main male role
- A problem which needs to be solved
- Romance; between the main females and male roles
- Comedy
- Love triangles
- Secrets
- Lies
- A happy ending or cliffhanger onto the sequal
- A place of education, e.g School

BRITISH SOCIAL REALIST DRAMA
- Hand held camera work
- A stereotypical working class family
- A Taboo subject eg; racism