Evaluation question 7: Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I learnt that by using a tripod we could get a much steadier shot. This meant that when we came to editing our film the cross cuts and continuity editing were much better. However we didnt use a pan shot in our final film as we thought that it wouldnt fit in to the whole editing and had no where to put it. Maybe if we had chance to film more then we may have been able to put in somewhere. We decided to use a range of shots and I worked out how to make a zoom much slower compared to the preliminary task. One other thing that I have learnt from the the final task is how to make the film flow more. By using more transitions and effects it made our film look a lot for professional than our preliminary task. With the help of the preliminary task I learnt that the positioning of the camera is an essential to get a good shot. When editing I learnt that the film would also look a lot better with continuity editing.

Over all I think that our final task was a lot better than our preliminary because as we had learnt many more skills.

Evaluation question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Preliminary Task

This was our preliminary task where we practiced the 180 degree pan. A 180 degree pan can not go past a certain point otherwise it doesn't look realistic. It was also another good chance to have a go at filming and editing before we got on to our main products. It allowed us to see what angles looked good and what didn't.

This is a photo of the 180 degree pan rule. It is a rule to create continuity as the camera doesn't go across the invisible line which prevents the audience been disorientated.

Evaluation Question 3, 4 and 5

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 5: How did you attract/ address your audience?

Evaluation question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This is the annotated picture of Imogen that we used in the evalution.











This is the annotated picture of Emily that we used in the evaluation.

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product us, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?

Final Product

Copyright Permission for soundtrack

Because we planned to start our film with a songtrack we had to look at various songs we thought would fit with out openning and finally chose You got the love by Florence and the machine. This fitted because it wasnt to dramatic but was about love and it is also a popular song at the moment with out target audience. We had to ask permission to use this song so that we didnt break any copyright laws and therefore emailed Island Records. This is proof that we emailed them.

Ratings

Also known as a 12A

This category is awarded when the film is only suitable for children aged 12 and over. An adult may take a child under the age of 12 if they think the film is suitable for them to view. Moderate language such as "bitch" can be used.

We decided to make our film a 12 because typically romantic comedies are of this rating because of scenes of a sexual nature. Even though our film doesnt show anything like this it is only the first 2 minutes so sexual things and swearing may come on later in the film.

Story Board

Boxes:

1. The Production company: ELE Productions
2. Split screen of the alarms. One showing an earlier time than the other showing the clash between the two characters
3. Emily put on dressing gown and slippers showing neatness.

Boxes:

1. Imogen puts on jumper showing how she is messy
2. Still shot of imogen tripping over and her name comes up
3. Zoom in on emily in the bathroom mirror doing her make up. This shows that she is very tidy and has alot of time in the morning

Boxes:

1. Close up of imogen doing her make up rushed showing that she is late and unorganised
2. Show Imogen and Emily coming down the stairs and the title comes up
3. Imogen cutting wonky bread and putting it into the toaster

Boxes:

1. Pops up on Emilys neat toast, takes it out of the toaster and then puts it on a plate
2. Imogen quickly takes the toast and heads to the door to leave for school
3. Emily finishes her toast and reads the newspaper which shows the contrast between the two characters

Boxes:

1. Emily says goodbye to her brother and closes the door. Emily: Bye. Brother: Bye, have a good day
2. The directors and cast come up

All of our media influences:

• Love Actually


• 17 Again


• P.S I Love You


• The break up


• Along came Polly


• It's complicated


• 10 things I hate about you


• How to loose a guy in 10 days


• The notebook


• Angus, Thongs and Perfect snogging


• Music and Lyrics


• He's just not that into you


• She's the man

These influenced us because they are the same genre that we are looking at therefore we could look at these and get ideas from them.

Questionnaire results 2

We asked our target audience which story line they preffered. As you can see most people preffered the story line about a contrast between 2 girls who are with the same boy. By asking this question it means that our opening will appeal to more of our target audience.

We asked this question to see how important they think dialogue is within the first 2 minutes of a film. The results to this question means that we will know how much we should add in. So going ahead we decided to only add a few sentences in because otherwise the dialogue would over do the sound track.

We asked this in order to know where to put the title. Our target audience were split and therefore we thought that it wouldnt matter to much where it goes. Going ahead we decided to put the title of our film at the end of the film as that way people would remember it more.

Questionnaire 2

We came up with another questionnaire after we had collected the results from the other questionnaire and did our directors pitch to see what people prefered. This would also help us reach out to the right targer audience.

We have come up with two opening story lines for our film coursework, could you please fill out this questionnaire to help us chose the best one, and make sure we have included everything we need to.

1.) Which story line do you think sounds most fitting to the genre?

- A contrast between 2 girls who are with the same boy

- A boy and a girl getting together

2.) Why?

.........................................................................

3.) Do you think dialogue is important to be used in a film opening

Yes Don’t know No

4.) Do you think the title should be shown and the start of the opening or at the end of the opening?

Start End

Thank you! J

Film name ideas

I first wrote down some words that sum up the film and I then put some names of current films. I then came up with some names to call our film and asked out target audience which one they would prefer. I then came down to two names- Morning George and The Problems with George. I asked again which one they would prefer and out of the two they prefered The Problems with George. They thought that this name was more catchy and would mean that after the opening the film could be based on more than just their morning and their love for George.

Shot list

Credits for opening sequence

• Logo
• An ELE Film

Cast:

• Emily Dance
• Imogen Jarvis

Directed by: Emma Brown, Lizzie Furnell and Ella Martin

Edited by: Emma Brown, Lizzie Furnell and Ella Martin

Film Title: The problem with george

Film Production Logo

We came up with soem initial ideas before we decided which one we would use. We used the letters ELE because it is combined with all of our names (Emma, Lizzie and Ella). Another thing that we also decided to use was such things as stars and hearts because we assocciate these kind of things with girls, our target audience. We decided to do them in black and white first and then when we chose which one to use we then would add some colour. Also by using all different fonts we could see which one looked the best.



This is the logo that we decided to use on our final product. I chose to use pink because it is a very girly colour and will therefore reach out to the choosen target audience. I used a star because again it symbolises what girls like. The curvy/ flowy letters make the logo stand out more and more eye catching. However when we put it on our film the colours changed so it wasnt as pink as we wanted it. Even it is still slightly pink it is not what we initually wanted to have as our logo.

Generic Features

These are the generic features we need to use when we film our final product:

Genre: Romance/ Comedy

· Producing company

· Lots of transitions showing contrasts and relationships

· Cross cutting scenes

· Name of the film:

· Framing shot of main characters

· Character names

Questionnaire 1 results

We asked males as well as females to get their opinion so that we knew out projected target audience was correct.

We asked which was their favourite genre so that we knew that our chosen film genre was right for the specific target audience. The boys that answered the questionnaire answered with genres such as action and horror which showed us once again that we are aiming the film at the right target audience.

We asked this question to see how people value film opinions. This is important to us because we are creating a film opening.

We asked this question in order to find out how big the title needs to be and how long it needs to be shown for. We also asked it so when it came to making up the name we would know how catchy it needs to be. As well as asking this questions students mentioned that they judge alot of films they watch by the title so therefore needs to grab their attention.

Alot of people thought that this would be a good idea to use at the start of a film opening. Therefore we can go ahead with this idea and use it in our film and start to come up with ideas on our story board. Another reason we thought this would be a good idea is because it will show the contrast between the characters we choose to use.

We found out when asking this question almost most of the people we asked like to listen to a soundtrack at the start of a film. By using a soundtrack at the start of our film it will allow the audience to be able to see what type of film they will be watching. When we asked why they enjoyed listening to the sound track at the start they told us that it drags their attention to the screen and makes them look forward to watching the rest.

Questionnaire 1

1) Age

2) Gender

Male Female

3) What is your favourite genre of film?

Romance Comedy Thriller Romantic comedy Action Horror Other

4) Do you enjoy you going to the cinema to watch your chosen genre? (Question 3)

Yes No

5a) How is important is an opening of a film to you on a scale of 1 to 5. 1 being not important and 5 being very important.

1 2 3 4 5

5b) Why?

6) Do you think the title is important in drawing you in to watch a film?

Yes No

7) Do you think it’s a good idea to use cross cutting at the start of a film between the main characters?

Yes No

8) Do you like it when films start to a soundtrack?

Yes No

Directors pitch/ Treatment for film opening

This was the first idea that we came up with.





Genre: Romantic Comedy- this was one of the most popular answers on the questionnaire so therefore decided to use this choice of genre.



Target audience: Female aged 12 + most of the people we asked were of this age and therefore we choose to use them. Also as we are all girls and around the same age we would all know what we would want to see and ask are friends along the way if we ever get stuck.



Outline of our ideas: We decided that the best thing to do was to have a contrast between two different girls. One girl would be posh, neat and always on time and the other girl would be messy and always running late. For example we would use an alarm clock to wake them up. The alarm clock would be a diagitic sound over the soundtrack that we decide to use. The posh girl would get up straight away and the messy girl would just turn the alarm off and stay in bed. We would show the contrast between the girls getting ready for school in the morning. The main point of the story would be about the girls liking the same boy and both fantasising about him. There will be the same picture of the boy in both of their rooms that they will look at in the morning whilst getting ready for school.

Generic features: Flicking scenes (cross-cutting) at the beginning of the scenes to show the contrast of both what they are wearing and what they are doing. We would also show credits of the film e.g. the actors and producers and also show the producing company.

Location: If were to go ahead with this choice of film then we would use 2 different houses and film in bedrooms, bathrooms and the kitchens. By doing this it would again show the contrasts between a tidy house and a messy house.

Resources: 2 female actresses, props needed in the rooms such as an alarm clock and toaster, 2 houses, contrasting costumes and a picture of the same boy in each room.

5 key shots and any special features: Framing shot of each girl, zoom in and zoom out/ close up shot of picture of the boy, shot of each room to show the contrast between the two girls, dieagitic sounds such as the alarm clock over the soundtrack, tracking shots and finally still shots of the two girls when credits come up.

We used our first idea to come up with our second directors pitch.

Genre: We decided to use romantic comedy again because that was the most popular choice of genre.

Target Audience: Girls aged 12+


Outline of our ideas: Contract flick scene of a boys and a girls daily morning routine. The girl is very messy and the boy is very neat which shows the contrast between the two. They don't know each other but they meet in school when the accidently walk in to each other. The messy girls books go everywhere and the neat boy helps her out.


Generic features: Again we would use flicking scenes (cross-cutting) at the beginning of the scenes to show the contrast of the two. The actors credits would be shown at the begining on the film and then credits such as the producers and the producing film company would be shown afterwards. The two different choices of clothes and rooms would show the contrast too.


Location: 2 different houses- boys house and girls house. Use rooms such as bedroom, bathroom and kitchen again. We would then need somewhere for them to use so decided the easiest place to film would be at school as its easy to get to.


Resources: male and female actor/ actress. Props in each room, e.g. clothes and alarms in the bedroom and props that we will need to use in other rooms.


5 shots and any other special features: Framing shot, 2 shots, soundtrack, Action, Reaction shot, tracking shots.

To help us decide which one we would use we made up a questionnaire

We decided to use the first directors pitch because we thought that the story was more interesting that the second one and more of our target audience would want to watch this.

Film Openings

P.S. I Love You

Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Staring: Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler
Rating: 12

• Momentum pictures logo
• Starts with soundtrack
• Summit entertainment logo
• Alcon entertainment logo
• Titles such as director come up
• First shot, establishing shot. Extreme long shot of the city
• Foly effects of cars
• Tracking shot of the main characters. Holly walking away from Gerry
• First dialogue at 01:38 from Gerry. (Arguing with Anna)
• Close up shot of the main characters
• Sound track lowers when talking and arguing
• Flash backs to each character
• Flashes to a new scene in the flat
• 02:28 first dialogue from Anna
• Continuing arguing
• Lots of close up of the two
• Two shot of both of them standing in 2 different rooms. Gerry in dark room and Anna in light room
• 180 degree pan of Gerry shouting
• Clothing: Posh

In her shoes

Director: Curtis Hanson

Staring: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley Maclaine

Rating: 12

• 20th Century Fox logo
• Selection screen with background music
• 20th Century Fox logo again
• Scott Free logo
• Background music comes on
• Titles
• Close up of shoes
• Titles
• Close up of paper/ folder / hands
• Titles
• Close up of shoes again
• Titles
• Close up of womans face
• Titles
• Close up of people kissing
• Voice over of main character
• High close up shot of main character being sick in the toilet
• Close up of main characters
• Change of scene
• Close up of man asleep
• Zoom out to show two people in bed- dark room. Introduce to the other main character
• Two shot
• Extreme close up of camera
• Foly effect of phone
• Change of scene
• Extreme long shot of car pulling up to hotel
• Over the sholder shot
• Two shot
• Scene change again
• In car, very dark outside
• Foly effect of other traffic
• Close up of both of the main characters