Main Task - Film Pitch.

                               This is our film pitch to show our planning and research and our overall concept.

Christina Novelli 'Our Way'.

'Our Way' by Christina Novelli is the music we would like to use for our main task. We would like to use this music because it is fun, enigetic and aimed at a young audience. We are currently contacting the artist for permission to use her music. We chose to use Christina Novelli's music because she is an unsigned British artist.

Evaluation of preliminary task.

For our preliminary task we had to explore the skills of match-on-action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. We started off by planning our concept and script. We looked at the many ideas for our footage and eventually chose to film in the dark room which would tie into our theme of a photographer who is late for a private meeting. We kept our script basic and short. However, during our filming process we did change a few of the lines and add some so that it was longer and told more of the story.

For our first scene, of the photographer walking quickly to her destination, we used a long shot to show the scene. However the opening scene does not really set the scene and it is only when the dialouge is exchangd that you start to understand the plot. We have then used a panning shot following the character opening and walking through the door, then cutting to the inside of the room. Our editing has worked really well and there is a nice continuity to the character entering the room.

Unfortunatly we did not shoot enough footage and for our editing in one of the scenes (of the character walking  towards the table then standing next to the table) there is a jump because of the lack of footage. We were also unable to shoot and shot/reverse shot. From this we have learnt that we have to have plenty of footage and to time our filming process so that we are not run short of filming time.

In our final clip there is a lot of unwanted of screen sound from classrooms and people in the background. For the future we now know that we could either edit it out using final cut pro  or use a location that is a quiet working environment.

Our quality of the footage is also 'fuzzy' and a little pixelated, so we have decided thjat filming in a darker room was  not such a good idea and that these areas are quite hard to film in. If we wanted to try this again we could use better, high quality cameras and introduce some interesting and dramatic lighting.

For our mise-en-scene we wanted to keep it simple and only hint that the main character is a photographer by having her wear a camera around her neck. We also hinted thst the second charater is a photographer by having her in a dark room where you produce photos. We also had some photos exchanged during one of the scenes.

In conclusion, i think that we have learn a lot from this filming process and we now know how to plan properly for our film, get the right and enough footage, how to edit our clip using final cut pro and how to do the simple methods of match-on-action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. We also think  that our clip was good but we are able to understand were we went wrong and what we could do to ake it even better in the future and we will use this for our main task.

The house we will be using for our filming

Toilet

Corridor

Kitchen

Living room

Bedroom

Staircase

Preliminary task.

Comedy film opening- research for main task.

I have chosen these following comedy openings because there are many aspects that I find very interesting and would like to try for our main task.

 

Opening credits from Austin Powers - Goldmember.

Even though this is a comedy opening, at first it seems to be an action film opening as it has fast pace music, quick jump cuts and close-up shots of the protagonist being run down by the helicopter or antagonist. It is not until 0:34 were the comedy begins to be dropped in with mise-en-scene such as the Union Jack Jaguar with the number plate 'SHAGUAR' and the very 60s style clothing of the main character.

The main comedic part of the opening is at 1:49 when the characters are portrayed by very well known actors such as Tom Cruise as Austin Powers and Danny Devito as Mini Me. This is very comedic as the viewers instantly know that these are not the actual actors for the roles and it is almost as if the beginning scene was ultimately there to trick the viewer.

I am really interested in how the titles appear next to the 'fake' actors, telling you there real name and character name and i would like to try this with our main task.

 

Opening credits from Johnny English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrIGdCMwT4

I have looked at this film opening because I like the way that the transition from one shot to the next is used by a dip into the two colours that are constantly on the screen. The comedic effect is instantly put in at 0:08 with the protagonist Johnny English strangling a coat rack. 

The overall sound for this is non-diegetic with the sound track sometimes being over layed with dialogue from Johnny English. I like this idea of focusing on the music for the opening and would like to try it for our main task.

Through out the opening Johnny English goes through very funny situations that hint to the viewers that he is some sort of spy. The titles wipe in at different areas of the screen but do not distract you from the main action.

preliminary task- story board.

This is my groups story board. It shows a woman (photographer) enter a room and exchange some dialogue with another woman who is sat in a dark room. They then exchangee some photos and the scene ends.