UNTAMED- Social media account

As a group we decided to make a Twitter account for our film UNTAMED as it would help to create a fan base and update our followers with news on the film. Such as when the film would be Premiering and when the global release date would be.

Genre Research part 2

Conventions of a Teen Drama:

• 'real life' or relatable characters and story line, but mostly exaggerated to make the narrative more interesting.
• Cliques and friendship groups and separation between these cliques - nerds, jocks, cheerleaders, stoners, musical theater (actors and musicians)
• Most teen drama films are set in the location of a typical American High School - locker rooms, cafeteria, sports field, auditorium.
• Alcohol and drug use- sometimes being peer pressured into these activities, substance use at parties, emphasis of the novelty of the new feeling of being drunk/ high.
• Teen love- usually the main character having a new/ first love, a summer romance - doesn't always work out as planned.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is a teenage drama film, revolving around a 15 year old, mentally ill boy called Charlie, and his friends Patrick and Sam.
The film is set in the 1990s (noticeable from the clothing the characters are wearing in the poster above). You are also able to tell it is a teen drama due to the characters being young (teenagers) and the dramatic narrative.
 The background of the poster looks like the wall of a high school gym which provides evidence for the genre being a teen drama.
The colours used include only black against a bright lime green, and a short quote is placed directly in the middle of the poster. The contrast of the two colours creates foreshadowing for the dramatic narrative ahead and the short quote "we are infinite" shows the basis of the film. we implemented these conventions to our own film poster to reflect the teenage drama genre.

The film Juno is a teenage drama film about a 16 year old girl named Juno who is attending high school and falls pregnant with her boyfriend's baby. This film follows the dramatic life of a pregnant teenager and the challenges and journeys she comes across along the way.
This film has the conventions of friendship groups (Juno is in a nerd clique, whilst her boyfriend and best friend are both the sporty type/ group), the typical high school setting and real life characters.
We implemented this research into Untamed by using a real life and relatable character.

The film Mean Girls is a teen drama which follows the new life of Cady Heron, who once lived in Africa and has recently moved to America and starts at a new high school. This film follows the teen genre conventions by having drug and alcohol use, teen love, cliques, real life characters and being set in high school.

Genre Research

Our film opening is the genre of a teen drama.

There are conventions of a teen drama which usually are consistent throughout all films of the genre.
The conventions are:
Drug/ alcohol use
Popularity status/ friendship groups
Dramatic narrative.

As our film was only the opening, we managed to use the conventions of alcohol use (where Aubrey is walking home drunk with a bottle of alcohol in her hand.
Additionally, we used Dramatic narrative to fit with the genre conventions. We did this by the use of argument between Aubrey and her mother, Caroline.

UNTAMED Official Website

http://hollyjconnell.wixsite.com/untamed

This is the link to the UNTAMED official website which we created in order to promote our film. We took inspiration from the INTERSTELLER official website as it looked very interesting, displayed both photos and description about the film which would be helpful to the target audience of they wanted to learn more about the film. We therefore modelled out website similarly to theirs.

FINAL Titles

A CONNELL PRODUCTION

 HOLLY CONNELL

ANNEKA WILLIAMSON

KATIE DUNNING

UNTAMED

JODIE PETERS

CHARLOTTE ELLIS

AARON ELLWOOD

HARRY FOORD

ELISE BECKETT

CASTING BY    OLIVIA TUCKER

MUSIC BY    ISABELLE MCCABE

MUSIC SUPERVISOR    LISA WISEMAN

COSTUME DESIGNER    SHONA EKINS

EDITOR    LUCY HOCART

PRODUCTION DESIGNER   EMILY SPENCER

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY    RICHARD SMITH

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS    NICOLE ROBINSON

SHANE WILLIAMS

PRODUCED BY PETER RODGERS

JORDAN WHITEHEAD

CAROLINE MARDEN

SCREENPLAY BY   MILES PETERSON

LIA MARSHALL

DANA HAROLD

DIRECTED BY    KEITH BRUSSELL

Shot List

 

Night Time Productions- 0:00- 0:08
Wide Shot of Aubrey - 0:08-0:11
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey- 0:11- 0:15
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey 2- 0:15-0:18
Close shot of Aubrey's face, UNTAMED title- 0:18-0:26
Tracking shot of behind Aubrey walking- 0:26-0:29
Tracking shot of side of Aubrey walking- 0:29- 0:37
Panning behind shot of Aubrey walking to front door- 0:37-0:39
Still Side shot of Aubrey dropping bottle in bush- 0:39- 0:41
Close up shot of Aubrey unlocking door- 0:42-0:48
Aubrey walking in door from behind (exterior)- 0:48-0:49
Aubrey walking into house from front (Interior)- 0:49- 0:52
Side shot of Caroline looking up at Aubrey- 0:52-0:52
Tracking shot of Aubrey looking around house- 0:52-0:55
eye level mid long shot Aubrey talks to Caroline- 0:55- 0:57
Still right mid shot of Caroline- 0:57-0:58
LS left track of Aubrey walking to sofa- 0:58- 1:01
MLS front of Aubrey sitting on sofa- 1:01-1:02
Over shoulder shot of Caroline- 1:02-1:03
MS  of Aubrey- 1:04-1:05
Long over shoulder shot of Aubrey- 1:05-1:08
MS of Carol- 1:08-1:10
High MS of Aubrey- 1:10-1:10
MS of Carol- 1:11-1:12
LS of Aubrey standing up- 1:12-1:14
Tracking shot of Aubrey walking away- 1:14-1:15
Tracking shot of Caroline walking after her- 1:15-1:17
Tracking shot of Caroline chasing Aubrey up stairs- 1:17-1:18
side MS of Aubrey and Caroline on stairs- 1:18-1:21
Over shoulder MLS shot of Aubrey- 1:21-1:22
Over shoulder MLS shot of Caroline- 1:22-1:25
LS of Aubrey-1:25-1:26
Over shoulder shot of Caroline- 1:26-1:26
Over shoulder shot of Aubrey running up stairs- 1:26- 1:31
Tracking shot of Aubrey walking into bedroom- 1:31- 1:33
Tracking shot of Aubrey packing- 1:33-1:34
High shot of Aubrey packing- 1:33- 1:38
tracking shot of Aubrey- 1:38-1:41
Tracking shot of Aubrey- 1:41- 1:44
Tracking MS of Aubrey running our door- 1:44-46
Tracking high shot of Aubrey running down stairs- 1:46-1:49
Tracking shot of Aubrey putting on shoes and running out door- 1:49-1:52
Tracking behind shot of Aubrey running on road (exterior)- 1:52-1:53
Behind tracking shot of Aubrey running on road- 1:53-1:57
Front tracking Close up shot of Aubrey running- 1:57-1:59
Long shot to Aubrey running- 1:59-2:01
Long behind shot of Aubrey running- 2:01- 2:03
Side mid shot of Aubrey stopping at gate- 2:02-2:04
BCU of Aubrey's face- 2:04- 2:06
Black screen- 2:06- 2:09

Titles

A CONNELL PRODUCTION

HOLLY CONNELL

ANNEKA WILLIAMSON

KATIE DUNNING

UNTAMED

JODIE PETERS

CHARLOTTE ELLIS

AARON ELLWOOD

HARRY FOORD

ELISE BECKETT

CASTING BY    OLIVIA TUCKER

MUSIC BY    ISABELLE MCCABE

MUSIC SUPERVISOR    LISA WISEMAN

COSTUME DESIGNER    SHONA EKINS

EDITOR    LUCY HOCART

PRODUCTION DESIGNER   EMILY SPENCER

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY    RICHARD SMITH

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS    NICOLE ROBINSON

SHANE WILLIAMS

PRODUCED BY PETER RODGERS

JORDAN WHITEHEAD

CAROLINE MARDEN

SCREENPLAY BY   MILES PETERSON

LIA MARSHALL

DANA HAROLD

DIRECTED BY    KEITH BRUSSELL

UNTAMED Website inspiration

For our UNTAMED Film website we took inspiration from the INTERSTELLAR website as it was eye catching and bold, we took influence from the navigation bar and the overall layout of the website.

Production Diary

07/11/16 -  Today, in our lesson, we were told that we were going to be producing a film opening that needed to look as professional as possible. We were all put into groups our group included me, Charlotte, Anneka and Holly. We began to brainstorm ideas and decided to present our film opening pitch on a presentation website called Emaze. I set up an account and began to present our ideas, we also discussed what genres we could most successfully portray.

08/11/16- In todays lesson I continued to add more to the Emaze presentation, whilst charlotte focused on shots and locations were going to include, and holly and Anneka researched good film openings and noted down things that made them stand out and seem intriguing. In our Emaze we included our genre, target audience, plot, characters and props/costume. We found it quite difficult to adapt to the software as it was the first time we had used it.  The theme of our film is adolescence, it's about a young 17 year old girl who is quite troubled and rebellious she confesses she is gay to her mother, and is kicked out the house. We chose to do this type of film as it is modern and relatable we also wanted it to stand out from the typical more obvious genres such as Action and horror.

09/11/16- We continued to adapt and add more to our Film pitch presentation, we began to add more detail to our character analysis and include specific locations and shots we wanted to include.With all of our input, Holly created and designed an institution that we will be using before the film opening. It is called 'night time' Productions and is transitioned on screen with lighting.

10/11/16-  Today, in lesson we continued on the Film pitch we described certain shots in great detail and what was going to happen within them shots .We finished the Emaze presentation by adding the target audience, character profiles and overall plotline.

11/11/16-  In our lesson today, we presented our film pitch to the class and received feedback which was mostly positive. We also watched and listened to the other groups within our class and gave them back feedback on their film pitches.

14/11/16- Today we worked on creating a script for our film opening, whilst I started creating the storyboard on an Emaze presentation, we made the storyboard quite simple and short as we decided we  would edit it on Premier so that Anneka would speak in the background of the storyboard to add more detail into the specific shots and character analysis .

15/11/16-  As a group we continued what we was doing yesterday, whilst Charlotte began to do some research into the film titles, she took note of how long they lasted on screen and what order they came up in, as well as considering what font and colour we would like to present in our own film opening.

16/11/16-  The script got finished, and Anneka started to create a moodboard to portray this type of film opening, whilst we continued to work on the storyboard and develop a detailed background script for Anneka to read out.

17/1 1/16- Today we focused on doing some more blog posts, we looked at the risk assessments and how we would overcome them and what difficulties we would face when filming. We also done a post about props that we would be using including all technical equipment such as the cameras and tripod. Another post was about costume for the characters and how we wanted them to be portrayed.

21/11/16- As a group we went into the green room and started to film the background recording to our storyboard.

22/11/16- Today we started filming, we went up to Brixton Academy to see Chance the rapper, we filmed a short scene of when Aubrey she is at a concert and is enjoying herself. However we didn't use this video footage as the quality wasn't very good as it was hard to keep the camera steady, as well as this the lighting was to dark.

23/11/16- We decided that we were going to start filming on Friday round Anneka's house we planned to do the opening shots of Aubrey walking home drunk from the party and the inside shots and dialogue of when she is confronted by her strict mother who tells her to leave. We made some quick changes to the script and as a group discussed what we wanted to have achieved by Friday.

25/11/16- Today we began filming, we firstly began by doing hair makeup and costume for Anneka and Holly who were playing Aubrey and Carol .We managed to get some good shots from different angles and levels, we filmed the scene outside in the dark of Aubrey stumbling home drunk after the party. We used the street lighting, phone light and torches to create the lighting for the camera to use pick up Aubrey, we took lots of clips so that we could choose from the best ones. We also completed all the filming of the indoor dialogue scene.

28/11/16- Today we began editing, we began by uploading all of Friday's footage to the Mac and watching it back, this was quite time consuming as it took a long time to upload the videos. After we watched the footage we began to select which ones we were going to use and which ones we could delete.

29/11/16- We bagan to edit on premier, Anneka cut out the clips of Aubrey walking that we didn't need and edited them together, she also split the videos up which showed black screens to represent her drunken state.

30/11/16- Today we all went back round Anneka's house to finish the filming. We filmed a scene of Aubrey running away from home and meeting the girl she fancies Riley, all filming was done at night so it was quite difficult to achieve the correct lighting. We changed to finish all the filming we needed for our first film draft of UNTAMED.

02/12/16- Today we uploaded all the footage from last tight and watched it back we then began to add the ones we needed to premier to continue editing.

05/12/16- Continued editing on Premier we edited the clips and shots of Aubrey and her mother talking and then Aubrey running up the stairs and into her bedroom. We also done some music research and used a karaoke backtrack version of the song Naïve by the Kooks for the opening scene of her stumbling home.

06/12/16- Continued editing on Premier we edited the scene of Aubrey packing her bag, this consisted of lots of different shots and camera angles. We also created the UNTAMED film poster on fireworks and Photoshop.

07/12/16- We spent the lesson finishing the first draft, we finished all the video footage and began to add the titles. Once our first draft was finished we exported the video.

08/12/16- Today we watched everyone's first film opening drafts and filled out feedback sheets to give constructive criticism and to give advice on what went well.

09/12/16- As a group we read all our feeback sheets and talked about what we needed to change and what we could include to improve it. We then done a blog post about the Feedback summarising what people generally said.

12/12/16- Today we continued blogging about the film opening and began the process of making improvements based on our feeback sheets. We also made sure we were up to date with everything.

13/12/16- We changed our titles on premier as we had some names that were repeated through out. We also done some research into film certificates and what makes our film a 15. Holly began to create a website for our film to gain more publicity and variation in advertisement.

14/12/16- In today's lesson we continued to re do the titles for the opening, this involved doing some research into other film opening titles, we looked at Juno and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and wrote down what order they came in. Holly and Charlotte continued to create the UNTAMED website and we decided that we would make a social media account.

15/12/16- Today we continued to edit for our final UNTAMED film opening, we finished doing the new corrected titles and just made a few edits to some of the clips. We also continued to do the website and uploaded our film opening to one of the website pages.

19/12/16- Today we finished editing for our final draft and exported it. We then continued to finish the film website and created a Twitter account.

Location Shots

Above is an image of where the first shot of Aubrey is filmed.

Here is where one of the first shots of our film opening is filmed. In front of the gate is where Aubrey is pictured stopping and drinking from her bottle of alcohol with close up shots of her face whilst the titles play.

      

Above are images of the location where Aubrey is filmed walking and stumbling with her alcohol bottle whilst titles and Naive by the Kooks plays.

Here is Aubrey's home. Aubrey stops in front of this house and throws her bottle into the bush, then quietly enters the house.

Above are images of where Aubrey is filmed running away from home in a hurry.

Above are two shots of the final shot. This is the location which Aubrey is filmed stopping herself from running by grabbing onto the gate and heavily breathing with a close up of her face. This is the last shot of the whole opening sequence.

Methods of Advertisement

Here are some of the different types of advertisements we will be using to advertise our film, this includes Film posters on bus shelters, underground tube stations and iconic city centres. As well as this we will be using social media such as Twitter and Facebook to create publicity and hype around the release date.

Certificate film 15 - UNTAMED

The reason we have chosen to make our film 'Untamed' certificate  15 is because it includes alcohol consumption and mild drug use further on in the film. We did not think that this film would be suitable for views under the age of 15 as the narrative is about a troubled girl dealing with problems that only older teenagers/ young adults would deal with. I researched what the factors are for a certificate and these were the results.

New Title Research - Juno

JUNO Titles 
night time productions presents


An Allen Pictures
A Connell production

An Anderson Film

Untamed

Holly Connell

Anneka Williamson

Dan Thompson

May Beckett

Charlotte Ellis

Aaron Ellwood

Casting by Casey Wood, Emma Turner

Costume Designer Nicole Robinson

Music By Richard Smith
Songs by Shane Williams

Music Supervisors
Peter Rodgers
Jodie Pattinson

Co-Producers
Peter Miles
Jordan Whitehead
Lia Marhsall

Film Editor
Dana Harold

Production Designer
Katie Dunning

Director of Photography
Natalie Steele

Executive Producers
Joe Phillips
Lisa Kinsey
Danny Russo

Prouced by
Martin Russell
Finn Halfon
Gabrielle Dorrington
Harry Tucker


Written By
Keith Brussel

Directed By
Tony Johnson

New Title Research- Perks of being a wallflower

Perks of Being a Wallflower titles

Night time productions presents

A Russell Production

Holly Connell

Anneka Williamson

Katie Dunning

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Representation within UNTAMED

The 2 characters which are included in the film opening, Aubrey and Carol, are subjected to stereotypes because of their ages and the roles they play.

Stereotypes of Aubrey: She is a rebellious teenager who has arguments with her parents. Not all teenagers are this way , but her character is conforming to the stereotype that the media have built up of her.

Stereotypes of Caroline: She is a worrying mother who inflicts strict rules upon her child and she does not agree with her daughters homosexuality. Caroline is conforming to the stereotypical image of the older generation which do not agree with gay people which the media have created which is not true for everyone.

Title Font and Research

Throughout our film opening, we used the same font, Folio Std Bold.  The way in which we decided this would be the most suitable font was we listed the word 'Untamed' again and again all with different fonts and basically reduced this list on readability and how it this could relate well with diverse genres in the film.  The reason we wanted large bold text is to represent Aubrey's rebellion.

Before we picked 'Untamed' we had been contemplating other titles such as 'Wild', 'Free' and 'Loose'. We really wanted to convey to the audience that this story is about with how a teenager girl deserts her home and runs away and we wanted to associate this plot in the film with the title.  Another advantage of using shorter title than a longer e.g. 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is that it's snappy and easy to remember which could increase popularity.

We selected a white background for our titles because it stands out ahead of the dark background at night, also it can be associated with Aubrey's innocents as the colour white is usually connected to something angelic.

 

 

Here is the film poster for Mean Girls. They used a similar large, bold font - just like Untamed. We used this poster in the research period whilst choosing a font for our film opening title as it is also in the genre of a teen drama.
















This is he film poster for the film The Duff. This film belongs in the genre of teen drama and so does Untamed, hence why we used this film in t he research period. This film poster has the title written in a bold font, which shaped our reasoning for using the bold font for our title.
 

Institution for UNTAMED

As a group we done some research into production companies, so that we could find a suitable institution to distribute our film. A production company is in charge of the founding and distribution of the film, as our film is low-Budget it is important that we find the right institution that is compatible with our film. Especially as  this will be the name 'behind our film'.
After doing some research we found that Film4 would be the most appropriate institution to distribute our film. Here are the following reasons why: Film4 are an independent distribution company that typically produce Drama/ Documentary/Thrillers/Low Budget, High concept Genre films/Original film ideas /controversial topics.
Our film includes a sensitive and controversial topic around sexual orientation and problems in the home. It also includes drinking problems. As film4 distributes films with controversial topics this could be considered an appropriate institution to distribute our film. Because our film is a low-budget production it  would potentially benefit from a smaller but still well known distribution company such as Film4.

Things we need to improve on

  

How to Improve out UNTAMED DRAFT

Here is a list of things we need to do in order to improve our film sequence:

- Put a filter over the film
- Alter the lighting in some scenes to make it more consistent
- Edit the titles so they show up for the same amount of time

Film opening Feedback

Today we received feedback for the first draft of our film opening 'Untamed'. Looking at our feedback sheets we got a mixture of positive and negative comments. An example of the positive comments are "The music choice works well with the changes in scenes and a good variety of camera shots." this shows that we do not need to improve our camera work because the audience believe that it was appropriate for the genre of film we created. An example of a comment that showed constructive criticism was one that said "lighting/ colour correction could be improved". This is helpful because this is something that can be improved in our work to make the film opening more successful.

UNTAMED Film poster

Story Board reflection

We created our storyboard to express a clear vision of the film opening which we wanted to clearly portray with specific ideas of: camera angles, sound, mise en scene and editing. We stuck to most of the shots which we planned on using such as: when Aubrey was filmed walking down the street late at night drinking from the alcohol bottle and when Aubrey came into the house and proceeded to have an argument with her mother.
There were however, a few shots and scenes that we included that were not talked about on the storyboard such as: When Aubrey was running out the door and away from home and the last shot when she is breathing heavily and the screen goes black.
We did not film the scene that we originally planned on using at the start where Aubrey and Riley were supposed to be holding hands and dancing together at the concert as our desired location and setting was unachievable to film in. We also did not film the scene where Riley and Aubrey met up in the field just as the sun was coming up because when filming, we could not get the lighting quite right and also, the film opening would have been too long if we had included it

UNTAMED- First Draft

This is our first draft for our film opening 'Untamed'. This gives a rough idea to the audience the sequence we aim to create. This needs to be further edited though as there are some slight jumps. We could improve this by adding an effect to the first part which makes Aubrey look more drunk, such as ghosting.

Target and Primary Source

 There are two types of audiences when considering the target audience for the type of film we wanted to create- primary and secondary. Our target primary audience is of the age range between 15-23 both boys and girls. This is because our genre is 'teen drama' so we wanted our target audience to be able to relate to our characters and narrative. Our target audience would become aware of our film 'Untamed' through the different forms of advertisement such as: on Twitter, our website, billboards and bus advertisements. A possible secondary audience would be the parents of the teenagers that would be watching Untamed. This is because they may see the film on the television while their child is watching it and sit down with them. This film might appeal to the parents because they may be able to relate to the character, Carol and the disagreements she has with her daughter, Aubrey.

Music Research

These are a few of the songs we were considering when choosing the background music for our opening sequence. We took music inspiration from films similar to the one which we were trying to achieve such as: Endless Love, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Spectacular Now. All of these films possess an indie music genre with songs that are heard of but not always acknowledged.

We wanted the songs that would be featured on our film to have a strong use of the guitar as we all felt that it created a chaotic mood and foreshadows that the main character, Aubrey wants to create trouble. We ended up choosing the songs: 'Naive' by The Kooks and 'I Kissed a Girl' by Katy Perry as they were both up beat and fairly modern songs which reflected the atmosphere perfectly. We used the instrumemtal versions because if we used the normal versions then our video would get copyrighted.

Here are the following songs we were considering: